Wow! I have been crawling hard to reach 200k CP for 1 year and 9 months to be able to play at Gold I only after reaching the stage that I only lack 5k cp, then this change happened. If this is the case, I will be stuck forever in Silver II.
. . . that would be the end of Splinterlands.
If this will happen, though I will be sad, I hope that those with huge voting votes or whoever made this change will learn their lesson.