Apparently found a bug with the Trial of Style. If someone drops out of the group during the “prep” phase, the judging part never starts. It counts down the seconds like usual… but then nothing further happens. The remaining five players had to leave group and/or heartstone out.
March 2024 and this bug still exists. Also to be noted is that leaving the group even after the bug has been triggered by someone else saddles you with the Deserter debuff.
Still happening. Someone left just before timer was up and no voting rounds started. However, no deserter rebuff was applied when I left the instance group.