DEF CON CTF 2015 Qualifiers are Complete

Hello,

Thanks for being a part of our biggest DEF CON CTF qualifiers yet. We're still very excited at how well the 4407 players, 1472 teams, and over 4000 unique IP addresses performed in our game, and have some preliminary results and other information to share with you.

The Final Results

These are the top 25 teams from the qualifiers. For a more complete and machine-readable list, please see https://legitbs.net/2015/quals_scoreboard.json. A more substantial data dump similar to the Quals 2014 Data Dump is forthcoming.

rank	team	score
1	PPP	57
2	DEFKOR	57
3	9447	57
4	Gallopsled	53
5	HITCON	46
6	blue-lotus	45
7	SpamAndHex	44
8	CORNDUMP	43
9	0ops	42
10	0daysober	42
11	Dragon Sector	42
12	Shellphish	42
13	LC↯BC	41
14	Mostly Inexperienced Beginner Hackers	40
15	Samurai	39
16	KAIST GoN	39
17	Alternatives	36
18	Eat, Sleep, Pwn, Repeat	34
19	Routards	34
20	binja	32
21	WhatTheBird	32
22	Blunt Instrument	32
23	tasteless	30
24	int3pids	27
25	0x8F	26

Preparing for Finals

Over the coming weeks, we'll be contacting qualifying teams about their appearance at DEF CON 23 in Las Vegas. If you have write-ups to share, please post or link them at the CTF write-ups github. If you want to find more CTF games to play, check out CTF Time.

Thanks again, and we hope to see you in Vegas!

DEF CON CTF 2015 Qualifiers This Weekend

tl;dr: When this post is 24 hours old, CTF qualifiers will begin. Register and play at https://2015.legitbs.net/.

How to Qualify for DEF CON CTF

• Be one of the pre-qualified teams from DEF CON CTF 2014, SECCON CTF 2014, RuCTFE 2014, Ghost in the Shellcode 2015, Boston Key Party 2015, or PlaidCTF 2015.
• Place highly in this weekend's game.

Good luck!