With epic.TWELVE fast approaching, it's time for us to look at the big games and fun tournaments to keep you all busy through the event.

As always, we're keen to hear your suggestions, but remember for big games, we're looking at anything really over 16 players (you can sort smaller RTS/Co-Op type games amongst yourselves), and preferably reasonably cheap for people to pick up for the event.

Let us know your thoughts over on the forums!

It doesn't feel like it has been a whole year since our last Christmas message, but it's time to say goodbye again to another year and look forward to what 2014 will bring.

12 months ago we were planning our first event at Kettering Conference Centre and that move certainly paid off, with two fantastic events under our belts, including epic.TEN as our biggest to date. Our 2014 events see even more space for our casual gamers and a new partnership with ESL UK for some of our tournament games as we continue to bring you some of the best quality offline tournaments in the UK to help put the good old UK Scene on the map!

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Next up, as part of our exciting plans for epic12, we'd like to introduce a new room, Lakeside!

As our February LAN is always our biggest, and the current main casual gaming hall is nearly full already. We didn't want any of you to miss out on spaces, so we've made some more, with capacity for over 100 gamers in our new ground-floor room.

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Want to win a TUP place for your team in ESL's Dota2 challenge at epic12? Take place in ESL's Online Qualifiers and you could win full TUP tickets for your whole team! Find out more over at ESL UK.

ESL UK and epic.LAN are pleased to announce a partnership for the next instalment of the popular offline event series, epic.TWELVE. The joint venture will see the inclusion of a guaranteed £3,000 DOTA 2 competition in February 2014.

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Do you want to be a part of the awesome team behind epic.LAN events?

We're really excited about epic.LAN in 2014, after our great first year of LAN Parties at the Kettering Conference Centre, we can't wait until February to get back and put on some great gaming events for you.

But it takes quite a bit of man (and woman) power to put on the events across our various teams and with some of our plans for 2014, then we need to keep growing the event team to keep making the events even more...epic (sorry).

Everybody on the team, right up to the management, is a volunteer, we all do it because we enjoy it and get a buzz at the end of the whole thing when we see hundreds of you enjoying the LAN. It is very hard work with long hours, but it's extremely rewarding, otherwise we simply wouldn't do it!

So we're looking for some willing helpers in the following areas:

• Tournament Team - As our tournaments grow, then the admin team needs to as well both to help at the events, but also to help us spread the word. At the moment we have plans for CSGO, SC2 and LoL.
• Shop/Reception - A welcoming face on our front desk or shop to help out with basic queries or keep the gamers fuelled throughout the weekend.
• Event Team - The event team does a bit of everything during a LAN weekend, whether it's dealing with basic technical issues for people, running big games, dealing with audio-visual tasks, helpdesk, shop, keeping the venue safe and tidy, like I said, a bit of everything!
• Content Team - People want to hear about the events, so we need to shout about them. So we're looking for budding writers, photographers or people with video shooting/editing skills to make sure the rest of the world knows what they're missing during one of our LANs.

Interested? Able? Willing? Then get in touch with us and tell us a bit more about why you want to get involved and any relevant experience. For the majority of these roles, we would ask that you have at least attended one of our events in the past so you've experienced our events from the participant side.

With epic.TWELVE already announced for 14-17th February 2014, we can now confirm the full calendar for 2014:

• epic.TWELVE - Friday 14 - Monday 17th February 2014
• epic.THIRTEEN - Thursday 17 - Sunday 20th July 2014
• epic.lite 12 - Friday 23rd - Monday 26th May 2014
• epic.lite 13 - Friday 26th - Sunday 28th September 2014
• epic.lite 14 - Friday 5th - Sunday 7th December 2014

We'll keep an eye on the numbers for epic.TWELVE and may consider a 3rd main epic.LAN event around October if the numbers head in the right direction. If we do so, the September epic.lite date will be converted to a social trip of some sorts.

We're finally all home from epic.ELEVEN and while very tired, we're all still buzzing after a great event. It was awesome to have so many of you come up to us afterwards to say how much you enjoyed yourselves.

Hopefully you can see the work that has gone in to making improvements since the last event, but it doesn't stop there, so as always we want to hear from you as to how we can improve on things ready for next time, so please do take 5 mins to complete our online survey with your thoughts.

We're still working on our coverage and results, but in the mean time, you can re-live the event on our various channels including:

• epic.ELEVEN Results
• Gallery
• YouTube Channel
• Twitch.TV Channels

Of course if you really enjoyed the event, the best thing you can do to show your appreciation is to join us again for epic.TWELVE in February 2014! If you book before 8pm 30th September, your ticket is just £50! Not to mention, if you bring a friend, you can get even more money off your future events!

Winbar parted with a large amount of money recently to confirm that next years bookings are now in the diary. We are pleased to announce that epic.Twelve in February is now open for bookings and takes place Friday 14th - Monday 17th February 2014 here at Kettering Conference Centre.

Confirmed for the Tournament side are Starcraft 2, League of Legends and CS:GO. We'll also have the usual mix of Big Games, Fun Tournaments, DJ Slots and Pub quiz with lots of fun and shenanigans all thrown in for good measure.

Early bird discount ends September 30th @ 8pm so get your bookings in nice and early to save yourself a tenner. Lets make epic.TWELVE the biggest epic.LAN yet!

Today saw our Mario Kart Wii Fun Tournament take place! It was the usual barrel of laughs and shenanigans, Kamikaze was there to defend her title as champion of Mario Karts so the comptetion was tough! They battled out through various circuits to narrow down to the top three drivers.

Kamikaze proved why she was champion before by getting herself firmly into the top 3 placings along with Drac and Molly.

Our Winner though, defending her position as Champion of Wii Mario Karts was Kamikaze, so well done to you and we'll see you at the prize giving on Sunday!