THEM?!CTF 2026 is an online, worldwide jeopardy-style Capture The Flag competition organized by THEM?!

Join our discord server btw: https://discord.gg/its-them

The event is designed to be beginner-friendly while still offering enough depth for intermediate and experienced players. Challenges will span a wide range of difficulty levels, so newer players can learn and participate/slop, while stronger teams can expect harder problems that require deeper technical skill actual brain functioning.

We plan to feature 40+ challenges across the following categories:

Crypto, Web, Reverse, Pwn, Web3, OSINT, Forensics, and Misc

For THEM?!CTF we put a lot of effort into original yet interesting challenge design. We are paying special attention to reducing low-effort solving aka. slopping and flag-sharing through very intentional challenge design choices, with the goal of making the event fun and more competitive for everyone.

Sharing flags, solutions, or even the slightest hint is STRICTLY forbidden, and will NOT be tolerated.

The use AI is not forbidden, since it cannot be reliably proven, but relying on it too much tends to be embarrassingly obvious.

Slopping will result in a ban.

The event is fully online and open to players worldwide.
There is no team size limit.

We wish all players and teams best of luck.

Big thanks to our sponsors:
Google Cloud cloud.google.com
Kenshi Security kenshisecurity.com
NordVPN nordvpn.com
NordPass nordpass.com
Incogni incogni.com
Saily saily.com
nexos.ai nexos.ai

1st place:
250 EUR
3x 6-month Caido licence
5x .xyz domains
1-year subscriptions for NordVPN, NordPass, and Incogni (up to 6 individuals)

2nd place:
290 EUR + $150 which equals to about a total of 420 EUR
3x 3-month Caido licence
5x .xyz domains
1 GB of free data for Saily (up to 6 individuals)
1x APISEC UNIVERSITY ASCP Certification Voucher

3rd place:
100 EUR
3x 1-month Caido licence
5x .xyz domains
3-month access and €200 credit for nexos.ai (up to 6 individuals)

5th place:
69 EUR

8th place:
3x APISEC UNIVERSITY ACP Certification Vouchers

10th place:
Lego Jurassic World Video Game Voucher
Far Cry 2 Video Game Voucher

41st place:
2x APISEC UNIVERSITY CASA Certification Vouchers

67th place:
6,70 EUR

69th place
69 EUR

91st - 100th place:
$6 amazon.com gift card

Last place:
1 EUR

First team to get caught slopping:
THM 1-month voucher (so they can learn cyber basics)