I think the implication is people might need to avoid competition to protect their rating from going over 588. In fact there is a decent chance if everybody just keeps performing and improving as much as they can and doing their best, all of the players will be at 588 or lower at the time of this tournament. One way to get a sense of this is to look at how these players' ratings have changed since March, a bit over 6 months ago. If these changes happened again just like this over the next 6 months, one player would be at 589 and all the rest under 588.
The average of the players is at about 560 now and so has almost 30 points leeway
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