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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As usual at the end of our events we like to know what you thought about the event and various aspects of it. Its through this feedback that we find out what you love about epic events and what you feel could be improved which helps us to keep epic.LAN events EPIC!!!!

We'd really love to hear what you've got to say so please sapre a few moments to fill in our survey which you can find here.

Despite some less than convincing matches during the group and elimination stages of this weekend's tournament, the Fragmasters TOXIC side managed to come through the lower bracket and take the two maps needed in the final to see them crowned the winners of epic.EIGHT's Counter-Strike: Source Tournament. Taking home £750 in prize money and tickets to epic.NINE. Prize money was paid out just before the prize giving ceremony images from this can be found in our galleries after the event.

This means that Rasta finished as runner-ups in this tournament and VYE taking third.

Tournament demos for the groups and elimination rounds for the 5v5 tournament as well as the 2v2 fun tournament played on Friday night are available now here

The pub quiz saw a close battle this time at epic.EIGHT! It was a closely fought competition with several teams battling it out to claim Pub Quiz victory! Overall there were 10 teams who took part in the pub quiz with a prize pot of £57 for the winners and £19 for second place. The final placings were as follows:

10th - Crash To Desktop

7th - (joint) Doesn't Matter, Had Sex, Wake Up Whitney, I need A S*** and Rasta.PubQuiz

6th - Bad Acid

5th -  That Lot

4th - Defiler Defiler Defiler

3rd - CantFitMYN

2nd - Quizlamic Jihad

1st - Shut the F****** Door (Vertigo, _Jay_, Jobabob, Elsie, Bicko and MasterChief)

Well done to the winners! It was a really close result as the first two teams were tied and it came down to a tiebraker question to decide the winner!

The final between Rasta Gaming and Fragmasters Toxic will take place at 11am, keep your eye on the right hand side for full match details. All the demo's for the elmination stage will be online after the final.

Will this match be a repeat of the upper semi final?

This mornin saw ourClub 3D F1 2011 Fun Tournament take off with a huge number of participants all wanting to claim pole position and take home the Club3D graphics card from our sponsors. We ran two games and the players going through to the final tomorrow will be:

• Mark Rapson - 130points
• Booti - 122points
• Mastchief - 121points
• Vertigo - 101points
• Mark Smallwood - 97points
• Hodgster - 85points
• Peter Augustin - 80points
• Matt2k34 - 64points
• Elsie - 64points
• Nick Thompson - 63points
• Paul busby - 50points
• Rolphus - 28points

Make sure you catch the action tomorrow its sure to be an exciting race to the chequered Flag.

For those of you missing out on epic.EIGHT or those who just want to browse the galleries, The first two days of epic.EIGHT are now available here! Coverage including: Building the event, the Opening Ceremony the tournaments and hog roast! Check out the epic.Galleries maybe you'll spot yourself in your moment of epic fame like Winbar here enjoying the hog roast. Om Nom Nom.