Unfortunately we have had to take the very difficult decision to cancel the epic.SIX Team Fortress 2 Tournament.

After giving the TF2 community plenty of notice to assemble sufficient teams, widely advertised via ETF2L and Vanilla TF2, with around one month to go prior to the event unfortunately we need to make this sad choice due to the lack of teams either currently signed up or in the process of making arrangements.

Unfortunately due to the short notice, we will not be able to introduce a replacement tournament game in time for epic.SIX, however we would be very interested to hear the thoughts of the competitive community for alternative games for epic.SEVEN and beyond, particularly in the RTS arena. If you have any suggestions, please do contact us with your ideas.

epic.LAN's Managing Director, Winbar, explained,

We're genuinely sad to have to cancel the TF2 tournament, particularly as it was our first tournament as epic.LAN and many of the team members enjoy TF2 themselves. Unfortunately in our organisation, we have to fund and underwrite all of our activities ourselves, so when it became apparent of the lack of interest in TF2 for epic.SIX (and arguably in the UK as a whole as we see LAN attendance decreasing), our only option with one month to go was to call it a day for TF2 at epic.LAN for now. However we will watch for any growth in the competitive community in light of Valve's recent decision to make the game free to play.

As a result of this announcement, we are thankful to Tt eSPORTS who have agreed to transfer their support to the Counter-Strike: Source Tournament. This means we will be adding in some hardware prizes to those finishing in 3rd place or 4th place if we hit the 20 team trigger.