crossbone
Interesting news for all of you - don't know if this has been mentioned. I had phone contact with the EVGA customer Service this morning. And there actually i not a queue for the step up program. Instead a random number generator picks the next customer for step-up. So this is definitely NOT a first come - first serve program.
I think you heard wrong. The Step-Up ID is randomly generated, but the queue itself is still first come first serve. Pretty obvious if you look at the list of all those going into Step 2 have been in order.