Well, after several requests (that's putting it lightly, most were demands) for photographic evidence of our mini-meet up at Epic.TWELVE, I have delivered - though I bring a disclaimer that the event was very busy, and my camera skills suck. I'll leave the pics as links so that people can load the page quickly.

Shane and I went along to Kettering, UK, for the Epic.LAN event featuring a rookload of different games, one of which being our beloved DotA. ESL held the Challenge Cup there, so teams were playing for a total prize fund of £3000. Not bad for 2 days work

We arrived at Kettering Conference centre, mostly blown there by the stupid gale-force winds that battered us most of the weekend (and kept us from sleeping), and this being my first LAN event, I was suitably impressed! Hundreds of people carted their desktops down, ready to get down to some competitive gaming.
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A shot of the tournament room and Shane

The ESL guys had set up a fairly snazzy stage for the Challenge Cup to be played on, and teams were excited to get their chance to head up on stage to play.
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Shane and Cyborgmatt spectating one of the casted games

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Shane even got his own chance to cast a game with PFlax, the look of disapproval says enough. He actually was shouted at by the backstage crew on more than one occasion for his language, lol.

The Epic.LAN guys put on a Pub Quiz for us one evening, and team 'Dick Havers' rose to the challenge! We were mostly carried by PFlax for any question involving the real world, but the rest of us cobbled together for the 20% of geekery that we knew. Shane's strained protests of "I just play DotA! It's all I know!" meant he was useful for about 3 questions of 12 rounds...
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Team Dick Havers (Left to Right): Guy from Reason.Gaming that came to say hello just before the photo, PFlax, Durka, Kitkat, Joe, Shane, Cyborgmatt, and Bandit

Epic.THIRTEEN is in July, so the rest of you UK rabble had best get your acts together and come represent the doob community! It was scary as anything being surrounded by everyone with 5-6kMMR!

Awesome pics Bandit!

Looks like you guys had fun. I missed shane and pyrion's cast so I'll have to find the VOD and post it here. I'm not too shocked that shane's language got him a warning .

Haha awesome pictures! Was this a single day event?

Here's a link ot the VoD of the game shane and pyrion casted:

http://www.twitch.tv/esluk/b/503560591?t=263m22s

It was a Friday-Monday event