Pair Extraordinaire frozen at tier 1 for months, ~30 co-authored merged PRs (other badges update fine)

[Juan-Miguel-alvarado]

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Hi everyone,

My Pair Extraordinaire achievement (@Juan-Miguel-alvarado) unlocked on 2026-06-09 and has been stuck at tier 1 ever since. I now have about 30 merged pull requests with co-authored commits, well past the 10 needed for Bronze. This is an updated summary of my earlier post (#211519), which has no staff reply yet.

What I've tested

PRs	Repo owner	Commit author	PR opened by	Merged by	Merge type	Co-author
~20	a friend (real project)	me	me	repo owner	squash/merge	friend + Claude
5	my friend	me	me	my friend	squash (trailer kept)	Claude
5	my friend	my friend	my friend	my friend	merge commit	me (human, noreply email)

That covers:

• human co-authors only, with no bots or AI involved;
• someone else authoring, opening and merging the PR, with me only in Co-authored-by:;
• merge commits and squash merges, and I checked that the trailer survives squash;
• repos owned by another user, which is the exact setup of my original tier-1 unlock;
• my verified primary email and my noreply address.

Every commit shows as linked to my account and counts on my contribution graph.

Other achievements update fine

In the last two days Pull Shark went to x3 and Galaxy Brain to x3. Only Pair Extraordinaire is frozen.

Known cases

This looks like the bug reported in #37806 and #40386, where the tier stayed stuck for months. In #40386, GitHub Support unlocked it manually once they were given the list of commits.

Could a GitHub staff member re-run the Pair Extraordinaire calculation for @Juan-Miguel-alvarado? I can send the full list of PRs if that helps. Thanks!

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