Competition (CTF)

No, participants registering alone or with an incomplete team will be merged with other participants.

For most people, the regular CTF is the best choice to maximize your learning experience. When learning by doing, you'll gain skills that are directly applicable to real-world cybersecurity. Even in the agentic AI era, these skills are important to correctly use AI tools, truely understand their output, knowing when to trust or question their responses and how to steer them.

The AI CTF, on the other hand, is recommended for people who are already experienced cybersecurity practitionners and specifically want to experiment/learn about how to use generative AI, their capabilities and their limits. Maybe you want to see how local models can solve challenges autonomously from your own laptop, or you want to test your harness against the most difficult challenges of the CTF or just want to solve CTF challenges with a little more help from AI.

Yes, you can edit your ticket to change your experience up to Monday the week of the CTF.

You may switch from the regular CTF to the AI CTF, but you cannot switch from the AI CTF to the regular CTF.

You may use any generative AI tool as a teacher/intelligent search engine or use it to generate code and scripts, as long as you do not copy/paste or retranscribe context from the CTF into a generative AI tool. Context includes any challenge details, code, files, servers, domain names or physical artifacts.
In short: the AI can facilitate research or assist script writing, but must not do any problem solving or other reasoning work related to the challenge.