It's that time of year once more, Santa is making his way around the world and the epic team members have already consumed a little too much mulled wine.

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all of our community members a very merry Christmas and all the best wishes for 2012. I would also like to make a special thank you to all of the members of the epic.LAN and epic.Radio teams who have once again given another year of their own time to bring you some great LAN events and online activities.

Looking back over 2011, we've had another very successful year. Our biggest ever LAN event took place in February, we introduced a successful tournament series to our events while retaining the old atmosphere through the two hall idea and we've continued to improve on the events you all enjoy.

We also had some great smaller community events, including our epic lite LANs, Alton Towers Trip and our second visit to the F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Online, we've continued to grow our community, recently passing over 1000 registered users. We've maintained our popular games nights, have a great forum and IRC community and of course we've recently launched epic.Radio for you all to listen to while you're playing and that has brought some great new people into our online and LAN community who we welcome wholeheartedly.

So in 2012, we hope to continue to build on the successes of this year. epic.EIGHT is already looking very promising for our casual and competitive community. New forums are coming (sorry, they had a little delay while we launched the radio) and we have some other exciting plans for our events and online activities.

Again, I thank you all for being a part of what we've achieved in 2011, and look forward to seeing you all in 2012.

Best Wishes,

Jon (Winbar)

After another great year with epic, we have loads of plans for 2012, especially with the epic.EIGHT bookings going well so far! That means, once again we're looking for some help from people who are willing to volunteer a bit of their time as part of our many activities.

Unfortunately everything with epic is on a voluntary basis (including the management team), but the work, while tiring, is rewarding and gives people the opportunity to put something back into the community.So we're looking for people who can help in a number of areas.

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The launch discount for epic.EIGHT is now over with 91 people already confirmed for the event. At the same event in 2011, just 49 people had booked during the launch discount, and that event sold out around one month before, so epic.EIGHT is on track once again to be our biggest event yet!

Make sure you don't miss out and grab your ticket as soon as possible before they all go! Full priced tickets cost just £57 for Thursday - Sunday, 72 hours of gaming action with £5000 of prize money up for grabs! 

See you there!

Don't forget, you can save £7 per ticket for epic.EIGHT if you book and confirm your place by 8pm on Thursday 1st December.

Grab your epic.EIGHT seat for just £50 until Thursday, then £57 thereafter. Unfortunately we've had to put a whole £2 on to the cost of event tickets due to increases in the venue costs in 2012 that we are unable to absorb.

Remember when you book, we've also confirmed a Hog Roast for the LAN, and you can pre-book that when you get your ticket to save worrying about cash on the day.

Hope to see you there for our first event of 2012!

As I’m sure everyone has heard on the grapevine, a management split within GamerFM means that the brand has been sold to FragRadio. However, a significant number of the former GamerFM management and staff wished to start again as part of a new online radio venture.

We have enjoyed an excellent relationship with those people over the last 12 months, so naturally we couldn’t resist the opportunity to work even closer with those dedicated people. So we’re proud to announce epic.Radio! Bringing you the same quality content and presenters you’ve come to associate with the former GamerFM name.

This new station means that we can combine the best of online radio with our gaming community, LAN events and other activities planned for our community in the future. It’s going to take some time to get things back up and running (particularly the stream itself), so bear with us and watch this space for the latest news.

We look forward to a great future with epic.Radio and hope you all tune in soon!

Jon Winkle - epic gaming Managing Director
Joe Styrka, Mark Illingworth - epic.Radio

Good communication is the key to winning, from commanding a battle fleet to fighting an ork or just to get yourself healed by the team medic when you need it! We are proud to announce our epic.TeamSpeak 3 server is open for business.

We have decided to change from Mumble as TeamSpeak allows us more control and better integration. Plus we can have cool little icons next to the channel names! Our Mumble server will be shut down at midnight tonight.

Feel free to join the server whenever you want, if it's only for epic.Tuesday, or for any other gaming you are doing throughout the week, it's available for the community to use.

So come on in mock everyone as you steal their dog tags in Battlefield 3, or stab them in the back in TF2, or nom on them as a face hugger in Aliens vs. predator.

Server Details
Address: teamspeak.epiclan.co.uk
Port: 9987 (default)
Password: epic

And don’t forget to buy your tickets for our next event epic.EIGHT which takes place in February!

Ho Ho Ho! Don't forget guys Santa will be making an early stop at epic.lite so make sure you sign up for the free service to be included in the prezzies.

Add the free service to your epic.lite booking and in a week or so the elves will do their work and assign you a person to buy a gift for. You will then receive an automated secret mail telling you who to buy for. The limit is £5 and remember to wrap your present and label who it is for before you get to the event. We'll let you know when you arrive where you can put your presents ready for our Christmas morning!

Happy Shopping!

Our quiz was full of the usual fun with 9 teams taking part and rounds like, science, TV advert music, gaming music and a staff 'Would I Lie To You?' round. After everyone had used their thinking caps to maximum capacity, the winners of the quiz were CantFitMyN!

They take away £40 and some shiny epic.LAN Achievements!.

The full results were:

Thanks and well done to everyone who took part! Will CantFitMyN defend their title at epic.EIGHT? There's only one way to find out!

So yesterday saw the close of epic.SEVEN (big sad faces). The event has gone too fast as usual and is now over until epic.lite in three weeks or for those of you not making it to lite its over until feb next year! Which seems like ages away but im sure it will come round quickly.

Most of the news is now up regarding the tournament finals and fun tournament finals and as the staff start to recover from LAN a few final posts will go up to fill in the gaps such as full quiz results but to keep you busy in the mean time the Galleries are now up to date with all the images from the last day including prize giving. These can also be found on our facebook page.

During the weekend of epic.SEVEN we had our usual big games and fun tournaments going on. We are pleased to announce the winners and runners up of these fun tournaments who were awarded with achievements and some PC peripherals. The winners were...........

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