📌About the Event

Kurukshetra CTF 2026 is a two-round cybersecurity and artificial intelligence challenge organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (AI & ML), Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering (PCCOE), Pune, in association with AiMSA and IEEE. The competition combines an online LLM Jailbreak challenge with an offline Capture The Flag (CTF) finale, testing participants on prompt engineering, logical problem-solving, decoding, file and website analysis, and core cybersecurity concepts. The event offers a total prize pool of ₹20,000.

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ℹ️ Event Details

• Event Type: Cybersecurity & AI / Capture The Flag Challenge
• Format: Two-round competition
• Mode of Conduct: Hybrid — Round 1 is online, while Round 2 is conducted offline at PCCOE, Pune.
• Round 1 – LLM Jailbreak: Participants must use creative prompting to extract hidden keys from three RAG-based LLMs. No previous AI or LLM experience is stated as necessary.
• Round 2 – Capture The Flag: The top 20 teams from Round 1 advance to an offline CTF at the Architecture Hall, PCCOE.
• The final CTF consists of 10 domains, with approximately 2–3 sequential sub-questions per domain.

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📅 Important Dates

• Registration Deadline: October 2, 2026, according to the current indexed opportunity listing.
• Round 1 – LLM Jailbreak: October 3, 2026
• Round 1 Timing: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
• Round 2 – Capture The Flag: October 11, 2026
• Round 2 Reporting & ID Verification: 9:00 AM

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🎯 Eligibility & Rules

• Eligibilty:
• Team Size: The indexed PCCOE listing states 2–4 members per team. A secondary listing reports 1–4, so participants should verify the final requirement on the registration page before submitting their team.
• Intercollege Teams: Allowed.
• Every participant must carry a valid student ID card.
• A participant cannot be a member of multiple teams.
• Team composition becomes final after registration.
• Participants qualifying for the offline round must bring their own laptops.
• The use of AI/LLM tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude is permitted

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🏆 Benefits for the Participants

• Total Prize Pool: ₹20,000.
• The available event information does not currently provide a verified winner/runner-up-wise breakdown of the ₹20,000 prize pool.
• The competition provides participants an opportunity to demonstrate practical skills in cybersecurity, prompt engineering, AI security, logical reasoning and CTF problem-solving.