Issue dossier
The reviewed ticket capture identifies a USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge category, while the official registration page now says sales ended. Neither source publishes the number offered or sold, purchaser identities, purchase terms, contents, pickup location, redemption process, allocation, manufacturing, delivery, receipt, replacement, refund, or post-event handoff outcome.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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ticket tier, allocation, and fulfillment boundary · official completed-event context plus contemporaneous tier capture · advertised VIP tier documented; purchase and handoff unverified
The catalogue records a concrete advertised ticket tier without treating it as proof of completed production, distribution, inclusion with every attendee, or individual possession.
- Badge
- HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
- Category
- ticket tier, allocation, and fulfillment boundary
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- official completed-event context plus contemporaneous tier capture
- Status
- advertised VIP tier documented; purchase and handoff unverified
- Timeframe
- 2026 post-event source review
- Source note
- HackNWA 2026 registration and contemporaneous AllEvents ticket listing.
contemporaneous third-party ticket listing
AllEvents' contemporaneous listing reproduces the event date and identifies USD 55 General Admission and a USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge ticket category. It is retained narrowly for the otherwise unavailable ticket-tier wording and price, not as proof of hardware, contents, manufacture, fulfillment, or organizer intent beyond the advertised tier.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
official conference page
Official event page for the April 17, 2026 Bentonville cybersecurity conference. It establishes the event and its advertised CTF, ASMb1337, and hardware-hacking context, but does not describe the VIP Assembled Badge ticket category or its contents.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
official organizer social announcement
HackNWA's official LinkedIn post announces the April 17 event, venue, CTF, Solder Village, and Badge/Hardware Hacking activity. It supports conference context only; it does not identify a badge design, ticket tier, or technical specification.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
organizer-linked Eventbrite registration
The official HackNWA site links to this Eventbrite registration page. Its current post-event state identifies HackNWA as organizer and marks ticket sales ended, but no longer exposes ticket-class details or a fulfillment record.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
AllEvents · retrieved 2026-05-15
Contemporaneous secondary ticket listing naming USD 55 General Admission and USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge. It corroborates an advertised ticket-tier artifact after the official registration page stopped exposing tiers, but it does not establish materials, electronics, contents, production, collection, delivery, recipients, or final event outcome.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
HackNWA · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary organizer source for the completed April 17, 2026 Shewmaker Center event and its CTF, ASMb1337, and hardware-hacking activity. It does not mention the VIP Assembled Badge ticket category.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
HackNWA · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary organizer social announcement for the April 17 event, two tracks, CTF, Solder Village, and Badge/Hardware Hacking activities. It does not establish a relationship between those activities and a particular badge tier or device.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
HackNWA / Eventbrite · retrieved 2026-05-15
Organizer-linked primary registration endpoint. In its current completed-event state it identifies HackNWA as the organizer and ticket sales as ended, but it does not preserve the historical ticket-class names, prices, purchase records, or fulfillment information.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge