Analytics & Incentives

This section describes how administrators govern fairness outcomes, monitor competition health, and compute reward distributions.

Submissions

The Submissions page provides a centralized audit interface for inspecting every flag submission made across the competition.

Filter Controls:

• Team / User / Challenge - Narrow the view to a specific team, user, or challenge context.
• Date Range - Filter submissions within a specific From Date to To Date window.
• Search Field - Choose the target field for keyword search (e.g., Provided to search by the submitted flag string).
• Search Text - Free-text search matching against the selected field.

Table Columns:

• ID - The unique submission identifier.
• User / Team - The submitting user and their parent team.
• Challenge - The challenge the submission was made against.
• Type - The verdict: correct or incorrect.
• Provided - The actual flag string submitted by the contestant. Click the lock icon to reveal the value. This is critical for investigating suspected flag-sharing or brute-force attempts.
• Date - The precise timestamp of submission.

Available Actions:

• Mark submissions as correct or incorrect using the inline action buttons.
• Flag submissions for review.
• Delete selected submissions to correct erroneous records.
• Export the full submission dataset for offline analysis.

Sub-filters

The sidebar menu exposes quick-access sub-pages: All Submissions, Correct Submissions, and Incorrect Submissions for rapid triage.

Scoreboard

The Scoreboard page displays the live competition standings as viewed by the admin.

Tabs:

• Teams - Displays the ranked leaderboard by team, showing Place, Team Name, Score, and Visibility status.
• Users - Switches to individual user rankings.
• Awards - Lists all granted awards across the competition.

Table Columns (Teams tab):

• Place - The overall team rank.
• Team - The team name.
• Score - The total accumulated points.
• Visibility - Whether the team's score is Visible or Hidden on the public scoreboard.

Available Actions:

• Visibility - Toggle the visibility of the entire public scoreboard globally (e.g., freeze the scoreboard near end of competition).
• Export - Download the current standings as a data file.

Dynamic Reward Query

The Dynamic Reward Query engine is a powerful, template-driven analytics tool that automates the computation of award-eligible teams based on configurable criteria.

Template Selection:

Select a reward template card from the pre-built options:

Template	Description	Type
Top Teams by Score	Award the top N teams with highest scores.	Ranking
First Blood Hunters	Award teams with the most first bloods (first correct submission on a challenge).	Achievement
Category Masters	Award teams who solved all challenges in the most categories.	Achievement
First Full-Clear By Category	Show the first team that fully cleared each category.	Achievement
Perfect Solvers	Award teams with the most perfect solves (no wrong submissions).	Achievement
Solve Count Champions	Award teams who solved the most challenges (regardless of score).	Achievement
First Blood by Category	Show first blood teams for each challenge, grouped by category.	Special
No Hints Solvers	Award teams who solved the most challenges without using hints.	Achievement

Parameters:

After selecting a template, the Parameters section dynamically renders the relevant configuration inputs (e.g., Limit for result count, Min First Bloods for threshold filtering). Click [Preview Results] to generate the output, or [Reset] to clear the form.

Results:

The results panel provides:

• Summary Statistics - Recipients count, Average Value, Max Value, and Min Value displayed as highlighted metrics.
• Detailed Breakdown - An expandable table showing each qualifying team with their Team ID, Team Name, achievement value (e.g., First Bloods count), and Last Solve timestamp. Expand a row to drill down into the specific challenges that contributed to the achievement.
• Export Excel - Download the complete result set as a CSV file (openable in Excel) for official record-keeping and ceremony preparation.