First time this ever happened to me, I submitted a bug report.
Just as I dinged the meter, my game froze and came up with error 1091.
So I think I am stuck in this mode
Okay I see now what happened. It is midnight PST and that is the deadline.
Isn't this a little inconvienent to the users? I mean I started thinking I had enough time but ran just a bit slow and wham, the tourney is forfeit.
My suggestion would be that you have to start the round before midnight and you have to play through without disconnecting or exiting and saving in order to qualify but I see why you have it the way it is now.
Its just a total bummer to lose my whole round by minutes, guess I know for the future.