diff --git a/neurons/validator.py b/neurons/validator.py
index 47ea32e6..096e78f7 100644
--- a/neurons/validator.py
+++ b/neurons/validator.py
@@ -144,9 +144,8 @@ def store_or_use_cached_evaluation(self, miner_evaluations: Dict[int, MinerEvalu
         Handle evaluation cache: store successful evals, fallback to cache for GitHub failures.
 
         Mutates the passed dict, replacing failed evaluations with cached ones if available.
-        A mirror-only fetch failure also routes through the cache-fallback path so the miner
-        is evaluated against a coherent one-round-stale snapshot instead of a fresh-legacy +
-        zeroed-mirror view where cross-PR multipliers would recompute over a partial state.
+        A mirror/identity fetch failure routes through the cache-fallback path so the miner
+        is evaluated against a coherent one-round-stale snapshot when no PRs could be loaded.
 
         Returns:
             Set of UIDs that were restored from cache (should be skipped during DB storage
@@ -164,14 +163,6 @@ def store_or_use_cached_evaluation(self, miner_evaluations: Dict[int, MinerEvalu
                     self.evaluation_cache.store(miner_eval)
                 continue
 
-            # Legacy partial-pagination failure with no mirror outage: the current eval
-            # holds a truncated legacy PR list that would be misleading to cache or swap out.
-            if not miner_eval.should_use_cache_fallback and not miner_eval.mirror_pr_fetch_failed:
-                bt.logging.warning(
-                    f'UID {uid}: GitHub fetch failed after partial PR load; skipping cache store/fallback this round'
-                )
-                continue
-
             cached_eval = self.evaluation_cache.get(uid, miner_eval.hotkey, miner_eval.github_id)
             if cached_eval is not None:
                 bt.logging.info(