1st Edition of CyberlympicsBotswana Qualification: 30 – 31 Oct 2025
Finals (in-person): 27 Feb 2026
Botswana's #1 Hacking Competition
Cyberlympics Botswana 2025/26
The 1st in-person hacking / Capture-The-Flag (CTF) competition is designed to address the cybersecurity skills gap and digital divide that persists in Botswana.
Cyberlympics Botswana is an online cybersecurity and cyber defense competition that will take place as follows:
Online Qualification: 30 – 31 Oct 2025
Finals (in-person): 17 – 18 Feb 2026
It pits teams from Botswana in a 24-hour intense hands-on real-life based scenarios and hands-on virtual labs that cover a series of challenges in areas such as:
- Offensive Cyber Warfare
- Digital Forensics
- Cyber Defense
- Cryptography
- Web Application Exploitation
- System Exploitation
- Malware Analysis
- Reverse Engineering
- Cryptography
- Programming
The competition starts with an online qualification round where only the best teams get selected to compete during the 24-hour in-person Final battle. Teams consist of Minimum 2 and Maximum 4 players.
Prizes
1st Place
Professional Internship and Certificate for each Player
This prize includes a professional internship for each team member, merchandise and a complimentary ticket to attend the 7th edition of Africa Cyber Defense Forum 2026
2nd Place
Merchandise and Certificate for Each Player
Merchandise and a complimentary ticket to attend the 7th edition of Africa Cyber Defense Forum 2026
3rd Place
Complimentary Ticket for ACDF 2025 and Certificate for Each Player
A complimentary ticket to attend the 7th edition of Africa Cyber Defense Forum 2026
Register for Cyberlympics Botswana 2025/26
Registration for Cyberlympics Botswana 2025-26 has 🛑 closed. If you missed an opportunity to register, send an email to secretariat@africacyberdefenseforum.com explaining why you did not register
Our Mission
Fields Covered
- ^Ethical hacking and penetration testing
- ^Incident response and computer forensics
- ^Programming
- ^Cryptography
- ^Reverse Engineering
- ^Networking
Target Participants
- ^Students
- ^Street smart freelancers
- ^Active information security professionals
- ^Law enforcement personnel
- ^CTF hobbyists
Eligibility Criteria, Rules, and Regulations
- Must be Over 18 years of Age
- A citizen of Botswana
- Participants must have applied to participate before the deadline and have received a confirmation of being selected for the prequalification and for the final stages
- Registering twice (e.g., using multiple email addresses) to participate in the event is prohibited
- If a participant is found at any time to not meet the above requirements, she/he would not be eligible for participating in the final and/or winning prizes
Ethics
You participate in this competition as an ethical hacker and, although you might use some of the same tools used by the bad guys, there are some activities that you should not engage with. In particular, the following activities are prohibited:
- Any activities or actions that would interfere, obstruct, or disturb other teams, participants, and event organizers
- Spying on other teams, participants, and event organizers
- Providing hints, clues, or answers to participants other than your own team members
- Seeking or receiving hints, clues, or answers from participants other than your own team members – a hint or a clue provided by event organizers to all participants would be acceptable
- Participating in multiple teams
- Any attacks on networks and systems
- In a nutshell: have fun and try not to cheat!
If the event organizers find any prohibited activities, they have the right to deduct points or disqualify a team. Same penalties would be applied even if event organizers find any prohibited activities before and after the competition.