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WARFORGE 2026 — The 3AM Incident — Worlds first live DevOps survival championship REGISTRATION CLOSES MAY 5 — 9 days remaining — secure your squad slot now Event day May 10, 2026 — 13 days away — are you and your squad ready? ₹1,00,000 prize pool — top 3 squads — certificates + recognition for all finalists 3 roles per squad — Incident Commander · Ops Lead · Signal Lead — every mistake tracked 7 rounds — qualifier → eliminator → semi-final → Final Boss: The 3AM Incident Rounds run 15–30 minutes — real blast radius — no hints, no safety net AI-powered RCA after every round — post-mortem scorecard + skill gap report for your squad WARFORGE 2026 — The 3AM Incident — Worlds first live DevOps survival championship REGISTRATION CLOSES MAY 5 — 9 days remaining — secure your squad slot now Event day May 10, 2026 — 13 days away — are you and your squad ready? ₹1,00,000 prize pool — top 3 squads — certificates + recognition for all finalists 3 roles per squad — Incident Commander · Ops Lead · Signal Lead — every mistake tracked 7 rounds — qualifier → eliminator → semi-final → Final Boss: The 3AM Incident Rounds run 15–30 minutes — real blast radius — no hints, no safety net AI-powered RCA after every round — post-mortem scorecard + skill gap report for your squad
WARFORGE
THE 3AM INCIDENT
LIVE DEVOPS SURVIVAL CHALLENGE
REGISTRATION CLOSES IN
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THE ARENA IN 40 SECONDS
SEE WHAT YOU'RE SIGNING UP FOR
The Arena
REAL INCIDENTS.
REAL STAKES.
Not a webinar. Not a quiz. Not a normal hackathon. This is squad-based production outage survival — and it separates engineers from the rest.
INCIDENT · SIM
Real Incidents
Production-grade outage scenarios modelled on real failure patterns.
TIME · PRESSURE
Timed Rounds
15–30 minute rounds under live time pressure. No second chances.
SQUAD · PROTOCOL
Squad Roles
Commander, Ops Lead, Signal Lead. Every role defined. Every mistake tracked.
LIVE · FEED
Live Scoring
Public leaderboard. Real-time ranking. Blast radius tracked in full.
POST · MORTEM
RCA Feedback
AI-powered post-mortem, scorecard, and skill gap report for every team.
The 3AM Feeling
THE MOMENT EVERYONE KNOWS
This is the kind of pressure your squad will face. Incomplete information. Cascading failure. Clock running. Every action scored.
INCIDENT LIVE
env: production · region: us-east-1
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Squad DELTA-7 · Round 3 · EliteOps Your squad starts May 10
The Path In
QUALIFY SOLO.
SURVIVE AS A SQUAD.

Seven milestones. One championship. Every step is earned.

Qualification sequence

01

Milestone 1 / 7

Register as Captain

Captains apply solo. Commitment is required before squad formation opens.

02

Milestone 2 / 7

Pass the Captain Qualifier

5–7 minute scenario. Incident judgment + signal vs. noise + basic triage. Only qualified captains advance.

03

Milestone 3 / 7

Form Your Squad

Recruit your Ops Lead and Signal Lead. Three roles. One weak link ends the run.

04

Milestone 4 / 7

BattleOps Qualifier

30 min · Single-service degradation · Alert triage · Basic RCA · Safe mitigation.

05

Milestone 5 / 7

Hard BattleOps Eliminator

20 min · Cascading failure · Cost vs latency · Blast-radius control. One wrong fix triggers the next failure.

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Milestone 6 / 7

EliteOps Semi-Final

15 min · Black-box outage · Logs limited · Traces only. Infer root cause. Decision speed wins.

Milestone 7 / 7 · Finale

Final Boss: The 3AM Incident

30 min · Multi-service collapse · Misleading alerts · Hidden config issues · Live leaderboard · Stakeholder pressure · RCA required. Survive this — and you've earned your throne.

