WATCHLIST
Reasonable first CTF
- Starts
- Ends
- Runs for
- 24 hours
- Format
- Jeopardy (online)
- Rating weight
- Unrated by CTFtime
- Teams registered
- 8
Run by WatchList CTF, with prizes listed on CTFtime.
What the organisers say
WATCHLIST is a 24-hour online Jeopardy CTF about digital investigation: forensics, OSINT, recon, and the hands-on work investigators actually do. It's a love letter to Person of Interest, narrated by The Machine. There are 24 challenges across 6 categories: Forensics, Lab, OSINT, Recon, Trivia, and a Person of Interest story track that unlocks as you play.
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.