Okay, so it's not really a 'red alert', but the CPL will be closing registration & locking the teams very soon:
Effective Sunday, November 4, 2001 all CPL rosters for the $150,000 Counter-Strike Tournament will be locked. Teams may add players to their roster until December 1st but may not remove players or switch teams.Nuccio rocks!~
The CPL also announced that incomplete teams that have less than 5 team members registered by Friday, November 9, 2001 will be removed from the Counter-Strike tournament. The admission fee is non-refundable.