Excited to announce a new epic.LAN supporter, this time it's be quiet! who will be sending over some great prizes for participants in our TF2 fun tournament. 

No need to sign up in advance, just look out on the event intranet and listen out for announcements on the Friday of epic.SIXTEEN to join in. The top 3 players by score will be taking home a selection of prizes. 

In the mean time, if you're looking for a new case, cooler or PSU make sure you go ahead and check out www.bequiet.com or www.facebook.com/bequietenglish

Our friends at GT Omega Racing have confirmed today that they will be supporting the epic.SIXTEEN Dota2 tournament this October. 

Thanks to their kind support, the Dota2 tournament now has a minimum guaranteed prize pool of £1k, with all other prize triggers increased, up to a possible maximum of £4k. 

You'll also be able to check out the GT Omega Racing chairs on our Dota2 stream where our casters will be showing off the awesome chairs throughout the event. 

So if you're looking for a new gaming chair, make sure you go and check out what they have to offer and give them a follow @GTOmegaRacing on Twitter.

After many many requests, we're pleased to finally announce the launch of our epic.LAN merchandise, available online now through Spreadshirt.

We've decided to sell our goodies this way as it means you can all order the sizes and colours you want without us having to hold loads of stock. We'll be adding more items and designs in the future too. 

So head over to the epic.LAN Merchandise Store now to get your gear ready for epic.SIXTEEN

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It may be a surprise to many of you, but there's a thriving Super Smash Bros community over here in the UK. The fighting game, featuring many of your favourite Nintendo characters is also played at quite a competitive level in eSports tournaments around the world. 

We've decided to introduce Smash (Wii U) into our epic.SIXTEEN fun tournament series, like Rocket League, to assess the demand for a slightly more competitive tournament in the future if it is popular at the events. We'll also be running the tournament after the group stages for our eSports tournaments have concluded to give people more things to do outside of their matches. 

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One of the things we keep getting asked about is re-introducing our costume contest as part of the social side of the events. The last one was way back at epic.SEVEN in Uttoxeter, so we felt it was about time to bring it back! 

So on the Friday evening of epic.SIXTEEN, just before the pub quiz, we'll be encouraging as many of you as possible to put together your best costume efforts to really get into the spirit of the LAN.

The very vague theme is general 'geek' culture, so can be anything from movies, TV and of course gaming. 

Let's see what creations you can come up with for epic.SIXTEEN in just over 4 weeks! 

It's acrobatic, rocket-powered cars playing football, what more could you want from a game? 

Rocket League will be joining our epic.SIXTEEN lineup with the winning team taking home free tickets to our following event in February. 

The game is growing in popularity, so we'll be seeing how it goes in October and then considering it for our eSports lineup in February 2016. The 3v3 tournament (using the PC version) will take place after the main eSports groups have finished to give more people the chance to take part. 

The final four teams have now been selected for our EGX DOTA2 Challenge, sponsored by SCAN Computers. 

Winners of the first June Heats: UK Rejects

Winners of Julys Heats: XENEX

epic.FIFTEEN qualifiers: CHOKE Gaming

Winners of Augusts Heats: Barry Li Fanclub (BAZ)

We will see the above four teams in action live from EGX in September - All teams have secured themselves not only access to the tournament but also thanks to EGX they will all also recieve full weekend passes so they can check out and enjoy the event! 

But the pressure is on now, as all four teams look to prepare themselves for the finals which will take place on the 27th of September. Stakes are high with over £1000 with of SCAN Credit up for grabs!

More details to follow soon!

With the epic.SIXTEEN eSports titles confirmed, we've been able to review the spaces needed for the next event to open up Bamburgh as an additional clan/community room for this event, seating 18 participants.

To book the room, either one person can book the whole room up front through our normal booking process, or all 18 participants can book their tickets individually and then contact us with all 18 booking references to request the room. 

The room is available on a first-come-first-served basis and needs to be booked by 21st September to secure it. 

The following eSports titles will be taking place at epic.SIXTEEN this October in Kettering in our final event of the year:

• Up to £3000 - 5v5 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Up to £3000 - 5v5 Dota 2
• Up to £1000 - 1v1 Starcraft 2
• Up to £500 - 1v1 Hearthstone

All prize funds listed as basic pools and will be increased if sponsorship is obtained. As always, winning teams receive free tickets for the following event with runners up taking discounted tickets, with all cash prizes paid out on the day of the event.

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A breakdown of the Grand, a Best of Five series between FM eSports and Team Infused, where FM start with a 1-0 lead due to advancing via the upper bracket. (With bonus stats!)

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