We're sure some of you want to see a bit more of the epic.THREE venue and the facilities on offer, so we've updated our venue pages with some new details and pictures of the various facilities at the event which will also hopefully help you to find out where you're going when you arrive on site!

Find out more about epic.THREE:

• Venue Information
• Sleeping
• Travel
• Book Your Place

If you're going to spend nearly 4 days with us at epic.THREE, then you may as well make the space you're living in your own while you're there.

We're pleased to announce the return of the Decorate Your Desk competition at our next event after some great efforts made at epic.TWO, but this time we want more people taking part!

Prizes will be available to the most creative way in which people customise their space at the LAN and will be judged on the Friday evening of epic.THREE.

The main rules of the contest are that the entry must be safe, cannot use loud noises, cannot plug into the event power system and cannot excessively irritate your neighbours!

This is just the first of our mini-contests to be announced for epic.THREE, but you can only take part if you're there. Visit the epic.THREE site for more details and to sign up.

epic.Tuesday is on the horizon and this week we will be having some fun on some Payload maps... We have a nice selection of normal Payload and Payload Race maps to have a go at.... :)

• pl_swiftwater
• plr_pipeline
• pl_orangebomb
• plr_panic_a8
• pl_Hoodoo

If you have any suggestions for any other awesome Payload or Payload Race maps then feel free to tell us and we will look at getting them on the server for tomorrow. :)

See you all at 20:00 hours for some back stabbing, head shoting, flame throwing, baseball batting, uber charging, rocket jumping, sentry gunning, sticky bombing CART PUSHING!!!....

Dunce out...

That's right it's Halloween and the TF2 team have made a map, added 5 new achievements and HATS especially for it!! Yes hats, I said HATS!!!!

Tonight from 8:00pm our TF2 server will be running the new koth_harvest_event map for some scary Halloween fun....

So carve up your pumpkins, make them into funky looking faces and slap on a Gibus hat for the epic.Spooktacular event tonight!!!

epic.LAN accept no responsibility to any persons getting scared during the event... :)

Find the server IP by visiting epiclan.co.uk/servers.

Can't wait for the next epic.LAN? We now have a number of public servers up for:

• Team Fortress 2
• Left 4 Dead
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Counter-Strike: Source

To use our Left 4 Dead servers, the lobby leader needs to open up the console and type in "sv_search_key epiclan", when the game starts you should end up on our servers!

See which servers are running, and who is playing by visiting epiclan.co.uk/servers.

Don't forget to join us for our games nights too, taking place every Tuesday at 8pm, put it in your diary now!

In true epic style, we will be holding
"epic.Tuesdays"
This is a good chance for everyone in the epic.Community to get together and play some games... Infact, bring a friend along... for FREE... The more people playing the merrier...

This coming Tuesday 27th October will be TF2... So get out your sniper rifles and spin up your machine guns and lets get some good old fashioned gaming going....

Be there at 20:00 with your sappers at the ready!!

Dunce out...

Don't Forget!

The epic.THREE launch discount ends this Saturday, 31st October at 6.00pm.

To claim your early payment discount you need to book and pay for your place by 6pm. Any bookings which have not been confirmed by that time will be converted up to the full price.

Even though epic.THREE is 3 months away, we're already 1/3 full! 40 people so far have confirmed their seat for the first of our events at Uttoxeter Racecourse.

More details about the event will be revealed over the coming months!

And remember, you can also book for other people if they're slacking and you want to sort out your group attendance!

No excuses, see you there!

In case you haven't already spotted them, the first two epic.LAN dates for 2010 are now available.

You already know about epic.THREE -25th-28th February 2010 and the bookings are already open for that event.

Then later on in the summer we'll see epic.FOUR running from 29th July - 1st August 2010 again at Uttoxeter Racecourse. Bookings for that one will open in the New Year.

In the mean time, get them into your diaries and book up for epic.THREE before the discount finishes at the end of October.

We've taken some time to go through the feedback now for epic.TWO and meet with the staff team involved and we've published a list of all the things we plan to improve for epic.THREE in February.

Take a look through the list of improvements and we hope you're pleased with the plans and look forward to seeing you there at epic.THREE!

Can't wait until epic.THREE?

Well to give you a brief teaser we've decided to run an online version of our popular epic.HUNT at some point to be announced between now and epic.THREE.

The online version will work much the same as the event hunt, except in this case all of the clues will be virtual. But the clues will still require the same cryptic and problem solving skills as well as testing your initiative, knowledge, lateral thinking and some creative image/sound processing skill.

Watch this space for more details!