Champion's League Shaping Up

Teams are filling up the available slots for next season's CONCACAF Champion's League. The CCL for short, replaced the CONCACAF Champion's Cup this past season and the first edition was deemed a success and officials at CONCACAF are building for the future.
In this past season's first edition, even though it was an all-Mexican final between Atlanta and Cruz Azul (won by Atlante, 2-0 aggregate), there were many surpises which made the tournament fun to watch.
This season, CONCACAF has set the bar higher and more quality clubs will qualify. They are not increasing the number of participants, just getting strickter on stadiums, roads, hotels, field conditions, etc. Which is why Belize was knocked out this season. They do not, nor could not, get a stadium "up to par" so to speak, so Honduras was granted a 3rd team to participate.
Those who are in...
From North America: The United States (MLS) gets four entries. Two advance to the group stage and the other two begin in the knockout preliminary - which begins July 28th. The Columbus Crew and Houston Dynamo are in the group stage. New York Red Bulls and DC United will have to win their home-and-home preliminary round matches to get to the group stage.
Mexico also receives four entrants - two to the group and two in the preliminary. CD Toluca is in the group stage and Cruz Azul is in the prelim-round. The other two slots are still TBD.
Canada gets one slot and, so far, Toronto FC leads the Nutrilite Canadian Championship with 6 points from two wins, both 1-0 wins at home over the Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps.
Others that are in include: Deportivo Saprissa (Costa Rica), AD Isidro Metapan (El Salvador), CSD Comunicaciones (Guatemala), CD Marathon, Olimpia and Real Espana (Honduras), CD Arabe Unido (Panama), W Connection and San Juan Jabloteh (Trinidad) and the Puerto Rico Islanders.
5 more slots from Central America are still up for grabs. One each from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama and Nicaragua. Nicaragua is in the same boat as Belize, if their stadium fails, which is due to be inspected next week, then Panama will get a third entrant.