Good communication is the key to winning, from commanding a battle fleet to fighting an ork or just to get yourself healed by the team medic when you need it! We are proud to announce our first epic.Mumble server is open for business.

This will make our weekly epic.Tuesday events even more fun with cross-team chat & banter.
But this is not limited to just Tuesday, the server has a plethora of different channels allowing you to communicate to the people playing the same game as you.

So come and join us and mock everyone as you steal their dog tags in Battlefield, or stab them in the back in TF2, or nom on them as a face hugger in Aliens vs. predator.

Server Details
Address: mumble.epiclan.co.uk
Port: 64738 (default)
Password: epic

And don’t forget to buy your tickets for our next event epic.FOUR at the end of July as well as keeping an eye out for the release of new dates for our epic.lite series of events later in the year. epic.lite 2 will be coming to a Bagnall near you!

Over the epic.THREE weekend, we ran a number of fun tournament events for anybody to take part in.

Prizes were provided by our friends at Crucial, Kustom and Dust Off.

The tournament winners were:

Trackmania

Winner - Fatal
Runner Up - Dae

Defcon

Winner - Orvil
Runner Up - Cyberdrac

DJ Hero

Winner - Ghozer

Pub Quiz

Winners - Murray, why did you leave us?!
Runners Up - 2 guys, 2 girls, 1 cat

CSS One on One Rifle Trifle Cup

Winner - Bez
Runner Up - Fuz

Team Fortress 2

Winners - One Gunsmith, One Deer
Runners Up - Box

Hunt

Winners - Astrolox, Superchief, qbnut

YOU, yes you. We saw you taking photos of epic.THREE! We have something special for you - our Capture the LAN competiton. Submit your best 5 photos to us and we'll put them up for people to vote on! We'll also dig out a prize for the winner and show off the best entries in our gallery.

To submit your entry, create a folder on our FTP and upload your photos. You have until Sunday evening!

• Capture the LAN FTP Server
  

Sorry for the delay, it's been quite hectic for the team since packing down from epic.THREE, but you can now view the scores for the epic.THREE pub quiz which was won by team "Murray, why did you leave us?!" in the last minute thanks to a successful final bonus round question.

Congratulations to everybody who took part, a total of 65 players entered the quiz, so about 3/4 of the event, that's what we call a big game!

Also a well done to most of those people in the boat race!

While there were some questionable levels of performance, with far too much spillage, there were some truely epic displays of drinking skill.

Both the pub quiz and boat race will be back for epic.FOUR in July!

After a great event in February, we're proud to announce our next UK LAN Party, epic.FOUR.

Date: 29th July - 1st August 2010
Time: 4pm Thursday - 4pm Sunday
Venue: Uttoxeter Racecourse, Staffordshire. UK
Spaces: 120+
Tickets:

Participant - £50 (£45 until 6pm 1st April)
Spectator - £5 (half day) £10 (full day) £20 (whole event)

• Book Now
• Attendance
• Seating Plan

Over 50 people are already signed up for this event with months still to go! So be quick, you don't want to miss out on one of the most fun and exciting UK LAN events of the year!

The last gamer has left the building and packdown has begun, we'd like to thank everyone for coming to epic.THREE.

We published a survey on the intranet at the event for you to fill in and tell us what you thought. The same survey is now available online! It's only accessible to people who went to epic.THREE and if you already answered it at the event, we have your answers already!

• epic.THREE Feedback Survey

There's also a feedback thread on the forums for more in-depth feedback. Tell us the good, the bad and the ugly about epic.THREE!

• epic.THREE Feedback Forum Thread

Tell us your thoughts on what we did right, what we did wrong and what we can improve; and together we can make epic.FOUR our best event yet!

Get your wooly hats and mittens out as nuclear winter is coming. Millions are set to die at Uttoxeter Racecourse as independent British game developers Introversion hands over the keys to the World's nuclear arsenals with a Turn Up and Play DEFCON tournament at epic.THREE; with the winners walking away with one of 8 full game keys.

Judgement Day is set for 25th - 28th Feburay 2010. Book your seat for the end of the world!

It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins.
But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least.

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Don't forget while you're packing all the rest of your kit for epic.THREE to grab a print out (or screenshot for mobile phone) of your Booking Pass for the event.

To get to your Booking Pass go to My Account > Event Bookings > epic.THREE > Print Your Booking

The more people that bring their booking pass, the quicker we can get people processed at reception and the sooner you can get setup ready for an epic weekend of gaming (or to the bar, whichever!)

And remember, when you check-in to the event, you will be given a fabric wristband which you need to wear throughout the event, it will be checked by the bar staff if you wish to get served, and every time you enter the venue by the epic.LAN team and the external security company who will be on duty with us in the evenings.

Dust-Off®, the official PC and console cleaning product of the World Cyber Games, is the go-to-source for PC and console maintenance and care. Dust-Off products supply gamers with a well-rounded system to keep their expensive PCs clean and running at the highest level of performance. The Dust-Off family of consumer electronics and gaming products includes compressed-gas dusters, micro-fibre cloths, assorted cleaning wipes and the renowned Keyboard Quiver, the official bag to WCG Team USA.

“Professional gamers count on a clean gaming system to help give them a competitive edge in head-to-head competitions and tournaments,” said Ken Newman, Director of Marketing for Dust-Off. “But amateurs and casual gamers alike can also benefit from keeping their gear clean. Whether using a Wii, XBox, PS3, PC or laptop computer, this is a must have accessory for gamers of all skill levels, one that will help them effectively keep all of their components clean and ready."

Jon Winkle, Managing Director of epic gaming Ltd. added, "We're extremely pleased to be working with Dust-Off for epic.THREE but also hopefully as part of a long-term relationship not only to provide the opportunity to try &  buy cleaning & maintenance accessories at our events, but also to help educate our community on the benefits and techniques of maintaining a clean and efficient gaming system."

Participants at epic.THREE will have the opportunity to lay their hands on some 100ml Gaming Dusters and Monitor Wipes as part of a series of random giveaways and competitions. In addition, everyone who completes a brief survey about PC cleaning/maintenance at the event will be entered into a prize draw to win a Keyboard Quiver (RRP £61.99) to protect your prized peripherals.

And with epic.THREE officially just mere days away now, there are now even more reasons to book your place straight away!

Moving on from pretend DJ'ing with this to the real thing.

So you're booked for epic.THREE and you will have seen that we have not one but two guest DJ's playing live sets at the event! Wondering what you can expect from them? To settle your nerves I have personally hunted down the elusive DJ Haden. I say elusive, all you have to do is create a new facebook group and Haden will join!

Anyway back on topic, hit the Read More link below to read our interview with the first of our DJs for epic.THREE.

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