Help and FAQ

You can read lessons and look at challenges without one. You need an account to submit flags, join a team, register for events and teach.

There is no automatic reset email yet. Write to us on the contact page from the email address of the account, choose the topic Help with my account, and an admin will set a new password.

Not yourself. Your username is the name on scoreboards, so it stays fixed. Ask on the contact page if there is a good reason. You can change your display name and bio on your account page.

No. One person, one account. Accounts that share a network address are put in a review queue; an admin looks at them before doing anything, because families and schools share connections.

A restricted account can read everything but cannot submit flags and is hidden from scoreboards while the case is reviewed. A banned account cannot sign in.

Every flag has the form CTF-ORION{some_text} with no spaces. Paste the whole thing, including the braces.

Check for a trailing space, a missing brace, or a flag you found in a different challenge. Flags are case sensitive. In events your team has its own flag, so a flag from a write-up or a friend will not work.

By level: Beginner 100, Easy 200, Medium 300, Hard 400, Insane 500. Practice flags inside lessons are worth 0 and never reach a scoreboard.

Yes. Each player can try a few times per minute on a challenge. This stops guessing by script, which is not allowed.

Read the story twice, check the file type and metadata, and try the Foundations lessons. Teachers can also write lessons that lead into a challenge.

Up to 25 members. Create a team on your account page, then share its join code. Anyone with the code can join until the team is full.

Yes, by leaving one team and joining another, unless you are registered to an event that is running. During an event your team is locked until it ends.

A team gets the points for a challenge once, whichever member solved it. Players also keep their own solo score. Team and solo boards are separate.

Practice challenges are open all the time. An event has a start and end time, its own scoreboard, and gives every team a unique version of each flag.

Times on the site are shown in Bangladesh time (UTC+6).

Yes, register on the event page before it ends. You can register after it has started.

A flag that belongs to another team shows up as a case for the admins. If confirmed, the teams involved can be restricted or banned, and the sharer can be named on the integrity page.

Open the teach page and press Start teaching. You get a studio where you write paths, lessons and challenges. Everything is reviewed by an admin before it is published.

You do. By submitting you let CTF-ORION show it to learners for free. You can ask us to remove it. See the terms for the exact wording.

Send a proposal on the host page. If approved, your organisation gets a page at ctforion.com/your-name, and the admin team creates your event with you.