During the Ask Me Anything Steven hinted that we’d get spot tests before the end of the year. If that does happen there’s a good chance they’ll be announcing them during the next dev stream, there’s only going to be one more month in the year at that point after all.
Im personally not betting on it happening as there’s always delays in projects like this but keeping my fingers crossed we get those spot tests sometime in the next 2 months otherwise Alpha 2 won’t be happening during the rumored month of March