We've been informed by the venue that a part of the grassed area we use for camping will not be available for epic.THIRTEEN due to another event taking place on the Saturday.

Basing space on last year's July event which had a similar number of tickets sold, we do not expect this to be a major issue as long as everyone takes a fair and sensible amount of space when camping. We expect the camping to spread closer to the road and footpath, so as always we recommend that you don't leave anything in your tents unattended.

So we'll need you to pitch tents neartly in to rows (we'll put a member of staff out there at the start of the event to get them started) and we'll have to ask that you just bring the tents you need, no big gazebos/marquees etc.

Alternative sleeping is available indoors (free of charge) as well as through on-site dormitories and local hotels.

News just in from our friends at ESL UK!

The commentary line-up for the AOC CS:GO Challenge has been announced, seeing Richard Lewis, Henry Greer, Karam Kabbara, Alex Richardson and James Duffield converge for epic.THIRTEEN.

The AOC CS:GO Challenge at epic.LAN is shaping up to be one of the UK's best BYOC CS:GO tournaments of 2014. With up to £4,000 on the line, our partners at ESL UK are pulling out all the stops, bringing you five star coverage throughout the weekend.

They're bringing it all to epic.LAN on Friday 17th July, seeing on-site camera crews, casting desks and analysis live from the ESL UK Studios. So what are you waiting for? Join the buzz and get your ticket now!

We're pleased to confirm that MSI Notebook UK, Kingston Technology and In-Win will all be exhibiting at epic.THIRTEEN showing off their latest technology. All three companies will be based in the Gallery, so make sure you go and take a look at what they have to offer and join in some of the activities taking place on their stand over the weekend.

If you haven't booked your ticket yet, there's still time, with spaces left in all rooms, so go ahead and book your space now!

The epic.THIRTEEN big game and fun tournament timetable is now up for you to have a butchers at! Make sure you get all the games you can and get them installed and up to date before you come to LAN. Not long to go now only 3 weeks!! yep really just 3 weeks! If you haven't got your ticket yet what are you playing at, there are social and tournament seats available so grab yours now to join in with all the fun and games.

See you @ LAN

Following on from the announcement of our Fun Hearthstone Tournament, we can now confirm that GAMDIAS will be boosting the prizes for the event.

Prizes for the tournament now include:

• 1st Place - £75 + HERMES Mechanical Keyboard
• 2nd Place - £25 + ZEUS Laser Gaming Mouse
• 3rd Place - HEPHAESTUS Gaming Headset
• 4th Place - AEGIS Gaming Accessory (Cable Management, Headset Holder, USB Hub)
• 5th Place - NYX Gaming Mouse Mat

Sign up for your epic.THIRTEEN ticket and join in the Hearthstone tournament now! 

With the huge popularity of the Blizzard digital card-game, Hearthstone, we'll be hosting a fun tournament at epic.THIRTEEN, as well as adding in a seating area for Hearthstone in Fair Isle to make it easier for people to find their fellow heroes.

It's likely that we'll run the matches later on in the evenings, so people can still take part in other tournaments during the day, followed by some casual Hearthstone in the evening.

If there's plenty of interest, we're hoping to at least sort out some hardware prizes for the tournament if not more! So make sure you grab your epic.THIRTEEN ticket and sign up to the Hearthstone tournament now!

ESL UK partners with epic.LAN for the thirteenth instalment of their gaming and eSports LAN series. As part of their partnership, ESL UK will be boosting the prize pool through their partner network by £1,000 in a bid to help stimulate development within the UK’s Counter-Strike gaming community. ESL UK will be providing full coverage of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition, alongside the event as a whole throughout the weekend.

Peter Mather, Community Manager for ESL UK commented saying:

“We’re really excited to be solidifying our partnership with epic.LAN after a fantastic event back in February. We’ve got some awesome plans in development for the next instalment to help bring the event live to your living rooms, and really add some extra value for the talented sides that will be joining us throughout the weekend. The team over at epic.LAN are amazing to work with, and I’m sure that this partnership will see us bringing one of the best UK Counter-Strike competitions to date!”

The competition will feature a minimum prize pool of £1,000, with the possibility of expanding to £4,000 based on community interest.

Jon Winkle, Managing Director of epic.LAN stated:

"Following on from the success of the Dota2 challenge at our last event, and with the current growth of CS:GO, we’re very excited to partner with ESL UK once again for epic.THIRTEEN this July. With the boost in the prize pool and the exciting coverage plans, the tournament is certainly going to be one to watch in the UK and beyond."

Teams that wish to take part in the tournament need to head over to www.epiclan.co.uk/epic13 to purchase their event tickets, allowing them entry to the three day event alongside the eSports tournaments that are due to take place over the extended weekend.

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We're pleased to announce that ASTRO Gaming has offered their support to a range of community activities taking place at epic.THIRTEEN.

ASTRO will be offering their support to the pub quiz with some goodies for participants as well as arranging prizes for some of our fun tournaments, including:

• F1 1st Place - A40 PC Headset
• F1 2nd Place - A30 PC Headset
• Goat Simulator (yes really...) 1st Place - A30 PC Headset
• Goat Simulator (you still don't believe us...) 2nd Place - Scout Backpack

epic.THIRTEEN sees a huge range of eSports tournaments including League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota2 and Starcraft 2 as well as masses of community activities such as the epic.HUNT, pub quiz, big games, fun tournaments, live DJ sets, card and board games and more! If you want to enjoy an awesome weekend of gaming, then make sure you grab your ticket now at www.epiclan.co.uk/epic13.

GT Omega Racing, manufacturers of some really cool racing chairs and cockpits, have joined up with Tesoro to give a huge minimum guaranteed prize of £2,000 for our epic.THIRTEEN League of Legends tournament!

As the biggest tournament at our last event, the League of Legends community really supported epic.LAN so we're extremely pleased to repay that support with this great new prize pot of up to £5000.

If you want to take part in the tournament, simply grab your ticket to epic.THIRTEEN and then enter your team by 8pm Thursday 17th July, but be quick, spaces are going fast for the event after the popularity of our biggest LAN to date back in February. 

Looking for something to test your mind at epic.THIRTEEN in between games?

We're excited to confirm the return of the popular puzzle hunt at our next event, run by the awesome but ever-so-slightly-evil team from CantFitMyN.

For those of you who haven't taken part in this sort of puzzle before, the idea for this event comes from a concept used at Dreamhack (the DH Game), and various other worldwide puzzle-hunt type games. This particular hunt takes you through a series of digital and event-based clues to lead you to the right answer for each question. This game is a test of your initiative, knowledge, lateral thinking, puzzle solving, code-breaking and some creative image/sound processing skill.

Full details about prizes and rules to be confirmed closer to the event! But for now, make sure you've grabbed your ticket so you can take part!