Given that all the UK bots have qualified with far less CC's than last year, and last year was less than the year before, that alone will bring down their cheques.
As we know from companies house, FLP UK has had a very sharp decrease in profits. As the UK was their biggest market, although I believe it's now number 2, i'm guessing profits are down globally. Given that the chairman's bonus involves a certain percentage of company profits being distributed among all those eligible, there will be less to start with to distribute, so the cheques will be less because of that, and less still due to less CC's.
I imagine that the top bots are desperately hoping for good cheques, and some of them have their homes riding on receiving good cheques. I hope they have been practicing their fake smiles, so when they get rubbish cheques they still look cheerful.
Yawn has been hustling her backside off this year, hustling like crazy, she couldn't have hustled any harder. Considering she is only 15th this year shows how much signups must have dropped.
She used the excuse last year that she she got a reduced cheque as she moved and was renovating her house, this year she has had nothing to impede her hustling, so it will be interesting to see what is said.
Unless forever decide to bump the cheques up to make it look like they are doing better as a company than they are to encourage more sign ups, although I can't see them giving away money like that.