They did not. Three out of five of FoDF's (or whatever we're called) players, namely me, Enigma and Quickz were online on friday at the appointed time, namely 18:00 GMT. Sadly, however, our opponents were nowhere in sight. The only 8D member who was even online was PurpleJazz and he didn't know anything was supposed to be played at that time. Ragnarok surfaced about an hour later telling me he'd had some connection trouble but it was obviously too late by then.

Frankly I think the problem here was that the only notification of the tournament schedule was a minor edit to the first post of this thread; if I hadn't checked it by chance about a week ago I might not've known about the schedule either. I don't know when we're supposed to be playing 8D now but I think it'd be for the best to inform people more explicitly of schedule changes next time around.