To clear up the confusion, I believe some of the battles between different US teams did occur, so part of the first round was completed. However, my team was scheduled to play team #DiamondBlood. The server was whitelisted for us and everything, but nobody decided to whitelist any moderators, and since the teams were only five people, there were only ten in the lobby. Sooo, it kept saying we didn't have enough players, and nobody whitelisted mods the entire night. Both teams eventually left having come to the conclusion that the game was not going to be played that night and probably will never be played. We still have not received any word from the moderators about our match being rescheduled or the second round, so this tournament will likely not move on. I also believe the first round for other regions did not commence either.
For the icing on the cake, the servers that we were to play on are still whitelisted and are probably at this very minute in the lobby with zero people. We wanted to play on that Sunday, but it never happened...