For any of you who have been following the colorwars on twitter, zefrank has asked for suggestions on a new challenge. Here is my idea for the next colorwars challenge:

My idea is basically around the idea of playing Capture the Flag. I was trying to think of something that could best involved the team as a whole and allow the team to work together towards an ultimate goal. Capture the Flag will require a lot of strategy and organization to really get anything accomplished.

Here is a suggested way Capture the Flag could be played:
1. Each team needs to create a flag of a certain size and post it to the colorwars website for reference.
2. Each team needs to select one person to lead the team and to hide the flag somewhere publicly on the internet in a blog, forum, newsgroup, etc (hopefully this can be done easily). The image must be referenced by a webpage and can not be a hidden image on a website.
3. The team leader will need to report the location of the flag back to the colorwars website.
4. The flag will need to be validated by the organizers of colorwars.
5. Teams will search the internet for opposing teams flags and when it is found, post the link to the colorwars website which will verify if the link is a flag.
6. Capturing an opposing team’s flag will take the team out of the competition.
7. Last team with a flag still standing wins!

On a side note, hiding the flag on the internet as a whole might take a long time to find the flag, however, enforcing the flag to be placed on one of a 1000 or so suggested websites might speed the process up.

Go OrangeTeam!