The CTF scene is dead
Why frontier AI has broken the open CTF format, hollowed out the scoreboard, and made competitive CTF performance a weaker signal than it used to be.
The scene that grew my love for CTFs is emptying out. The CTFTime leaderboard has almost no semblance of history or human skill anymore. The 2026 scoreboard is unrecognisable compared to every year b… [+1398 chars]