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Latest drop was made 2021-09-28 17:11 UTC

The drop is over, we have no info about when, what or where the next will be. Follow LinusTechTips on Youtube for any new drops.

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EXPECTED TO DROP NEXT:

  • Intel Arc GPUs (hinted at Dec 24th WAN Show)

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About shipping and handling

  • Handling times seem to be 1 week from drop to shipping label created.
  • Shipping times depend on carrier. For outside of NA, the carrier is FedEx and shipping times seem to be regular 5-14 days. For US and Canada, the shipping times might be same, or even longer.
  • Any additional charges, like customs fees and local VAT are paid on entry to country. There has been variation between countries to whom payments are made (FedEx on delivery, FedEx to their office, custom directly), so contact your local FedEx or customs offices for more details on those.

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Known drops:

1. Asus 3070, 3080 and 3090, 2021-03-20 17:40 UTC

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2. MSI 3080 SeaHawk, 2021-03-30 16:59 UTC

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3. AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 2021-04-09 00:59 UTC

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4. Asus TUF 6800XT, 2021-04-24 01:57 UTC / During WAN Show

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5. Asus TUF 6800XT, 2021-04-26 17:05 UTC

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6. EVGA RTX 3060 XC Gaming / RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra, 2021-05-06 20:29 UTC

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7. MSI RTX 3080 Ti VENTUS 3X OC, 2021-09-28 17:11 UTC

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PARTICIPATION ENDED! If you are local to LMG (Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada), you can participate to this https://gleam.io/nntHg/verified-actual-gamer-program-can-you-beat-linus

Announced in WAN Show https://youtu.be/-qj6hkLkdYg?t=2450

The even video (also 6th drop video)

 

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FAQ

 

How do I enter? Can I enter? Where to signup?

You don't. All information about the drops are posted to Youtube and are hidden in videos. So far all drops have been on LinusTechTips main channel.

 

UPDATE: One of the drops was made live, during the WAN Show on Fridays. Until now there has been no drops on Friday or weekends.

 

UPDATE: For limited time, you can participate with local event https://gleam.io/nntHg/verified-actual-gamer-program-can-you-beat-linus

 

I watched the video, but there were no information. Where do I find this?

The information about the drop is removed from video after the drop is over.

 

When are videos posted?

At the moment LMG is using their regular timeslot which is 10-11AM PST (17-18 UTC).

UPDATE: LMG has posted in different timeslot to allow those in school or working chance.

 

How does this work?

So far the known information is following:

  • Video is posted on Youtube and Floatplane at the same time.
  • There's segment in video where Linus gives a hint about what link you need to use in order to enter. The hints are words and Linus uses his fingers to state what parts of the link they are. The links start with http://www.lttstore.com/. Link is temporary and will only show note about drop ending afterwards.
    • UPDATE: Previously there was actual cut-scene, latest drop had just voice-over during b-roll.
  • There will be challenge on store page.
    • The first two drops had 15 question quiz about video games. You have 3 lives and 3-4 options to choose from. Fastest to finish will get their chance to buy items.
      • Besides 3 lives, you can skip 2 questions.
      • The latest drop had questions in video format with some answers shown as "A/B/C/D" and some as written normally.
    • UPDATE: Latest drop had small flash game in style of Jump King / Icy Tower.
  • Item of the drop is shown on store page before taking the quiz. You will see the price and other details too.
  • UPDATE: After completing challenge, you are put onto queue with AFK meter to prevent idling. Forgetting to re-charge bar will drop you at the tail end of the line
  • Prices are before VAT, tariffs etc. and shown in USD. Price after tariffs (US only) are shown on page.
  • You are allowed to buy one CPU and one GPU from this event. (Source)

 

Can you tell me when the next drop is?

No, because we don't know.

 

I'm at school/sleeping/working/have other reasons and can't watch at current time slot.

Linus has said that they will at some point use different time slot. What it is, we don't know. UPDATE: The time slot for later time was 12PM-1AM UTC.

 

Why can't they have link or more information somewhere?

Because the whole point is make this as hard as possible for anyone but the absolute most dedicated fans.

 

Why they don't collect list of people? Why aren't forum members, Floatplane subscribers etc. prioritized?

List wouldn't do anything. There would still need to be draw of sort needed, and the list would consist more of non-gamers the longer it was left open. Prioritizing forum members would discriminate towards other parts of audience.

 

Having payment as requirement to join or as something making "winning" more likely is classified as lottery under laws. This would require permit, it would exclude several regions which require local permits or don't allow any lottery, and it would put age limit of 19 years in place.

 

Can I try quiz afterwards?

At the moment, no. But there might be site at some point after event ends.

 

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Posts made by Luke and Linus.

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WAN Show segments

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WAN Show Jun 4, 2021

26:25 - 27:10 "We currently have no stock, but the program is still on"

1:23:00 - 1:23:30 One board partner with some 3080Ti's coming

 

WAN Show April 23, 2021

17:43 - 34:43 VAG Drop live on stream

43:15 - 44:50 VAG drop is over, hinted about 270 more cards

1:16:40 - 1:17:44 Some last minute info

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WAN Show April 16, 2021

1:36:30 Super-chats

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WAN Show April 9, 2021

13:20 - 13:40 The latest drop info
40:50 - 43:55 The local event info
1:15:35 - 1:17:34 Super-chats #1
1:24:25 - 1:24:47 Super-chats #2
1:25:47 - 1:26:07 Super-chats #3

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WAN Show August 27, 2021

1:05:40 - Super-chats

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WAN Show October 8, 2021

2:06:20 - Super-chats

Here Linus says that Verified Actual Gamer program would be suspended until further notice. Reason given was that retail prices are about same as so-called "scalper prices". Making the program pointless.

