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Doing gaming and esports events things. 💼 MD @epiclan.co.uk Gaming & Esports Events Agency
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Made time to play the Frostpunk board game at our last @epiclan.co.uk tabletop event. We managed to speedrun our way to death by forgetting that laws were a thing. Yes it's just as brutal as the video game.

This may have been a silly mistake. I’ll come back in 6 months and tell you what was in the box…

Another great @epiclan.co.uk tabletop event complete. At one point every table was full (and we filled the extra ones we added in) with an amazing range of games being played from multiple DnD flavours to Warhammer to MTG to a huge array of board games.

I was allowed to pick out a new library game for @epiclan.co.uk’s tabletop event next weekend. Keen to give this one a go!

Tabletop enjoying friends. We have our little event taking place in just under 2 weeks. It's in a hotel, so no taxis to worry about, games run as late as you like (there's no finish time) and we wont judge you if you just want to play Monopoly (much) . www.epiclan.co.uk/tt8

We helped put on a LAN for the lovely people at RuneFest. It looked pretty dammed cool.

A personal reflection from the last weekend. It was strange not being as present in the LAN hall as I focused on the R6 T2 EU Finals, leaving the very capable team to look after the LAN. But mere metres away from the rest of LAN we pulled off something pretty dammed cool.

Remember that time when I said I wouldn’t overdo it to myself again. Yeah that.

Old or something.

First year out for NYE in a long time!

I used to hate people like me when I worked in that industry. Needed the escape though even if it was just a walk for now.

Community Team Assemble! Let's see those crazy Jeff plays as Marvel Rivals takes to the stage for EPIC44's Staff vs Community Challenge. Want to represent the EPIC.LAN community and lose to the staff team? Drop Beank a message in Discord to set up your squad.

A reasonable attempt was made.

LIGHT THE LAMP NOT THE RAT

Had a few folks ask why I didn’t stick around and chat after wrapping this up. Unfortunately the social battery runs out quickly these days after a few hours in front of the camera. Plus last day of a long working year with the extra crap so tank is empty I’m afraid! Sorry to anyone who asked!

Already late. Join in anyway. Twitch.tv/epiclan 🍺🍺🍺

The annual race to an empty inbox by the time I finish on Friday begins...

Wonder when work was really busy…

If you want to avoid the office drinks this Friday and stay home, I'll be hosting an excessively festive edition of the @epiclan.co.uk quiz at 20:00. Live on the EPIC.LAN Twitch and Discord. Bring drinks, lots of them.

Christmas team meal times!

As more of you are moving over here, hi! We're EPIC.LAN. A traditional community LAN party in the UK with a mix of casual gaming, esports, tech demonstrations, stage content and a load of fun. We run 3x big events a year plus smaller events for tabletop fans and a 'luxury' LAN in a hotel.

oh ffs. 🎶 LAHEE 🎶

Look, I’m a present!

I deserved a treat ok?

When we're literally allowed to cook on a project, we come up with something pretty cool! Some behind the scenes shots from last week's World of Warcraft Cooking Battle.

Never thought I’d find myself overseeing a World of Warcraft themed cooking show, but here we are!

Time for another week of budget hotels!

That’s been one of the hardest weeks mentally in a very long time!

Had to deal with one of the most unprofessional and rude people that I've ever encountered in this industry today, an absolute schoolyard bully taking advantage of our business. One of those days where it's really made me question if it's all worth the stress and pressure sometimes.

As I’m being more “me” here, going to make the tough admission that I’m very much struggling again with my 🧠 after getting in top of things for a while. I’ve very much overdone it over recent months combined with external personal and business stresses making things harder than they need to be.

So erm. Any tips for getting temp hair dye out…

The things I do for this job sometimes…

A (re)introduction over here. I'm Jon. I've been putting on gaming events for over 21 years including @epiclan.bsky.social which is a big community LAN party. Outside that I run an events agency that is behind the scenes in loads of gaming & esports events, most of which we cant talk about.

Trying to work out what to use this place for compared to the bird place. As that place has had to become a bit more 'corporate Jon' this can be a little more personal, as much as I can never totally detach myself from EPIC.LAN things, I don't really have anywhere else for that these days.

Hello butterfly place.