So it's six weeks till the first LAN event of the year happens for the UK scene. epic.TWELVE looks set to being a great event with ESL UK in attendance with some nice stuff, a DotA2, StarCraft 2, League Of Legends and CS:GO Tournaments.

As per usual I will do a thread which will have all the information in one place to make it 10x easier for teams and players to organise various things. If you are looking for players, teams, lifts or information regarding the tournament itself, it will be placed within this thread.

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epic.TWELVE General Information

Dates:
Friday 14th - Monday 17th February 2014
Times:
4pm Friday - 4pm Monday
Venue:
Kettering Conference Centre, Thurston Drive, Kettering, Northants, NN15 6PB
Spaces:
400+
Cost:

£60 BYOC Ticket
£10 Spectator Day Pass, £20 Spectator Whole Event Pass

[b]£3000 (Guaranteed) ESL UK Dota 2 Challenge

Up to £3000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Up to £3000 League of Legends

Up to £2000 Starcraft 2[/b]
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[b]Tournament Admin:[/b] Mike "Dollon" Sargeant
[b]Tournament Casters:[/b] Banks & Mashton
[b]Tournament Start Time:[/b] Saturday 11am
[b]Tournament Finish Time:[/b] Sunday 11pm (Grand Final scheduled for 9pm start on ESL UK Stage)

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[b]Paid Up Teams:[/b]
interp! - sh1, probee, Lukez, Crossy, drd
Team MINISTRY - ashhh, Metta, eddie, 5haBo, linden
TeamCRG - redSNK, CRMJ, tsack, decclan, danielsan
The Lovely Men - HenryG, fearLess, Sliggy, cauzed, JT
The Not So Lovely Men - Neil_M, weber, steel, jakem, vertiGo
Rasta.Mix - MonSta, harsh, betts, davis, needs +1

[b]Interested Teams but Unpaid:[/b]

Optimum eSports (smithy, PAN1K, sykes, deLay, FleX)

[b]Teams looking for players:[/b]

[b]Players looking for teams:[/b]

[b]Players looking for lifts:[/b]
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If you wish to be a part of this list, please place the relevant information needed, so if you are a player LFT then please place your contact details down. If there are any questions you would like to know regarding the tournament place them in this thread, if you wish to know more about epic.TWELVE then go visit the website here: http://www.epiclan.co.uk/epic12

Promo Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXmW58MCBDA

Any other information that teams may need will be placed in this thread, schedule of tournament will be confirmed when we have a realistic amount of teams going.

casual bump.

It'd be nice if teams of a casual nature/community nature also went to these events, as it's a better event for the community side to get together and have a social beer/chat about the scene :)

Indeed would be nice. Just think the UK scene is pretty dead nower days unfortunately :(

Compared to the rest of Europe, yes, which is where I cannot understand why.... we just seem to lack something that Europeans have?

The fact that we cannot muster more than 10 teams to an epic.LAN when CS:GO has just broken through 100k players concurrently is a disturbing fact.

Problem i believe, is that us brits for some reason cant keep a team of 5 together for any length of time without falling out with each other :p

+1 dan

Yeah but that is expected these days.

People still used to go to events for some fun and banter with mixes, what has changed?

Britain have been taken over by consoles. Hardly anyone has PC...

strange thing is you cant look at another game, and say UK comp scene moved to another game, as Dota 2 isn't exactly big in UK or any other titles its strange indeed

I don't like how it starts on Valentines, do the games start on the Friday or Saturday..

@VRUCE

Only game that is perhaps bigger is LoL. But with the releases of LoL and DotA2 since the days of CS Source hey days (before mid - end 2009), it has split what we had. The fact that communities also are now non existant, and surprisingly I'd actually say Matchmaking has damaged the use of making teams. There was a recent reddit post talking about UK CS:GO players, and there were quite a few in there who have been brought into matchmaking but haven't thought about attacking online leagues/going to LANs.

@DaNkUK

I too don't like it, but unfortunately epic has always fell on this weekend in February, and the fact that the venue has other events which book out dates it was the only feasible weekend to do it. My other note to add (this is my own personal opinion) is that I have always hated Valentines Day (because it is far too commercialized), but if people cannot do it all year round with their partners then perhaps they don't deserve to do it on Valentines :P I've always been of the opinion that you treat your partner all year round with various spontaneous things, you shouldn't have to do anything special on one day which is over commercialized.

However we understand that people do have lives, we are not heartless people, and some of us who staff at events have to leave partners as well to run the event. The problem we have in terms of most of our tournaments there is the consideration of the fact it is Friday - Monday event, and people don't really want to push to Monday, so the tournament start times are determined by what sign ups we have currently. This is why I do these threads because I need to know how many teams we are looking at having currently because it helps us push out a rough schedule earlier for teams. Mike & I have done a massive spreadsheet of the amount of teams we are likely to have and what our schedule can be, if people want to finish on Sunday evening to be home for work/school/university then we have to start late on Friday night to help give us enough breathing space for potential delays & issues.

bump.

I need two more teams to hit the second prize trigger, with 10 days to go I'd like to see more interest from the community to help CSGO grow in the UK.