spyVspy 3: Rat Race Rules

Not Following These Will Disqualify You

This is our 3rd year of running this contest, and we've had 0 issues with any of these in the past, and don't expect any issues this year. Thanks for being awesome!

Gameplay

At each appointed time in the below schedule, a new set of challenges ("Rat Races") will be opened on the CTF site, with the first starting at noon on Friday. Each Rat Race will contain a handful of puzzles. Once your team solves every puzzle in a Rat Race, a new dead drop (geocache) challenge will appear. When you find a dead drop, enter the flag on the CTF site. If you are the first team to find it, great - you're in the Final! Come to the contest table and collect your pass! If not, come to the contest table anyway and have a chance to win a slabbed card for your team! Rat Races will remain open and continue awarding a chance for a slabbed card until the contest ends on Sunday (with a break during the Final).

Requesting Hints

Use the hint-requests channel on our spyVspy Discord server to request hints on any puzzle or dead drop. Other spies are welcome to jump in and give any hints they want in that channel. We will keep track of what hints are being requested, and what puzzles and dead drops might need hints. If we decide to give any hints for any puzzles or dead drops, we will drop those in the hints channel during one of the Possible Hint Drop slots in the below schedule. We also aren't above being socially engineered out of hints at the contest table.

Making The Final

Schedule

Friday

Saturday

Sunday