Hacker's Gambit 2026 (Round 1 – Online Qualifier)
Reasonable first CTF
- Starts
- Ends
- Runs for
- 48 hours
- Format
- Jeopardy (online)
- Rating weight
- Unrated by CTFtime
- Teams registered
- 10
Run by JCOE Cyber Sentinels.
What the organisers say
Round 1 – Online Qualifier (48 Hours) The Online Qualifier is the first stage of Hackers Gambit 2026, designed to identify the most skilled cybersecurity teams from around the world. This 48-hour Jeopardy-style Capture The Flag (CTF) competition will challenge participants with a diverse set of real-world cybersecurity problems across multiple domains.
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.