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Introducing Lakeside

LakesideNext up, as part of our exciting plans for epic12, we'd like to introduce a new room, Lakeside!

As our February LAN is always our biggest, and the current main casual gaming hall is nearly full already. We didn't want any of you to miss out on spaces, so we've made some more, with capacity for over 100 gamers in our new ground-floor room.

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Dota2 Online Qualifiers Announced

Dota2 Qualifiers

Want to win a TUP place for your team in ESL's Dota2 challenge at epic12? Take place in ESL's Online Qualifiers and you could win full TUP tickets for your whole team! Find out more over at ESL UK.

ESL partners with epic.LAN for £3000 Dota2 Tournament

ESL UK Dota

ESL UK and epic.LAN are pleased to announce a partnership for the next instalment of the popular offline event series, epic.TWELVE. The joint venture will see the inclusion of a guaranteed £3,000 DOTA 2 competition in February 2014.

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Join the epic.LAN 2014 Team

epic.TEAMDo you want to be a part of the awesome team behind epic.LAN events?

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 both to help at the events, but also to help us spread the word. At the moment we have plans for CSGO, SC2 and LoL.
  • Shop/Reception - A welcoming face on our front desk or shop to help out with basic queries or keep the gamers fuelled throughout the weekend.
  • Event Team - The event team does a bit of everything during a LAN weekend, whether it's dealing with basic technical issues for people, running big games, dealing with audio-visual tasks, helpdesk, shop, keeping the venue safe and tidy, like I said, a bit of everything!
  • Content Team - People want to hear about the events, so we need to shout about them. So we're looking for budding writers, photographers or people with video shooting/editing skills to make sure the rest of the world knows what they're missing during one of our LANs.

Interested? Able? Willing? Then get in touch with us and tell us a bit more about why you want to get involved and any relevant experience. For the majority of these roles, we would ask that you have at least attended one of our events in the past so you've experienced our events from the participant side.

 

 

2014 epic.LAN Dates

2014 DatesWith 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.

 

epic.ELEVEN Roundup & Feedback

e11 round upWe're finally all home from epic.ELEVEN and while very tired, we're all still buzzing after a great event. It was awesome to have so many of you come up to us afterwards to say how much you enjoyed yourselves.

Hopefully you can see the work that has gone in to making improvements since the last event, but it doesn't stop there, so as always we want to hear from you as to how we can improve on things ready for next time, so please do take 5 mins to complete our online survey with your thoughts.

We're still working on our coverage and results, but in the mean time, you can re-live the event on our various channels including:

Of course if you really enjoyed the event, the best thing you can do to show your appreciation is to join us again for epic.TWELVE in February 2014! If you book before 8pm 30th September, your ticket is just £50! Not to mention, if you bring a friend, you can get even more money off your future events!

epic.TWELVE Confirmed Bookings open.

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!

Mario Kart Wii Fun Tournament Winner

Mario KartsToday saw our Mario Kart Wii Fun Tournament take place! It was the usual barrel of laughs and shenanigans, Kamikaze was there to defend her title as champion of Mario Karts so the comptetion was tough! They battled out through various circuits to narrow down to the top three drivers.

Kamikaze proved why she was champion before by getting herself firmly into the top 3 placings along with Drac and Molly.

Our Winner though, defending her position as Champion of Wii Mario Karts was Kamikaze, so well done to you and we'll see you at the prize giving on Sunday!

League of Legends Coverage Day 2

The schedule for todays LOLCoverage from epic.ELEVEN is a s follows (times subject to change)

Infused Gaming vs mYinsanity - 10:00 (currently streaming)

LowLandLions vs Infused Gaming - 13:00

Lower Final - 19:00

Brackets and times can be found here.


Tune in to our twitch channel to view the coverage, just click on the LOL tab.

CS:GO Coverage Day 2

The schedule for todays CS:GO Coverage from epic.ELEVEN is a s follows (times subject to change)

Game 1 (10:00) - Team CRG v Team Dignitas

Game 2 (13:00) - TBA - Dependant on other results

Game 3 (16:00) - TBA - Dependant on other results
 
Game 4 (19:00) - TBA - Dependant on other results

Game 5 (21:00) - TBA - Dependant on other results


Tune in to our twitch channel to view the coverage, just click on the CS:GO tab.

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