Do not use sqlmap.It is actually not complicated.
Just use sqlmap :)
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This was a really good challenge. I have been working on this once for a day and finally cracked it!
If you're struggling, the concepts on this blog are explained very nicely-
1 month ago
The task isn't hard at all, just had to search through long list of tables to find the flag table