Looking at the pool's breakdown tells you everything you need to know, and unfortunately it's not encouraging.
There were almost 15,000 people between 451-600 during the November 23rd draw.
How many will make it until the end of the year? Not many, so there will be a lot of them still in the pool by the start of next year. Now that isn't even factoring the new entrants who will apply and enter the pool in this range.
It's crazy how much the CRS scores have risen, at the beginning of 2019, 450 was a very good score. Now? You're missing the cut-off score (the lowest score) by 21 points. That's a very big gap.
I think it will go down to around 460 but below that, it's hard to see.
There are signs it could fall, like many people from the U.S seem to be applying now because of the immigration situation there. That might change in relation to who wins the presidential election in 2020. But that's a long time away in beginning of November. Similarly, the UK want to implement a points system once they leave the EU, and Australia could make changes to their points system but they've been scaling back immigration quotas as well.
It all depends. I think many people are applying to Canada now because it seems like their best bet.