 Hey everyone, just a reminder, today is the last day to register for NomCon CTF before the competition starts tomorrow morning. So if you haven't heard, NomCon is a virtual conference being hosted by myself, Nomsack, the Cyber Mentor, and Stoke, and I'm hosting the Capture the Flag, kind of just like I did for VersaCon, so I'm super duper excited for this one. All new challenges, tons of new challenges, and it's getting started tomorrow, June 12th at 8am PDT, running for 31 hours and going until June 13th at 3pm PDT. So right now, we have just over 2400 users registered, and I'm super duper excited because 2500 is where VersaCon ended. At the very end of the game, that's how many users we had registered. So if before Friday morning, before the game starts, we're past 2500, then we're doing better. We've got even better numbers than before VersaCon ended. We're starting NomCon CTF even better than before. And there are tons and tons of challenges, and I'm so excited because all of these, I think are really, really cool. Anyone can play. There are challenges that tailor to every single skill, every single, I guess skill level, right? If you're feeling like, hey, I'm a beginner. I don't know how well I'm going to do with this Capture the Flag. There are tons of warm up challenges, and it will slowly stretch you to more intermediate or advanced or complex stuff. So I'm really, really excited about it, and I hope you guys play. There are in fact prizes. So if you go check out the rules page, there's some support. Hey, you can contact me on the Discord. You can contact anyone with the CTF help role in the Discord. And we're going to be having Capture the Flag with a specific flag format, because I think that's a good way to play. And that's just going to be simply flag. And there are prizes. So the first place team, and you can play as a team, right? Let me let me touch on that in the second first place gets $500 US dollars, second place gets 250 USD, and third place gets 100 USD. So you can play as a team registration and login is user based, because I think that makes a little bit more sense trying to just get into the game. There is no limit to the amount of players you can have on a team. If you are working as a team, create one account and share that one account. So that way, all of your challenges that you solve are still illuminated. Hey, you've solved this, they're, they're checked. And that is the progress as a team. With that said, we are going to be releasing new challenges throughout the competition. We did this last time with VersetCon, and it had a little bit of mixed reviews. Some people really, really enjoyed the fact that we did it. Some people said, Hey, it wasn't communicated all that well to some of the players. And some guys got pretty frustrated about that. So what we're doing this time around is that there is a page for challenge releases. And you can see when we're going to be dropping one new challenge in what category and at what time, right? So that way, you know, okay, I want to have my teammate here available for this, for that specific category, because I know he or she is super, duper strong in that category. And we want you to have something to look forward to if you're one of those high flying super strong competitors. And we want to spice up the game and keep it fun. That does not mean that the game starts, oh, at 10 PDT when we say we have a new challenge release, that means that at the very, very start of the game, almost all of the challenges will be available and ready for you. At those two hour intervals, you can see on the challenge release schedule, we're going to be releasing one challenge from a specific category, just to keep things, I don't know, moving in the mix so that you've always got something to do my goal, right? And the hope in having a ton of challenges is that no one solves everything. Because I want to maximize your training value, I want to make the most out of your learning and your education. So that's why we're going to release as many challenges that we can at the very, very start. And every now and again, we'll slowly release more. So you've still got something to do, and it's still super duper fun. Also, I forgot to say this, so I'm just editing it in. I'm giving a talk at NomCon at the very, very end, just after the CTF ends to kind of go over, Hey, these are the people that did incredible things and help make the game. So, so grateful. Thank you. And talk about some of the decisions that were made on what challenges we're going to put in, what we're going to take out, the infrastructure, how it was all built, how it was all made. So please do catch that at 330 PDT on Saturday, June 13th, just after the competition ends. I'd be grateful if you watch it because we do give some love and some special shout outs to the other people that helped me not do this entirely on my own. So thank you for that. I am hoping to stream the beginning of the capital flag, like from my perspective, like, Hey, as the admin, things are kicking off, people are registering, people are playing, the game is going to drop. What's that going to look like on the maintainer side? How am I going to be on fire? What people are going to need help? What things need to happen? So if anyone is interested at the very, very start of the game, I'll also try and be streaming with some of my team to showcase how that looks on that side of the house, not just the player, but from the organizer and the maintainer. Hopefully that'll be kind of cool. Hopefully that'd be kind of fun. Also, not only are we doing the capital flag talk at the very end of NomCon, just like we did with the verset con, I'd like to do it after the game stream, just to chat with you guys, anyone who has any questions and discuss a little bit more, go more in the weeds on the feedback, what people say, we'll put out another Google form, etc. So those three things streaming the start of the game. So you guys get the perspective, the talk after the conference and some of our perspective creating the game. And then after the fact of the CTF, we'll try and stream just to have a conversation with everyone that played. Hopefully they had a great time and just answer questions as more of them come in. So that's it. Please, please, please go register. I'm really, really excited about this game. It's bigger and better than verset con. There are a ton of great challenges. The challenges are just really, really fun and really, really cool. And I hope you enjoy them. I am, oh man, I don't know what to say. I'm nervous and excited and anxious because I got to do final testing today and I want to make sure everything is just right. But please go register. It'd be incredible to knock these registration stats out the door because if we can get past the 2500 before the start of the game, we're doing even better than verset con did. So go register, link in the description. HTTPS. We got HTTPS and SSL set up CTF.nomcon.com. Please go play. Please join the discord server. I'd love to see you there and I'm really, really excited. I hope you have a great time. Thanks.