After a successful return to in-person events throughout 2022, EPIC.LAN and Overclockers UK have renewed their partnership for 2023 for the fourth year, looking to continue supporting the UK community gaming and esports scene.

2022 was another challenging year for a lot of people, and the gaming industry was not immune to this. As the first year without COVID restrictions, EPIC.LAN was able to return in person for all 3 main events to its regular home of Kettering Conference Centre as well as the introducing a new dedicated tabletop gaming event and luxury gaming LAN, LUX.

Despite pandemics and a cost of living crisis emerging, EPIC.LAN still had one of its most successful years to date due to its focus on important community-first events. 

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With date changes, room changes earlier in the month and just as we were packing everything up ready for the event, we get some more annoying news.

In the last 24h we’ve been informed by Kettering Conference Centre that the air conditioning in the main Fair Isle hall for EPIC36 has failed, engineers have visited the site and unfortunately the parts required to get the units working again will not be available until August.

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MSI has a history of working with EPIC.LAN going back to 2014 and now the partnership has been re-ignited with MSI joining as a sponsor to EPIC.LAN’s events for the next twelve months, starting with EPIC36 in July. 

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Fair Isle and Pendeen tickets for EPIC36 are now sold out, if there are gaps on the seating plan this is where people have not selected seats but the capacity for those rooms has been reached. 

We will not be adding any extra rooms in to the event at this late stage as all logistics arrangements are in place and the room bookings have to be confirmed many weeks before the event. 

The only way to get a ticket now is through our waiting list, if people choose to cancel their tickets. 

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With everything still being financially tight as we come out of 2 years of restrictions, and costs of everything going up for businesses as well as homes, it's really important that we make the best use of space at the event so that we can keep the events cost effective and going strong in the future. 

So with that in mind, we've decided to condense a few rooms down where spaces are still available to bring everybody on to the same floor at the event and have everything a little closer together. 

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For the first time in our history, we had over 12 months without any events, so 2022 is time to make up for that with three new events added to our calendar, moving a few experiments from 2021 in to the permanent lineup for EPIC.LAN this year. 

We're pleased to introduce a continuation of our dedicated Tabletop events with two more weekenders showcase all things tabletop as well as a completely new event,  EPIC.LUX, which probably needs a better name, but we're rolling with it for now. 

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One of the world's most popular and innovative peripherals brands, Logitech G has renewed its partnership with UK gaming and esports event EPIC.LAN as official peripherals partners for 2022. 
 
Logitech first got involved in EPIC.LAN back in 2014 through its ASTRO Gaming brand and has stayed involved in a range of fun tournaments, casual gaming and esports tournaments throughout the year. Last year was Logitech G’s first year as EPIC.LAN’s official peripheral partners and we’re all really excited to continue that relationship through our 2022 events. 

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After a successful year of online and offline gaming events in 2021, EPIC.LAN and Intel have renewed their partnership for 2022, continuing to focus on community gaming and grassroots esports.  

During 2021, EPIC.LAN delivered a regular series of online events before starting a gradual and careful return to the LAN hall with its flagship event EPIC34 in October which saw a near-normal event at its regular home of Kettering Conference Centre in the UK.

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In 2021, EPIC.LAN continued to put on a range of events for online, offline and somewhere in between as the safe and careful journey back to the LAN hall continued. October 2021 saw EPIC34 return to its offline roots in an event that was as close to normal as possible in the current times and Overclockers UK was right there at the heart of it supporting the event and community.

Following on from the successful partnership that has been running since 2020, EPIC.LAN is pleased to announce that Overclockers UK will be back again for 2022 as a headline partner along with luxury gaming chair brand, noblechairs, as official chair partner for the events.

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I recently wrote about how things had been going for the business side of EPIC.LAN and explained how we've started the painful process of rebuilding after almost losing everything in 2020 due to all of our private work disappearing in 48h at the start of the pandemic. 

Obviously finances keep a business going on paper and believe it or not our LAN events are not run to make a profit, most LANs only just break even (EPIC34 did not even do that with all the extra COVID-related costs) so that external work is really important to cover our community LAN event costs. But it's really the people and community that keep us motivated to do what we do as EPIC.LAN and that's why I wanted to finish 2021 with the most important thank you... 

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