Awesome news for epic.THIRTEEN participants as we're extremely rammed to confirm that the world's first Goat Simulator tournament will be taking place at the event.

Furthermore, we're also confirming the renewal of our ESL UK partnership as they promise to bring IEM-standard coverage to this amazing new title set to take the eSports world by storm. We caught up with Peter Mather, ESL UK Community Manager, who had this to say:

After the success of the Dota2 challenge at epic.TWELVE. At first we thought the epic.LAN guys were kidding us, but thinking about it, we can't wait to be back for the next instalment and what better game to work together with the team at epic.LAN on to deliver this world's first tournament. If you thought Katowice was spectacular, wait until you see what we've got in store for this event!

Signups for the epic.THIRTEEN Goat Simulator tournament are now live, with tickets on sale for just £50 until 8pm 1st April saving yew a whole £10 on the normal price. Make sure you bleat about it to all your friends so we can make epic.THIRTEEN the best event yet!

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After one of our biggest LANs so far, we have even more planned for epic.THIRTEEN so we keep getting better! But to do that, we need some more help!

We're looking for some keen and enthusiastic volunteers to join the existing team in a number of areas to make the events even more awesome. It's very hard and tiring work but we all find it extremely rewarding, otherwise we wouldn't do it! In particular we're looking for people in the following areas:

• Event Team - Part of our general team responsible for helping the participants and running our casual game programme.
• Front of House Team - Our new team for epic.THIRTEEN and dedicated to looking after our main helpdesk and shop. Even if you're only able to help on this team during the day and want to keep the evenings to LAN, then let us know.
• Content Team - As the events grow, more people want to hear about what's going on. Whether you have a knack for written content, video editing or production, let us know.

If you're interested in helping out in any of the above roles, then please contact us straight away with details of your experience and what you can offer to the team. If you've got what it takes, we'll be back in touch with you to arrange a chat with some of the existing team members.

After such a great response by the League of Legends community at our last event, Tesoro have stepped up to sponsor our epic.THIRTEEN tournament, to ensure that the tournament starts off with a minimum guaranteed prize of £1000 rising to £4000 depending on the number of teams taking part as well as Tesoro products for the top placing teams.

Tesoro Technology consists of a team of gaming enthusiasts from the US and while still relatively young in the peripherals market, they'll be expanding their range of gaming keyboards, mice, surfaces and audio, inspired by the community.

Bookings are open for epic.THIRTEEN, with tickets just £60, so grab yourself a ticket now!

It seems that nearly all of the seats in our casual gaming room (Portland) have gone! So we've decided to open up Pendeen as a further 'loud' casual gaming room for epic.THIRTEEN, or the 'Portland Extension'. We'll be running the music and the lighting through to Pendeen as best as we can to try to keep the same sort of atmosphere as we have in Portland, giving another 36 casual gaming seats for you to play with!

So with 90 tickets already gone for epic.THIRTEEN and 4 weeks of launch discount still to go, it's looking like everything is awesome for our next event!

epic.TWELVE is over and one thing we always do after the event is give out achievements. While doing so we hit a nice milestone and have now given out over 5000 achivements to 1043 different participants of our epic.LAN and epic.LITE events.

Have you checked out your achievements yet? Log into the website and forums and have a look at the achievements tab on your forum profile. If you think you are missing any, use the contact form at the bottom and we will have a look for you! 

While you are on your profile, why not fill out some of the information like Steam ID, gamer tags and other contact information so people can chat and play toegther!

Until the next milestone (over 9000), keep collecting!

FM Raiders vs Team Infused in the Grand Final. As FMR came throught the upper bracket they begin the best of 5 series with a 1 - 0 advantage.

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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've arranged with Kettering Conference Centre to have a pre-paid breakfast for epic.THIRTEEN for you to book alongside your ticket.

Pre-pay online for just £13.50 to get a big breakfast every day (2 bacon, 2 sausage, egg, 2 hash browns, beans, mushrooms & toast) saving on the normal price of £16.50.

Simply add the service at the time of booking your epic.THIRTEEN ticket!

Team Infused battle it out in a best of 3 in the lower bracket final for a chance to play FM Raiders in the Grand Final!

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The game is fully in the hands of Team Infused from the start, with Sigris playing superbly on LeBlanc picking up 3 kills 6 minutes in, with another two kills coming from potent Xin Zhao ganks in the top and bottom lane. On the back of the incredible Team Infused tempo this game, Nutri goes a little too deep between the turrets to give up a kill for Moss.

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