Originally Posted by
Victor Plotkin
Lowering the floor to 2000 CFC would significantly reduce chances for IM norm and practically eliminate chances for GM norm. Kingston-2019 with the floor of 2200 produced 1 IM norm and a good chance for GM norm for 1 player. You need an average rating of 2380 for GM norm, otherwise even 9/9 will not help. Nikolay Noritsyn got the average slightly above 2380, but finished with 6.5/9, missing the norm by 0.5 points.
For most Canadian players any norm is good, because they have a good chance to make "40+ players" norm in any big tournament in USA or Europe.
Maybe, in some situation organizers would consider adding 1-2 players with CFC slightly below 2200 and relatively high FIDE (at least 2050), if we have 38-39 participants. Likely, this decision should be done a few days before the start of the tournament then organizers know the whole picture.