Swiss Hacking Challenge

The Swiss Hacking Challenge (SHC) is the anual hacking championship of Switzerland. It is organized by the team /mnt/ain also known as m0unt41n, the Swiss national team. It offers the opportunity to try oneself in CTFs of different categories and to improve as well as to compete with other like-minded people.

Event link

The participation in the SHC is free and everyone is allowed to participate. The participants have to compete in one of the following categories:

• Junior (Swiss citizen, aged 14-20 years)
• Senior (Swiss citizen, aged 21-25 years)
• Open

All participants can try their hands on the online Jeopardy-CTFs during the two months of march and april and try capture as many flags as possible.
The 10 best participants of the junior and senior category qualify for the SHC Finals. This is a two-day on-site event, which is a team Jeopardy-CTF, this event also serves as the selection for the Swiss national team which will then compete at the ECSC event later in the year.

A small overview of the events can be seen in the graphic below, additional explanations can be found on the SHC website.