Official Decision Regarding Kansas Match
RFBoland, I'll try to solve your mystery. To me it looks like this:
You challenged Kansas during the challenge period at the beginning of the month. They did not accept the challenge, eventually leading to my post declaring your team the winner. The challenge was still open though, and on the 15th they accepted the challenge. Your team should have gotten a notification there was a new match then either in messages or alerts. Players from both sides started to join the match. The date and time from your original challenge would have already been past at that point, so as soon as 3 players from each side joined, the match auto-started, thus leading to the strange start time, and why you didn't have to lock.
To me the match was already forfeited. The standings on the first page of this forum show you as the winner, and I don't see anything to change that.