problem solved over MSN. There was too many teams in his mp_teamlist. I'm not sure it's a bot limitation ; I checked the array sizes and the char strings, and no overflow can happen unless the game hits 32 teams or a model name is larger than 16 characters. The recipient string for the mp_teamlist strcpy is dim'ed at 512 bytes. So I think it's rather a HL restriction.
No bot update required, phew