Fri, 05 Dec. 2025, 21:00 UTC — Sun, 07 Dec. 2025, 04:00 UTC 
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A VuwCTF event.
Format: Jeopardy 
Official URL: https://2025.vuwctf.com/
This event's future weight is subject of public voting!
Event organizers
VuwCTF's largest event of the year!
Competitors will solve challenges across seven categories: web, OSINT, reverse engineering, binary exploitation (pwn), cryptography, forensics, and misc.
Prize eligible teams must consist of no more than three New Zealand secondary students for the secondary division, or three New Zealand tertiary (or secondary) students for the tertiary division.
For students in the Wellington region, we are running an in-person event in Cotton Building, Kelburn Campus. RSVP is essential: https://vuwctf.com/rsvp
We’re grateful for the support of Carapace (https://carapace.nz) and PentesterLab (https://pentesterlab.com/). The latter have provided one month of PentesterLab Pro to the members of the top two placing teams in both divisions.
In both secondary and tertiary divisions:
1st: $200 + 3x 1 month PentesterLab Pro vouchers
2nd: $120 + 3x 1 month PentesterLab Pro vouchers
3rd: $60
All prizes in NZD
119 teams total
| Place | Team | CTF points | Rating points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | krauq | 8321.000 | 50.000 | |
| 2 | xtraa | 6946.000 | 33.369 | |
| 3 | RBLX-Labs SegFault1 | 6746.000 | 28.601 | |
| 4 | Han Shangyan Solo Run | 6726.000 | 26.458 | |
| 5 | tjcsc | 5412.000 | 21.260 | |
| 6 | <CrYpT1c_Kn1gh7z> | 4968.000 | 19.093 | |
| 7 | The F Students | 4029.000 | 15.676 | |
| 8 | MazuBot | 3074.000 | 12.361 | |
| 9 | brambleseverywhereaaa | 3064.000 | 11.983 | |
| 10 | DarkArmy | 2986.000 | 11.471 | |
| 11 | The Entity | 2363.000 | 9.372 | |
| 12 | OP_EN | 2216.000 | 8.741 | |
| 13 | Tertiary 1 | 2142.000 | 8.359 | |
| 14 | only hard challenge | 1939.000 | 7.611 | |
| 15 | Tertiary 2 | 1877.000 | 7.306 | |
| 16 | CyberLimoux | 1837.000 | 7.082 | |
| 17 | GRUMPY CARACAL'S CTFING | 1726.000 | 6.656 | |
| 18 | Singapore Students Merger | 1686.000 | 6.454 | |
| 19 | imagine that you playing ctfs without ai :v | 1676.000 | 6.351 | |
| 20 | 127.0.0.1 | 1583.000 | 6.006 | |
| 21 | Good_challs? | 1550.000 | 5.847 | |
| 22 | posix | 1550.000 | 5.793 | |
| 23 | letsctf | 1527.000 | 5.675 | |
| 24 | frontshots | 1426.000 | 5.326 | |
| 25 | BlueAlder | 1376.000 | 5.134 | |
| 26 | d00m5d4y | 1352.000 | 5.024 | |
| 27 | APD-1280 | 1287.000 | 4.793 | |
| 28 | fsoci3ty | 1256.000 | 4.666 | |
| 29 | VSL.Sp33d_Of_T1m3 | 1251.000 | 4.621 | |
| 30 | F14gg3r5 | 1231.000 | 4.532 | |
| 31 | ThomasgKorp | 1192.000 | 4.388 | |
| 32 | mcg | 1111.000 | 4.119 | |
| 33 | leeet | 1111.000 | 4.096 | |
| 34 | 3 Nights in Wonderland | 1076.000 | 3.968 | |
| 35 | sk1 | 1075.000 | 3.944 | |
| 36 | Shadowroot allience | 1056.000 | 3.867 | |
| 37 | Utopians | 956.000 | 3.548 | |
| 38 | tsid | 875.000 | 3.287 | |
| 39 | La M@qu1n@ | 811.000 | 3.078 | |
| 40 | holyhexor | 811.000 | 3.062 | |
| 41 | DWY_YK | 800.000 | 3.013 | |
