Offensive Security recently announced that they'll allow everyone to participate. However, the tournament will be conducted in two phases and only the first 100 who complete phase 1 will be allowed to advance to phase 2.


What to expect

    * The challenge will be built of two Phases, appropriately called “Phase 1″ and “Phase 2″. Phase one is also humorously called “The noob filter”, as only the first 100 people who hack their way past this machine will pass on to “Phase 2″. Please do not be offended by the choice of machine names, it’s all done in humor. Once “Phase 1″ is hacked by an attendee, they will find instructions on how to proceed to “Phase 2″.
    * “Phase 2″ will involve VPN access to an internal lab, with several additional machines which are trembling with anticipation for the taunting session hacking tournament.
    * All registered attendees will get an email on the 8th of May, around 14:00 GMT (that means around 10am EST) with further instructions, attack adresses, etc. We have around 120 people who have not verified their registration – those will not be included in the list. If you did not get a confirmation email, re-register, or contact Offsec Staff (figure out how).


Complete information here;
http://www.information-security-training.com/events/offensive-security-hacking-tournament-updates/

If anyone has not received their email they can contact muts at #HSIYF on freenode. Just received mine

Crap...I forgot about this. Now I'm too late :/

This is hard. has anyone here passed phase 1 yet?

i see someone named "KETCHUP" there, who got passed phase 1.

Nice work Ketchup!

The challenge was fun, apart from load times.
The lag is an absolute killer of us at the bottom of the world. Load time of over 10,000ms per object, so can't complete stage one to get away from the loonies and get some peace to go for gold :-(

this is fun, got past the noob filter, but not getting much else going!