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The gate
opens instantly.

The floor above the Editing track. On the job board, an Elite Editor gets the client contact released the moment they apply. Everyone else passes a gate first.

5
Gate conditions skipped
6
Rooms on the floor
0
Holding it today
2
Ways in

Rooms, role and channel topics read off the live guild on 1 September 2026.

The Elite Editing channel header from the VALORAE Cast Discord

The header posted above the floor in the server. The channel topic on it reads: Paid briefs for editors who already proved it. No trials, no spec work.

What opens

Four things change on the Elite Editing floor

Stated as behaviour, because a perk you cannot check is decoration.

Client contact released instantly

Apply to a lead on the board and the client contact arrives by direct message straight away. No tenure to serve, no weekly cap to stay under, no seat to be free, no staff queue.

Briefs with a budget land here first

Editor briefs are routed by hand and the ones carrying a budget are offered to this floor before the open board sees them. Nobody in the room is bidding against the open board.

A room that stays in the room

What gets said on the Elite floor does not get repeated outside it. Rates, clients and what a job was really like, discussed by people who are on the same side of it.

A room and a voice channel that are yours

A war room for rates, clients and turnaround, plus your own voice channel and a join to create room for when two of you need to work through something live.

The gate, in full

What an Elite Editor skips

This is the actual rule the board runs on. It is five conditions, not a waiting time, and every one of them has to pass before a client contact is released to a regular Editor.

Elite Editor

Contact released instantly

  • Hold the Elite Editor role
  • That is the whole list

Everyone else

All five have to pass

  • Hold the Editor role
  • Seven days of tenure in the server
  • No live strike against you
  • Under three contacts claimed this week
  • A free seat left on that lead

Miss any one of the five and the application does not fail. It queues to a staff card for a human to read, and there is no promised turnaround on that queue. The gate is built to fail closed, so a database that will not answer holds the contact rather than releasing it.

The rooms

6 rooms behind the Elite Editor role

Read off the live server. Text channels for announcements, promotions and the war room, plus a voice channel and a join to create room for working calls.

  • #elite-editing-announcements
  • #elite-editing-welcome
  • #elite-editing-war-room
  • #elite-edit-voice-time
  • 🔊 Get Elite editing done
  • #open-a-room (elite editing)
Open the floor

Two ways in, and this is the one you control

A head of track can promote you for free at any time, and that route is unchanged. This one opens the same rooms today without waiting to be noticed.

Opening the floor

499per month

Checkout is not open on this deploy yet. Ask in the server and a head of track will open the floor for you by hand in the meantime.

Open the Discord
Questions

Answered plainly

Does paying make me promoted?

No. It opens the floor and everything on it. The Elite standing that a head of track grants by hand is a separate thing, it is still free, and it is still the only one that says somebody judged your work.

Can I still be promoted for free?

Yes, and that route is unchanged. The head of your track runs the command by hand after watching what you put in the drops. Paying does not make that more likely and not paying does not make it less likely.

Is this per track?

Yes. Elite Clipping and Elite Editing are separate floors with separate rooms, and opening one opens nothing on the other. The two floors protect different craft.

What happens if I stop?

The floor closes and you keep your track. Anything you earned by promotion is not affected, because it was never the thing being paid for.

Do Elite campaigns pay a different rate for the same work?

No. A campaign has one published rate and everybody on it is paid that rate. What Elite changes is which campaigns you see and when you see them, not what a clip pays once you are on it.

Nobody holds Elite today. Why is that on the page?

Because it is true on 1 September 2026, and the whole offer here is that the numbers are checkable. Both floors are built and both are empty. The first people in them will be there because they opened the floor or because a head of track put them there.

The other floor

Elite Clipping is a separate room

The two floors protect different craft, so opening one opens nothing on the other. If you do both, the second one is a support ticket rather than a second click.

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