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THE CTF SCENE IS DEAD

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Frontier AI models have disrupted the open Capture The Flag (CTF) format by automating the reasoning and technical tasks that once defined human skill. These competitions have evolved into a test of computational orchestration and financial investment, making traditional scoreboards an inaccurate measure of individual security expertise.