I will get in touch with @gui1ty on Monday (would you be available during the Fedora Badges development meeting call?) and attempt manually awarding folks with the badges. I do have access to the DB but I intentionally took a segregated snapshot to helm the development of the new system. About the older one, I think we’ll have to do with workarounds (like these) until the new system hits the production environment so apologies if I have let down people 
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