Hi there,
The rumors about lower scores comes from the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaLvLG-6n3k&list=WL&index=38 Towards the minute 15, the official starts explaining the trend for 2016.
According to him, scores will be kept high before they start descending in the fall. Hopefully it will be like that. At least we know when to be prepared.
Cheers,
Serge