$1,9M

in total bounties paid for the 2023 Ambassador World Cup

674

researchers participated across 29 teams and 24 countries

2,900+

11 participating customers saw 2,900+ combined total submissions

If we could duplicate reports as valid bugs (as they reflect a bug already found), 57% of reports submitted were valid reports.

26% of the valid reports were Critical/High vulnerabilities

$1.7M

1.7million impressions were made across X(Twitter), Instagram, and LinkedIn.

30%

Increase in social media engagement

Last Year’s Winners:

"We believe that the success of our team is due to the wide variety of profiles we have, which allows us to have different approaches while testing. On the other hand, we have had a lot of collaboration between Spanish hackers and a great participation from 60-70% of our team members and even members who do not participate on a regular basis have joined this AWC edition with an outstanding contribution"

AWC Qualifiers:

participating, this is the first round of the tournament significant importance, since only 32 teams from different countries will move to the group stage. This round is and it’s of significant importance, since only 32 teams an “all vs all” round. The more points a team gets, the higher they will be qualified. 32 teams with the highest from different countries will move to the group stage. scores will move to the group round and 8 teams will be eliminated in this round.

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.

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. A Leaderboard has also been created for this competition, you can follow up the positions in real time by accessing this website.