Statesman TF First Mission Instance Crashing

We just tried to do a Statesman TF and the first mission instance crashed three separate times, booting everyone out.

The first run the team leader had the difficulty set too high (causing most of the team to wipe during the Arbiter Sands fight), so we reformed the team and restarted the TF.

The second run we destroyed the cables and began to fight Arbiter Sands. The instance crash manifested itself with a Mapserver Disconnected message, eventually booting everyone out.

We tried again, entering the same mission again once everyone was back, with the same result.

Then we reformed the team again and restarted the TF from scratch, with the same result.

Each time the instance crashed during the Arbiter Sands fight.

This was on Pinnacle, between 2 and 3:15 PM CST.

ITF is next week, per the I19 page.

OP - did anyone have their level shift? Heard complaints about it causing crashing.

See here. So far, two people have reported that the crashing goes away after unslotting the level shift.

This happened to me, except the crashing happened in the LAST mission. Now, the team I joined was a pick up group, so we had a lot of difficulty with the last mission. After about 30 minutes in the mission we finally made it to Recluse. After another 20ish minutes, we finally managed to destroy the green tower... which prompted the server to kick the entire team and reset the mission. 3 of the members then promptly decided that it was not worth their time to try again, and abandoned. So we were all the way up to fight lord recluse, and we got no reward.