Plaid Parliament has a writeup on this that could be considered borderline canonical [1]. From some other Plaid folk, Maxims [2] are great as well. To sum it

Plaid Parliament has a writeup on this that could be considered borderline canonical [1]. From some other Plaid folk, Maxims [2] are great as well. To sum it up, players should learn something and players should not have their time wasted. [1] https://github.com/pwning/docs/blob/master/suggestions-for-running-a-ctf.markdown https://github.com/pwning/docs/blob/master/suggestions-for-r... [2] http://captf.com/maxims.html http://captf.com/maxims.html