Lucais Romo walked out of Suite 1023 at about 1:35 p.m. on March 23, his facial features a bit stone cold, almost as if he didn’t know what to think. He didn’t look nearly as confident as he had when he walked into the room.

“I messed up a couple of times,” he said flatly, as he walked farther into the hallway of the DoubleTree hotel’s 10th floor. “It didn’t go as well as I wanted it to.”