For any interested onlookers: I will be publishing the tournament link in here at 5 PM EST. There are definitely issues with some of the websites "tournament assumptions" - mainly that smash.gg "assumes" that tournaments are live, so having a 15 minute period in which players are meant to check in, get together and start playing is not unreasonable for the vast majority of things that they run.
This, of course, is extremely unlike the Smogon Circuit culture wherein we often have week (or multiple week) long rounds with flexible scheduling times. Frankly I am unsure how to resolve this immediately, but we will be forging ahead and I'll see what we can do moving forward.