Luc gets my sympathy also. I´m 100% sure that they will do their best to get blocks manufactured and shipped as fast as possible. People have waited 970 and classified blocks for long time and maybe thats why they are so angry and doesn´t see the truth. This is good news, not bad :)
I´ve made my order of GTX 970 block and a backplate. Hope they will send them to me monday so I can install them next weekend. If they don´t, it´s not the end of the world. :) Backplates status is now "limited quantity" so maybe they have put already one aside for me.