The first only seems to support up to 8 badges. We have considered this one before, it makes sense why you'd have hope in it. Our current system seems to work fine, and gives the realistic chance to lose a badge if you're careless on a route.
We have never considered the second one, because the server was created after CraftBukkit was past build 818.
Our CraftBukkit version is literally more than double that build, and therefore has less than .001% chance of working.
I thank you for trying, but we really are a team that does our research.