Mini Evac/ Partial evacuation.
The rules states that a carrier have two attempt, a mechanical failure does not count as an attempt. When BLTA conducted the first demonstration they were a few seconds short, for the 2nd demonstration a Flight Attendant had problems with a door, this counts as a mechanical and not a failure.
A mini Evac/Partial Evac demonstration is a timed event. The purpose is for the crew to demonstrate its ability to handle an evacuation in case of an emergency, in this case Flight Attendants.
There will be an FAA Inspector with each Flight Attendant and a few outside.
It appears that FAA did consider the mechanical interruption to be a non event since BLTA was allowed to continue with the table tops. Normally jumping ahead is a big no-no, unless the CPM (Certificate Project Manager) consider the evac hick up to be technically complete, the timed demonstration will be complied with when there are enough Inspectors available.
