BI.ZONE Announces CTFzone Presidential Election
The last year can rightfully be called the “election year." Everywhere commotion and noise, passions have not subsided for months. It's CTFzone's turn !
Company BI.ZONE announces presidential elections CTFzone. The elections will be as free and independent as possible - no parties and stars of the political arena, only you and your candidate. Teams are invited to play the role of the electoral headquarters and help their candidate win.
The first online stage of the elections, the Primaries , starts on 07/15/2017 at 09:00 UTC and lasts 36 hours. Format - Jeopardy, 5 categories. Only 10 candidates will pass to the next stage.
Stage Two of the Competition, Presidential Electionwill be held in full-time format on November 16-17 as part of the ZERONIGHTS 2017 conference .
The struggle of 10 election headquarters teams at this stage will be much more aggressive - the Attack / Defense format implies the protection of the server of its headquarters and the attack of the servers of the election headquarters of rivals. The difficult battle is fully justified - the winning team will not only be able to declare their candidate as President of CTFzone, but will also receive $ 10,000. Teams that took 2nd and 3rd place will receive $ 5000 and $ 3000, respectively.
The presidential election is extremely important for CTFzone, so our company will cover the cost of living and travel for teams that have passed in the second round (it is important - the composition of the team should not exceed 5 people). Due to the significance of the event, we ask the teams to comply with the rules - they may be disqualified for violations. It is strictly forbidden:
- To attack the infrastructure of the organizers;
- Generate a large amount of traffic (DDoS);
- Conduct attacks on jury computers;
- Exchange flags with other participants.
Team registration will open on June 9 at ctf.bi.zone . Stay tuned for updates to the BI.ZONE blog on Habr and on Twitter . Good luck to
everyone in the election!
Make CTF great again.
UPD: In connection with the holding of several large CTFs on June 24-25, many teams faced the need to choose a priority competition. In order to save players from this trouble, we decided to postpone the first stage of CTFzone to July, 07/15/2017 . Registration is open until the start of the battle, the rules remain the same. Now you don’t have to choose, you can safely participate everywhere;)