I think its a fairly good system, Amd direct you just sit there and refreshing till you maybe get lucky and are able to place an item in cart or get blacklisted for refreshing to many times. Bestbuy and micro center seem to do the first come first serve in store which if you have the time to go up there and wait is not a bad deal.....maybe a little hectic. I like to think of EVGA as hey we know you have to work/sleep/parent/whatever so sign up and we will call your ticket when its ready. 
I gave up on newegg/amazon. Amazon just sell scalper cards and Newegg will unload unwanted stock items as bundles to increase there sale. 

The issue with the EVGA Queue system is they allocate so few cards for it every week that the queue moves very slowly.  When I looked at the info form people tracking the queue, some people who signed up for cards in November of 2020 or earlier still haven't received them.  It took me 6 months to get one of my cards after signing up in the queue because I missed the launch day window due to work.

It's about the only one out there , so it's the best we got... BUT...
they definitely could be way better by dedicating a larger portion of the cards to people on the lists instead of sending so much to other retail sites who are doing nothing about the bots buying them all up. .

With demand so high for GPUs the EVGA queue seems to be the only way. You just have to be very patient over a long period of time. 

 
I started using Nvidia GPUs when i coupled a Riva (i believe 128) with my Diamond Monster 3DFx Voodoo II. (I am not a fanboy, I don't care). I have only used ATI Radeon once.  
 
Years ago, it was impossible for me to buy an EVGA product because out of US shipping. As soon as that shipping option was available through Amazon or other stores i started buying EVGA products  (i believe GTX680 was the first one).  It is 2021 i look nowhere else other than EVGA.  In short, NVIDIA = EVGA for me.  
 
I like the queue system, but still I believe 100 forum posts and twitch stuff (whatever it is) is not a correct approach for loyal customers like me (and we have loyal EVGA customers in here who bought 10 times more products than i did). As i already wrote this in another topic, i prefer kind of Upgrade your GPU separate waitlist approach where we can select single product to waitlist with a priority as an EVGA Product user. It is like step up with its own queue, but for buying whole new product.  
 
I also believe when this shortage will end most of those ELITE status will disappear, so not a good method of increasing followers, audience, customer numbers etc. but good for saving the day and reducing the headache.  Of course just my opinion 

 

MNRider008
Whatever companies can do to combat the bot / scalper presence I'm all for. 

+1

Well, the only way i was able to get a card without paying more than i should for one was through this queue. So yea it was a good way. I dont know if they plan to drop any new cards in the 30xx series (like a 30xx super) so it might not be the best way now since most cards have dropped, but its still a better system than maybe winning a shuffle or paying scalper prices.