Following good feedback from epic.FIVE we will again be setting up the Nintendo 64 in our console area. To mark its return we feel it would be fitting to run a fun tournament and what better game than the classic Goldeneye 007?!

The tournament will take the form of a vanilla 4 player deathmatch with the highest scoring player going straight through to the final. The final will be our poor man's Golden Gun game type for additional pressure (deathmatch on Licence to Kill). The player scoring highest after 15 minutes will get to take home Hg's Golden Gun!

We anticipate this being a 16 player tournament but if the demand is there, we'll increase the number of places are appropriate.

Not yet booked for epic.SIX? Want to attend and take home your very own golden gun? Good news, there are still places available.

P.S. Scaramanga third nipple and batteries not included.

The Kustom Shop List for epic.SIX is now available, detailing all of the shiny things you'll be able to buy at the LAN. The Kustom shop will be open from Thursday evening through to late Saturday/early Sunday.

As always, you will also be able to order other items from www.kustompcs.co.uk and select the "Pickup from epic.SIX" delivery option to get free delivery to the event for any items not included in the list.

The epic.SIX seating plan will be locked down from tomorrow evening (21st July). This is to allow us to finalise seating arrangements for the event as well as confirming numbers for table/seating hire with our suppliers.From this point we may also 'defragment' the seating arrangements to minimise the number of empty rows, please ensure that you share a clan tag with people who you wish to remain sat by to ensure that you are not split up during any required moves.

Those who have not yet selected a seat will still be able to do so, but people who are already in a seat will not be able to move after the lockdown.

If you have any urgent last minute seating changes after the lockdown then please contact us.

The epic.SIX timetable is now available!

Throughout the weekend, we have loads taking place from big games, to fun tournaments, with live DJ sets, random flash challenges with KustomPCs, the chance to hunt down a Bigfoot Gaming NIC somewhere in the venue and some retro console action on Goldeneye 64.

All you have to do, is make sure you have an epic.SIX ticket to take part!

Hope to see you there!

It's been a while since we've had a L4D2 tournament at epic.LAN, so it's back in our fun tournament programme in its Survival mode guise for epic.SIX.

The difference with this tournament is that you'll be able to play your matches at any time, all you'll need to do is take a screenshot of the results of your team playing our selection of maps (with some demos saved just to be sure) and submit them to our event FTP.

The teams with the best times on survival mode will be the winners! Full rules available at the event.

After working with us for the last two events, we're very pleased to confirm that the om nom nom catering van will be back again for the duration of epic.SIX.

We've always had consistent praise for the guys who have provided you with your meals for the last two events and they've listened carefully to all your comments and will be working throughout the event to try a range of different ideas to see what works during the LAN.

Once again they'll be located right outside the main entrance so you don't have to leave the site for your main meals if you're feeling lazy or only have time for a quick food stop between matches.

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The deadline for cancellation of epic.SIX tickets has now passed. From this point we will only be able to refund event tickets if the event sells out and we are able to re-sell your place to another participant. The reason for the deadline is that by this point the majority of our event expenses have already been committed, such as tables and chairs all ordered and paid for based on the estimated number of people attending.

Unfortunately we have had to take the very difficult decision to cancel the epic.SIX Team Fortress 2 Tournament.

After giving the TF2 community plenty of notice to assemble sufficient teams, widely advertised via ETF2L and Vanilla TF2, with around one month to go prior to the event unfortunately we need to make this sad choice due to the lack of teams either currently signed up or in the process of making arrangements.

Unfortunately due to the short notice, we will not be able to introduce a replacement tournament game in time for epic.SIX, however we would be very interested to hear the thoughts of the competitive community for alternative games for epic.SEVEN and beyond, particularly in the RTS arena. If you have any suggestions, please do contact us with your ideas.

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After their epic.LAN debut in February, we are very pleased to confirm that Gamer.FM will be back for epic.SIX in July.

Once again the Gamer.FM team will be broadcasting live from the event keeping the outside world up to date with what's happening as well as running competitions for event participants and an internal stream to their station.

And this time, we'll be handing over the Hall 1 tunes to the Gamer.FM DJs for a few special slots during the event.

Gamer.FM's JoeShow said,

"The team at Gamer.FM is really excited to be returning to epic.LAN for the second time
to provide you the best LAN entertainment that we possibly can offer!  Expect to see some familiar competitions and give-aways as well as new fresh content and hopefully a chance to hear some of your favorite epic staff on the air!"

To launch the epic.SIX partnership, Winbar will be joining JoeShow on air as co-presenter on Wednesday 29th June at 7.00pm where they both will be taking your requests and questions about epic.LAN and gaming in general. Post your questions and requests on the forums and we'll get through as many as possible during the show.

Make sure you tune in at gamer.fm.

CSS players, it's time to get practising as the map list and rules for the epic.SIX £2000 Counter-Strike: Source Tournament are now available!

Following on from the successful epic.FIVE event, where we saw Rasta.Xd take the win over BBoMM, we're going to pretty much keep to a similar format, with a slight change to the map list adding in de_season to the pool, giving the following maps available to be picked by our tournament system:

• de_contra
• de_dust2
• de_inferno
• de_nuke
• de_season
• de_train
• de_tuscan

The remainder of the rules can be found at on our CSS Tournament Pages and teams can also now sign up to the tournament itself.