2024 Ambassador World Cup
Get ready to compete! Inspired by the FIFA World Cup, the Ambassador World Cup offers a gamified experience that brings the global hacking community together in a friendly competition. The year-long hacking tournament is designed to supercharge your program's engagement and is a valuable tool for our customers to connect with top researchers.
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
The AWC is a spin-off of our popular live hacking events, offering a unique approach to security testing. Brand Ambassadors build teams of 10-20 security researchers from their communities. This collaborative format fosters knowledge sharing and teamwork. The tournament unfolds over six rounds, with a mix of virtual and in-person challenges.
Every valid report submitted earns points.The severity of the vulnerability determines the points awarded, with critical vulnerabilities earning the most. HackerOne tracks all submissions to determine which teams advance to the next round, making for some intense competition!
Event Structure:
The ambassador world cup is a team competition similar to the FIFA world cup. Each team of hackers represent their country over a tournament of six hacking rounds. All hackers participating belong to the HackerOne Brand Ambassador Program, and have an ambassador as their team leads. Countries without ambassadors cannot participate. If your country doesn’t have one, check here for how to apply to become an ambassador for next year!
AWC Qualifiers:
This first round is of significant importance, since only 32 teams from different countries will move to the group stage.
Group Stage:
The group stage includes 32 teams. The top 8 teams from the qualifiers are seeded into groups from A to H, meaning that they won’t face each other in the Group stage. This is a big benefit that might help teams to make it further into the competition. For the rest of the teams, a live draw is held to define which group the rest 24 teams will be allocated. In this stage, each Team will compete in a head-to-head match against the other 3 members of their group and NOT against all teams at once. The top 2 teams of each group will qualify to the next round.
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Just Like in Soccer
Exactly like the football (soccer) World Cup, there will be four Elimination Rounds. Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, and the Championship (1st, 2nd and 3rd places are defined here). The competition brackets are updated each round displaying which teams are competing and who moves forward to the next round.
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AWC 2024 - Schedule of Events:
- Ambassador World Cup qualifiers - Virtual - Concluded
- Group round - Virtual - Concluded
- Sweet Sixteen - Virtual - Concluded
- Elite Eight - In person event - January 28 to February 8, 2025
- Final Four - Virtual - March 4 to 14, 2025
- Championship - In person event - April 29 - May 10, 2025
Note: Dates are subject to change
Reporting and Scoring system:
Hacker teams get points per severity of the bugs they submit. Only valid reports are considered for points. In order for a report to count for points needs to match the following criteria:
- Asset must be in scope for the AWC participating programs
- Asset must be eligible for bounties
- Report must be in any valid status ( triaged, resolved, retesting or “pending program review”)
- Reports in Duplicate, Informative, N/A or any other status won’t count for points
2023 Competition Highlights
Our 2023 Ambassador World Cup saw record numbers for this initiative and brought valuable results directly to our participating customers.
paid for the 2023 Ambassador World Cup
for the 11 participating customers
made across X(Twitter), Instagram, and LinkedIn.
across 29 teams and 24 countries
of the valid reports
in social media engagement
