Last night at the CPL Summer 2004 there was an altercation between a few compLexity players and one TAU member. After a Dallas sheriff pulled the coL player, Freddy "grafx" Martinez, away from the TAU player, Amic, he was given a warning by security but he instead went back to Amic and started another altercation. Grafx was effectively removed from the Convention center for the evening at this point. coL was told to check on their tournament status this morning after a meeting between CPL admins.

Head CPL admins, Angel, Justin and Monte, met this morning to decide what action would be necessary to enforce upon grafx after he was ejected from the convention center for an altercation. After a discussion, it was decided that grafx would be removed from the entire tournament. This leaves complexity with only four players on their roster and cannot compete in the counter-strike tournament. CPL Commissioner, Justin Blanchard, stated that complexity could not replace grafx on their CPL roster and with only five players on their roster, they will be forced to forfeit any and all CS matches they might have played.

Blanchard confirmed that the CPL will not tolerate any problems caused by alcohol. This certainly changes a lot of the hype surrounding coL at this CPL, as many looked at coL to make some waves with the news they have made in recent months. We will have to wait and see how this affects the complexity guys at this event and future CPL tournaments.

UPDATE:

According to a statement released by the Blanchard at the time when Grafx was removed from the tournament Security staff informed coL that he would still be allowed to play in the event. CPL had ruled on the other hand that he wasn't allowed to play but since coL wasn't aware of this they didn't request a substitute player for him on Wednesday when all teams were allowed to make final changes to rosters. Taking this in mind according to Blanchard allowed coL to replace Grafx with Ariel “s0ck” Perez and will be allowed to play in the tournament starting with Infinite eSports later today.