Honestly I don’t know much more. Airmancam would be the guy to ask as I think he knew the person that died.
They did the same cruise last year and the crowd ended up at my local WalMart for a bit. There was a ton of cars, mostly a younger crowd as I recall.
My suggestion to move the date of this cruise was just to avoid general confusion ("hey, is that car with us? Where are we going? Who do we follow?"etc, that kind of confusion).