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Individual Participants

For a CTF with individual participation mode turned on, users can join the CTF as an individual participant during the registration process.

Managing Individual Participants​

As individual participants are basically users, they can be managed in the Manage Users page (Manage > Users or /admin/manage/users) by an organizer.

Manage Users

The admin can use the search bar at the top of the page to search for an individual participant by their name, username, and email.

There is also an option to select a list of users and perform bulk actions on them. The bulk actions include:

  • deleting (users) participants
  • banning (users) participants
  • unbanning (users) participants

Editing Participant Details​

Organizers can edit the details of individual participants by clicking on the Edit button on the Manage Users page.

Through this option, an organizer can modify the following details of a participant:

  • Name
  • Username
  • Email
  • Password (set a new password for the participant/user)

Setting Roles & Converting Participants to Organizers​

Further, the organizer can also change the role of the participant from Participant to Organizer or vice versa. To do this, the organizer needs to turn on the Is Organizer? toggle. This will show up a Role dropdown picker field where the organizer can select the new organizer role to be now given to the user.

If the user was previously a individual participant, all the submissions, and other data associated with the participant will be permanently deleted.

Setting & Changing Teams​

Organizers can also set and change the team of a user. To do this, the organizer needs to make sure to turn off the Is Organizer? toggle. This will show up a Team dropdown picker field where the organizer can select the team to be now given to the user.

  • If the user is already a part of a team, the organizer can change the team of the user by selecting a different team from the dropdown picker.

  • If the user is not a part of any team, the individual contestant data will be deleted and the user will be added to the selected team. This means all the submissions, and other data of the user will be permanently deleted.

Deleting Participants​

Organizers can delete individual participant user accounts from the Manage Users page, by clicking on the Delete button. Based on what the organizer has set in the Privacy & Security settings, the account will either be deleted permanently or soft-deleted. In either case, the user will not be able to log in to the platform and all personally-identifiable information will be removed from the platform.

This is an irreversible action and the user will not be able to recover their account. It is advised to use this option only when the user has requested to be deleted from the platform. To temporarily revoke access to a user, use the Banning feature instead.

Banning Participants​

Organizers can ban users from participating in the CTF through the admin panel. To do this, click on a user's name, and then click on the Ban button on the top right of the popup opened.

User Manage Popup

Banned participants will not be able to access the CTF platform, and any existing scores will be unlisted from the scoreboard. They can be unbanned by the admin, and they will be able to access the CTF platform again, and previous scores, if any, will be restored.