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One of the world’s best-known gaming gear manufacturers, Logitech G have teamed up with epic.LAN to sponsor its first VALORANT tournament this October by kicking off with a minimum £2000 prize!
The tournament, which has been converted to an online event due to the COVID-19 situation, takes place from 8-11 October and involves everything you'd expect from an epic.LAN event, but from the safety and comfort of your own home.
Logitech G will see the epic31 cash prize pool boosted across all tiers for VALORANT with prizes increasing further with the number of teams entering.
We've been trying really hard to find a way that we could at least try to have a small pilot COVID-Secure event this October, and it was all looking positive until there was clarification that participants would need to wear masks at all times when inside, except for at designated eating and drinking areas.
Yes, that would probably mean that you couldn't have food or drink at your desks, and that just meant that not enough people would have been willing to attend the event in those circumstances to make it viable.
Combine that with how close epic31 is to the "planned" easing of restrictions on events and how often we've observed the rules change and that sadly means that we don't believe any sort of physical LAN event is possible for the coming months until there are significant changes in the rules set out by the UK Government.
The epic.LAN event team have got together and thought 'how can we make epic31 even more epic' - and that's by getting you lot to help us do some work. We've got a long list of games, and we're going to whittle them down later this month.
Since announcing epic30 online, we’ve naturally received loads of questions on how the event will work, so here’s a bit more info, with more to follow over the coming weeks.
epic.LAN is pleased to announce that be quiet! are continuing their support of epic.LAN's Fun Tournaments by offering a host of amazing prizes for our first ever Call of Duty Modern Warefare Gun Game 2v2 tournament.
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Following on from the recent announcement from the Prime Minister and further clarity from the UK Government on Monday meaning that hospitality venues cannot open until July 4 at the earliest, we’ve taken the difficult and perhaps expected decision to cancel the next physical event and change epic30 into an online format.
BUT, we feel that at these times, it’s important to make sure something still happens over the epic30 weekend (2-5 July) to bring people together through gaming rather than simply cancelling it, so we’re going to be pulling out all the stops to put on as much of an epic.LAN experience as we can with loads of the things you’d normally expect at our events.
The team at Fragers, home to the Gamersbus fleet, Rapture Gaming Festivals, VRVAN and Gaming Services Supplier, are excited to be bringing a taste of VR esports to epic29 this February, working with the talented epic.LAN team and powered by the best-in-class HTC Vive Pro headsets and ASUS ROG Laptops. This will be an amazing feature at the show sure to inspire attendees.
Their focus will be exploring the VR esports experience with the excellent Pavlov VR as their core game. Including advanced weapons training, challenging players to speed run through the Killhouse and then, once they have gained the skills needed to compete, to form doubles teams in a CSGO-style 2v2 through legendary familiar maps from competitive gaming like Dust2(CSGO) and Rust(COD)
Starting at epic29 this February, the UK LAN event organisers and enthusiast PC retailer will be joining forces for all three main epic.LAN events this year as a headline partner.
Overclockers UK will be offering a pre-order and delivery service from Friday 14 February, allowing participants to purchase upgrades, replacements, or forgotten items - delivered to their desk on Friday & Saturday. Pre-orders will arrive Thursday evening, so the guys will make their rounds that evening. Just pick the epic29 delivery option, and pop your seat number in the company line - they'll sort the rest.
Logitech G and ASTRO Gaming are back to support epic29 helping us to put on some great stage content and raise money for Special Effect's Gameblast 20!
Fans of our regular morning show "Breakfast & Chill" will have the opportunity to win a range of ASTRO Gaming C40 Controllers and Logitech G PRO X Headsets in fundraising activities each day.
And thanks to ASTRO Gaming's Pub Quiz support, all of your team entry fees will go straight to the Gameblast 20 campaign!
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