THEM?!CTF 2026

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

Official URL: https://ctf.themctf.com/

CTFtime URL: https://ctftime.org/event/3209/

Official prize text: 1st place:

250 EUR

3x 6-month Caido licence

5x .xyz domains

1-year subscriptions for NordVPN, NordPass, and Incogni (up to 6 individuals)

3 months 4GB RAM Minecraft Server

2nd place:

390 EUR + $150 which equals to about a total of 520 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

9th place:

1x 9 Kings Game Voucher

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

3 months 4GB RAM Minecraft Server

69th place

69 EUR

91st - 100th place:

$6 amazon.com gift card

Median places (293rd and 294th place)

2 WinRAR licences

Last place:

1 EUR

First team to get caught slopping:

THM 1-month voucher (so they can learn cyber basics)

Writeup Prizes:

5x $30 for the 5 best writeups