After reading through everybody's suggestions and keeping some of the usual old-favourites in, it's time to reveal the epic.EIGHT timetable!

Sadly we can't fit everybody's suggestions in, and we leave things like smaller RTS games and social games like Werewolves, 'Cards' etc. down to you all to play whenever you want a break from the normal timetable, but of course we will do shoutouts if you want to get people into those games, and you can also use IRC/Forums/Tweetwall to help. 

Make sure you grab the games (if you want to play them!) before the event, and get them all updated in advance.

At epic.EIGHT we'll have brand new caterers providing all the food you need right outside the main entrance.

There will be an all-new menu, with great pricing and you don't even have to leave the site.

Don't forget that we also have a hog roast on the Friday night that you can pre book for £6.50 simply go to My Bookings and add the additional service.

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Continuing with our epic.EIGHT timetable announcements, our next fun tournament is the free FPS game, Warsow.

We've decided to put a free game in to the tournament line up this time so that we can get as many players as possible in to the game! The exact tournament will be confirmed at the event when we know how many players we have.

If you haven't played Warsow before...then where have you been? Warsow is set in a futuristic cartoonish world where rocketlauncher-wielding pigs and lasergun-carrying cyberpunks roam the streets.

Grab the free game client now!

New to our console area for epic.EIGHT will be Kinect for Xbox360 and to celebrate we'll be running a fun Kinect Sports Bowling tournament during the weekend!

As always, the console area (based in Hall 1) with Nintendo Wii and Xbox360 is open for anybody to use throughout the weekend with a small selection of games, but feel free to bring along your games own to play too.

More fun tournament and big game details coming soon, keep watching this space...

We've seen some massive support for Call of Duty 4 at epic.EIGHT, with 24 teams and a full £2500 prize pot in sight!

So we're happy to reward the fantastic support of the COD4 community with even more prizes for the COD4 tournament thanks to sponsorship from Tt eSports! In addition to the cash prizes and event tickets for the top 3 teams, they'll also get to take away hardware from the Tt eSports product range!

Tt eSports will also be at the event so you can check out the hardware as well as being available on sale at the KustomPCs stand in Hall 1.

With only a handful of team spaces left for the COD4 tournament, then if you still want to take part then make sure you get your ticket now!

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The first of many announcements over the next two weeks about epic.EIGHT!

With the massive F1 following in the epic.LAN community, then it's a no-brainer for us to run a fun F1 2011 tournament at epic.EIGHT! We've seen some great games of F1 2011 at our smaller elite events and with our community games nights so we're hoping for some great racing in this fun tournament!

And to make it even better, Club 3D will be kindly sending along a GeForce GTX 560Ti Green Edition graphics card for the lucky winner, so there's some extra incentive for Elsie not to get black flagged this time!

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.

The launch discount for epic.EIGHT is now over with 91 people already confirmed for the event. At the same event in 2011, just 49 people had booked during the launch discount, and that event sold out around one month before, so epic.EIGHT is on track once again to be our biggest event yet!

Make sure you don't miss out and grab your ticket as soon as possible before they all go! Full priced tickets cost just £57 for Thursday - Sunday, 72 hours of gaming action with £5000 of prize money up for grabs! 

See you there!