It is a real shame that the scheduling problem happened. I don't think Sapience has access to his forum account here anymore, but it would have been nice if he or someone else would have been able to notify people earlier. Not that it would have made much difference by the sound of it, but I imagine it would be disappointing to have everything planned and have something like this happen. I think it would have been fair to give people at least a week or two to reorganize after the scheduling problem. Not sure why that wasn't done here, but I imagine Sapience's schedule must be pretty tight with the new job.
Hopefully there will be more server events like this moving forward, if Frelorn has anything like this planned. I know he said he was going to post a schedule this week of upcoming livestreams. I guess we'll find out soon enough.