It's a LAN, you aren't supposed to sleep, but if you must then we have a number of sleeping options available.

• Camping - Our recommended option. If you want a quiet night away from any noise then we have masses of free camping space available for you in the centre-course area.
• Indoor Sleeping Rooms - We have two indoor sleeping rooms available for this event, and one has been designated as 'non-snoring'. Please do bear in mind that these are communal sleeping areas and therefore there will be some noise of people coming and going in the night. Indoor sleeping room space is limited, there is no guarantee of enough space indoors for every participant. Please help by only using a single airbed.
  
• Off-Site Hotels and B&Bs - Spend your weekend in luxury in one of the town's large number of accomodation options, some of which have been listed on our Sleeping Page. 
• Gaming Halls - We don't mind you getting some sleep in the spare space in the gaming halls, however this needs to be in a position where you do not block the rows or any emergency exists. We will ask people to move if you are causing a fire hazard, so make sure you find a corner out of the way. 

You can view the location of these various sleeping spaces on our handy Google Map (note that you will need to use a browser capable of showing Google Maps layers).

If you wanted to attend epic.FIVE, but missed out, you're in luck! Due to a small number of cancellations, we can offer a few seats to any eager gamers wanting to be a part of our biggest event yet.

To grab one of our cancellation places simply contact us by email, or in Quakenet IRC #epic.LAN. Unfortunately it is very unlikely at this stage that we can make any seating rearrangements for any cancellation spaces as most clans/groups are now sat together, unless anybody is willing to move around for you, so it's pretty much a pick of the seats available on the seating plan as it stands now.

Note that if there is a big rush for these spaces, then priority will go to those on the waiting list, i.e. people who had signed up to the event but had not paid when the event sold out.

This tournament went down a treat at epic.FOUR so it will be returning for epic.FIVE

The tournament format is quite simple. We fill a server with people who want to play on a first-come-first-served basis and kick off a deathmatch map with a time limit of 5mins and a frag limit of 100. As soon as either of those limits are reached we kick-ban the bottom few players and move onto the next map until we're left with an epic final and a load of sore wrists!

It will be a solo tournament, so you don't need to worry about finding teams, just sign up at the event to take part! You do not have to be sat in a specific area to participate in this fun tournament.

Lets see if Vardy can hold onto his title!

At our last event, we tried out a new catering service which was met with lots of approval from the participants, in fact people wanted more of them!

So we've been back to the guys from the catering company last time and asked them back again, but this time instead of just being open for breakfast, they're going to be open for main meals throughout the day so you don't even have to leave the site for your nom nom fix.

They'll even be open when you arrive on the Thursday so you can refuel after your long journey! And there will also be a Curry Night on the Friday from 7pm - 10pm.

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We are extremely pleased to announce that epic.FIVE has now sold out with 200 participants attending our UK LAN event taking place in just over 2 weeks.

The whole team is really looking forward to delivering our biggest LAN yet and making sure that we do everything we can to make it our best event to date, whether you are attending as a casual gamer or participating in either the TF2 or CSS tournaments.

We've had a few questions about why there are still spaces on the plan and what to do if you still want a space, so here's a quick FAQ...

Cancellation Spaces

As the event has now reached capacity, we will be able to process cancellation spaces subject to reselling your place and an administation fee as detailed in our cancellation policy. If you find that you are now unable to attend, please let us know and we will work through any cancellation requests in the order that they are received. Remember that your ticket is not transferrable.

Will you be opening up the other rows?

In summary, nope. We said that we're going to do a 200 person event this time, and that's roughly what we plan to do. We want to get this event right and then add to the capacity in the future and grow sensibly, we've seen far too many events try unrealistic leaps in numbers and then fail, we dont want to fall into that trap. 

But part of my clan/group has paid and one or two missed out!

OK, we're not entirely unreasonable and we want to try to help these cases within the seating we have available already. If your clan is partly paid and there are just a couple of people who missed out then you need to contact us with their username and we will give you the details to make a manual PayPal or Bank Transfer payment. It may be that these spaces come from cancellations or from the small number of open spaces on the plan already.We need to finalise the seating plan and tournaments as soon as possible though, so please contact us as quickly as you can to make these arrangements.

