It might matter if they have less than 31 athletes since they wouldn't be a "large" team anymore. I've asked that question around but no one has been able to give me a definitive answer as to whether they'd be allowed to compete without the minimum number of athletes for the division.
I searched LOT on twitter and saw a few "congrats for making LOT" tweets from the past few days and saw a kid from Alaska flying in to be on a CEA worlds team, so my guess is they'll be competing with at least 31 athletes (unless they had even more injuries/quitters.) With LE going and staying R5, they also could pull from those athletes to fill up LOT, I guess.