Hacker's Gambit 2026 (Round 2 – Grand Finale)
Prequalified entry
- Starts
- Ends
- Runs for
- 24 hours
- Format
- Jeopardy (onsite, Jaihind College of Engineering,At Post Kuran, Taluka Junnar, Pune - 410511, Maharashtra, India (19°09'47.2"N 73°54'52.2"E))
- Rating weight
- Unrated by CTFtime
- Teams registered
- not published
Run by JCOE Cyber Sentinels, with prizes listed on CTFtime.
What the organisers say
The Grand Finale is the final stage of Hackers Gambit 2026, where the Top 15 teams selected from the Online Qualifier will compete for the championship title. This 24-hour, on-site Capture The Flag (CTF) competition is designed to simulate real-world cybersecurity scenarios and evaluate participants' ability to solve complex security challenges under pressure.
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.