USCF control over special criterion

Does the USCF enforce special tournament anouncements? Th HB tourney said it would be using the highest rating in the october supplement through the april supplement. Yet i notice at least two Adekunle Ogunmefun and Gennadiy Reznikov both have been over 2000 since then and Ogunmefun almost won the A section at the Chicago Open. Just asking, as the HB tournament has already adjusted at least 2 original anouncements, some of which i can see(maybe). However, such good sandbagging prevention as was anounced is why some of us entered only to have alterations after the fact.

I wouldn’t take that advance list too seriously. There is, for example, a player listed in the U2000 section with a rating of 2168. Presumably the TD will straighten out glitches like this before the first round.