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 WAN Show December 24, 2021

1:09:10 onward

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To be updated

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Misc:

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Posted
2 hours ago, Frodo Baggins said:

Getting up 3 nights in a row at 3am so far hasn't worked. I wonder if there was a delay in getting more cards or something?

Yeah I think they are waiting to get an entire shipment from the next AIB before making a drop, but they may also be working on something else before the next drop, Linus said he has some ideas to make it harder for non gamers to get one through VAG.
Or as @tengambgsaid it may just be trying to be unpredictable.

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1 hour ago, LordPoopGreen said:

Yeah! this one 😄
I just replaced my old case for a 4000D Airflow so I'd have room for the rad 🙂

Daaamn, does it run alot cooler with the additional 240mm rad?

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On 3/27/2021 at 6:13 PM, dizmo said:

So you're not ready to buy but you still want to be on the list? Why? So that they can spend the time to contact you only to have you be like "nope, not actually looking to get a card." That doesn't make any sense. Not to mention the sheer amount of effort that'd take. If you're not buying now, you shouldn't even be trying to participate.

I meeeeeean I know you're probably exaggerating, but that's pretty much impossible unless you spent literally every waking minute watching the channel.

1. I didn't have the money at the time for the 3060 at the time, now I do. 

2. Not exaggerating (watching some other channels in the meantime but those only account for 5 hours of that) 

 

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On 3/28/2021 at 3:26 AM, Arika S said:

It's not that much different than complaining to stores that they ran out of <product> at launch because of all the people that had lined up for days to get in the door first.

True but as I've said before it just seems like a watchtime/monetary booster for them in the jack of trades being that you have a 1 in a million chance of landing on the right video at the right moment. I just wished that they had a site like lttvag.com or something for people to signup in their free time and fill out the application form then someone at ltt verifies them but still waits for the next shipment. I'm just saying they could have broadcasted this more fairly despite being overrun with multiple requests.

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On 3/28/2021 at 6:40 AM, jo95go said:

Between 6pm and 7pm CET on LTT

Thank you 

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2 hours ago, MultiGamerClub said:

Daaamn, does it run alot cooler with the additional 240mm rad?

Not sure because I haven't seen a comparison anywhere, seems like there's not a lot of people who got their hands on that card haha
Anyways I've seen a recent comparison between a 6800XT that's aircooled and one that's liquid cooled just like this one and the liquid cooled one had amazing performance.
I expect great cooling from this card because of the custom Asetek liquid cooling 🙂

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2 hours ago, Frodo Baggins said:

If those that got their card from VAG could make their own thread that would be a great way to stop me metaphorically banging my head into my keyboard out of jealousy :-).

Haha sorry mate

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14 hours ago, LordPoopGreen said:

Haha sorry mate

I love the username 🤣

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1 minute ago, andreabis said:

let's see if today is the day 😛

Damn I hope so, badly need a 3080 or 3070

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1 minute ago, andreabis said:

let's see if today is the day 😛

no video today when it was supposed to launch at 1 am EST (30 min ago)

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1 minute ago, Padblaze said:

no video today when it was supposed to launch at 1 am EST (30 min ago)

Because It's late It doesn't mean there won't be a vid today. Yesterday the video was 33 minutes late.

 

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Just now, Padblaze said:

no video today when it was supposed to launch at 1 am EST (30 min ago)

Last nights video was at 1:30 EST (3:30 am my time).

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3 minutes ago, andreabis said:

let's see if today is the day 😛

 

1 minute ago, Padblaze said:

no video today when it was supposed to launch at 1 am EST (30 min ago)

YOU GOTTA *BBEELLIIEEVVEE*!!!!!

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2 minutes ago, kubsakkk said:

Damn I hope so, badly need a 3080 or 3070

Same here. I want to update my 970

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Just now, andreabis said:

Same here. I want to update my 970

I got a 1050 ti with an i5-7400. Finally got money to get a pc and bang, chip shortage.

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At this point this is straight up torture on everyone not in the same time zone as the US. At least tell us the day to be ready as I can't take another day of getting up at 3am again then trying to snooze every 15 minutes waiting for this damn VAG video. 4 days of this crap is horrid.

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good thing about the chip shortage, my RX 580 might be 2 generations old but at least I paid half as much for it as its going for now LuL *smiles through the tears*

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1 minute ago, Frodo Baggins said:

At this point this is straight up torture on everyone not in the same time zone as the US.

For US it's not great actually (morning). Better for Europe.

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Just now, AlexP11223 said:

For US it's not great actually (morning). Better for Europe.

Poland here, It's 7PM here so I don't mind.

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Italy here, i'm preparing dinner and it is almost 8PM. I was refreshing the phone every potato I was cutting ahahah

I have to say that the time is good for me, the problem is only the wan show which is like 3 AM 

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2 minutes ago, AlexP11223 said:

For US it's not great actually (morning). Better for Europe.

afternoon, just after my lunch break (US). East Coast Supremacy.

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