BlackAlps CTF 2026
- Starts
- Ends
- Runs for
- 4 hours
- Format
- Jeopardy (onsite, Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains)
- Rating weight
- Unrated by CTFtime
- Teams registered
- 5
Run by BlackAlps.
What the organisers say
The BlackAlps CTF will be held at the end of the BlackAlps conference in Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland. It's a CTF for all level including from beginner up to advanced team. The CTF will last 4 hours 15 and be on site for about 250 people. There is no specific categories. Registration is mandatory. Welcome at 18:45. Start at 19:15. End at 23:30. Awards ceremony at 23:45.
Prep briefing
Nothing in the writeup archive matches this event, which usually means one of two things: it is a first edition, or its previous editions ran under a different name. Either way there is no honest category breakdown to give you, and inventing one from the title would be worse than saying so.
The generic answer still holds: the first-hour triage guide covers what to do with a challenge before you know what it is, and the workspace identifies most encodings and file types on the first paste.