AoshiOut of our control:
We where initially forced to use a dashboard to manage the servers which kept on bringing issues with it. We had planned into the schedule to test the servers well in advance but twiikuu's flight got delayed for 3 hours so he wasn't able to take care of it on the Thursday evening. Twiikuu then took most of the Friday to get the servers up and running and we finally had them operational for the last rounds of the group stages.
I would like to clarify that even though the short term circumstances were unfortunate (my flight being delayed, CS:GO servers crashing causing a 2 hour delay on what should have been our server setup), I should have pushed my testing and not trusted what Insomnia and the server manager contractor told me. I should have asked for more information, actually replicated the setup in its entirety, and attempted to manage a large amount of servers during a short amount of time, which ended up being actually impossible with the contractor's software. I was tricked into comfort when I should not have been, the failure was caused by social interaction before the technical could even fail. I'm sure they did not mean any harm themselves, but it could have been prevented.
I take entire responsibility for the lack of LAN servers on the first rounds, and I would like to offer an apology to all players present, Open and Invite. I hope the Open players who did not manage to play beyond group stages managed to have fun in dmixes on LAN servers, if you did not, please contact me, I would love to make it up to you in any way I can.
I am insanely grateful to all the appreciation I have received over the last few days, it was very lifting, but I am not pleased with my performance and I strive to make it perfect at any possible occasion. All in all, if my task is done properly, you shouldn't need to ever hear or speak my name, that's when I'll be pleased.