The February epic.LAN event saw our biggest CSGO tournament to date, and fresh off the back of its success we're excited to announce our first tournament sponsor, quality game server providers, CRISPsrv.

Thanks to their kind support, the tournament will now launch with a minimum guaranteed £1k prize pool as we seek to grow on the numbers seen in February. 

To make sure you're in with a chance of winning, grab your ticket now to epic.EIGHTEEN and then go and sign up for your tournament slot. 

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Here is our Dota2 Stream Schedule for Friday 19th February.

11:00 Perilous.Ruin vs Inferno + 4

12:15 FrenZii Gaming vs Senses

14:00 Perilous.Ruin vs Senses

15:15 Crashing Into This LAN With No Survivors vs Meme Name Pending

16:30 FrenZii Gaming vs Inferno + 4

19:00 Double Elimination Round 1

Dota2 is being streamed on twitch.tv/epiclan2 with Zambrella & QuestText as your casters. 

Some more great news for our fun tournament participants as be quiet! confirm they'll be supporting our CS:GO Arms Race fun tournament. 

The tournament winners will take away a Dark Rock PRO 3 high end CPU cooler, designed for performance, reliability and a very quiet operation.

We are really looking forward to showing you guys what we can do! Please find below links to our daily Twitch Streams, along with daily YouTube content and much more! Also don't forget if you're at the event and want to watch any of the below streams you can do so on our internal relays which will be available to view on the LAN Intranet!

Quick Links:

• Central Stream 
• CS:GO Stream
• DOTA2 Stream
• StarCraft2 Stream
• Hearthstone Stream
• epic.LAN on YouTube

Stream Times

Thursday:

18:00 - 22:00 (Central Stream)

Friday & Saturday:

09:00 - 23:00 (Central Stream)

11:00 - Late (CS:GO, DOTA2, SC2, HS)

Sunday:

09:00 - 16:00 (Central Stream)

10:00 - Tournament Finish (CS:GO, DOTA2, SC2)

News Content on epic.LAN

NEW!: epic.LAN on Instagram

See you all tomorrow!

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Our regular friends over at ASTRO Gaming will be supporting a number of fun tournaments this weekend with ASTRO A30 Headset + MixAmp™ Pro sets up for grabs. The following tournament winners get to take away the awesome headsets:

• Opening Ceremony
• Rocket League
• Super Smash Bros (Wii U)

The opening ceremony competitors are already set, but there's still time to sign up to our Rocket League and Super Smash Bros tournaments taking place this weekend at epic.SEVENTEEN. 

We'll be accellerating the CSGO prize fund up to the full £3,000 thanks to the kind support of our new friends at Element Gaming, meaning the new prize breakdown is: 

• 1st Place - £1725 + Free Tickets to epic.EIGHTEEN
• 2nd Place - £875 + 5x £20 off epic.EIGHTEEN
• 3rd Place - £300 + 5x £10 off epic.EIGHTEEN
• 4th Place - £100

In addition, we'll be giving away a Beryllium Keyboard, Gaming Surface, Xenon 700 Headset and Iridium Mouse to a range of winners from this weekend's fun tournaments. 

Thanks to Element Gaming for their kind support, and make sure you go check them out on Facebook and Twitter. 

Fresh off the back of the Element Gaming sponsorship announcement, next up we're excited to announce our epic.SEVENTEEN CS:GO casting lineup.

All of our eSports titles will be covered during the weekend as well as general activities and banter on our Central Stream. The team that will be bringing you all of your CS:GO coverage needs is a fantastic mixup of fresh talent side-by-side with some of the veterans of UK CS:GO. 

You will be able to view the CS:GO stream over at twitch.tv/epiclan1 throughout the weekend with matches kicking off Friday morning. 

Don't forget you can view all of our various Twitch streams during epic.SEVENTEEN by checking out our team page!

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We are really excited to announce that our friends over at Special Effect will be joining us at epic.SEVENTEEN next week, these guys do amazing work and epic.LAN is pleased to give them the opportunity to show off some of their projects.

Check out their website to read up more on the work they do!

SpecialEffect is a charity that brings fun and inclusion to the lives of disabled people by modifying and creating hardware and software to help them play video games using whatever physical abilities they have.

SpecialEffect will be at epic.LAN on Friday 19th February to showcase a couple of examples of the technology they use to help disabled gamers compete on a level playing field.

SpecialEffect’s Baz Floyd told us ‘We’re absolutely delighted to have been invited to epic.LAN. We will be bringing eye-controlled Dirt3 so visitors to our stand can do a lap in a rally car using just their eyes to accelerate, brake and steer. We’ll also be bringing chin-controlled Mario Kart.

epic.LAN is all about competing in the video game arena. We think those attending the event will really understand what we’re all about. We’re really looking forward to meeting you all.’ 

We've been working very closely with the venue to improve the catering range based on feedback from the past few events and we're pleased to confirm a brand new menu for epic.SEVENTEEN. 

There's a number of improvements directly based on your feedback and if the new menu is well supported, the KCC team will continue to add more for future events. 

Some of the key points include:

• Tea or coffee now included with breakfasts
• Tea or coffee price reduced and now using instant rather than the flasks
  
• Light lunch menu, keeping the full meal options fresh for the evening
• Minimum of different main meal options plus vegetarian option every evening for variety
• Bar snacks now available from 9pm until bar closing time

There were a number of suggestions put forward that wont be easy to implement at this time, it is difficult to cater for so many people at different times throughout the day for event catering, but we're really pleased to see the general feedback taken on board and will be looking forward to tucking in to the new menu ourselves! 

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After a successful introduction at our last event, the Super Smash Bros (Wii U) fun tournament returns to epic.SEVENTEEN. 

We'll be running the tournament on the big screen in the Gallery from the Saturday of the event, and it's open to anyone to take part. Even if you've been binned from the eSports group stages, you'll be free to have a go too so you can reclaim a small piece of your pride!

Only 32 places available, so go and sign yourself up now!