Sadly it's going to be time to put phpbb2 to bed soon. While it's done its job for the first couple of years of epic, with our growing community and the aging forum software, we've decided to move away to something more suitable and powerful for our needs.

It's quite a major project for us to both integrate a new forum solution into our systems (e.g. single sign-on) and also to migrate all of the current forum data over to the new system as we don't want to lose any of the existing posts, so you aren't likely to see any changes for a few months.

However, we're looking for your feedback and suggestions on features you would like to see on the new forums. Whether that's how they are currently laid out and whether there are new categories you would like to see, or features like reputation management, social media integration etc.

So let us know what you think, we can't promise to meet every request, but now is a good time to let us know what you'd like!

We can now confirm that Aquatuning UK, the watercooling and modding distributor, is the latest company to team up with us for the epic.SIX LAN gaming event in July.

Thanks to their support, participants at the event, have the chance to win up to €250 in cooling products from the Aquatuning range.

For more details about the company, visit www.aquatuning.co.uk or follow Aquatuning UK on Facebook.

A cancellation space has become available for elite4, taking place this Spring Bank Holiday weekend (Fri 27th - Mon 30th May). If you're interested in grabbing the spot, head over to the booking page now to join us for a long weekend of gaming, beers, BBQ and F1 (Monaco GP weekend)!

A familiar name to you all as an epic.LAN regular, and having been one of our resident DJs for a number of events, Haden joins the event team for epic.SIX as we continue to grow the team in support of the growing numbers and activities taking place at the LANs.

Haden will be joining the Hall 1 event team to not only help out with the normal duties such as running big games, fun tournaments, checking people in and our tuck shop, but naturally we will be abusing Haden's DJ skills to keep the Hall 1 playlist fresh during the event as well as making sure that all of the audio levels are appropriate and that you can hear all of the announcements in the hall clearly!

Welcome to the team Haden!

After confirming a number of details with the venue, we can now open the epic.SIX Seating Plan!

As last time, we are running 2 halls. Regardless of where you sit, the event network will be linked and you'll be able to enter either of the halls with your event pass.

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Thermaltake’s gaming division, Tt eSPORTS has today confirmed its sponsorship of the epic.SIX Team Fortress 2 Tournament taking place this July at Uttoxeter Racecourse, UK.

The £1000 tournament, for between 4 – 10 teams, will see Team Fortress 2 players from all around the UK and beyond compete for their chance to win a share of the prize with past winners, Infused.Tt keen to retain their crown from epic.FIVE in February at epic’s inaugural TF2 tournament.

In addition to Tt eSPORTS’ contribution to the Team Fortress 2 prize fund, the company will also be providing a range of their products to give away during the event for various other activities, as well as giving participants and visitors the opportunity to try out their gaming product range on a joint exhibition stand with epic.LAN’s retail partners, Kustom PCs.

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Bigfoot Networks is the first organisation to team up with epic.LAN ready for the epic.SIX event this July.

The team will be sending us a couple of their Killer 2100 Gaming Network Cards and some other freebies for some lucky winners at epic.SIX. We'll have a think about exactly what you'll have to do in order to win over the next few weeks.

Many thanks to the Bigfoot Networks team for their support at our next LAN event!

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We've been able to get our hands on a load of Duke Nukem Forever - First Access Club keys, which will give early access to the Duke Nukem Forever demo as soon as it goes live, as well as other goodies such as wallpapers and DLC when the game is released.

And all you have to do to get hold of an access key is to have a confirmed epic.lite 4 booking or epic.SIX booking by Sunday 22nd May. It's as easy as that!

So make the most of the May payday and grab your seat for epic.SIX now!

In case you missed the announcement at epic.FIVE, we now have a new referral scheme which rewards you with money off your event tickets every time you bring a new person to an epic.LAN event!

For every new person you introduce to the events we'll give you £5 off your next event.

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We make good team!

Following on from our evaluation of epic.FIVE, we have made some slight changes to the team here. We've moved a few people around, including KamiKaze's promotion to Assistant Tournament Manager to help develop our new tournament series along with Nivek as Tournament Manager.

We are also looking for one more person to join our event team as the events grow. If this is something you are intersted in being a part of, then please contact us with details of your experience, why you are interested in joining the team and what you could bring to the epic.LAN alternatively you can email us in the normal way.

Deadline for applications is Friday 29th April, we look forward to hearing from you.