Early Early Bird is back! You can now get 30% off your ticket, which means you can get your pass into the UK’s biggest gaming event for a meagre £63!

Running from 12th to the 15th of November at Newbury Racecourse once more, you can expect to see more awesome tournaments, exhibitors, events and activities throughout the weekend.

Make sure you get your ticket now before they sell out!

Well, that’s it for i40! Another massive weekend of gaming finally comes to an end! Thanks to all of you who attended and made the event so awesome, thanks to all the exhibitors for supporting the event and thanks to all our volunteer staff for making the event possible!

There are thousands of photos up on our coverage pages, so have a look and see if you ended up in any of them, also check out some of our iLive videos from the event.

All the video on demand videos will be online within the next few days, once we have un-camped from Newbury and got back to the office!

Keep an eye on the i-Series site for more news regarding the sleepless winter event that will be insomnia41, and make sure you check out our forums and get involved in the community!

Until next time, check the traffic and have a safe journey home.

We’ll see you at i41!

SmackdownSyndrome have just defeated team Quim in the final of the i40 HON tournament. In what was a fairly close encounter throughout, SmackdownSyndrome were able to use their more efficient carry farming to pull out the win over a determined team Quim.

Don’t call it an upset!

With hundreds of hungry StarCraft 2 fans surrounding the stage area and several thousand watching on the live stream, TotalBiscuit and Apollo brought you all of the action from the i40 SC2 tournament final.

The final was played as a best of 7 series, with Randy starting the match up with a 2-0 head start as a result of reaching the final via the upper bracket route. Speaking to him before the game Randy seemed very confident of his chances against Pureball. This was to prove an unfounded mindset however, with PureBall wrapping up the victory in convincing fashion in 4 straight maps to win 4-2.

If this kind of play and excitement is a sign of what’s to come in the future of SC2, then we have a lot to look forward as far as i-series SC2 tournaments are concerned.

Very Games concluded their rampant march to the i40 Thermaltake Counter Strike Source title with a 16-3 win over a Demonic mix team.

In what was the loudest, closest and most exciting final that the stage has witnessed so far this event, Team Dignitas were victorious over Epsilon E-Sports in the TF2 final.

Over three maps of Granary, Gullywash and the decider of Badlands, Dignitas pulled off the victory in the face of some fierce opposition put up by Epsilon E-Sports.

The final day of Might and Magic Heroes Kingdoms on fast-foward as begun! This is your last chance to play the game as it will never be seen again – sped up so that hours fit into seconds, and armies are built up in minutes. We’ll also be offering a prize of a free Ubisoft game of their choice to the top five ranking players (by Domination points) at the end of the session!

You can join the exclusive i40 game world by visiting http://mightandmagicheroeskingdoms.ubi.com/partner/i40 – registration is easy using your Ubi.com or FaceBook login.

Today’s session finishes at midnight so join in now for some late night fantasy battles! Play now and take a shot at winning a free game!

The Call of Duty 4 fun tournament signups are now open!

It will be a double elim tournament with a £5 entry fee per team and lots of prizes for the top 8 teams

Can you please get your teams ready and bring the 5 booking id’s to G2-Z1 so we can get your teams signed up!

The signups will close at 6.45 for a start time of 7pm.

big thanks go to Defused for getting the prizes sorted.

and also a massive thanks to:

Odee, Gigabyte, Relentless, Demon, Zotac, ESET & Cyborg for supplying the prizes!!

Go Go Go!!!!

Thanks

Geo

After making his way through the losers bracket to the grand final, Carl Strange has won the Play The Gamer Fifa 10 Xbox Tournament at i40.

For more information about this match and the earlier stages of the tournament, click on through to the Sweetpatch website.

Facing off in the i40 COD4 tournament final were Dignitas and Watch and Learn. Dignitas reached the final after something of an unprecedented run of playing all their matches 4v5. Due to player issues they had only 4 players to compete against the 5 that Watch and Learn had to offer.

This however didn’t prove to be too much of a hurdle for Dignitas who eventually managed to take the victory in the final map, after Watch and Learn forced the match into double overtime.
There was some incredible play on show from members of both teams, with Robyye standing out in particular.

Congratulations Dignitas, enjoy the prize money!

Final Scores :

City Streets -13-2 Dignitas

SmackdownSyndrome have just defeated team Quim in the final of the i40 HON tournament. In what was a fairly close encounter throughout, SmackdownSyndrome were able to use their more efficient carry farming to pull out the win over a determined team Quim.

