One of the biggest tournaments of the event is our regular pub quiz, taking place on the Friday at around 8pm (subject to Winbar time). We've brought the team size cap back in to effect this event with 8 people maximum in a team, and we'll be making sure there are plenty of tables around so teams don't have to share this time.

As a teaser, some of the rounds you can look forward to this time include:

• Gaming Music
• General Knowledge
• Entertainment
• Sports
• Current Affairs
• Who Am I?
• Music
• TV Sitcoms
• And our super special bonus rounds!

To take part, just assemble your team in the gallery around 8pm on the Friday armed with £1 per person and a suitably amusing team name.

Please help us to speed up the check-in process and keep the queues down by doing the following:

• Ensure any voucher codes have been allocated to the correct participant
• Select your seat 
• Print your barcode booking pass (yes it's fine to bring it on a phone/tablet device etc.)
• If you are in the official tournaments, ensure that your team has signed up in full to the tournament system by 8pm Thursday.

If you are planning on spectating the event, paying for a participant place on the door (if there are spaces remaining) or you have visitors coming to see you, please create a spectator booking on the system in advance, it's still fine to pay on the door, but will save time on the day.

Remember, the doors open at 4pm, if you arrive any earlier, we'll have to ask you to wait in the downstairs bar (open from 2pm) until we are ready for you.

On another note, please make sure you update your games before you attend to help us save bandwidth at the event.

See you on Thursday! And don't forget to go through our handy checklist while you're packing to make sure you don't forget anything!

Regular supporters of epic.LAN, Tt eSports, have just confirmed that they will be sponsoring the epic.ELEVEN Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Tournament.

In addition to the existing prize pools, the winning players will also be taking away:

• 1st Place - 5x Theron Mice
• 2nd Place - 5x SHOCK Headset
• 3rd Place - 5x Galeru Mouse Bungee

There are still places left in the tournament, so sign up for your tickets now and make sure you add your team lineup to the tournament!

As announced back in March, the epic.HUNT is back for this event.

For those of you who haven't taken part in this sort of puzzle before, the idea for this event comes from a concept used at Dreamhack (the DH Game), and various other worldwide puzzle-hunt type games. This particular hunt takes you through a series of purely digital and event-based clues to lead you to the right answer for each question.

This game is a test of your initiative, knowledge, lateral thinking, puzzle solving, code-breaking and some creative image/sound processing skill.

The game can be played solo or as a team (up to 8 people), if you choose to join or create a team you will be locked to it for the remainder of the event. If you win while in a team the leader will be in charge of the prize.

The hunt is continuous, but you can stop for a rest at any time, though if you do, there's nothing to stop the other players overtaking your position. Questions will be released in the following phases:

• Thursday 21:30 - Teaser Round
• Friday 12:00 - Round One
• Saturday 14:00 - Round Two (Final)

Signup details will be released on Thursday evening at the event.

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After every event, we go through all of your feedback, whether it's from the forums, our surveys or social media and look at what we can improve for the next event. We can't always fix everything, particularly where changes are expensive, but we do what we can.

Here are some of the things we've worked on ready for epic.ELEVEN next weekend:

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With mere days to go until our scorching summer LAN party, epic.ELEVEN, it's time to start subscribing to our various coverage channels so that if you're not there (why?!!?) you can keep tabs on all of the action.

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We're excited to confirm the return of another sponsor for epic.ELEVEN, In Win. Founded in 1985, In Win are manufacturers of professional chassis, power supplies and storage devices with a keen focus on the gaming market with the slogan "contemporary and innovative".

The team will be sending over the following prizes for various activities at epic.ELEVEN including our fun tournament series:

• G7 Black Chassis
• GT1 Black Chassis
• GR One Chassis
• GreenMe 650w PSU
• Desert Fox 700W PSU

We look forward to continuing to work with In Win both at epic.ELEVEN and in the future!

We can also now confirm the on-site catering arrangements for epic.ELEVEN which will be open from:

Thursday - 4pm-10pm
Friday & Saturday - 8am-10pm
Sunday - 8am-4pm

The catering for Kettering Conference Centre is an entirely in-house catering service, so they want your feedback during the event. The venue team is fully prepared to have to change things as the event goes on as long as you give your feedback at the time, they can't go back and fix things after! That said, a number of improvements have been made based on your feedback from the last event.

On the menu there are a number of core things that will always be available (the usual burgers, chips etc.), and as previously announced, breakfast items will now be available all day. Then for each day there's a couple of other main meal options to give some variety throughout. Obviously it's impossible to please everybody so if you have any feedback then please do make it constructive so we can make things better going forwards.

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If this heatwave keeps up, it's going to be a great LAN in a couple of weeks time, but it is going to be warm! The event does have air conditioning in all rooms we're using, however, those of you that have worked in server rooms/data centres will know that you need some serious aircon to cool a few hundred PCs, and that's not what the venue is designed for. So please bear in mind the following points to help us keep the LAN as cool as possible during the event:

• In most cases the aircon is for the room as a whole, so some of you may be located closer to the fans than others and you may get a bit chilly, please bear in mind that we'll have to make some decisions for the room as a whole to stop people and machines overheating.
• Be sensible with what you're wearing! If you're sitting in jeans and a jumper all weekend, then you're going to get toasty, time to get the shorts out!
• Drink plenty of water! Even though the bar is open even longer this event (until 2am), make sure you have plenty of non-alcoholic and non-energy drinks to keep you hydrated.
• Showers...(not saying anything more!)
• Desk Fans - This is a new venue for us and we're still finding our feet with the power. But if the weather continues like this, we will permit small desk fans on a one per table basis (not per person), but if we do suffer from any power issues, we may have to reverse this position. There is no limit on USB fans.
• Turn your machines off when not in use - It would help to bring down the residual temperature if you shut your machines down if they're not going to be in use for a long period of time, e.g. overnight when you go to bed.

The seating picker for epic.ELEVEN will be locked down from 6pm Thursday 18th July, from this point onwards, only new bookings will be able to select a seat, existing bookings will be locked in.

We do this to allow us to 'defrag' the seating plan and only put down the number of chairs and tables we need for the event as there is a cost to running empty rows, it also makes it more crowded for you if we have unnecessary rows taking up space.

If there are any urgent moves required after the lockdown, please contact us. We will only move people if we have to, but to ensure that you don't get broken up from your team/friends, please ensure that you all have the same clan tag set on your account.

We'd also suggest that you don't print out your booking (required for checkin) until just before the event in case you are moved.