We're please to confirm the return of KustomPCs to epic.TEN next month. The UK LAN favourites, will be attending the event, bringing along the usual selection of peripherals for you to try out as well as an unhealthy amount of sugar and caffeine.

Look out for plenty of fun activities going on around the Kustom stand too, which will be located in the 'Gallery' room of the event. Keep checking the forums closer to the time for the usual list of goodies you can buy and pre-ordering arrangements.

As promised, we're going to be holding our first fun Minecraft competition at epic.TEN, so we bring you Minecraft Create.

The idea is quite simple, during the opening ceremony we will announce a theme, you then go away in groups of up to 4 players to create the most exicting design along that given theme. The deadline for completing your designs is 9am on the Monday morning, so you can work on your creations at any time during the event.  We'll then judge them using the criteria of damage, style, control and agg... no wait, wrong tournament. They will be judged on wow factor, style, functionality and originality by our 'expert' panel. 

You'll be playing on our local server with pre-prepared plots, so we'll need an idea of how many of you will be taking part.  Naturally if you're found using any cheats/exploits, you'll be dealt with by Jailor Duncey.

No promises of any prizes for this one, it's just for fun!

If you want to take part, you can register your interest now on the tournament site.

Over the past few weeks you've been throwing some questions at me on our forums, Twitter or Facebook, and we've had a great response, in fact so many questions we're going to divide the responses over a few posts during the coming weeks.

Here's the second batch of your questions answered:

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So now Christmas has passed, the competitive community is getting organised and we've seen our COD4 tournament pass its first prize trigger guaranteeing the first £750 towards the prize pool.

With teams and mixes now being finalised, we're well on the way to the next prize already.

Check out the thread on Tek-9 to find out more.

Over the past few weeks you've been throwing some questions at me on our forums, Twitter or Facebook, and we've had a great response, in fact so many questions we're going to divide the responses over a few posts during the coming weeks.

Thanks to everyone who sent in a question, here are your answers:

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It's that time where we start looking at all the games to put in our big games timetable and to select 2-3 to run as fun tournaments throughout the weekend. We aim to put on 4-5 big games per day and announce that timetable in advance so people can make sure they have the games installed and updated ready to play.

So we're looking for your ideas for games that support at least 16+ players, preferably with LAN modes rather than online play where everyone can just pile in the server for a few hours of fun fragging.

With smaller RTS type games, these still get played, but we don't timetable them in as they are for smaller numbers of players and there's plenty of time in between the other big games (that's why we only put on 4-5 games per day to give you plenty of time to do your own thing too). Similarly, the non-PC games such as cards, werewolves, board games, we don't put those on the timetable as they're all things organised by the participants rather than us.

It's been another amazing year here at epic, despite the sad ending of epic.RADIO yesterday, and as Santa begins his journey around the world, we take a look back at 2012.

Our community continues to grow, with over 4000 registered users on our new forums and our LAN events growing in popularity, with epic.TEN already on track to be our biggest event yet. More and more of you are turning to our Facebook and Twitter channels to keep an eye on what we have going on and we're going to try to keep those even more active in 2013. We've had plenty of great community games too, including our regular games nights and our permanent servers, such as Minecraft, we hope to do even more of that for you in 2013.

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Some time ago, we ran an online Q&A session with the epic.LAN boss man, Winbar. Things have moved on loads since then, so it's time to run it again. So if you have any questions about anything here at epic or pretty much anything else (almost) then send over your questions either by email, on our forums, Twitter or Facebook by 5th January, we'll then collate the best and fire them at our leader in January.

We are extremely pleased to confirm that our friends at Intel will be returning to providing our Turn Up & Play (TUP) area for epic.TEN allowing a limited number teams from all over the world to take part in the event.

So if you want to attend, but can't get your PC to the event, then now you have no excuses.

Oh, and make sure you give IntelUK a like on Facebook as a thanks for their support.

The TUP area will be located in the Competitive Hall (Fair Isle), and as this is a Turn Up & Play arrangement rather than rental, all PCs must stay in that allocated area and the PCs may be required for a number of teams depending on scheduling arrangements.

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Now that the Portland room is full and Pendeen has just 4 seats left, we've had a few requests for space in the competitive hall for people that don't play any of the tournament games, so a new 'other games' area is now open for those who don't play Dota 2, CS:GO or COD4 and weren't sure where to sit.

Once you have paid for your seat, you can now select a seat in this area.