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The pressure in each cylinder pushed the head gasket laterally, causing it to buckle.
That to me says that the clamping force on the intake side of the gasket was inadequate to pin the gasket in position.
I don't know what you may have noticed during disassembly (undoing the nuts on the studs) but it looks to me like the head nuts were inadequately torqued on the intake side of the head.
This looks like an assembly error to me.
Vance