We make good team!

Following on from our evaluation of epic.FIVE, we have made some slight changes to the team here. We've moved a few people around, including KamiKaze's promotion to Assistant Tournament Manager to help develop our new tournament series along with Nivek as Tournament Manager.

We are also looking for one more person to join our event team as the events grow. If this is something you are intersted in being a part of, then please contact us with details of your experience, why you are interested in joining the team and what you could bring to the epic.LAN alternatively you can email us in the normal way.

Deadline for applications is Friday 29th April, we look forward to hearing from you.

After a series of applications and interviews in the last few weeks, we're now pleased to announce the latest additions to the 2011 epic.LAN team lineup!

Event Team

• Zorg
• Daftchip
• Kamikaze

Content Editor

• Squirrel

TF2 Team

• Tapley
• Mole

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Those of you at epic.FOUR will have heard about some of our exciting new plans for 2011. If you weren't there, you'll need to wait a little bit longer before we reveal the details!

But in the mean time, we need to start recruiting our new team for epic.FIVE in February 2011. Yes, we know it's a long time off yet, but we have loads to plan and we want the new team to be a part of that process.

We have a number of vacancies to join the current team ready for our new events including the following:

• Event Team - Part of the event team for the LAN parties including running social activities, basic technical support and helpdesk/shop. Must have attended a previous epic.LAN event.
• Team Fortress 2 Lead Admin - We are looking for an experienced TF2 tournament admin (either LAN or Online) to join our new tournament team for epic.FIVE. The lead admin must have a high level of knowledge and experience of the competitive elements of TF2.
• Team Fortress 2 Game Admin - Somebody with reasonable knowledge of TF2 to provide tournament admin support to the Lead Admin and Tournament Manager.

There may be other vacancies arising as more detailed plans for the event are made.

If you are interested in any of these positions, then please contact us via email detailing your knowledge and experience and why you think we should consider your application to become part of the team. The closing date for applications is Monday 6th September. Further stages to the application process, such as an online interview, may be required depending on applicant numbers.

Good luck!

After a number of applications and interviews. We're proud to announce the arrival of Hg to the team.

Hg will be joining us ready to help out with epic.THREE, particularly working on some of the big games, fun tournaments and event content, as well as helping out with the online community activities, such as our regular games nights.

On joining the team, Tim said, "I'm sure I will enjoy the role and enjoy working with the current epic.team as they are already friends."

"I applied for this role as I have made some great friends in the epic.community and I have enjoyed myself at all the epic events and lately online during epic.Tuesdays and of course in IRC.
As such I wanted to make sure this is same for all members of the community, ensuring they enjoy epic and what it has to offer!"

We all look forward to working with Hg for epic.THREE and beyond.

An opportunity has arisen for a member of the community to join the epic.LAN team in time for our next event, epic.THREE at the end of the month.

We're looking for a keen member of the epic.LAN community (you must have attended our events previously) to join in helping out both at our events and with our online activities.

The work is all voluntary, but there are plenty of other benefits, including being a part of a great team and a fast-growing exciting community, not to mention the benefits for your CV for both the voluntary and technical aspects of taking part in the events.

So we're looking for applications from people with suitable skills to be a part of that team. A good gaming knowledge and a basic technical knowledge for diagnosis of simple networking problems is required and of course you need to be able to work as part of a team. Creative skills inolving sound/video/photography or graphic design are always beneficial to the team, but not essential.

To apply, send an email to winbar@epiclan.co.uk detailing why you think you would be suitable for the role. Your email can be text based, or you could show off your skills in some other way such as an image or short video clip if you want to be a bit more creative. As the next is event is closing in quickly, the deadline for applications is 12noon, Saturday 13th February, with shortlisting and online interviews taking place Sunday 14th & Monday 15th in the evening. Obviously you will need to be available for epic.THREE to apply.

Good luck!

For people who are new to our events, it's always useful to be able to put names to faces when you get there, so that you know who to ask for assistance.

So we've put together a few mugshots of the team members to help you out! Take a look at our Meet the Team page to find out more.

Opening ceremony video from Thursday at DreamHack Winter 2009, sorry about the low quality, camera doesn't like the low light!

Winbar, Murray-Mint and Saboo from team epic.LAN bring you more coverage of the world's biggest Digital Festival, Dreamhack Winter 2009. OVER 9,000 people are here enjoying a hardcore weekend of all things digital, combined with a real festival atmosphere.

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Well the epic journey to Dreamhack has begun!. The epic.LAN team of Murray-Mint, Winbar and Saboo joined Cheez as well as Wizzo & BugAlugs from MPUK on the trek from Heathrow T5 to the Elmia in Jonköping in Sweden.

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Not long to go now until team epic.LAN heads over to the world's biggest computer festival, Dreamhack in Sweden. Last winter over 10,000 people were checked into the event which encompasses not only gaming, but programming, music, design...in fact anything involving a computer.

Winbar, Saboo & Murray-Mint will be making the epic journey from Wednesday 26th through to Sunday 29th November and we'll be keeping you up to date throughout with regular blog updates to the website from all three members of the team and also on the epic.LAN Twitter. We'll make sure we upload plenty of photos and video clips where possible too, ready to inspire more of you to join us on the trip next year!

For those who enjoy LAN parties, this one is a must! It's a totally different style event to anything that happens in the UK, but really does aim to encourage a festival atmosphere...with computers.

Watch this space for the team coverage, starting right at the beginning of the journey from around 4am on Wednesday 26th November!