[Dailydave] DefCon CTF

[Chris Eagle]

Actually, of the 26 people, only 18 were hands on keyboard types this 
year.  Of those we had a a wide range of experience levels from CTF 
first timers to CTF old timers.  The team was no larger or smaller than 
we have used in the past and lost with.  Perhaps our process is starting 
to work a little better.  Frankly we haven't decided what worked and 
what didn't just yet, but we like all of the conjecture because we wish 
we had thought of some of the ideas being tossed around.  More things to 
try next year I guess ;)

Chris

Jared DeMott wrote:
> Ya, from what I saw (and from what ChrisEagle said) skewl just brought 
> out all the horses.  With a 26 man team (to our 8-10) they were 
> overpoweringly strong, and led by the master CE to bring down the house 
> RE style.  For the last couple years we've rocked as a balanced team and 
> mastered things like automation, counter attack, defense, 
> inline-snorting, and of course DRB with the RE power -- but this year 
> more than ever break through points (first to RE and exploit a vul) was 
> key -- score quick, score often.  If the game stays the same, bringing a 
> small army of reversers is possibly a strong road to success, especially 
> if you've mastered the personal issues of large teams, and understand 
> the rest of the game as well.  Skewl rocks, and they deserved to win.  
> I'm not at all suggesting that numbers was the only reason they won.  
> Though, I wonder if Kenshoto will try and address the large team 
> approach?  I'm really not sure much can be done there, so I guess it's 
> just one strategic approach?  CE trains folks that move on to gov and 
> industry, so now when he raises a call to arms, he can muster a sizable 
> team that we might have trouble matching.  Though, I suppose we could 
> try that approach as well.  I doubt we will though, I think our team has 
> always felt that sleek and tight was better than big.  Though if you 
> tighten up big ... perhaps (obviously) you yield greater production?
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