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!

Oh and make sure you check out their Facebook Page and give them a like!

With just a few weeks left before the event now, we're building up our plans for tournaments and are seeking a few casters for the event.

This is not a paid position, so would suit people who are starting out looking to build up their experience. Obviously you would not be expected to pay for your LAN ticket, like our other volunteers, and you would need to bring your own hardware with you. 

We would ask that the streaming takes place using our twitch.tv channels and from the event itself, and we'll be building our various streams into our website during the event. The games we're looking for coverage on are:

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• League of Legends
• Call of Duty 4

If you are interested, please contact us as soon as possible providing details of your previous experience with links to current Twitch/YouTube channels.

As we get closer to the event, we have to finalise layouts and place orders for table hire, therefore we have decided that the rows already locked in the Portland & Pendeen rooms will now remain locked down and won't be available for the event.

That means there are just 11 spaces left in these halls.

Bookings for additional clan rooms are also now closed and once again these remaining rooms will be used as indoor sleeping for this event.

The cancellation deadline for epic11 has now passed and therefore from this point forwards we are unable to process any refunds for the event unless it entirely sells out and we are able to re-sell your space.

The reason for this deadline is that from the 28 day period before the LAN, our major expenditure all gets paid out, such as the venue hire, equipment rental, insurance etc. and therefore the ticket income has been committed to those items.

We've now finalised the epic.ELEVEN casual timetable to bring you regular big games through the event with a load of fun tournaments too! You can expect to find your favourites from Unreal Tournament 2004, to Trackmania to Dogfighter. For those eagle-eyed amongst you, yes, the epic.Quiz has been confirmed for Friday evening, ensuring we get chance to Boat Race!

The following fun tournaments are also confirmed:

• Minecraft create (build competition running the duration of epic.ELEVEN)
• L4D2 Survival (highest Survival score at the end of epic.ELEVEN)
• Half Life 2: Deathmatch Ladder
• F1 2012
• Wii Mario Kart

Rules for the tournaments as always will be shared at the start of the event.

The epic.ELEVEN timetable page has been updated and will continue to be so as the rest of the schedule is locked in.

The last few seats for epic.ELEVEN are selling fast; if you've not yet confirmed yours, do so now to avoid dissapointment for what will be another epic event! 

We've listened to your feedback from the last event, and the venue has agreed to open the bar later for all of you late night LAN gamers at epic.ELEVEN!

So this time, the bar will be open:

Thursday

2pm - 4pm - Downstairs bar open while you wait to check-in

4pm - 2am - Fair Isle Bar

Friday & Saturday

12noon - 2am - Fair Isle Bar

Of course we need to remind everybody that all alcohol must be purchased from the bar and you cannot bring your own on site.

News just in, regular supporters of epic.LAN, Roccat, will be sending along some great prizes to boost our new League of Legends tournament! The top teams in the tournament will get the chance to win:

• 5 x Roccat Isku
• 5 x Roccat Savu
• 5 x Roccat Sense Chrome Blue

Make sure you're signed up to our epic.ELEVEN League of Legends tournament to be in with a chance of winning!

OK, we gave in to the pressure and have decided to put on a small SC2 tournament for epic.ELEVEN to introduce the community to our events and hopefully grow in the future.

Sadly we haven't seen the signup numbers that we would expect from some of our other games, and following a load of interest from SC2 players, we've decided to give them the space instead as we host our first tournament in association with GameSocial.

We've made some space for the SC2 community on our seating plan, tournament signups are now open, so once you've booked your place, you can join in the tournament!

Tournament places are initially limited to 32 players with prize triggers from £250-£1000. Depending on initial interest, we may be able to raise this limit.

We look forward to seeing the community at epic.ELEVEN this July!

After many many years (far too long!), we're dropping PayPal as our main payment processor. Our new payment provider, through Sage Pay, will give normal card payment facilities as you would expect with any online shopping site as well as still allowing for PayPal transactions should you wish.

Sage Pay will be handling the card payments entirely and therefore security of your transaction, so we don't see all of your card details!

Our preference is for as many people as possible to use a Debit Card as this gives the lowest fees on the transaction, but the usual card methods are there for you to use.

Why not try it out, by grabbing an epic.ELEVEN ticket now, afterall, it is payday time for some of you! 

After a great month of games in May, we're back for our June series of Mid-Week Mayhem. As usual, games will kick off at around 8pm, so make sure you're in our IRC (Quakenet #epic.LAN) or Teamspeak channel for more details.