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The UK Starcraft 2 community is thriving right now as they prepare to hit epic29 with the biggest Starcraft 2 tournament to date at epic.LAN.
Around 40 players are expected in Kettering from 20-23 February to take part in the RTS classic tournament.
They've already hit the full prize pool trigger and now thanks to Corsair, the top 3 players will also take away some of Corsair's latest hardware including the recently released K95 Platinum XT Mechanical Keyboard for the tournament winner.
We quickly run through the results of the eSports tournaments at epic.FOURTEEN up to the end of Friday night, covering group stages and any played elimination stages
One thing that epic.LAN has always been proud of is its caster lineups! To kick start epic.FOURTEEN we are pleased to introduce a fantastic team of casters some of whom you will recognise and some new comers to the scene!
Tom "Gumpster" Gumbleton epic.LAN eSports Manager explained;
"I feel that we have built a rather good casting line up with naturally talented experienced casters a long with some rather unique up & coming casters in their respective scenes.
With the addition of having the usual two casters for some games we have three casters to help aide our casting team throughout the event with breaks and give the audience a natural blend of variety and stability. Hopefully these guys can entertain the audience as much as they have entertained me over the last few weeks"
Read more to see the full lineup and sneak peek video!
epic.THIRTEEN has seen slightly smaller than usual, but no less competitive tournaments. We featured League of Legends, DotA 2, Starcraft 2, CS:GO and Hearthstone. We'd like to thank the sponsors for providing prizes for all the tournaments for this event and our thanks go out to Razer, AOC, ESL, Gamdias, GT Omega and Tesoro.
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!
Shogun Bros is a name that may be new to many of you, but their products are starting to make quite a splash, particularly the 8200dpi Ballista MK-1 gaming mouse (check out the review over on eTeknix). So naturally we were quite excited when they agreed to sponsor the epic.ELEVEN Starcraft 2 Tournament!
So not only will the top 3 players get a Ballista MK-1 each, but we're also going to accellerate to our 2nd prize tier straight away of £500 now guaranteed for the tournament!
For those not taking part in the main tournaments, we also have a few of the mice to give away for our fun tournaments too!
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