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.