Read it again
Right. Honor is capped at 750K.
CP is not capped.
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Honor is not capped. You can continue to earn more than 750k honor but it wont contribute towards the amount of CP you can gain that week, which is capped.
Oh my god 
They literally explain it in the blue post:
Based on a curve which maps honor to CP. For example, ~750k honor equates to 65,000 CP
You can reverse engineer the required honor needed to reach rank 14 from that alone.
You will need to earn very close to 750K honor to actually hit rank 14. No slow and steady there!
Is there or is there not a cap to the amount of CP a player can earn in a given week?
Only if you want to rank at max speed. They’ve made no comment yet on the minimum honor needed to net positive CP towards r14.
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Because honor is capped at 750K, you can’t earn more than 65K CP. But it’s because honor is capped. Not because CP is capped.
If you plug those numbers in to the existing formula, you will see that you need very close to 750K to actually maintain the cap.
The lower ranks are up in the air. Rank 14 is NOT up in the air. There will be no slow and steady path to rank 14.
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So weekly earned CP is capped.
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If you only needed 50K honor to outpace decay (your hypothetical “slow and steady scenario”)
But 750K honor awards 65K CP
And you only need 60K CP for rank 14…
Seems like you would hit rank 14 in a single week, no?
The amount of CP you can advance each week is gated.
Do share please
65K CP (the max you can earn in a single week) is more than the 60K CP needed for rank 14.
You could do it in a single week with your hypothetical scenario of 50K honor being “enough to outpace decay”
Decay is the the limiting factor here. Not CP. The amount needed to outpace decay at the higher ranks will be very close to the cap.
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WoW is not a MOBA 
teams are gonna be imbalanced. a real PvPer embraces this.
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I think you are conflating RP with CP.
RP does not exist in the new system. The numbers are the same.
Standing 1 in the old system earned 65K RP… 750K honor in the new system earns 65K CP.
60K RP/CP is needed for rank 14.
CP was present in both. RP was removed.
If you are rank 0 and then get 750k Honor in 1 week, would that not also place you in rank14? There’s non-decay related gates to the amount of CP you can advance every week.
ITT: Unemployed people trying to make employed people feel bad.
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In the original system, 20% of your CP/RP are applied to your rank each week… so with 750K honor (65K RP/CP) you would earn 13K after a single week. This puts you at rank 4.
In SoM, 40% of your CP/RP are applied to your rank each week… so with 750K honor, you would earn 26K after a single week. This puts you at rank 7.
Under the new system, with an 8-week timeline, it will be closer to (maybe not exactly, but close enough to get my point) 33% of your CP/RP applied to your rank each week… so with 750K honor, you would earn about 21,450 CP after a single week. This puts you at rank 6.
You could reverse engineer the exact decay percentage in the new system using the information available to us, but that is going to take way more time than I have available to me at noon on a Wednesday. It might be 30% rather than 33%.
I think you are predicting too much of this new system and not lending credence to the possibility that
could be referring to something else entirely divorced from the old system, newly installed gates.