Just giving sorting out the bank transfers for the teams (before the event ends) I realised I had neglected to put the results on the front page.

The final was best of three played between Fragmasters.Sapphire and LANiMALS with Fragmasters.Sapphire winning 13:05

Fragmasters.Sapphire - £525 + 5x Roccat Alumic +tickets to epic.EIGHT
LANiMALS - £225 + discounted tickets to epic.EIGHT
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We have also announced the price pot for epic.EIGHT has increaded to £2500

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Dispite TEAMCRG winning the first map on Season 16-8 not surprising after some members of Link didn't even have the map.
The final map was Nuke with Link winning 16-3

If you want to catchup on the action at epic.SEVEN the demos are available here

See you at epic.EIGHT for the £2500 Counter-Strike: Source Tournament

I managed to grab a few minutes with a member from each of the teams prior to the grand final commencing. Thanks to bOWZAr and KritikaL for their time.

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I used the opportunity of Rasta arriving back from their B&B to have a word with jakem about how they faired in the tournament and their future plans.

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Sadly, epic.SEVEN is now over! We hope you've all enjoyed the event and we look forward to seeing you at epic.EIGHT in February 2012 back here at Uttoxeter Racecourse.

As always, we want to hear your thoughts on the event so that we can continue to make improvements to give you more great LAN events. You can let us know what you think in the following ways:

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Thanks to everyone for attending, see you again soon!

The boat race one of our traditional games played at epics saw this events epic.TEAM well and truely beaten by the GamerFM side! Needless to say the epic.TEAM are a little saddened at our defeat despite a cracking start by our boat race champion Murray-Mint! We are however good sports so offer a well done to the Gamer FM team for their pint guzzling victory!

Day three at epic.SEVEN saw the tournaments get well under way with the teams for the finals being decided. As is tradition for our saturday evening at epics we had our pub quiz and boat race! All the results will be posted shortly and also the images will be going up in our galleries in the next half an hour or so, keep your eyes on the galleries and facebook for todays images!

LiNK vs Rasta – Upper Bracket Final


LiNK – PEZ, mini, bash, KritikaL, zed

Rasta – des, mole, jakem, HengryG, Sliggy



Map 1 – de_nuke


Having come straight into the upper bracket final from a close match against TLR, LiNK were definitely well warmed up for the match against Rasta. This clearly showed as despite losing two early rounds the the two time epic.LAN winners they went on to secure the first half 12-3. Kritikal seemed to be playing with the Rasta team especially when he held the ladder at A against the three remaining Rasta players. Zed's team kill grenade against Pez was also a comedy moment for me in the last round of the half.


The second half was a much closer fought battle between the two teams especially with HenryG showing his skill with a nice 4-man. Unfortunately for Rasta it was Bash who sealed the first map for LiNK with a successful plant at B leaving the final score at 16-8.


Map 2 - de_dust2


The second map of the upper bracket final mirrored the first in many ways with LiNK taking the first half (13-2) very easily but the token team kill this time was from des against mole in the second half. The second half again was a much closer affair with a nice moment from Sliggy, hiding at B, taking out Bash during the defuse. Unfortunately it was too little too late as LiNK were able to secure the rounds they needed (16-7) to advance directly into the Grand final to be played tomorrow at 11am.

LiNK vs TLR


Lineup


LiNK – PEZ, mini, bash, KritikaL, zed

TLR – debaser, keita, acky, Tucker, jmase


Map 1 – de_nuke


Unfortunately my skills in multitasking do not extend on watching two matches at once and so I am unable to give a more detailed analysis on the first map other than the final score being 16-9 to Link.

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Rasta vs Team CRG


Lineup


Rasta – jakem, desbourke, sliggy, mole, HenryG

Team CRG – bOWZAr, redsnake, b3n, pritch, chanb0i


Map 1 – de_dust2


CRG took the knife round and decided to go CT first which paid off initially with them taking the first couple of rounds. However it was short lived with Rasta coming back to take the lead 4-2. Some nice team work in mid saw CRG pull back the score to 5-5 but after that the rest of the half went all Rasta's way with some particularly good work from des and jakem. Chanb0i manged to save the last round of the half with a last man standing defuse bringing it to 9-6 to Rasta.


The start of the second half continued where the first left off with Rasta dominating but as CT this time. At 12-6 CRG started to stage a comeback but this was to no avail as Rasta took the last rounds they required to secure the crucial first map win 16-10.


Map 2 – de_nuke


Rasta were CT first on this map which had an explosive start, quite literally, with a nade from HenryG knocking redsnake back for 90dmg. Some successful plants at A saw CRG take a couple of rounds back with some nice nades flying from b3n and pritch combining to take out mole. However jakem and des spoilt the party with the half ending 10-5.


The second half was a lot more balanced with rounds exchanging between the two teams frequently but it was too little too late for CRG with the final score ending at 16-9. Rasta therefore advance to the upper bracket final to take place at 5pm. CRG on the other hand will need to come through the lower bracket and will face XPLICIT first at 5pm.