In a way it was. If you're building something that is going to function on one night and one night only you really, really don't want to choose tech that won't let you do an on-the-fly update if something goes wrong.

You can't update an iOS app as quickly as an website, unless it just request a view, which is even worse - just open it in safari/chrome.

Looks like someone put wrong test headers in there, for what it does, the App is 26MB.

One of the issues was that the app needed to be installed outside of the App Store. It seems that by being an app and not a website another hurdle was introduced.