Well, I had intended to blog while the CTF qualification round/weekend was going on. But you see how well that plan worked out. CTF07 quals started Friday (June 1st) night at 10pm eastern (8pm mountain), and ended Sunday (June 3rd) at 10pm eastern (8pm mountain). Our team, “our wives are pissed”, initially ended up in 11th place. Though not bad considering over 200 teams registered for the event, but only the top 7 teams qualify to compete in the actual Capture The Flag competition at DefCon.
About 10:30pm (mountain) Sunday night (right after the quals ended), Syndrowm sent me a text message saying that we were in (we qualified for CTF)! So I ran downstairs (I was upstairs reading) to my laptop to check on the mud, and on irc, to see what the heck happened. Turns out that two of the teams that qualified couldn’t make it or just decided not to compete, so that freed up two slots and put us into 9th place; still not enough to get us “To The Show”. Then we found out that two other teams that had qualified were actually “ghost teams” for other team(s) that had qualified, so they dropped the two ghost teams, which put us in 7th place....enough to qualify us for CTF!
Note: This year’s qualification round was a stone cold bitch. Mad props go out to the folks that put it all together, Kenshoto. I seem to recall many threats of kicking Invisigoth in the shins for *insert category*/*insert question value*. ☺ It was incredibly fun, and incredibly challenging.
Link to the results page: http://www.kenshoto.com/ctf07/quals_final.html
I have a lot of studying and trial/error to do before the actual competition. Time to start hackin’ up my lab network!
About 10:30pm (mountain) Sunday night (right after the quals ended), Syndrowm sent me a text message saying that we were in (we qualified for CTF)! So I ran downstairs (I was upstairs reading) to my laptop to check on the mud, and on irc, to see what the heck happened. Turns out that two of the teams that qualified couldn’t make it or just decided not to compete, so that freed up two slots and put us into 9th place; still not enough to get us “To The Show”. Then we found out that two other teams that had qualified were actually “ghost teams” for other team(s) that had qualified, so they dropped the two ghost teams, which put us in 7th place....enough to qualify us for CTF!
Note: This year’s qualification round was a stone cold bitch. Mad props go out to the folks that put it all together, Kenshoto. I seem to recall many threats of kicking Invisigoth in the shins for *insert category*/*insert question value*. ☺ It was incredibly fun, and incredibly challenging.
Link to the results page: http://www.kenshoto.com/ctf07/quals_final.html
I have a lot of studying and trial/error to do before the actual competition. Time to start hackin’ up my lab network!
