Of course they did it, they need him the most for a no-show. They brought him to do the damage control, do nice interview that will show everybody how smart they are, take some photos of empty data-center ready to mine any second, eventually do some screenshot of FPGA populated PCB hashing, etc. Bitcoinrama is inventive guy, he'll think of something to make refund-stop look like less bad. Who can rage at such hard working and smart girls & boys?