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If your having this much issue with figuring out what a ctf is its probably not for you. Googles ctf is pretty damn hard

• r-w 7y ago
  If their goal was to minimize participation and competition, then they certainly succeeded. I don’t think being unfamiliar with something should ever be outright disqualifying.
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  • ackbar03 7y ago
    If you put it that way, it wouldn't be wrong to think of it as a disqualifying round
  • fyrabanks 7y ago
    If I were holding a competition for bakers, I wouldn't feel obligated to include a paragraph explaining what a "bake-off" is. I knew what a CTF was years before I knew enough to compete in one; it's a central part of hacker culture going back to the mid-90s. Every puzzle here places you in a different unfamiliar situation. The only "outright disqualifying" thing is whether you can figure out something on your own. You essentially failed the first test.