There was a problem with the timer, 2 times
First the timer showed different remaining time in different time zones, bug/feature in the timer.

Then suddenly it was reset and it seemed to show the same time for everyone, so I thought "well, there's our new countdown to zero!".
At that point I didn't know what the real countdown was, it was getting late (needed to get some sleep) so I chose this to be the new countdown for the game.

So counter reached zero, game was closed, price was sent to the winner

I only found out 3 hours ago that the current timer is the real countdown, confirmed by a dev.

"Shit happens" But we have a winner anyway