Qualifying Round
- Jul 24
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Qualifying Round: This is a 24-hour online competition conducted in the form of a "game". Participants are required to apply their cybersecurity skills to search for "clues" within the "game" and complete various "missions". Points will be awarded upon successful completion of the missions.
o Type of Challenges and Samples
o Binary Exploitation
o Cryptography
o Forensics
o Reverse Engineering
o Web Exploitation
o Miscellaneous
* All the challenges in this contest are in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and English.
o Time
6:00PM (HKT), November 6 – 6:00PM (HKT), November 7, 2026 (24 hours)
o Arrangement
Online contest. The participating teams will receive the email from the organiser at least one day before the qualifying round, containing the login account for the platform and the platform link.
o Qualification to Final Round
The top 10 teams with the highest scores in secondary school, tertiary institution and open categories of the qualifying round, after reviewed by the organiser (including identity verification and other necessary check), will be qualified to the finals. For international category, the top 5 teams with the highest scores in the qualifying round, after reviewed by the organiser (including identity verification and other necessary check), will be qualified to the finals.
* If a team waives their qualification for the finals, fails to pass the review or is disqualified for any other reason, the qualification for the finals will be passed on to the next highest-scoring team in the qualifying round of that group.
* In the event of a tie in scores, the qualification for advancement will be determined by the time the teams earned their last score in the qualifying round, with the team that scored earlier being given priority.
