One of the highlights of the epic.LAN events is our Pub Quiz. By far the biggest 'tournament' of our events, the Saturday night regular feature in our timetable sees the majority of participants take part in a couple of hours of mental activity with one or two beers, giving a welcome break from all of the gaming!

The quiz takes place at 8pm in the main hall and is open to teams of up to 5 players. Each participant pays just £1 to take part and all of the money goes to the winning teams.

We can now confirm the following rounds for the epic.FOUR quiz:

• General Knowledge
• Film & TV News
• Gaming News
• TV Themes
• Current Affairs
• Gaming Themes
• Music
• Gaming Phrases
• And 3 super-secret bonus rounds!

Then after the quiz, it's our ultimate test of a real gamer, the boat race!

If you haven't yet played the fantastic indie title, Plain Sight, then you can win a copy in our epic.LAN Plain Sight Giveaway.

Plain Sight will be featuring as one of our fun tournaments at epic.FOUR next weekend (29th July - 1st August) and if you don't already have a copy, or you want to win one for your friends, then you can join in our free competition to win one in time to play in the epic.FOUR tournament.

All you have to do to enter is answer a couple of simple questions about the game correctly, we'll then pick out the winners at 10pm on the Thursday at epic.FOUR. You don't have to be at the LAN to win, but it would be much better if you are!

There are a number of minor changes to the site layout from our last LAN ready for epic.FOUR detailed below:

• Parking - Please ensure that you park beyond the edge of the Grandstand Building, towards the Railway Bar (Sleeping Hall). There is another event taking place which will be using the hard-standing area directly in front of the grandstand.
• Breakfast Catering - We are using a new breakfast supplier this event after feedback from the past event. These will be serving from a temporary unit outside the gaming hall entrance so you can pick up some breakfast meat on your way from the sleeping hall to your seat.
• Camping - Please ensure that you set up your tents to the left of the roadway in the centre-course area as the area on the right is being used by another event.

You can view the full site plan here, full details will be on the intranet at the event and if you have any questions, you can ask any member of the team for assistance.

The epic.FOUR seating plan will be locked down at 10pm on Monday 26th July to allow us to finalise the event layout. From this time, only new bookings will be able to select an available seat, existing participants will not be able to move.

Please bear in mind that after the lockdown, we may consolidate seating so that only the minimal number of rows are set up for the event. This process may involve "defragmentation" of some seating arrangements. If this happens, we will ensure that groups with the same clan-tag are kept sat together as they are currently and we will only do this if necessary. At this time, we only envisage rows A&B being affected, depending on the number of last-minute bookings between now and the event.

While we do operate a self-service seating plan, we do always reserve the right to rearrange as required for the event.

The first draft of the epic.FOUR timetable is now available.

Our event timetable lists key event activities such as catering times as well as our more organised big games and tournaments. The timetable will also be available on our intranet and big screen systems throughout the LAN and will be updated with any changes during the event.

Although we do timetable some games, it doesn't mean that you can't play games not listed in the timetable, in fact there is loads of spare time in between the big games for you to organise your own smaller games and social activities. 

There are just under two weeks left now before epic.FOUR, so if you haven't yet grabbed a seat, make sure you book now to avoid missing out on our great scorching summer LAN!

One of the great things about epic.LAN is our seat picker. It puts you in control of where you sit at events. What isn't great is when you're part of a group and sorting out where you all sit can be like herding cats!

We've got the solution for you, you can now appoint someone to be the manager of your seat. They will be able to move you around the seating plan so you can arrange your clan or group however you like.

To assign someone as your seat manager, just go to your booking and there's a link for 'Seat Manager'. You can select anyone with the same clan tag as you to be your seat manager. Then when they click on a seat on the plan, they will be able to choose your booking.

epic.LAN - herding cats, so you don't have to.

Some say he does his weekly food shop wearing nothing but a fez and that he once, after a drunken binge of Crème de menthe, successfully completed Pac-Man's "Final Level" - all we know is, he's called Winbar.

To shatter this air of mystery surrounding epic.LAN's Event Manager, I opened the forum for questions from the community and put them to him. What follows is an in-sight into the world of Winbar.

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Once again Kustom will be joining us for some fun, games and general sugary badness at epic.FOUR this July.

Kustom are LAN favourites at events all over the UK, giving you the opportunity to try some of the latest gaming peripherals before you buy at the events.

You can also pre-order from the Kustom website and have your items delivered to the event free of charge, simply make your purchase as normal and select 'collection from epic.FOUR' as your delivery method. The stand will be available from the Friday evening of the event.

In addition to the stand, Graeme will be running a range of activities and tournaments for everybody to take part in, including some Armagetron fun as you've never seen it before!

Visit epiclan.co.uk/epic4 to grab your place and join in some of the Kustom fun!

We were thinking recently how F1 could be made more exciting, and rather than adjustable rear wings, all the FIA need to do really is equip the cars with red shells and banana skins, then we'd have some overtaking and interesting racing.

Anyway, real-life motorsports aside, we'd also like to announce that we're returning to Mario Kart Wii for our fun console tournament at epic.FOUR later this month.

Just like with our earlier UT2k4 announcement, we've decided to go back to a console game which has been enjoyed by many at our past events. Plus with the random nature of the game, you all have a good chance at winning!

Our console area is available for everybody to use through the event and will be equipped with an Xbox360, Wii and N64 for some retro gaming action on our big screen. You can also bring your own controllers and games along for any of these consoles to play along with your fellow gamers.

In a throwback to our LANs of old, we've decided to make our main tournament at epic.FOUR a UT2k4 last man standing deathmatch.

Those who used to attend the 'other' events will remember the exciting and intense UT2k4 tournaments and those days are sorely missed, so it's back!

The tournament format is quite simple. We fill a server with people who want to play on a first-come-first-served basis and kick off a deathmatch map with a time limit of 5mins and a frag limit of 100. As soon as either of those limits are reached we kick-ban the bottom few players and move onto the next map until we're left with an epic final and a load of sore wrists!

It will be a solo tournament, so you don't need to worry about finding teams, just sign up at the event to take part!

And as for the most important question...insta or full weapons? Well that's up to you, we'll put a poll up and you can decide!