I guess this bit of the experiment is quite important cause if it didn't work they would have to check the whole thing again and repair whatever was broken and that would probably have taken months.
Now it's going to get interesting. They now know that the beam can go round the whole ring so all they need to do now is cross their fingers and hope that they can speed it up to nearly the speed of light, making sure the machine doesnt melt from the heat.
I guess the big countdown of this experiment is when they actually make the particles colide. That will be the 'man on the moon' moment.