Guild Wars 2

Right, I spend about 95% of my gw2 time in heart of the mist doing spvp and tpvp, and really enjoying it. A couple of hours ago I signed up for a random free tourny, hoping to stomp a few people before I had to log to do other stuff. Waited around a few minutes and got the pop to join forest of nifhel – sweet. Clicking the join button did nothing for me, and I remained in Heart of the Mists. This has happened to me once before and I randomly fixed it by logging in and out, then trying to join a random hotjoin spvp, which then put me in the tournament I was initially signed up for.
Needless to say, I tried the same approach. This time, however, it didn’t work. For the following 45 minutes i proceeded to have the pop up for Nifhel, and been clicking both join and wait, to no effect. About a minute after clicking join I get two error messages:

1. The game client is unable to gain log-in access at this time… etc… firewall… etc… campus and an error code. (42:0:9001:3968:101)
2. Tournament Timeout

Logged off, shut my computer off and waited an hour, thinking it would fix itself. It hasn’t and now upon logging in again to do mah peeveepee I keep getting these error messages and the Nifhel pop up.
The Heart of the Mist menu still shows me as in a group with the randoms, and when trying to leave the roster from there, nothing happens. The little tournament icon in the top left shows “tournament in progress”. I can’t join any tpvp or spvp and I need my fix.
Has anybody had similar problems and found a fix to this?
thx in advance