My entire clan wishes to attend, but we didn't book in time.

We're sorry, but in this case we won't be able to fit in entire new bookings unless there are some large groups of cancellations. But make sure you put epic.SIX into your diary, bookings will open during the next event.

The first of our fun tournaments for epic.FIVE. The premise is simple, create a Trackmanina Nations Forever map following the theme we give you at the start of the event which will include some compulsory elements. For those of you new to the game, Trackmania Nations is the free-to-play version.

The best maps created will then be played as part of the big game of Trackmania during the event with voting on the website for the ultimate winner.

Please download the game before you get to epic.FIVE or download it from the Steam content cache on our event ftp to save bandwidth.

We are very pleased to announce that Thermaltake's gaming division, Tt eSPORTS will be sponsoring the epic.FIVE LAN Party this February!

Thanks to their support, we will have the following goodies available as prizes for various activities during the LAN:

• 3 x Challenger Gaming Keyboard
• 3 x Azurues Mice
• 3 x Dasher Mouse Pad

42 spaces are remaining for epic.FIVE, with 158 currently confirmed and spaces going extremely quickly. We predict that the event is well on track to sell out and be the biggest and best epic.LAN so far!

About Tt eSPORTS

Thermaltake has been a well-known brand in the gaming & DIY market for PC Chassis, Coolers and Power Supplies PSU for many years. The brand personality of unique, aggressive, vivid and stylish makes Thermaltake an expert in creating exciting things and fascinating environment for gamers and enthusiasts. Tt eSPORTS inherited the brand personality with unique and creative design by observing users’ behaviours and requirements. The fan cooling design on Tt eSPORTS Challenger keyboard demonstrate the brand spirit. It is the worldwide first keyboard with fan cooling function that could dry your hand sweats and blow tension away during cut-throat competition.

Please be aware that, in line with our cancellation policy, the cancellation deadline for epic.FIVE has now passed. From this point forward we are unable to offer any cancellations unless we reach an event sell-out. If the event does sell-out we will process any cancellation requests in order of receipt (subject to the administration fee), providing that the space can be re-sold to another participant through our system, please note that your tickets are not transferrable directly. If you wish to submit a cancellation request, please contact us.

At this close stage to the event, we have to finally commit a number of items of expenditure, based on the predicted final number of seats sold, hence having to take this approach to cancellations.

One of the biggest competitions at epic.LAN is always our pub quiz on the Saturday evening of the event. Usually attracting the majority of participants, we enjoy a few hours of general nostalgia with a few/many beers after a some tough days of gaming.

Bearing in mind the increased numbers at epic.FIVE, and with our TF2 tournament involving teams of 6, we've decided to allow a slight increase to our pub quiz team sizes, which will now have a 6 player limit. We're not planning on removing the cap entirely as we are still a relatively small LAN, and we dont want one or two giant teams to entirely dominate purely by numbers, so the cap gives everybody a fair chance.

Also, we can give some vague clues now to the rounds for this one, very few changes after the generally positive feedback from our last quiz, but a non-exhaustive list includes:

• Gaming Music
• General Knowledge
• Oldschool Kids TV
• Gaming News
• Film Music
• Current Affairs
• And many more, including our Bonus Rounds!

Some of you may have noticed that today we went over the 200 signup mark for the event, 212 in fact at the time of writing. With our 200 person capacity, that means that the seats will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis. Remember, your seat is only confirmed with a payment for your ticket and we are unable to hold any provisional bookings open.

The eagle-eyed may have also spotted that there are over 200 seats on the plan available. This isn't a mistake! We've made a conscious decision to cap the event at 200 people, even if we were able to sell more spaces. While we'd love the extra people, we feel that it is sensible to grow the event in small steps, keep things manageable and make sure we give you a great quality event for epic.FIVE.

So with pay day fast approaching, make sure you grab your seat now to secure your place at epic.FIVE this February. To clarify - bookings are still open and will continue to be until all seats are paid for.