Re: DefCon CTF

[Doc Brown <drb () nopsr us>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:55:57AM -0700, Red Dragon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Jared DeMott
> <jdemott () crucialsecurity com>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
>
> I think it's just unfair in term of the number of people in the team.
> Especially for "foreign" teams since US teams normally have more ppl.
> Chris's team was like 2.5 times larger than other teams.

I certainly see what you're saying, but traditionally there has been
diminishing returns when adding more people.  There's a balance for any
given set of personalities, capabilities, and hierarchy.

I think it was the Ghetto Hackers that said one year when they ran CTF
and a smaller team complained about larger team sizes: "Get more friends"  :)

-Doc

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Doc Brown                                            @nopsr.us
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