In the meantime, progression raid teams were pushing him without even realising he did a Soar there =(
Pushing the first Soar was pretty effortless for most statics, but given that the rest of the encounter (As well as the Soar that follows) was a complete unknown at that stage, it's very believable that a group could skip and then fail to clear the rest of the fight. No MrHappy strats on day 1 remember!