First big online tournament experiences

1.5k players, $5+1 rebuy tourney.. the rebuy makes it nice. From the first hand forward (AQs) I get a guy all-in... he was 79o and catching whatever runner/runner shit. Guys go all-in just about every pot, and show god knows what trash.. and reload after losing due to rebuy. All in all, it was going well... I was always a bit behind the 'average' stack (nice feature to follow in bigger tourneys) but progressing well, accumulating chips and building my M. Alas, it was 1am and Partypoker paused the game for half an hour and this was the last nail on the coffin, to make me abandon hope and retire as moral victor.