CPL news / Dead?!?!

I was reading my email and found this .. Such a sad story! The creators of CPL were in it for the $ from the start, but besides that It was the one thing that every gamer had their eyes on back in the day.

The CPL is dead. Finally actually dead as a tournament organization,
not just "gg cpl == dead"-dead. For those that still care here's the
story.

First off, a lot of this can't be verified. I'm sorry but I'm not
posting logs or giving sources in order to protect people. Here's what can
be verified;

Chris Moncivalles - CPLs League Commissioner, was fired around the 27th
of January. He disappeared from the CPL staff page and people started
asking questions. A few days later he was added back on the staff page
as "Online Store Director". Promise you however, that's just to avoid
questions, he's still fired and that's why he hasn't been responding to
any of you.

Thomas Hollingsworth - CPLs IRC Manager dropped his tag a few days ago
and disappeared off the CPL staff page. At which point we can somewhat
assume he's no longer with the CPL anymore either.

Now, Micheal Allen will also be gone at the end of the month, he's the
Global Tournament Director and as such his services won't be required
by the CPL anymore because of the CPL likely not having any more
tournaments after the world tour ends this month.

As it stands, this may not be the last you've heard of "the CPL" but it
should be the last you've heard of "the CPL" in regards to gaming
tournaments. The CPL may try to become an advisory company of sorts for
video game companies. This should largely be read as an excuse to stay
involved with Daikatana 2, or Severity, whichever name you find suiting.
(Yes Romero, we haven't forgotten or forgiven that abomination of a game
you threw at us). Plus they still have 1/2 of the stock of CPL mice to
sell!

The CPL has been losing money (obviously) and after a buy-out from
Play'nTrade failed because Angel didn't want to relocate, it was
practically decided to end the CPL's run.

What this means for CAL is not a whole lot, CALs been told to keep
doing its thing, however they might lose partnerships such as hosting which
could become rather troublesome. And that's aside from staff that
might bail and look for newer, better things. (Don't say CEVO, dealing with
Angel is horrible, but dealing with Charlie Plitt is hell on earth).

Now until Angel crawls out and states something, things can change. You
never know when some unfortunate company decides to sink money into
gaming and runs into the CPL. This post/message was made mostly due to a
complete communications break-down. Angel won't talk to anyone anymore
about what's going to happen which leaves certain people stuck in
limbo. 
They can't say anything but they can't do anything either. As it stands
the story is largely as I've just told it. I'm expecting this to
finally lead to some kind of official response on the situation at hand from
Angel.

I've said most of what I care to say, I won't be dealing with people
directly contacting me regarding this. If people wish to discuss the
matter there's a live online gaming talk show called Faces For Radio which
should air tomorrow at 8pm EST and last for about 2 hours. 
I'm not sure whether they'll welcome discussion on the subject or not,
but if so I'll try to call in and respond to any questions anyone might
ask there if the show allows such, please don't contact me otherwise.
It's hosted by the same people that produce Epileptic Gaming,
information on how to watch can be found at http://epilepticgaming.ggl.com/

Martijn