[LinuxBender]

Let the non-red teams use pre-existing scripts, code, etc, to harden things. This of course would make the competition a level playing field and would make it much less fun for the red team. Attendance would drop off quickly and companies would no longer sponsor these events, as the primary purpose is to recruit people out of college.

[olivierduval]

Actually, this could be made like "CS:GO" competition:

- RT is the terro - BT is the AT

The RT has to "plant" an exploit. The BT can either block/track the RT or "diffuse" (find/disable) the exploit.

The "maps" would be the kind of system:

- an AD behind a firewall - a WebServer with datas to extract from a backend DB - and so...

The sponsors could sell either the skills of their pen-testers to hire, or their solution to secure a system, so it might be a good maketing campaing for the winner...

[count]

I can't tell if you're being facetious, but you just invented 'capture the flag' competitions.