As the epic.NINE fun tournaments are being announced, we've had some great news from AVerMedia who will be sending along 2 of their Live Gamer HD capture cards for two of our fun tournament winners, letting you record awesome quality footage of your frags.

About the Live Gamer HD:

With the Live Gamer HD, PC gamers now can preserve their splendid in-game footages directly on the gaming machine without draining the system resources. Even better, it comes with a dedicated record button, the Hot Button, to deliver fast respond speed and prevent you from missing any exciting moment.

 Make sure you're at epic.NINE to be in with a chance of winning!

We're very pleased to confirm that QuadV will be returning to epic.NINE providing you with the best on-site coverage of our Call of Duty 4 tournament!

It's looking like the COD4 tournament could hit capacity with just a couple of weeks to go with teams joining us from all over the EU.

Dennis "Mennace" Fick will be heading up the commentary once more so all of you not at the event (why???) can keep up to date with the latest tournament developments.

Not long now, so make sure you grab your ticket if you want to be a part of it!

Next up in our epic.NINE fun tournament list, it's the ever-popular Unreal Tournament 2004.

One of our regular big games and fun tournaments for the last 8 years, but this game never gets old and the fun tournaments always generate some tense action as we approach the finals.

Tournament structure and the age-old debate on insta or normal weapons will follow on the forums!

It's time to take out all of that built-up anger on your fellow gamers with our first fun tournament, Kinect Boxing, taking place in our epic.NINE console area.

After the fun with Kinect Bowling at epic.EIGHT we've decided to stick with the Kinect Sports title for the first of our fun tournament and let you throw a few virtual punches!

Anyone can take part, you just need to make sure you've grabbed your ticket for epic.NINE this July!

It's time to create your teams for epic.NINE ready to play in our main tournaments.

Head over to our tournament site to create your team or to join an existing team, and remember all teams must be fully signed up by 8pm Thursday 19th July if you wish to take part in our tournaments.

As usual, you will only be able to play in either the CSS or the COD4 tournament due to scheduling restraints.

In line with our cancellation policy, the deadline for epic.NINE cancellation requests has now passed. Unfortunately we are not able to process any more refunds unless the event sells out and we are able to sell on your ticket which we would then do on a first-come-first-served basis.

While this approach may seem a little harsh, it is simply because by this point we have started to pay all of the bills for the event and have to do so based on the final anticipated numbers.

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We are extremely pleased to confirm that our friends at Intel will be returning to providing our Turn Up & Play (TUP) area for epic.NINE allowing 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!

The TUP area will be located in Hall 2, and as this is a Turn Up & Play arrangement rather than rental, all PCs must stay in that allocated area.

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GameShadow, Fasthosts & epic.LAN have joined forces to launch GameShadow Battles, a new tournament based online gaming experience, and is going to premier the partnership with a fantastic opportunity for gamers to win a combined prize fund of £10,000.

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Well we're just about recovering from the lack of sleep from epic.EIGHT and we've now put our Results Summary Page up to keep a historical record of all our event winners (and losers) as well as details of our various photography and video galleries.

Don't forget, our event survey is up for about another week, until Sunday 4th March, so if you went to epic.EIGHT, let us know what you thought so that we can keep making things even better!

As always, we have quite a laugh reading through some of your answers to the pub quiz, so we've gone through all of the quiz papers and picked out a couple of the howlers.

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