There was a Reddit post today where someone who bought an unrelated part on OCUK at 13:45 yesterday (17th) posted an edited version of their OC order number. A bunch of other people followed suit and the latest one had bought around 13:30 today (18th), and had an OC number around 11,000 higher than the OP.
Let's assume these are all individual orders for 1 item each and that every single one of them is for an RTX. So, roughly 11K orders to fulfil from the "last 24 hours"-ish.
OCUK has 23 different varieties of RTX 3080 cards for sale/pre-order.
Based on Gibbo's earlier description of batch sizes (small <50, average >50, big >100 and dream >1K), and the fact that most of the upcoming ones have been described by him as "small", let's assume that they get a weekly batch of 50 for each of the 23 varieties (being super optimistic, of course!). That's a total of 1,150 per week total cards available to ship.
Not sure how realistic that weekly number is, and we also need to factor in that some cards were already on pre-order without ETA (i.e. Strix and Aorus). But for the sake of this hypothetical scenario, let's say they all start becoming available next week. We would be looking at the last card of those 11K being shipped in about 10 weeks time, or 27th Nov.
Obviously, some cards are more popular than others (MSI Trio seems to be extremely popular), and some will simply have longer lead times anyway due to supply problems or production readiness (EVGA, Strix, Aorus). But hopefully this math will give us a rough indication of where we potentially stand with this queue thing.
Also obviously, all this is based on sheer optimism and a massive bunch of assumptions, empirical data and my best shot at forecasting the impossible, as well as Reddit users OC order numbers, the items listed on the OCUK website and Gibbon's post on batch sizes from earlier. I have no other info, nor do I claim to be right. I just thought I would share my thought process as it might help some people guesstimate their position.
BTW, my pre-order went through at 00:21 today, and I was in the 9K-range position (based on the above info from Reddit users), in case that's useful info to anyone.