Stuck in pre-game lobby Bug

It says game starting soon and just freezes there without launching the game. We could still chat normally and we were all confused. No one wanted to exit the client and risk getting punished with extended queues. Eventually it kisked us out. Anyone else experienced this?

EDIT: Also while playing getting a lot of lag and every couple of minutes just freezes. After 5 seconds it says trying to reconnect. 5-10 seconds of that and it goes on normally. Never had issues like that before. Everyone can see this is all clearly related to the server issues earlier so why is there no red thread about this?