Earlier this week, the confirmed participant numbers for the epic.EIGHT UK LAN Party exceeded our previous record held by last year's epic.FIVE with 212.

With just under four weeks to go and only 76 participant spaces left, could we be on track to see yet another epic.LAN sell-out event?

Don't miss out, grab your space for epic.EIGHT now!

Well we've hit that mere weeks mark, which means that the cancellation cut-off time has now passed for epic.EIGHT. Any cancellations that have already been requested prior to 4pm today will be processed within our normal 28 day turnaround time, but from this point forward we will not be able to accept any refund requests unless the event entirely sells out and your place can be re-sold to another participant on the waiting list. Similarly, we would like to remind everybody that tickets are not transferrable, ID spot-checks will be made at the check-in desk to prove that the ticket is being used by the original account holder.

Yes, it's that time in the run up to one of our LAN events where we start to look at our timetable of big games and fun tournaments!

epic.EIGHT is happening next month and it's looking like one of our biggest events yet, with spaces almost gone in Hall 1 already!

As usual we'll have plenty of activities, and here's where you tell us what sort of games you'd like to see. As before we'll have a few fun tournaments over a couple of game genres and a packed timetable of big games throughout the day and night, as well as the usual activities like our Pub Quiz.

So head on over to the forums and let us know what you'd like to see, we'll then get the timetable up so you can make sure you have all of the games included.

It's that time of year once more, Santa is making his way around the world and the epic team members have already consumed a little too much mulled wine.

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all of our community members a very merry Christmas and all the best wishes for 2012. I would also like to make a special thank you to all of the members of the epic.LAN and epic.Radio teams who have once again given another year of their own time to bring you some great LAN events and online activities.

Looking back over 2011, we've had another very successful year. Our biggest ever LAN event took place in February, we introduced a successful tournament series to our events while retaining the old atmosphere through the two hall idea and we've continued to improve on the events you all enjoy.

We also had some great smaller community events, including our epic lite LANs, Alton Towers Trip and our second visit to the F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Online, we've continued to grow our community, recently passing over 1000 registered users. We've maintained our popular games nights, have a great forum and IRC community and of course we've recently launched epic.Radio for you all to listen to while you're playing and that has brought some great new people into our online and LAN community who we welcome wholeheartedly.

So in 2012, we hope to continue to build on the successes of this year. epic.EIGHT is already looking very promising for our casual and competitive community. New forums are coming (sorry, they had a little delay while we launched the radio) and we have some other exciting plans for our events and online activities.

Again, I thank you all for being a part of what we've achieved in 2011, and look forward to seeing you all in 2012.

Best Wishes,

Jon (Winbar)

After another great year with epic, we have loads of plans for 2012, especially with the epic.EIGHT bookings going well so far! That means, once again we're looking for some help from people who are willing to volunteer a bit of their time as part of our many activities.

Unfortunately everything with epic is on a voluntary basis (including the management team), but the work, while tiring, is rewarding and gives people the opportunity to put something back into the community.So we're looking for people who can help in a number of areas.

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