The label is being updated locally but not when loaded on Azure

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Okay, this is the first time posting here. I'm converting a c# program to asp.net for web deployment. My problem is, and for the love of god I can't find an answer any where. My labels, when I run it locally on chrome using visual studio, update. But when I move it to the remote server on Azure, the labels do not get updated. I have the free account so it's hard to do any debugging remotely. Everything else works, just not this. It not only is frustrating, but I have tried most of the solutions I have seen on this site and others for problems slightly similar but nothing is working.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
namespace BoggleBoardWeb
{
    public partial class BoggleBoard : Page
    {
        static int width_ = 4;
        static int desiredLength_ = 3;
        static int desiredSeed_ = 7;
        static int divisorHeight = 0;
        static int divisorWidth = 0;
        static int scoreComp;
        static int scoreHuman;
        static Queue<Tuple<string, char>> stringValues = new Queue<Tuple<string, char>>();
        static BogglePieceGenerator generator = new BogglePieceGenerator(width_, desiredSeed_);
        static BoggleBoard_Board boardInformation = new BoggleBoard_Board(width_, generator);
        static List<string> acceptedWords = new List<string>();
        static private char[,] board2D = new char[width_, width_];
        static Lexicon lexi = new Lexicon("lexicon-clean.txt");
        //TextBox humanScoreDisplay = new TextBox();
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            
            if (!IsPostBack)
            {
                //only call if this is the first entry.
                fillBoard();
                computerScoreDisplay.Text = scoreComp.ToString();
                humanScoreDisplay.Text = scoreHuman.ToString();
           }
            while (this.Panel1.Height.Value % width_ != 0)
            {
                this.Panel1.Height = new Unit(this.Panel1.Height.Value - 1);
            }
            //get the divisor
            divisorHeight = (int)this.Panel1.Height.Value / width_;
            divisorHeight -= 2;
            while (this.Panel1.Width.Value % width_ != 0)
            {
                this.Panel1.Width = new Unit(this.Panel1.Width.Value - 1);
            }
            divisorWidth = (int)this.Panel1.Width.Value / width_;
            divisorWidth -= 2;
            gridLayout();
            computerScoreDisplay.Text = scoreComp.ToString();
            humanScoreDisplay.Text = scoreHuman.ToString();
        }
        //makes the board to be used by the gridLayout to set all the values.
        private char[,] fillBoard()
        {
            //Panel playArea = new Panel();
            //playArea = (Panel)FindControl("playArea");
            for (int x = 0; x < width_; x++)
            {
                for (int y = 0; y < width_; y++)
                {
                    board2D[x, y] = boardInformation.getLetter(x, y);
                }
            }
            return board2D;
        }
        public BoggleBoard()
        {
            
            
            
