They didn't get a week early start, everyone who kept up with D2 news knew all the exotics, we were ALL told what Prismatic would come with, the streamers that got a demo only got to run the first couple missions of the DLC. Streamers always win Day Ones for a very specific reason. They do this game PROFESSIONALLY for WORK as a FULL TIME JOB. So yeah, the guy who plays this game for 8 hours a day, 5-7 days a week, running raids and solo dungeons and legend sectors and legend exotic missions non-stop is going to have a major advantage over the guy who plays for a few hours on weekends and only plays all day when a new campaign drops or when a new raid drops. The streamers and the pro players (pro here meaning they do it professionally, not inherently an indication of skill) won't have distractions to keep them from practicing the game. They play better because they dedicate more time to practicing it, and if you think someone working a regular 9-5 5 days a week is going to have a snowball's chance in h*ll of winning a Day One Raid Race against a team of people who play Destiny as their "9-5 job", you're delusional. It has nothing to do with an early start (which they didn't have) It has nothing to do with knowing the exotics (which we ALL did if we paid attention) It has nothing to do with knowing Prismatic (which we ALL did if we paid attention) It has nothing to do with knowing everything in the game (which a LOT of players of all skill levels do) It has EVERYTHING to do with the fact they poured thousands more hours than you ever will into the game and put in the time and effort to practice, train, and improve to the point of standing a chance against the uppermost echelon of players on this game. That's not an insult, by the way, it's just a fact. Nobody who works a regular job will ever come close to the level of skill the pro players have built, because nobody who works a regular job will ever have the time to invest in the game to hit that point.