Sat, 22 Nov. 2025, 15:00 UTC — Sat, 22 Nov. 2025, 22:00 UTC
On-site
Onsite at 6 locations in Canada
A CyberSci event.
Format: Jeopardy 
Official URL: https://cybersecuritychallenge.ca/
Event organizers
CyberSci is Canada's national Cyber Security Challenge for university and college students.
- Think you've got an elite team of students? Come and prove it. Our winners will go on to compete against the best in the world.
- Just starting out? This is the best way to learn and rise to the top.
- Annual in-person events since 2016. (Online during Covid.) Over 500 students so far.
Format:
- Modified jeopardy style. Realistic IT environment.
- Regional qualifiers are held in Nov-Dec each year.
- National finals are the following July.
- Winning teams represent Canada at international events in the Fall.
For Regionals (qualifiers):
We do hacking in the morning, interviews in the afternoon, and job offers by supper (for intern/summer/coop jobs).
- Full-time job offers take a few more days.
- Students register their team through their school instructor or computer club. Max 2 teams per school.
For nationals:
Participants will be the winning team from each regional/qualifier
- PLUS one all-juniors (19 and under)
- AND one all-women team (chosen from participants at the Regionals).
Two-day event.
Winners at Regionals get instant interviews and sometimes same-day job offers.
Winners at Nationals will represent Canada at international events in the Fall.
85 teams total
| Place | Team | CTF points | Rating points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sherbrooke Mon PayUS | 3676.000 | 50.000 | |
| 2 | UofTCTF | 3176.000 | 34.100 | |
| 3 | MacHackers | 2336.000 | 24.220 | |
| 4 | HackThePlanETS | 2156.000 | 20.913 | |
| 5 | Maple Bacon | 2000.000 | 18.602 | |
| 6 | Spyyyy | 2000.000 | 17.768 | |
| 7 | Cyber Engineering McGill | 2000.000 | 17.173 | |
| 8 | AI B2B RaaS | 1936.000 | 16.291 | |
| 9 | Status 418 | 1900.000 | 15.699 | |
| 10 | Status 425 | 1896.000 | 15.394 | |
| 11 | MacSec 2 | 1856.000 | 14.895 | |
| 12 | chicken | 1800.000 | 14.325 | |
| 13 | Team Ravens | 1736.000 | 13.729 | |
| 14 | The Off-By-Ones | 1700.000 | 13.347 | |
| 15 | Shell We Hack? | 1700.000 | 13.228 | |
| 16 | Qu4cks | 1700.000 | 13.124 | |
| 17 | Eggggg | 1700.000 | 13.032 | |
| 18 | Qu4cks ext. | 1700.000 | 12.950 | |
| 19 | MacSec 1 | 1600.000 | 12.197 | |
| 20 | PolyCyber | 1600.000 | 12.131 | |
| 21 | The SAIT and Switch | 1556.000 | 11.773 | |
| 22 | LabubUS | 1556.000 | 11.719 | |
| 23 | TrashPandas | 1536.000 | 11.533 | |
| 24 | CHADS B-Team | 1500.000 | 11.243 | |
| 25 | Night Owls | 1500.000 | 11.201 | |
| 26 | Ping Works, We Don't | 1472.000 | 10.972 | |
| 27 | Douglas Team 2 | 1456.000 | 10.828 | |
| 28 | Team Magpies | 1436.000 | 10.659 | |
| 29 | CyberForce | 1400.000 | 10.383 | |
| 30 | sudo rm -rf / | 1384.000 | 10.246 | |
| 31 | prettygoodpwning | 1236.000 | 9.212 | |
| 32 | VortexOps | 1200.000 | 8.942 | |
| 33 | ');DROP TABLE teams; | 1200.000 | 8.919 | |
| 34 | llanfairpwllgwyngyll | 1200.000 | 8.896 | |
| 35 | APD-1280S | 1200.000 | 8.875 | |
| 36 | 0xDEADRACCOON | 1200.000 | 8.855 | |
| 37 | LAN goblins | 1196.000 | 8.810 | |
| 38 | Khoury Admin | 1100.000 | 8.139 | |
| 39 | pwnly fans | 1100.000 | 8.122 | |
| 40 | GreveOverflow | 1100.000 | 8.106 | |
| 41 | YorkCTF | 1100.000 | 8.091 | |
| 42 | lotus eaters | 1100.000 | 8.076 | |
| 43 | Baple Macon | 1100.000 | 8.062 | |
| 44 | Sealed | 1000.000 | 7.369 | |
| 45 | chr(sum(range(84))) | 1000.000 | 7.356 | |
| 46 | 0xFleming | 1000.000 | 7.344 | |
| 47 | Langara CTF Team | 1000.000 | 7.333 | |
| 48 | Caaat5 | 1000.000 | 7.322 | |
| 49 | Cipher Niners v1 | 1000.000 | 7.311 | |
| 50 | UNBreakble | 900.000 | 6.621 | |
| 51 | VYTEMETS | 900.000 | 6.611 | |
| 52 | Script Kiddie Elite | 900.000 | 6.602 | |
| 53 | PolyOverflow | 800.000 | 5.912 | |
| 54 | Queen's Indigenous | 800.000 | 5.904 | |
| 55 | BCIT Team 1 | 800.000 | 5.895 | |
| 56 | Sheridan Team 1 | 800.000 | 5.887 | |
| 57 | team rocket | 800.000 | 5.879 | |
| 58 | BCIT Team 2 | 800.000 | 5.872 | |
| 59 | Freaky Phreakers | 800.000 | 5.864 | |
| 60 | Maisonneuve Team 2 | 800.000 | 5.857 | |
| 61 | UREGINA | 700.000 | 5.170 | |
| 62 | Concordia Team 2 | 700.000 | 5.164 | |
| 63 | hbplore | 700.000 | 5.157 | |
| 64 | Mohack | 700.000 | 5.151 | |
| 65 | Zer0Day NBCC | 700.000 | 5.145 | |
| 66 | Ctrl-Alt-Elite | 700.000 | 5.139 | |
| 67 | [Ctrl] | 700.000 | 5.134 | |
| 69 | U de Montréal Team 1 | 600.000 | 4.443 | |
| 70 | Tea Mux | 600.000 | 4.438 | |
| 71 | Cipher Corp | 600.000 | 4.433 | |
| 72 | Rootkit Raiders | 500.000 | 3.748 | |
| 73 | SAIT_Lock Holmes | 500.000 | 3.743 | |
| 74 | VCC Team 1 | 500.000 | 3.738 | |
| 75 | Exp-Acquired | 500.000 | 3.734 | |
| 76 | DarkTrace Division | 500.000 | 3.729 | |
| 77 | UVic Team 2 | 400.000 | 3.045 | |
| 78 | Jungle Umbrella | 400.000 | 3.041 | |
| 79 | Mohack Tuah | 400.000 | 3.037 | |
| 80 | CityDefender | 400.000 | 3.033 | |
| 81 | BdeB Team 2 | 400.000 | 3.029 | |
| 82 | Team Sentinel | 300.000 | 2.345 | |
| 83 | MRU Mountain Lions | 300.000 | 2.341 | |
| 84 | Shadow Injection | 200.000 | 1.658 | |
| 85 | Acadia Team 1 | 200.000 | 0.827 | |
| 86 | JEDI Team 1 | 100.000 | 0.485 | |