Weird.
Strange megagroup aside, was ranked 1200-ish at -4 with less than an hour to go. The cut was at rank 2600 or thereabouts at -1.
A couple of hours later I checked back in and was informed that that I missed the cut with a rank of -1(!), but that i could try again as there was 21 hours until the cut (!).
Thanks but no thanks, I won't spend another 50 credits until you have fixed your code.