Roles
THREE ROLES.
ONE VERDICT.
Every role has a defined domain. Overlap is penalized. Coordination is the edge.
Incident Commander
The Decider
Owns
Final DecisionsPriorityCoordinationCommunicationEscalation
Ops Lead
The Fixer
Owns
CLI ActionsFixesRollbackMitigationInfra Changes
Signal Lead
The Observer
Owns
LogsMetricsTracesRCA NotesStatus Updates
The Gauntlet
FOUR ROUNDS.
ZERO SAFETY NETS.
Each round escalates in pressure, ambiguity, and consequence. Hesitation is scored.
01Round 1
BattleOps Qualifier
Medium
Single-service degradation
Checkout API latency rising. CPU looks normal. Find the dependency failure before customers notice.
30 min
Only top 60% advance to Round 2
02Round 2
Hard BattleOps
High
Cascading failure
Scaling fixes latency but crushes the DB. One wrong call triggers a second failure. Control the blast radius.
20 min
Only top 25% advance to Round 3
03Round 3
EliteOps Semi-Final
Elite
Black-box outage
Logs limited. Traces only. Infer root cause from symptoms. Sequence your fixes. Decision speed is everything.
15 min
Only top 5 squads reach the Final
★Final Boss
The 3AM Incident
Legendary
Multi-service collapse
Misleading alerts. Hidden config. Stakeholder pressure. Customer impact counter. RCA required.
30 min
One wrong decision ends your run.
The Scorecard
HOW YOU'RE JUDGED
Five dimensions. Every action tracked. Every mistake punished.
Time to Recovery30%
Decision Quality25%
Blast Radius Control20%
Observability Usage15%
RCA Quality10%
Sample Round Score
Fast recovery (8m 12s)+ 120 pts
Correct blast containment+ 95 pts
Used traces to find root cause+ 80 pts
Ignored a critical alert− 60 pts
Round Total235 pts
Every action is tracked. Every mistake is punished.
Penalties
Wrong restart without diagnosis
Fix that expands blast radius
Ignoring a critical signal
Missing RCA submission
The Stakes
WHAT YOU EARN
WHEN YOU HOLD
Every participant leaves with something real. The best leave with proof they can handle production.
Top Squad
Warforge
Champions
Warforge Champion Badge
InfraThrone Certified Incident Commander
Free Elite Course Access
Leaderboard + LinkedIn Spotlight
Hall of Fame listing (permanent)
Top 10 Squads
Elite
Survivors
Elite Course Discount
Hall of Fame Listing
Priority Access to Future Events
Public rank + scorecard
All Participants
Battle
Tested
Performance Scorecard
AI-generated RCA Feedback
Skill Gap Report
Warforge Survivors Community
This is what separates engineers from operators.
Fastest Recovery
Shortest mean time to restore
Best RCA
Most insightful post-mortem
Best Decision
Highest decision quality score
Top Individual
Standout performer, any role

Season one

Built for signal, not optics

Season one is the pilot arena. No invented testimonials — these are the outcomes we engineered Warforge around from day one.

Signal, not slides

Warforge is built for triage under ambiguity — the same muscle you use when dashboards lie and the clock does not.

Squad-shaped pressure

Three roles, one scoreboard. Commander, Ops, Signal — every handprint on the outage is visible when the round ends.

First season, full stakes

Season one is the pilot run: tighter field, sharper feedback, and a format we will keep hardening with every cohort after this.

Who should join

If you have carried a sev, you already speak our language.

Warforge is not a trivia night. It is for people who have stared at a flat line on success rate, debated rollback vs hotfix, and meant it when they said “I am on it.”

  • On-call at ugly hours
  • Owned a bad deploy end-to-end
  • Want proof, not participation badges
DevOps

CI/CD, infra glue, prod paths

SRE

SLOs, error budgets, wake-up muscle

Cloud

Multi-region, cost vs latency

Platform

Paved roads, guardrails

Kubernetes

Clusters under stress

Backend

Services in the blast radius

Students

Hungry, qualifier-gated

Got Questions
QUESTIONS FROM
THE WAR ROOM
No. Captains register individually and pass a qualifier first. Once you qualify, you recruit your Ops Lead and Signal Lead to complete your squad of 3.
The event is simulation-based. You'll work with provided environments and tooling. No local setup required. Full details are shared after registration is confirmed.
Yes — Warforge is free to enter. All participants receive a performance scorecard and RCA feedback. Top performers unlock InfraThrone Elite course access and community perks.
Not at all. Round 1 is medium difficulty and tests judgment, not seniority. If you can reason about how services fail and read signals, you belong here. The Captain Qualifier will tell you honestly if you're ready.
100% remote. Join from anywhere. All rounds are conducted online. The Final Boss round can be livestreamed for public audiences.
Every participant gets a performance scorecard, AI-powered RCA feedback, and a skill gap report. Top squads are featured on the public leaderboard and LinkedIn spotlight. Champions get permanent Hall of Fame placement.