[ LEGAL // CODE OF CONDUCT ]

Terms of Service

OMEGA CTF 2026 • Department of Computer Science • PDUAM Amjonga • Effective: October 2026
01 // ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Agreement to Rules of Engagement

By registering an account, forming a team, or accessing any challenge infrastructure for OMEGA CTF 2026, you agree to comply with and be legally bound by these Terms of Service, the competition rules, and applicable cyber laws of India (including the Information Technology Act, 2000). If you do not agree, you must not access the platform.

02 // ELIGIBILITY & REGISTRATION
Competitor Qualifications
  • Participation is open to bonafide college and university students.
  • Teams may comprise up to 3 members. One participant cannot be part of multiple teams.
  • Competitors must provide accurate registration details (name, valid institutional or personal email address). Duplicate accounts created by the same person are strictly prohibited.
03 // ACCEPTABLE USE & RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Prohibited Activities

All offensive security activities must be confined strictly to designated challenge instances. The following actions will result in immediate disqualification:

  • No Flag Sharing or Collusion: Sharing flags, solution payloads, or hints with other teams during the live contest is strictly forbidden.
  • No Infrastructure Attacks: Attacking or fuzzing the CTFd platform, scoreboard, judging servers, or college networks is strictly prohibited. Only explicitly designated target containers may be tested.
  • No Denial of Service: Automated brute-forcing, high-volume stress testing, or DoS/DDoS against any challenge service or submission API is disallowed. Rate limits are actively enforced.
  • No Social Engineering: Impersonating administrators, organizers, or other participants is strictly forbidden.
WARNING: Unauthorized attacks targeting external networks, organizers, or unauthorized college assets will be reported to institutional authorities.
04 // INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & WRITE-UPS
Challenge Content & Solution Disclosure

All challenge descriptions, binaries, source code snippets, and assets are the intellectual property of CSSA and respective challenge authors.

  • Participants are encouraged to produce write-ups and educational blog posts after the competition officially ends and results are announced.
  • Publishing solutions or leaking flags while the competition is active is a serious violation.
05 // AUDITING, DISQUALIFICATION & ORGANIZER AUTHORITY
Integrity Enforcement

The CSSA Organizing Committee reserves the right to audit submission logs, review network telemetry, request proof of work (write-up/solution explanation), and disqualify any team found violating these terms.

All decisions made by the organizing committee regarding scoring, solve validity, and awards are final and binding.

06 // DISCLAIMER & LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Educational Purpose

OMEGA CTF 2026 is conducted purely for educational, academic, and ethical cybersecurity skills development. CSSA and PDUAM Amjonga assume no liability for misuse of concepts learned during this event outside authorized environments.

07 // PLATFORM ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & CREDITS
Powered by CTFd

The OMEGA CTF 2026 competition scoring, challenge management, and participant dashboard infrastructure is built upon and powered by the open-source CTFd platform.

We gratefully acknowledge and credit the CTFd project, its creator Kevin Chung, and the global CTFd open-source community for developing and maintaining the leading capture-the-flag framework that empowers cybersecurity competitions and education worldwide.