Those attacks are real on our platform. There are teams around the world, that have build servers on our platform and attack each other while defend their servers. It shows you who attacks whom.
No! Not that it can't but because not this is its primary scope. It act like a private network where you can connect via VPN and start practice your hacking skills against real users and servers and not "vulnerable by design" ones as you find in any traditional penetration testing lab.
There is a small UX bug. It's because you didn't set up your country as a User. First go to your http://ctf365.com/users/edit and add your country there. Then the system automatically will register that country. That because as a Team Leader you'll fight for the country you came/declare from. It's Beta, we'll fix that too. :-)
At this moment we haven't purchase any SSL certificates. We'll do when we'll go live. For some users that uses browsers that forces uses of SSL certificates they'll get that message.
Egor works on the wire protocol; his work is not language specific. The reason people think he's good at Rails is that he's recently caught some serious rails stuff.
But since what he's really looking at is the protocol, his work should be equally good in any web setting.