With the 10 starting teams now reduced to a nice 8 for the the double elim the results can be found here if you are at epic.EIGHT and here if you are outside

The double elimination fixtures start tomorrow at 11am, sourceTV ip's will be available 5mins before the scheduled start time.

Just look to the right for all the fixtures or click here

The first round of the Kinect bowling has come and gone, and brought with it 20 budding bowlers all eager to impress and make it through to the finals on Sunday.
Giggles all round as many walked up to the lane for the first time, this resulted in a few rogue balls skipping  lanes, dribbling down the lane or in one case crack the floor of the virtual bowling lane! Chilli was that impressed that she didn’t want to let go of her balls……

A total of 5 games were played each having four players playing a full 10 frames, with their scores recorded.
This led to the highest 8 scorers across all the games making their way into the finals on Sunday at 10am.
They are; Adunas, Orvil, Kloopy, Cyberdrac, Yeggstry, Mithious, Flemanofkol and Cypher. Who will be victorious!

See you then!

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Our opening ceremony rock band competition saw three teams battling it out to win a round at the bar, some discount off epic.NINE tickets and the respect of their peers! The song was Tribute the weapons of choice, two guitars, a microphone and a drumkit.

After a disappointing start by our own epic.RADIO team (some inside sabotage by Jayling I think, We all know how much he loves Tenacious D.......) It was our second competitors that took the title, Team Llama!

With Jay and CyberDrac on guitars, Fatal Impurity on drums and Jobabob on vocals they stormed to victory and rocked the opening ceremony.

The group stage for the epic.EIGHT Counter Strike Source tournament are now live

Source TV will be available for all the matches, just click on the details button and it will display all the details. (This will appear just before the start time as servers may change).

The group schedule for the epic.EIGHT Tt eSports COD4 tournament is now live. For detailed coverage, take a look at Tek-9's epic.LAN page and remember that you'll be able to tune in to key matches and commentary as well as having a range of VoDs with QuadV.

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 CSS or COD4 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 outside or in the Railway Bar sleeping area.

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

See you in a few days! And don't forget to go through our handy checklist while you're packing to make sure you don't forget anything!

As part of our opening ceremony on Thursday night, around 8pm (though it usually ends up slipping until later), 4 of you could win a round of drinks from the bar from Winbar (yes, really!) AND 4x £5 epic.NINE discount vouchers, but you have to work for it!

Quite simply, all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is perform Tenacious D - Tribute on Rock Band as part of the celebrations. Our panel of esteemed judges will then base the performance on style, control, damage and agr..... no wait...game score and overall performance.

So get some practice in, let's see those awesome Jack Black impressions on Thursday night!

At epic.EIGHT you will find our usual range of snacks and drinks to keep you going throughout the LAN at our Tuck Shops.

Our main shop will be located in Hall 2, with a smaller shop also in Hall 1 where you can purchase sugary goodness in the form of caffeine drinks, chocolate, biscuits and more, 24h a day with cash or using your event account.

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We are extremely pleased to confirm that QuadV will be at epic.EIGHT providing expert coverage of the Call of Duty 4 Tournament!

The Call of Duty 4 community has rallied around to support this event, currently with 22 teams taking part, just 2 teams off the maximum and of course the £2500 prize trigger, with BYOC and TUP places still remaining!

Here's what the QuadV team had to say:

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You know a LAN is getting close when the Kustom thread gets updated, it's part of the almost official mere countdown to LAN timeline thing.

Anyway, Graeme has now posted the official list of shiny and sugary things on sale at the event and don't forget you can also pre-order for delivery to the LAN via the Kustom website until Wednesday 15th February.

As well as the shop, Kustom will also be running a few competitions on his stand in Hall 1 including on the GT Omega Racing Seat as well as the 'Kustom Box Game Challenge' during the Pub Quiz which bears some slight resemblance to a box and deal based TV show hosted by a man with a beard and funny writing on the side of his hand. You could win an awesome prize, or you could even win your very own box!

There you go, head on over to the massive Kustom thread now!