It wouldn't be an epic.LAN if we didn't have a silly console tournament, so it's time to throw some funky shapes with our Just Dance fun tournament.

So really, all you have to do is stand in front of the screen and look silly for a few minutes, and you could win this one!

That completes our fun tournament lineup for epic.TEN with:

• Minecraft Create
• Unreal Tournament 2004
• F1 2011
• Just Dance

Watch this space for our full big game timetable which will be released in the next few days! If you haven't booked yet, we still have spaces in our casual gaming areas, so go and grab yours now!

Always very popular at our LAN events, we've decided to keep F1 2011 in the fun tournament lineup. We did consider moving to F1 2012, but quite a few of our participants decided not to buy the latest sequel, so we'll stick with an old favourite to hopefully get more people taking part!

Exact format will be discussed over the next few days, so let us know how you'd like it to run.

And watch out for Elsie in your mirrors, he likes to use you as a brake!

So as we approach the final weeks before epic.TEN, it's time start letting you know about the big games and fun tournaments taking place at the first major LAN party of 2013.

First up, it's a return of an old epic.LAN favourite, with our fun FPS tournament, UT2004. We run with a nice simple format for this one, everyone joins the server (or 2 servers if there's enough demand) and we run short deathmatch stages. Every stage, we kick a few players until we're left with our last man (or woman) standing to be crowned as the winner.

The seating picker for epic.TEN will be locked down from 6pm Friday 8th February, from this point onwards, only new bookings will be able to select a seat, existing bookings will be locked in.

We do this to allow us to 'defrag' the seating plan and only put down the number of chairs and tables we need for the event as there is a cost to running empty rows, it also makes it more crowded for you if we have unnecessary rows taking up space.

If there are any urgent moves required after the lockdown, please contact us. We will only move people if we have to, but to ensure that you don't get broken up from your team/friends, please ensure that you all have the same clan tag set on your account.

We'd also suggest that you don't print out your booking (required for checkin) until just before the event in case you are moved.

A large group of gamers from the Portland and Pendeen rooms have recently nabbed one of our community rooms for epic.TEN, which means there is now space available in those rooms, we know some of you were hoping to attend if space became available, so now's your chance!

There are 14 spaces available in the casual gaming rooms now for epic.TEN so go ahead and book yours now!

The deadline for requesting any new epic.TEN refunds has now passed as the event is a mere 28 days away. Refunds on any cancellations beyond this point will only be available if the event is fully sold out and tickets can be re-sold to the waiting list.

While this may seem harsh, the reason behind it is simply that all of our major expenses for the event have to be paid out by one month before too. So once we've paid the huge costs for things like the venue, the ticket money is no longer available to refund.

So on that note, let's begin the final countdown to epic.TEN!

We're please to confirm the return of KustomPCs to epic.TEN next month. The UK LAN favourites, will be attending the event, bringing along the usual selection of peripherals for you to try out as well as an unhealthy amount of sugar and caffeine.

Look out for plenty of fun activities going on around the Kustom stand too, which will be located in the 'Gallery' room of the event. Keep checking the forums closer to the time for the usual list of goodies you can buy and pre-ordering arrangements.

As promised, we're going to be holding our first fun Minecraft competition at epic.TEN, so we bring you Minecraft Create.

The idea is quite simple, during the opening ceremony we will announce a theme, you then go away in groups of up to 4 players to create the most exicting design along that given theme. The deadline for completing your designs is 9am on the Monday morning, so you can work on your creations at any time during the event.  We'll then judge them using the criteria of damage, style, control and agg... no wait, wrong tournament. They will be judged on wow factor, style, functionality and originality by our 'expert' panel. 

You'll be playing on our local server with pre-prepared plots, so we'll need an idea of how many of you will be taking part.  Naturally if you're found using any cheats/exploits, you'll be dealt with by Jailor Duncey.

No promises of any prizes for this one, it's just for fun!

If you want to take part, you can register your interest now on the tournament site.

Over the past few weeks you've been throwing some questions at me on our forums, Twitter or Facebook, and we've had a great response, in fact so many questions we're going to divide the responses over a few posts during the coming weeks.

Here's the second batch of your questions answered:

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So now Christmas has passed, the competitive community is getting organised and we've seen our COD4 tournament pass its first prize trigger guaranteeing the first £750 towards the prize pool.

With teams and mixes now being finalised, we're well on the way to the next prize already.

Check out the thread on Tek-9 to find out more.