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// PES University — Electronic City Campus

Hall of Fame

Every Layer8 competition ends on a podium. This is the archive of who stood on it — the teams that broke out fastest, scored highest and captured the last flag before anyone else.

layer8@pesu — ~/hall-of-fame
 
escape_matrix

Escape Matrix

2025

A room-scale cybersecurity escape challenge — chained puzzle vectors, cipher locks and a live security matrix to break out of.

🥇

The Final Clue

Champions

1st
  • Krishnaja Jinka
  • Hithesh H R
  • Achyuth Sairam
  • JyothiPriya P
  • Pranavika V
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Dum Shit

Runners-Up

2nd
  • Ashmita Chaki
  • Bhuvigna Reddy A T
  • Avrit Sharma
  • Andey Hemanth
  • Vinaayal G Dasika
🥉

Blue Pill

2nd Runners-Up

3rd
  • Chennupati Niraj Kumar
  • Huma Wahid
  • Syed Ayaan
  • Aaruni Choudhary
  • Hamza Sahapurwaala
  • Dhruv Jagadeesh Hemmige
sudo_rm

SUDO$RM

2025

Jeopardy-style CTF run across campuses — web, pwn, forensics and privesc, scored live.

🥇

Gnomes

Champions

1st

// RR Campus · Semester 4

  • Aiman A Nawab
  • Shreyas P Kulkarn
  • Rizwan Shaikh
  • Aditya Vats
🥈

Hacksmiths

Runners-Up

2nd

// ECC Campus · Semester 2

  • Sreehaas V
  • Tarun Simha
  • Shubam Joshi
  • Rithvik R
🥉

JailBreakers

2nd Runners-Up

3rd

// ECC Campus · Semester 4

  • Satvik Das
  • Adithya Singh
  • Madhusudhan Karthikeyan
  • Lakshya Jeet Singh
by_the_numbers

The wall, counted

2

competitions logged

6

podium teams

28

inductees on the wall

100%

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