Grab your diaries, as we can now pretty much confirm the 2013 LAN dates for the year. The only date we're slightly unsure of is whether there will be an October main LAN event, and before we decide on this, we need to see how the numbers go for epic.TEN in the new venue and then see if it is viable, as previous October events have been fairly quiet.

Event Dates

• epic.TEN | 15-18th February 2013 | Kettering Conference Centre (400 Players)
• epic.lite 9 | 24-27th May 2013 (Spring Bank Holiday) | Moorlands Village Hall (32 Players)
• epic.ELEVEN | 25-28th July 2013 | Kettering Conference Centre (400 Players)
• epic.lite 10 | 27-29th September 2013 | Moorlands Village Hall (32 Players)
• epic.lite 11 | 6-8th December 2013 | Moorlands Village Hall (32 Players)

Bookings for epic.TEN are now open with a discount of £10 if you book before the end of September, other event bookings will open in 2013.

After some fantastic support from the Call of Duty 4 community at our last two events, fielding over 20 teams each time, we're very pleased to confirm our continued support for COD4 at epic.TEN.

Details about our Call of Duty 4 tournament are now available including revised prize triggers. As always, prize money will be paid out immediately.

If you're looking for a team to participate with, then head over to ptER's Tek-9 thread of awesome to speak to the other COD4 community members attending.

So that's the first of our tournament announcements for our new venue, more coming soon!

As you've probably seen, we're expanding for epic.TEN as we move to our new venue at the Kettering Conference Centre. That means we're going to need a bigger team to continue offering our great, fun, LAN parties.

Staffing a LAN is very hard work, and it's a tiring weekend, but seeing all of the hard work pay off, and everybody enjoying themselves is extremely rewarding. Everyone at epic.LAN is a volunteer, right up to the management team, so we're all staffing the events because we enjoy it.

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We know the wait has been almost as long as it was for Duke Nukem: Forever, but we can assure you that it won't be anywhere near as disappointing!

The team has been working away getting our new forums ready, using the IPB platform, and we plan to go live this Wednesday 15th August. One of the things that's taken us some time is to ensure that we bring over all of the content from the old forums, so we don't lose our history. The only thing we haven't been able to migrate is the PM system, so make sure you've saved any PMs you want to keep.

The current forums will go offline around 6pm on the Wednesday and we aim to bring the new ones online around 9/10pm. Naturally there may be some teething problems when we go live, despite all of our testing, so please do bear with us!

We can't wait to bring you the new forums and all the new features they will bring!

The guys over at bit-tech put on their first ever pub quiz last week in London and in true freebie-ninja style, Inferno arranged for a contingent of us to attend. It was insanely difficult - I'm sure we could set the epic.QUIZ to "Expert" and still not be as hard!! After plugging through the inital rounds (of beer) we managed to pull ahead of the pack, thanks mainly to Inferno's logo knowledge, establishing ourselves as targets. It was going great until the, now infamous, "retro-tech" round in which we managed 2/10 and thought we really had lost our place on the podium. Only JoeShow's knowledge of game maps and my knowledge of TLAs in the final rounds clinched us the victory (with a hefty dose of luck!).

It was a brilliant night and we just wanted to say a big thanks to Corsair for supplying the prizes (Corsair Vengeance 2000 headset, Corsair K60 keyboard and Corsair M60 mouse) and to bit-tech for organising the evening in addition to providing a celebratory cheesecake and golden trophy!

Next time they put on a quiz, we'll let you know. Hopefully we can field a couple of teams and besides, it gives us a good excuse to drink on a school night!

(L-R: JoeShow, Inferno, Saboo, Flash)

After dropping to the lower bracket following their earlier loss to Rasta.Xd, Team CRG fought off FM TOXIC to face Rasta.Xd once again in the Grand Final in what proved to be an epic rematch.

For much of the LAN, it looked like the tournament was Rasta's for the taking, having only lost one map throughout the tournament. But a tense battle ultimately delivered Team CRG their first epic.LAN win with Rasta.Xd once again taking 2nd place and their 5th podium finish at our events.

You can read an in-depth report of Team CRGs path to the final over at Cadred. And you can also download the demos now to watch the action back.

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Well that was epic.NINE and the last of our events at Uttoxeter Racecourse.

As always, we value your feedback so that we can continue to improve our events, and it was your feedback from previous events that helped us to make the decision to move to Kettering so that we can take our events forwards to the next level.

You can let us know what you thought about epic.NINE in the following ways:

• Feedback Survey
• Forums
• Email Us

We look forward to seeing you all at epic.TEN at the Kettering Conference Centre in February 2013.

So in the social hall we had three Fun Tournaments and they were packed with players all battling it out to win prizes from our sponsors.

The F1 2011 Tournament was won by Booti who won an Avermedia Live Gamer HD and hot on his heels was Hodgster who took home a Tt eSports Mouse.

The UT2K4 Tournament was won by someone other than Vardy this time round! So in first place we had GotenXao who won a Tt eSports PC case and in second place was Dae who won an intel external HD.

The Beach Volleyball proved to be a popular stand in for the boxing and if you've seen the images on our galleries i think you'll agree it looked like fun! The winner was Antrobus who took home an Avermedia Live Gamer HD and smashing his way to a close second was Adunas who took home a Steel Series mouse.

After 2 days of racing and incidents the F1 2011 at epic.Nine is completed. With Booti and Omega Hunter holding 1st place in the championship it was all to play for. Hodgster sat in 2nd 10 points off.

It was a really close final race with the grid spread. Booti worked his way up from 7th to 3rd Behind Hodgster and Matt 2k34. Omega Hunter had made a bad decision on the set up so could not find pace or balance. The race was a wet one which made it especially hard work to put a fast lap in.

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What a fantastic tournament there was all kinds of exciting matches happening throught the weekend and the winners have been confirmed as Phantasmagoria with Apex eSports coming in second.

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