diff --git a/src/pwncore/routes/ctf/__init__.py b/src/pwncore/routes/ctf/__init__.py
index 695ab89..cb44d86 100644
--- a/src/pwncore/routes/ctf/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pwncore/routes/ctf/__init__.py
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ async def flag_post(
     if not team_container:
         return {"msg_code": config.msg_codes["container_not_found"]}
 
-    if team_container.flag == flag.flag:
+    if team_container.flag == flag.flag.strip():
         hints = await Hint.filter(
             problem_id=ctf_id,
             viewedhints__team_id=team_id,
diff --git a/src/pwncore/routes/team.py b/src/pwncore/routes/team.py
index 2a0ca08..8de1039 100644
--- a/src/pwncore/routes/team.py
+++ b/src/pwncore/routes/team.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ async def get_self_team(jwt: RequireJwt):
     team_model = await Team.get(id=team_id).prefetch_related("meta_team")
 
     team = dict(await Team_Pydantic.from_tortoise_orm(team_model))
-    team["meta_team__name"] = team_model.meta_team.name  # type: ignore[arg-type, union-attr]
+    team["meta_team__name"] = getattr(team_model.meta_team, "name", None)
     # Get points from leaderboard
     # would be better is cache stores the values in a dict indexed by team id
     # for leaderboard_team in gcache.data: