ACSC

Rules / Prohibitions

Please read rules and prohibitions before registering as a user.

Rules

• This is an individual competition. As noted in prohibitions, by no means players are allowed to communicate and cooperate with each other.
• The flag format is ACSC{something}, unless otherwise specified.
• Players need to submit a flag to the score server in order to get points.
• The scoring system is static. That means every problem has a predefined point value. Also, there are no breakthrough(first blood) points awarded to the first solvers.
• A player that has more points, ranks higher. If some players have the same points, the player that has made the last submission of a valid flag earlier, ranks higher among them.
• For verification, the organizers may ask the top players to submit a brief writeup after the contest is over.
• If there arise situations which are not covered by these rules, the organizers may make decisions on them as needed. The decisions made are absolute.

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Prohibitions

If you break the following prohibitions, you will be disqualified and banned.

• Players must not share flags or solutions with each other.
• Players must not attack/obstruct other players.
• Players must not attack the contest infrastracture other than the servers explicitly allowed to do so in problems. Also, players must not try brute-force attacks even to the allowed servers.

Finalist Selection

A player is eligible for selection to Team Asia if they meet the following conditions:

• The player must hold the nationality of one of the ACSC Steering Committee member countries.
• The player is under 27 years of age (26 or younger as of January 1st, 2025. Born on or after January 1st, 1999. The player must not turn 27 during the year the competition takes place.)

Following the contest, the ACSC committee will select 15 players (plus two substitutes) to represent Team Asia based on the contest results using the procedure outlined below:

<Finalist Selection Rules>

1. The top three players on the final scoreboard will be selected first.
2. From the remaining players, the top player from each of the following five categories will be selected: Pwn, Rev, Web, Crypto, and Hardware.
3. The remaining spots will be filled by selecting players based on their overall rankings.

Note: The selection process takes into account diversity in challenge categories, countries, and genders. These factors are considered naturally as part of the selection process, without giving them explicit priority.

If any selected player is unable to participate in the ICC for any reason, the next eligible player will be selected until 15 players (plus two substitutes) are confirmed to attend physically.

Organizers

• ACSC Steering Committee
  • Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (India)
  • InfraDigital Foundation (Indonesia)
  • Security Camp Committee (Japan)
  • TBA (Malaysia)
  • InfoSec Plus / National University of Mongolia (Mongolia)
  • Division Zero (Div0) / IIC Productions (Pte. Ltd.) (Singapore)
  • Korea Cyber Security Union (South Korea)
  • AIS3 Project (Taiwan)
  • VNSecurity (Vietnam)
• ACSC CTF Organizers
• PoC / Secretariat
  • CIT Henkaku Center / CIT

Q&A

• Can I participate and play ACSC, even if I am not eligible as a finalist?
  • Yes. You can participate and play ACSC even you are not eligible as a finalist. ACSC is an open CTF for anybody.
• Do I need to pay for travel expenses to compete in ICC?
  • No. Travel and accommodation expenses for Asian final team members to participate in ICC will be provided by the supporting organization in each ACSC Steering Committee member country.

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