Well, my advice to those of you who have not yet applied is to apply now.
Even if the cap is reached, you are not losing anything since you have already prepared applications, pictures, took the English test...etc so the worst that could happen is that they return your application but they could also accept it. You never know.
CIC call center is useless and I wouldn't count on their responses. There has been three or four credit cards charged today Dec 2nd in the Sept applications so credit cards are still being charged as of today!
Good luck everyone.
Cheers