Rules

Read these CAREFULLY. If you break a rule, it's grounds for disqualifiction and we will kick you (we're nice until you do stupid things and are unapologetic...)

  1. You must register for this CTF with your BYU email. If you have a problem with that, talk to overllama
  2. Do not DOS/DDOS. This means no automated scanning tooling on any challenges hosted remotely (web/pwn) unless specified by the challenge. This includes custom scripts... just make sure you don't bring anything down, we don't have infinite resources for infra
  3. No brute forcing. Including guessing flags
  4. No flag sharing. If you give or accept a flag to/from another player, you are both disqualified
  5. No teams. To keep challenges easier than a typical CTF, this is an individual CTF. This means you are not allowed to get help from other players, your parents, teachers, or real people on the internet (i.e. no asking in a discord, reddit, irc, etc. Feel free to google and use resources already online)
  6. If you don't use common sense, that's your fault. You accept responsibility for running commands from ChatGPT or the internet, and for any buttons you press or binaries you run. There is no guarantee that a given challenge won't mess with you, and we aren't responsible for you pressing the play button. (No challenges that I know of are malicious, but we gotta have this anyways)
  7. No flag hoarding. We like to keep it fair and visible, and so this is in the rules. Basically, it just means if you submit all of your flags in the last hour (or anything similar to that), you're disqualified.

Additional Details / Rules

  1. Challenge authors and CTF staff are not required to answer your questions. Usually we will because we like being helpful, but you are never entitled to an answer. The exception is you can always get a confirmation of whether a remote instance of a challenge is still working (thumbs up or thumbs down basically)
  2. The rules flag is: byuctf{I_agree_with_these_rules}
  3. To be eligible for prizes, you must: be a BYU student, be a dues-paying member of the Cybersecurity Student Association, and be present at the award ceremony (6:30 pm MST, Saturday, December 6th, 2025)
  4. The scoreboard will close at 4pm on Saturday, December 6th. This is to help the award ceremony be a bigger event