Maybe some of the people that did noticed that decided to post it anyway, for some reason.Azer wrote:
Thank you for reading the entire registration post guys keep it up I'm proud of you
It's only bolded, in big red text and posted twice. Maybe we need to put it there 5 more times
For example: hoping that much more potential participants than number of places will make you open more places in future, so they keep bringing attention to that (if we were to assume that both players have equal ranks, it's almost top #1000 only tournament now).
Also, people that are just little above the limit can keep posting though, as they don't really know if or how much the bar will be risen further. So, if some of teams were to resign, it could open a free slot for them