Don’t call it an upset!

With hundreds of hungry StarCraft 2 fans surrounding the stage area and several thousand watching on the live stream, TotalBiscuit and Apollo brought you all of the action from the i40 SC2 tournament final.

The final was played as a best of 7 series, with Randy starting the match up with a 2-0 head start as a result of reaching the final via the upper bracket route. Speaking to him before the game Randy seemed very confident of his chances against Pureball. This was to prove an unfounded mindset however, with PureBall wrapping up the victory in convincing fashion in 4 straight maps to win 4-2.

If this kind of play and excitement is a sign of what’s to come in the future of SC2, then we have a lot to look forward as far as i-series SC2 tournaments are concerned.

Very Games concluded their rampant march to the i40 Thermaltake Counter Strike Source title with a 16-3 win over a Demonic mix team.

In what was the loudest, closest and most exciting final that the stage has witnessed so far this event, Team Dignitas were victorious over Epsilon E-Sports in the TF2 final.

Over three maps of Granary, Gullywash and the decider of Badlands, Dignitas pulled off the victory in the face of some fierce opposition put up by Epsilon E-Sports.

The Call of Duty 4 fun tournament signups are now open!

It will be a double elim tournament with a £5 entry fee per team and lots of prizes for the top 8 teams

Can you please get your teams ready and bring the 5 booking id’s to G2-Z1 so we can get your teams signed up!

The signups will close at 6.45 for a start time of 7pm.

big thanks go to Defused for getting the prizes sorted.

and also a massive thanks to:

Odee, Gigabyte, Relentless, Demon, Zotac, ESET & Cyborg for supplying the prizes!!

Go Go Go!!!!

Thanks

Geo

After making his way through the losers bracket to the grand final, Carl Strange has won the Play The Gamer Fifa 10 Xbox Tournament at i40.

For more information about this match and the earlier stages of the tournament, click on through to the Sweetpatch website.

Facing off in the i40 COD4 tournament final were Dignitas and Watch and Learn. Dignitas reached the final after something of an unprecedented run of playing all their matches 4v5. Due to player issues they had only 4 players to compete against the 5 that Watch and Learn had to offer.

This however didn’t prove to be too much of a hurdle for Dignitas who eventually managed to take the victory in the final map, after Watch and Learn forced the match into double overtime.
There was some incredible play on show from members of both teams, with Robyye standing out in particular.

Congratulations Dignitas, enjoy the prize money!

Final Scores :

City Streets -13-2 Dignitas

TI Monkey will once again be representing the UK at the WCG finals after overcoming the challenge of DMC on Guitar Hero 5.

With an almost perfect display of controlled button mashing, Ryan Hart was able to defeat Grunt Dude in the Tekken 6 WCG UK Qualifier finals.

Playing as Kazuya, Ryan Hart defeated Grunt Dude’s Lili in 2 set victories of 3-1 and 3-0, the second of which featured a “Perfect”! Ryan Hart kept the crowd gathered by the stage area entertained with some awesome combos and well executed moves.

Well done to Ryan Hart and the best of luck in Los Angeles!

Moments ago Daveyskills booked his spot on the plane to Los Angeles to play Forza 3 in the finals of WCG 2010.

The final of the WCG UK Qualifier for Fifa10 on PC has just reached its conclusion with ChrissyB winning out over Classic with two victories of 5-4 and 6-2.

ChrissyB was the overwhelming favourite heading into the final and he didn’t disappoint, managing to hold on for the win against Classic, who pushed Chrissy all the way despite having two keepers sent off in the second match! Classic may feel a little hard done by with the referee deciding that his goalkeepers had committed sending off offences on two separate occasions.

This morning the stage played host to an extraordinarily exciting Trackmania Nations final with Shaw ending up victorious over a series of 4 maps.

Shaw took an early lead on the first map (classic) and managed to hold onto it for the remainder of the match, despite an absolutely epic comeback from Darky. Darky was able to win several rounds in a row with some textbook driving, enabling him to claw back what looked to be an insurmountable gap between himself and Shaw.

We would like to make you all aware of some changes to our schedule for the finals games taking place on the stage.
As a result of some exciting and tightly matched games so far this morning, we have had to push some of the later matches back by an hour or so.

We have an updated schedule over on this page on Fileplay, in the lower right corner.

Good morning!

