Rules

1. Flag format is tsla{stuff...} unless otherwise specified in the challenge description.
   • Plese submit the entire flag, including the tsla{} part.
2. Teams of any size may participate (no size restrictions).
3. Anyone may participate, even teams not meeting the qualification criteria.
   • Only eligible teams may qualify for finals, see qualification criteria below.
4. AI/LLM assistance is allowed. It's a tool, use it effectively!
5. No sharing/trading of flags or solutions.
6. No denial-of-service attacks or attempts to "grief" a challenge.
7. No automated scanning tools (like dirbuster, dirsearch, nmap, nessus) unless otherwise specified in the challenge description.
8. Each person may only participate on a single team.
9. Do not publicly discuss challenge details or share write-ups until after the competition ends.
10. Do not contact other teams asking for hints.
11. Do not attempt to attack competition infrastructure hosted on www.teslactf.com.
    • Challenges will be served under the subdomains chal.teslactf.com or web.teslactf.com. Anything else is out of scope.
    • No challenges will involve accessing any other Tesla websites, such as tesla.com or teslamotors.com.

Competition organizers may disqualify or ban any team or individual at any point based on our judgement. Play fairly!

Scoring

Tesla CTF uses "dynamic scoring", meaning that a challenge's points value are determined by the total number of solving teams. All teams who solve a challenge, regardless of the time or order in which they solve it, will receive the same number of points for that challenge. There is no point bonus for "first blood" (being the first team to solve a challenge).

Scoring ties will be broken based on the earliest timestamp when a team's last valid flag was submitted. E.g. if two teams solve all challenges on the board, the first one to do so will be ranked higher.

Hints

Organizers will only share hints in special circumstances. Hints will always be shared publicly, not in DMs or tickets. Hints will only be given for challenges which have not been solved by any teams yet.

Qualification Eligibility

Qualification eligibility is limited to US and Canada based teams. Only one "school team" per university may qualify for finals. The top 10 scoring teams that meet the eligibility requirements will be invited to the in-person final round.

In-Person Final Round

The in-person final round competition will take place at the Tesla Engineering HQ in Palo Alto, California on TBD. Teams that qualify for the final round will each need to select up to 4 players, who will receive airfare, lodging, food, and local transportation in Palo Alto (to and from the SJC/SFO airport and the competition venue). All players competing in this 2-day final competition will receive Tesla CTF t-shirts. There will be cash prizes for the top 3 finishing teams at finals:

• First place: $10,000
• Second place: $5,000
• Third place: $2,000