Prizes
Learn, Play and Get your name on top on the CTF Leaderboards to Win a #CiscoCTF Challenge Coin and a Cisco Certification Exam Voucher.
Top 3 Players
on the
All-in-One CTF Leaderboard,
Top 2 Players
on each of the
5 x CTF Technology Track Leaderboards,
Top 3 Players
on the
Cisco Partner-Only Leaderboard,
and
Top 1 Player
on each of the
4 x EXPERT CTF Technology Track Leaderboards.
Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday February 13 at 4:30 PM Thursday February 13 at 4:30 PM at the CTF Booth in The World of Solutions Hall 3.
The CUT-OFF TIME to decide the winners will be 3:30 PM on Thursday February 13. 3:30 PM on Thursday February 13.
Simple Rules:
- The Winners need to be present in-person at the CTF Booth during the Awards Ceremony time to collect the award. Prizes are non-transferable, and no cash alternatives will be offered.
- The CTF Team will not be able to ship the awards.
- The CTF Portal automatically breaks the ties. The tie-breaking rules can be found on the CTF Leaderboard. Click on the icon on the CTF leaderboard to read them.
- There are plenty of Tracks and Missions in CTF at Cisco Live. In order to give a fair chance to everyone for Winning regardless of the Tracks they play, instead of having a prize & leaderboard per track, we maintain a few aggregated leaderboards where the scores from the Tracks are pooled.
- This year even the points from the CTF Activities also are taken into account on the All-in-One Leaderboard to encourage the players investing their time in the CTF Activities.
- The 5 x CTF Technology Track Leaderboards are: Networking Leaderboard, Security Leaderboard, Data Center and Cloud Leaderboard, Collaboration Leaderboard, Offensive Security and Forensics Leaderboard. The aggregated scores from the Missions/Tracks played are accounted into the respective Technology Track Leaderboards. The Prefix in the Track Name specifies the Technology Track to which a CTF Track belongs.
- All-in-One Leaderboard is the aggregated leaderboard that sums up the scores earned from every individual CTF Track that a player plays during this Event.
- Cisco Partners-Only Leaderboard is the aggregated leaderboard that sums up the scores earned from every individual CTF Track that a Cisco Partner player plays during this Event.
- The 4 x EXPERT CTF Technology Track Leaderboards are: Networking Expert Leaderboard, Security Expert Leaderboard, Data Center and Cloud Expert Leaderboard, Collaboration Expert Leaderboard.
- The timings mentioned here are in Amsterdam Local Time.
- Only the in-person attendees of Cisco Live EMEA 2025 at Amsterdam are allowed to participate in this Event.
- All participants must conduct themselves in a respectful and sportsperson like manner. Any form of cheating, hacking, or malicious activity will result in immediate disqualification and potential legal action.
- Sharing answers or engaging in any form of collusion is strictly prohibited.
- Only one Cisco Exam Voucher will be provided per winner regardless of the number of prizes they have won.
- The CTF Team reserves the right to disqualify or remove any participant who violates these rules.
- In case of any issues, the decision taken by the CTF Team will stand final.