Status ICO is showing Eth Weakness (links to data)

Jumped on this when the block they set on the Ethereum block chain passed but the Status ICO is showing some major weaknesses in the Ethereum and Etherscan network.

They have live tracking here showing the pending transactions for those that have even been able to get to pending status.

https://slacknation.github.io/medium/018/

One thing to note is the current max funding per tx which they have set on this ICO to try to limit big pockets eating it all up like which happened with BAT and Bancor to some respects.

My transaction was not even showing up on the network along with Many... Many others. It just showed up in the last 2 minutes of finishing this article. I'll update if it actually goes through or not but having my doubt after seeing how many failed transactions there have been.

Here is the thread on Bitcoin talk showing all the frustrations
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1960733.240