| 42 | Xyl0n | 676.000 | 2.626 | |
| 43 | Mini_Cyber | 600.000 | 2.384 | |
| 44 | ShadowCons | 600.000 | 2.371 | |
| 45 | matlamper | 600.000 | 2.358 | |
| 46 | Owen yeah | 600.000 | 2.346 | |
| 47 | c0raline | 600.000 | 2.335 | |
| 48 | CSI | 600.000 | 2.324 | |
| 49 | LappungCTF{} | 600.000 | 2.313 | |
| 50 | NNNX | 576.000 | 2.231 | |
| 51 | Fruity Rumpus Factory | 575.000 | 2.218 | |
| 52 | D4RKN355_PR0T0C0L | 556.000 | 2.151 | |
| 53 | Ghost Injection | 500.000 | 1.974 | |
| 54 | trgl&friends | 500.000 | 1.965 | |
| 55 | teamZebin | 500.000 | 1.957 | |
| 56 | 1753c | 400.000 | 1.648 | |
| 57 | kud88 | 400.000 | 1.640 | |
| 58 | s1va | 400.000 | 1.633 | |
| 59 | pika | 400.000 | 1.626 | |
| 60 | Gimel | 400.000 | 1.618 | |
| 61 | myles_aus | 400.000 | 1.612 | |
| 62 | MTA_H4mm3r | 400.000 | 1.605 | |
| 63 | SoloBox | 400.000 | 1.599 | |
| 64 | SandByte_404 | 400.000 | 1.592 | |
| 65 | Airquanta | 400.000 | 1.586 | |
| 66 | nefor's team | 400.000 | 1.581 | |
| 67 | IgelsCTF | 400.000 | 1.575 | |
| 68 | ctfrrteam | 400.000 | 1.569 | |
| 69 | CikaretCySec | 400.000 | 1.564 | |
| 70 | Jaimna | 376.000 | 1.487 | |
| 71 | h4ck3r | 300.000 | 1.253 | |
| 72 | atea6 | 300.000 | 1.249 | |
| 73 | YQTX | 300.000 | 1.244 | |
| 74 | malloc | 300.000 | 1.239 | |
| 75 | Team StellarFlare | 300.000 | 1.235 | |
| 76 | Rocket Rooks | 300.000 | 1.230 | |
| 77 | nexus | 300.000 | 1.226 | |
| 78 | Lizzy The Kitty x3 | 300.000 | 1.222 | |
| 79 | CodeBloodedSibs | 300.000 | 1.218 | |
| 80 | V4lkyr1e.exe Squad | 300.000 | 1.214 | |
| 81 | R1yhtp | 300.000 | 1.210 | |
| 82 | labupump | 300.000 | 1.206 | |
| 83 | HexHax | 300.000 | 1.203 | |
| 84 | DC21321 | 300.000 | 1.199 | |
| 85 | SdrogoKlub | 300.000 | 1.195 | |
| 86 | UC_Expl01ts | 300.000 | 1.192 | |
| 87 | Burm4_Byt3 | 300.000 | 1.189 | |
| 88 | zabivlev | 275.000 | 1.110 | |
| 89 | skolkolo | 211.000 | 0.915 | |
| 90 | C2_RIP | 200.000 | 0.879 | |
| 91 | mthda | 200.000 | 0.876 | |
| 92 | idefklulz | 200.000 | 0.873 | |
| 93 | reverx21 | 200.000 | 0.870 | |
| 94 | 0x | 200.000 | 0.867 | |
| 95 | The Glitch Mob | 200.000 | 0.864 | |
| 96 | fight4freedom | 200.000 | 0.861 | |
| 97 | wefjiafaw3 | 200.000 | 0.859 | |
| 98 | Byterrrs | 200.000 | 0.856 | |
| 99 | R_OxPloit3rs | 200.000 | 0.853 | |
| 100 | 5n1ck3rD00dl3 | 200.000 | 0.851 | |
| 101 | #MogamiShizuka | 200.000 | 0.848 | |
| 102 | small | 200.000 | 0.846 | |
| 103 | DeforestationGang | 200.000 | 0.844 | |
| 104 | GhostSec | 100.000 | 0.541 | |
| 105 | Nuts | 100.000 | 0.539 | |
| 106 | MR.KATANA | 100.000 | 0.536 | |
| 107 | Les Crêpistes | 100.000 | 0.534 | |
| 108 | Kirchhoff | 100.000 | 0.532 | |
| 109 | dragonh4ck0S | 100.000 | 0.530 | |
| 110 | Hunters | 100.000 | 0.528 | |
| 111 | CRYPT1C | 100.000 | 0.526 | |
| 112 | VlVXQ1RG | 100.000 | 0.524 | |
| 113 | TOAA | 100.000 | 0.522 | |
| 114 | Superb4d | 100.000 | 0.520 | |
| 115 | Fake{ | 100.000 | 0.518 | |
| 116 | ChapBaiSlayer | 100.000 | 0.516 | |
| 117 | cabu | 100.000 | 0.514 | |
| 118 | fzhshzh | 100.000 | 0.512 | |
| 119 | _dw.UIAcat | 100.000 | 0.255 | |
