In a quickly deleted post on the www.caleague.com webpage and in a CAL e-mail, Martijn “CAL|Martijn” Bloemheuvel made the allegation that the CPL was dead due to the alleged firings of Chris “CPL|ChrisM” Moncivalles and the imminent firing of Mike “CPL|Allen” Allen.

Following CPL’s 2006 Winter Event, the CPL launched its 2007 World Tour with yet-to-be-released World in Conflict for PC and F.E.A.R. on XBOX 360 sponsored by Sierra. With lackluster attendance and minimal interest from the community in the World Tour and their lightly attended and G7 boycotted Winter event, the once mighty CPL has fallen on harder times.

The news post on CAL’s webpage hit on several rumors that had been floating around the community in recent months, namely that Moncivalles had been fired and that the CPL was almost purchased. The man making the allegations, Bloemheuvel, is listed as an Operations Manager on the CAL website and has helped run CPL BYOC tournaments in the past.

Moncivalles said no comment when asked about the posting. He still remains listed on the CPL page as the Online Store Director and on the CAL page as the Commissioner. Also, GotFrag has not been able to reach CAL , CPL, or Allen for a comment.

However in a statement posted on CAL’s website, CAL refuted the allegations and made it clear that Allen, Moncivalles, and Hollingsworth are still employed by CPL. They also are looking into legal remedies.

“While Chris Moncivalles is no longer CPL's Commissioner, both Mike Allen and Thomas Hollingsworth have not been terminated as the e-mail insinuates. Also Chris still has his CPL e-mail account, manages the CPL store and is the commissioner of CAL. Unfortunately, we cannot comment beyond this as this is a legal issue now and our legal counsel will pursue this matter to the full extent of the law.”

When Bloemheuvel was asked as to why he posted the story he cited a lack of communication between CAL and the CPL as his reason for the posting.

“I posted it because we've known this generally for about two weeks, without any idea of what would be in our future,” said Bloemheuvel. “Angel basically stopped talking to everyone and just left us waiting in limbo. We just wanted to make CAL work. But with Angel refusing to communicate with everyone, we weren't given a fair chance. So, I decided to just take the fall for it, make it all public, and hopefully force Angel into an official statement so people could move on from there.”

Furthermore, Bloemheuvel said that he received the information from various CAL and CPL staff members and he stands by the accuracy of his posting.

On the next page is the full text of the posting, and a screen shot of the post can be seen HERE.