The latest version of UK LAN event epic.LAN took place last week – in an online format aka epic.WAN – and a host of esports winners emerged.
epic32 saw teams go head-to-head in a range of games, including CSGO, Valorant, Starcraft 2 and Rainbow Six Siege.
Last month, epic.LAN announced its esports prize pools were boosted following a string of sponsor deals, with the likes of Intel, Overclockers UK, noblechairs, Logitech G and more.
Starting off with Valorant, that tournament was won by Wave Esports who took home the top prize of £1,900, followed by Rix.gg in second place who won £950.
Team Vitality forfeited their third-place prize money due to the team dropping out, so epic.LAN donated this money to GameBlast 21. This meant funds went to UK-based charity SpecialEffect, the charity set up to help disabled people play video games.
The Last Resort won the Rainbow Six Siege tournament, bagging them £425 and a spot in the Rainbow Six UK and Ireland Nationals Division 2.
Austrian Force and Win Your Ones finished in second and third place respectively.
Looking at CSGO, that competition was won by UMX Gaming, who took home £1,300 and became back-to-back epic.LAN champions.
Peak Esports were runners-up, receiving £700, while Dobbos Bowl Cut & Co finished in third place, claiming £400.
An absolute DOMINANT performance on Inferno means we are your BACK2BACK @epicLAN CHAMPIONS.
— UMX (@UMX_Gaming) February 28, 2021
GGs to @Peak_Home, we’ll see each other next year if not sooner.
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Then in Starcraft 2, Soul was the overall winner, taking home £250. Soul finished ahead of Gerald and SouLeer in second and third place respectively.
There were also a host of community tournament winners, including Blackout Gaming who won PUBG Squads, beating the team with the best name of the event:
DaveMarr was named Intel Community Champion.
You can check out the full list of winners from epic32 on the epic.LAN website.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
