Step 1: 9/18/20 4:36 PM EST

I think they said they typically allocate half of cards they get in for retail on the eVGA site to Step-Up when the queue is large, so it should progress the queue quite a bit (if what has been said about AIBs getting a fair bit in to the triple digits per shipment is accurate).
I will be submitting mine tomorrow as soon as my 2070 Super Hybrid arrives... looking forward to playing around with that card in the interim, I skipped the 20-series because it didn't offer much progress over my 1080 Ti (unless I wanted to shell out for a 2080 Ti), but I've seen 2070 Supers can be pretty impressive for what  they are.  Getting it with a $50 off coupon direct from Newegg helped too :-D

Dabadger84
I think they said they typically allocate half of cards they get in for retail on the eVGA site to Step-Up when the queue is large, so it should progress the queue quite a bit (if what has been said about AIBs getting a fair bit in to the triple digits per shipment is accurate).
I will be submitting mine tomorrow as soon as my 2070 Super Hybrid arrives... looking forward to playing around with that card in the interim, I skipped the 20-series because it didn't offer much progress over my 1080 Ti (unless I wanted to shell out for a 2080 Ti), but I've seen 2070 Supers can be pretty impressive for what  they are.  Getting it with a $50 off coupon direct from Newegg helped too :-D

I've never seen them saying "half", they said they allocate "some". Going by the step 2's in OP, in average they're doing 3-5 step ups a week....may take a while bois.... Lets prepare for the worst, hope for the best....

Step 1 9/30/20
Got a good deal on a new EVGA 2080 Super from Newegg, just received it yesterday, and asked for a step up to a 3080 this morning. 

Once the supply situation clears up, I’m sure there will be more cards allocated. Until then it’ll be a crawl just like if you were trying to buy one retail.

9/30/2020 - Step 2 @ 9:30am pst

fr0zentundra12
9/30/2020 - Step 2 @ 9:30am pst

Whoa whoa whoa. When did you put in for step 1!? Two batches this week?

Email 1 on 9/26, 1:43am EST.

Maybe I mis understood. I thought step #1 was proof of purchase. I am in step-up queue.

I am in queue. Joined step up on the 21st . Probably will have to wait until November or Dec I am thinking. Ah well. Least I'm in queue.