Labshock CTF Season 1 Opens This Sunday

Last Sunday we tested Labshock CTF with the first players.

This Sunday we open Season 1 for everyone.

Two Ways To Learn

Labshock has always given you two paths:

• Read and understand how OT systems actually work
• Enter a scenario and test what you can do to it

Season 1 puts the second path on a shared clock, with other people on the same plant at the same time.

Why Breaking Something Teaches What Documentation Cannot

Documentation tells you what a system is supposed to do.

A safe environment where you can actually break it tells you what happens when it does not.

You make a decision. The system reacts. You see the result. You try again.

That loop — decision, reaction, observation, retry — is how knowledge becomes skill. Reading alone does not produce it.

What Season 1 Adds

The first beta ran with ten players on one plant, and the format held. Season 1 scales that up: more action, more feedback, and more ways to learn alongside other people instead of alone.

The beta write-up is at labshocksecurity.com/news/first-labshock-ot-ctf-beta

Battlegrounds — the scored live-event system Season 1 runs on — shipped in 2.4.0: labshocksecurity.com/news/labshock-2-4-0-logfall-battlegrounds

The Mission Has Not Changed

Make OT security practical.

Make skills visible.

Make security testable.

Season 1 is that mission with a leaderboard.

This Sunday

The opening event is free. Seats are limited.

OT security must be testable.

Not documented.

Try It Yourself

• Claim a seat for Sunday: discord.gg/bpmaQFfW76
• Read how the beta went first: labshocksecurity.com/news/first-labshock-ot-ctf-beta
• Start free before Sunday and get familiar with the platform: github.com/zakharb/labshock
• Season 1 runs on Battlegrounds — see what shipped with it: labshocksecurity.com/news/labshock-2-4-0-logfall-battlegrounds