Failing Lambda?

Is it possible to fail a Lambda trial during one of the non-timed phases? I'm asking this because last night, my friend and I tried to duo a Lambda trial. We got friends to fill an 8 person league to get it started and once we all zoned, the fillers quit the trial.

Everything seemed fine, we preceded to kill everything in the streets and then cleared the courtyard. It wasn't until we were almost finished destroying all of the turrets when a message appeared on the screen. It came up quickly so I don't remember exactly what it said, but it said something to the extent of "all players defeated," and then the remaining turrets disappeared and the mission complete button came up like we failed the trial.

The thing is I never died once, so at no point were all players defeated. There are a couple of things I'm thinking that could have happened. Is it possible there's some secret timer for the beginning phases? We were probably about a half hour into it when this happened. Or maybe it's the fact that there were only two players remaining on the map? I really don't know since the fillers quit at the start of the trial so we were at 2 players the entire time. If that was the reason, I would think that we would have "failed" the trial as soon as they all quit.

So, I'm just trying to figure out what exactly happened because we'd like to try to attempt this again.

Each trial has a minimum number of participants.

presumuably if enough time lapses between people quitting and them not coming back or the slots getting filled it will fail you're trial.

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If that's the case, I'm thinking the time limit is 30 minutes since that was around the time we "failed" it.

However, I've heard of a team completing it with only 4 or 5 people. Makes me wonder if there's another minimum amount of players that must stay on rather than just for starting it. Since it wouldn't be fair if one person dropped from a league of 8 in the beginning, causing the trial to fail.

You fail if everyone in the league is dead at the same time. With just two of you that's not going to take much.