MVO Badge - Global OSINT Search Party CTF

The Most Valuable OSINT (MVO) badge is awarded to members of a team who submit the most valuable piece of OSINT during a Trace Labs Global OSINT Search Party CTF. Equivalent to our "Black Badge", and recipients of this badge in/after August 2022 will get free admission to future CTFs.

Issued on 24 Oct 2026 by

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Trace Labs

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Trace Labs is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to accelerate the family reunification of missing persons while training members in the tradecraft of open source intelligence (OSINT).

Criteria

To be considered for the MVO badge, a team most submit at least one piece of OSINT that fulfills one or more of the following criteria:

Highly actionable
Unique OSINT Technique used
High level of difficulty to find
Exceptional context and supporting evidence provided

The Trace Labs Volunteer coach team monitors submission made during the CTF and nominates those they feel are worthy of selection. Final selection of the award winner is decided by Trace Labs Leadership Team.

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For winning the MVO award as part of team Packet And Podium during the October 2026 Global OSINT Search Party CTF.