UND CyberHawks National CTF Competition 2026 Qualifiers
Reasonable first CTF
- Starts
- Ends
- Runs for
- 15 hours
- Format
- Jeopardy (online)
- Rating weight
- Unrated by CTFtime
- Teams registered
- 30
Run by UND CyberHawks, with prizes listed on CTFtime.
What the organisers say
The IEEE CARS 2026 Capture The Flag (CTF) competition is a Jeopardy-style event where participants solve challenges across multiple cybersecurity domains. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced security professional, there are challenges for every skill level. Compete individually or in teams of up to 4. Challenges are released in waves throughout the competition window.
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.