Who wants "soft ones"?Don't take these NOCs as literally, but you get the point what I mean
I myself am a NOC-2173 with 500+ CRS and been waiting since 1.5 yrs only to receive an ITA. Just an ITA! Canada clearly doesn't want engineers especially soft ones.
Tell me when was the last "fair" draw when they invited the highest-scoring software engineers...?
That's right..! it was eons ago!
In all seriousness, I think that the first few draws will be quite big ones, at least 3,900 per, so the ones with CRS>500 should not wait more than a month. If they would continue with this trend, we should see cut-offs in the low 480s-high 470s in 3 months, assuming the pool doesn't add much high scorers...
Best of luck to everyone waiting...