RedTeam

Last weekend, members of RedTeam, of the mwollect Alliance and a few other people from Aachen participated in the DEFCON 17 CTF Qualifiers. The team hosting the DEFCON CTF this year provided fun challenges of varying difficulty. Minor quirks were the Java-Applet based scoring system that was quite unresponsive at times, the fact that only one person from each team could access the scoreboard at the same time, and that (at least to our impression) the order in which the challenges were presented (6 categories with “difficulty levels” 100 to 500 in increments of 100) did not correlate that well to the actual difficulty of individual challenges.

Nonetheless we had a fun weekend with too little sleep and too much caffeine. In the end our team scored 3300 points and made the top 15. If you like, check out the Defcon 17 Capture the Flag Qualifications Results. More than 200 teams solved at least one question, with more than 50 scoring 1500 points or more. We’re really looking forward to next year’s qualifiers. Hopefully we can participate again and improve our score.

Thank you, ddtek, for a great game and congratulations to all teams that qualified for the DEFCON CTF.