        }
        //this makes the grid layout for the program. 
        public void gridLayout()
        {
            Button[,] grid = new Button [width_,width_]; //for width * height
            for(int height = 0; height < width_; height++)
            {
                for(int width = 0; width < width_; width++)
                {
                    grid[width, height] = new Button();
                    grid[width, height].Text = board2D[width,height].ToString();
                    grid[width, height].ID = width.ToString() + '_' + height.ToString() + '_' + "btn";
                    grid[width, height].Width = divisorWidth;
                    grid[width, height].Height = divisorHeight;
                    grid[width, height].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
                    grid[width, height].Visible = true;
                    grid[width, height].Click += new System.EventHandler(OnClick);
                    this.Panel1.Controls.Add(grid[width, height]);
                }
            }
            //this.Controls.Add(playArea);
        }
        //if the user clicks on a white square it turns red
        //else it turns red for 'selected'
        protected void OnClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Panel playArea = (Panel)FindControl("playArea");
            Button temp = sender as Button;
            if( temp.BackColor == System.Drawing.Color.White)
            {
                temp.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
                stringValues.Enqueue(new Tuple<string, char>(temp.ID, temp.Text.ToCharArray()[0]));
            }
            else
            {
                //check to see if there is a way to make this dynamic so we only change the ones surronding the thing.
                Button button;
                for (int height = 0; height < width_; height++)
                {
                    for (int width = 0; width < width_; width++)
                    {
                        string locator = width.ToString() + '_' + height.ToString() + '_' + "btn";
                        button = (Button)this.Panel1.FindControl(locator.ToString());   
                        button.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.White; 
                    }
                }
                stringValues.Clear();
            }
        }
        //Check the squares clicked to see if the user has made a word.
        protected void Check_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Panel playArea = (Panel)FindControl("Panel1");
            if (stringValues.Count != 0)
            {
                string stringToBeSent = new string(stringValues.Dequeue().Item2, 1);
                while (stringValues.Count != 0)
                {
                    stringToBeSent += stringValues.Dequeue().Item2;
                }
                if (stringToBeSent.Length >= desiredLength_ && !hasBeenPlayer(stringToBeSent) && lexi.wordStatus(stringToBeSent) == Lexicon.Status.WORD)
                {
                    if (boardInformation.isWordOnBoard(stringToBeSent))
                    {
                        //this.Controls.Add(humanScoreDisplay);
                        acceptedWords.Add(stringToBeSent);
                        this.humanScoreDisplay.Text = acceptedWords.Count.ToString();
                        scoreHuman = acceptedWords.Count;
                    }
                }
                //reset the buttons back to their orignal color
                Button button;
                for (int height = 0; height < width_; height++)
                {
                    for (int width = 0; width < width_; width++)
                    {
                        string locator = width.ToString() + '_' + height.ToString() + '_' + "btn";
                        button = (Button)this.Panel1.FindControl(locator.ToString());
                        button.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.White;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        //if the user has already selected the word do nothing
        private bool hasBeenPlayer(string wordToBeCheck)
        {
            //bool hasPlayed = false;
            foreach(string word in acceptedWords)
            {
                if(word == wordToBeCheck)
                {
                    return true;
                }
            }
            return false;
        }
       //if user clicks this then hand it to computer for the beating
       protected void doneBTN_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            ComputerPlayer compPlayer = new ComputerPlayer(lexi);
            List<string> computerPlayedWords = compPlayer.playBoggle(boardInformation, acceptedWords, 3);
            this.computerScoreDisplay.Text = computerPlayedWords.Count.ToString();
            scoreComp = computerPlayedWords.Count;
            finishBTN.Visible = true;
        }
        //if user clicks this, then load new board and reset score
        protected void playAgain_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
            //generator = new BogglePieceGenerator(width_, desiredSeed_);
            boardInformation = new BoggleBoard_Board(width_, generator);
           board2D = new char[width_, width_];
           board2D = fillBoard();
           Button button;
            //remove all the buttons
           for (int height = 0; height < width_; height++)
           {
               for (int width = 0; width < width_; width++)
               {
                   string locator = width.ToString() + '_' + height.ToString() + '_' + "btn";
                   button = (Button)this.Panel1.FindControl(locator.ToString());
                   this.Panel1.Controls.Remove(button);
               }
           }
            //recreate all the buttons
           gridLayout();
           scoreComp = 0;
           scoreHuman = 0;
           //computerScoreDisplay.Text = "0";
          // humanScoreDisplay.Text = "0";
       }
    }
}

here is the code behind for the program. I have add the label more often then I originally did to see if maybe it was an event issue, it is not. still works locally not remotely.
here is the front end code:

<%@ Page Title= "BoogleBoard" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.Master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="BoggleBoard.aspx.cs" Inherits="BoggleBoardWeb.BoggleBoard" %>

<asp:Content ID="BodyContent" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">
        
        <asp:Panel ID="Panel1" runat="server" Height="840px" Width="840px" BorderStyle="Groove" ToolTip="Click the bottoms to move" ViewStateMode="Enabled">
        </asp:Panel>
        <asp:Button ID="checkBTN" runat="server" Text="Check Word" OnClick="Check_Click" Visible="True" Width="145px" />           
        <asp:Button ID="finishBTN" runat="server" Text="Finish" OnClick="doneBTN_Click" Visible="True" Width="116px" />
        <asp:Button ID="playAgain" runat="server" Text="Play Again" OnClick="playAgain_Click" Visible="True" Width="92px" />
        <p><asp:Label ID="humanScore" runat="server" Text="Your Score: "></asp:Label>
        <asp:Label ID="humanScoreDisplay" runat="server" Text="0" BorderStyle="Groove" CssClass="active" AssociatedControlID="checkBTN"></asp:Label></p>
        <p><asp:Label ID="ComputerScoreLabel" runat="server" Text="Computer Score: "></asp:Label>
            <asp:Label ID="computerScoreDisplay" runat="server" Text="0" BorderStyle="Groove" CssClass="active" AssociatedControlID="finishBTN"></asp:Label>
        </p>
</asp:Content>

If some of this seems rough, I apologize, like I said I'm learning asp.net to help myself in the job market. I don't normally ask for help, but I'm lost on why this is doing this, or not in this case. Any suggestions, help, or feedback/information will be greatly appreciated. Like I said this works perfectly on my local machine using visual studio, just not on azure. I do not have any other server to try this on.

Thank you,

Lee