Campus qualifiers in the middle of the year, national finals in December, and a public record of which university trains the country's best. Free to enter, every edition.
Most CTFs pull a handful of keen students out of their universities for one day. CampusHack does the opposite: every campus runs its own qualifier, then sends a champion to the finals.
Each participating institution hosts a jeopardy CTF on its own campus. We supply the platform and the challenge set; the university supplies the room.
One team per qualifying university converges on Yaoundé. The board is harder, two boot-to-root machines open alongside it, and a national champion is crowned.
The qualifier is where the real work happens. It puts a CTF in front of students who would never travel to a national final, people who have never opened Burp, anyone who thinks security is something other people do. Most of them will not qualify. All of them will have tried.
Every result, every edition, in one permanent table. Points come from finals placings, machines rooted, and first bloods — recomputed the moment results land.
Once the inaugural finals are scored, every university that competed appears here — and stays here. The table only grows.
One full day: a jeopardy board across six categories plus a Linux and a Windows machine to root, with talks from working practitioners between rounds.
CampusHack costs students nothing to enter. That is only possible because of these organisations.
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Any team of three to four students currently registered at a Cameroonian university. You do not need prior CTF experience — a good share of the challenges are written specifically for people doing this for the first time.
No. Entry is free at both phases and it will stay that way. Sponsors cover the platform, venue, prizes and materials.
Get in touch. We are actively looking for institutions to host qualifiers, and adding one is mostly a matter of finding a room and a date.
Comfort with Linux, a browser's developer tools, and a scripting language will carry you a long way. Everything else you can learn on the day — that is rather the point.
A full virtual machine you have to break into and then escalate to administrator on. There are two at the finals, one Linux and one Windows, and they open alongside the jeopardy board.
Yes. Any documentation, search engine or tool you can reach is fair game. What you cannot do is ask a person outside your team, or share flags with another team.
Whether you want to enter a team, host a qualifier on your campus, sponsor an edition, or come and speak — start here.
