Dota 2

It's the first day of our tournaments and our Dota 2 stream schedule is as follows:

• 11:00 Dae 4 Lyf v Two Mangoes Please
• 12:15 Dowderz Dream Stack v King dave has a subaru
• 13:45 Soup's Jabronis v Rasta A Owl
• 15:00 Under ctrl v Choke Gaming
• 16:30 Choke Gaming v Rasta A Owl

You can catch all our Dota 2 action on our Twitch Stream throughout the day with our casters Steven "rusts" Holmson and Joe "QuesTextDota" Sealey you can Tweet them @Rustsandstuffs and @QuesTextDota

League of Legends

Our LOL Streaming schedule is as follows and will be available to watch on our Twitch Stream.

• Round 1: GiM White vs FM eSports @ 11
• Round 2: FM eSports vs Wawa Diamond Yet? @ 12:30
• Round 3: FM eSports vs Team Infused @ 14:00
• Round 4: GiM White vs Wawa Diamond yet? @ 15:30
• Round 5: Wawa Diamond Yet? vs Team Infused @ 17:00

Our games will be cast by Joe "Munchables" Fenny - @MunchablesLoL and Jackson "Osigalas" Walters - @Osigalas

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Counter Strike: Global Offensive

twitch.tv/epiclan1

• Ben "Hoss" Hosford - @Hosselote
• Mark "Crossy" Cross - @mcrossy12
• Jack "Jacky" Peters (post Group Stages) - @27in1Jacky

Ben brings a wealth of experience to our casting lineup here at epic.FIFTEEN as he has previously casted for us at epic.FOURTEEN and has continued his work with activities in the ESL UK Premiership, as well as being on the analysis desk for the UK Premiership Finals back at MCM in May. Meanwhile Mark has been a long time member of the casting community as he famously did work at some iSeries CS: Source events and has also been with us too. Jack will be joining the lineup after he has finished competing in the group stages with his team 27in1 and is one of our fresh faces to the casting lineup as he has done work with FACEIT and online for 27in1 in Counter Strike before.

DotA2

twitch.tv/epiclan2

• Steven "rusts" Holmson - @Rustsandstuffs
• Joe "QuestText" Sealey - @QuestTextDota
• + Several guests throughout the weekend

Steven is probably one of the most complete casters we have ever had grace our events, his knowledge of DotA2 is practically unrivaled and his casting is incredibly in line with top level casters. He had casted for us at epic.FOURTEEN and we welcome him back to our lineup here for our Summer LAN. Joe is one of the few newcomers to our LAN events and is relatively new on the casting stage, so once again after a successful stint at epic.FOURTEEN we welcome him back too. Over the course of the weekend there will be multiple players joining the stream to also help cast some of our quality DotA2 games.

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epic.LAN is very proud to announce our latest addition to our streaming lineup for our next event epic.FIFTEEN.

With various feedback over the last few events we've made the decision to introduce a new concept and stream to our already existing lists of streams that run during the event.

The stream will be known as the 'Central Stream' and will act as a central hub for as many activities that we can cram in during the event and we're not just talking eSports here!

With plans to make the stream relevant to our dedicated eSports fans but also appeal to our fantastic social community. Read on to see what we have in store for the central stream at epic.FIFTEEN

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After many requests over the past few years, we've decided that the gap between July and February is far too long, so in 2015 we'll be hosting three main epic.LAN events. Make sure you add these to your diary and get those all-important holiday requests in nice and early:

• epic.FOURTEEN: Thurs 19th - Sunday 22nd February
• elite15: Friday 22nd - Monday 25th May
• epic.FIFTEEN: Thurs 16th - Sunday 19th July
• epic.SIXTEEN: Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th October
• elite16: Friday 4th - Sunday 6th December
  
  

It was a long day of finals here at epic.TWELVE, though I think it would be fair to say that everyone had a good time including the admins and casters. So on to the winners:

League of Legends Sponsored by Astro.

Winners: FM RaiderZ

Runners Up: Team Infused

CS:GO

Winners: Team CRG

Runners Up: The Lovely Men

ESL Dota 2 Challenge

Winners: Dwayne 'The John' Rockson

Runners Up: So LeJit

Starcraft II

Winners: Ourk (FM)

Runners Up: Rotcod (TLR)

We're really excited about epic.LAN in 2014, after our great first year of LAN Parties at the Kettering Conference Centre, we can't wait until February to get back and put on some great gaming events for you.

But it takes quite a bit of man (and woman) power to put on the events across our various teams and with some of our plans for 2014, then we need to keep growing the event team to keep making the events even more...epic (sorry).

Everybody on the team, right up to the management, is a volunteer, we all do it because we enjoy it and get a buzz at the end of the whole thing when we see hundreds of you enjoying the LAN. It is very hard work with long hours, but it's extremely rewarding, otherwise we simply wouldn't do it!

So we're looking for some willing helpers in the following areas:

•     Tournament Team - As our tournaments grow, then the admin team needs to as well and this includes our casters. We are still currently looking for casters for our LOL tournament, so if you have casting experience and play LOL then get in touch!

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With epic.TWELVE already announced for 14-17th February 2014, we can now confirm the full calendar for 2014:

• epic.TWELVE - Friday 14 - Monday 17th February 2014
• epic.THIRTEEN - Thursday 17 - Sunday 20th July 2014
• epic.lite 12 - Friday 23rd - Monday 26th May 2014
• epic.lite 13 - Friday 26th - Sunday 28th September 2014
• epic.lite 14 - Friday 5th - Sunday 7th December 2014

We'll keep an eye on the numbers for epic.TWELVE and may consider a 3rd main epic.LAN event around October if the numbers head in the right direction. If we do so, the September epic.lite date will be converted to a social trip of some sorts.

Winbar parted with a large amount of money recently to confirm that next years bookings are now in the diary. We are pleased to announce that epic.Twelve in February is now open for bookings and takes place Friday 14th - Monday 17th February 2014 here at Kettering Conference Centre.

Confirmed for the Tournament side are Starcraft 2, League of Legends and CS:GO. We'll also have the usual mix of Big Games, Fun Tournaments, DJ Slots and Pub quiz with lots of fun and shenanigans all thrown in for good measure.

Early bird discount ends September 30th @ 8pm so get your bookings in nice and early to save yourself a tenner. Lets make epic.TWELVE the biggest epic.LAN yet!

Over the past few weeks you've been throwing some questions at me on our forums, Twitter or Facebook, and we've had a great response, in fact so many questions we're going to divide the responses over a few posts during the coming weeks.

Thanks to everyone who sent in a question, here are your answers:

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Grab your diaries, as we can now pretty much confirm the 2013 LAN dates for the year. The only date we're slightly unsure of is whether there will be an October main LAN event, and before we decide on this, we need to see how the numbers go for epic.TEN in the new venue and then see if it is viable, as previous October events have been fairly quiet.

Event Dates

• epic.TEN | 15-18th February 2013 | Kettering Conference Centre (400 Players)
• epic.lite 9 | 24-27th May 2013 (Spring Bank Holiday) | Moorlands Village Hall (32 Players)
• epic.ELEVEN | 25-28th July 2013 | Kettering Conference Centre (400 Players)
• epic.lite 10 | 27-29th September 2013 | Moorlands Village Hall (32 Players)
• epic.lite 11 | 6-8th December 2013 | Moorlands Village Hall (32 Players)

Bookings for epic.TEN are now open with a discount of £10 if you book before the end of September, other event bookings will open in 2013.