So I've gotten to 1500 points, enough to join comp games, and when I try to play comp games the site claims something like "You created your account after this round was started". What does this mean and how long to I have to wait before I can play competition games?
The way the round system works makes it so that new accounts cannot join the competition. Given that this round technically was generated over a month ago, any account newer than a month cannot join due to the limitations of the system.
After this round ends you'll be able to join unless Lucid can do something on his end to reset the round's start date somehow so new accounts can join.