The double elim stages of the BF:BC2 tournament sponsored by EA Store will start at 11 today, Please check clanforge for more information.

Also IRC is your friend

Cheers

Geo

We will be running a fun Call of Duty tournament later on this afternoon.
Keep an eye out for details.

kthnkbai

PS. £5 per team entry plus maybe some prizes

Favourite Chris Bullard will meet team mate Luke Stovell in the final of the i40 World Cyber Games FIFA 10 on the PC tournament on the main stage in the grandstand this morning. This is scheduled to go down at 10:30 am so make sure you don’t miss it, as it promises to be a close and exciting match!

For more information on this match in particular and for a look back at earlier results in the tournament, visit this page.

Every event the TF2 community is calling out for more games to see and best of 3 rounds instead of the short lived single map elimination. This time round the questions and requests have been no different, only now we are going to accomodate the drooling masses!

The upper bracket final, lower bracket final, consolation final and grand final will all be played best of 3. The maps will be decided from the map pool via elimination apart from the grand final where the winner of the upper bracket will decide upon the first 2 maps as reward for battling through the upper level and not losing a game while the decider, if needed, will be chosen by the winner of the lower bracket final.

We’re finally getting into the business end of the knockout stages in the Dabs Team Fortress 2 tournament and are rounding off a long days gaming with our first clash of the top 4 teams.

Sweeping through the opposition the top 3 have encountered little resistance so far while 4th seeds Fakkelbrigade refuse to go down without a fight. We will be slightly delayed from the scheduled 21:00BST scheduled time but look to be getting underway around 21:30BST. We will also be showing TCM vs Epsilon on the projector in the TF2 marquee!

Fakkelbrigade vs Team Dignitas: 85.236.102.16:35715
TCM-Gaming vs Epsilon: 85.236.102.16:35815

In the lower bracket we also have Shootin Your Pixels vs Twisted play and Vertex Stinson vs eMpathy in the fight for survival.

Vertex Stinson vs eMpathy: 85.236.102.16:35915
TwistedPlay vs Shootin Your Pixels: 85.236.102.16:36015

Don’t forget you can also see the TCM-Gaming team live in action playing from the Mad Katz stand in the exhibition area of the grandstand.

Well the first day of the Starcraft 2 Cup is finished and we have completed the group stages.

We have moved on from the usually quick group stages now and move into the double elimination knock-outs. The groups were faily uneventful apart from the awsome boys and girls of BoX? taking a round from 3rd seeded Epsilon Gaming and two of the Vertex teams duking it out into a golden cap for first and second place in their group.

Things start off nice and interestingly with cp_Well, a defensive map where the lower level teams can make a game of it against superior opponents and maybe we will see some early shocks!

Tune in to STV to keep up with the events as they happen:

box? 2 vs dignitas: 85.236.102.16:35715
WWJBD vs TwistedPlay: 85.236.102.16:35815
ReJ vs SHooting your Pixels: 85.236.102.16:35915
Snuke vs FakkelBrigade: 85.236.102.16:36015
Epsilon vs Vertex2: 85.236.102.16:36115
Vertex Stinson vs Beer and Rockets: 85.236.102.16:36215
Empathy vs FB Green: 85.236.102.16:36315
TCM vs Cede?: 85.236.102.16:36415

The WCG Fifa 10 PC tournament has reached the double elimination stage, information on who is participating and the results of all ongoing games will be available by clicking this link.

The double elimination matches started at 3pm so keep an eye on that page or pop over to the grandstand!

For all the HON teams wanting to know tournament rules here they are, if you have a query bring it up on IRC or when the briefing occurs later on today.

Game type: 5v5, Banning pick, All Heroes, Tournament rules

No heroes will be banned at this time
2 crowd control items per team e.g Stormspirit/Sheepstick
Limit of 2 puzzlebox’s per team
Blocking creeps in the base with Behemoth’s Fissure is not allowed
Using any type of bug or a glitch is not allowed
No glitching out of the map
First pick and side of map shall be decided by roll 1/2

It shall be 3 group stage games followed by double elimination, only one group stage will be played tonight so you wont miss the world famous pub quiz if you plan on going (Which you should).

Plus heres another reminder to make sure you have 5 members of your team signed on by 7

Sengar

Attention all Scouts, Medics, Sollies and Demomen!

There have been some slight changes to the rules for the i40 TF” Tournament, you can find the rules below :

The crab is a spy!

For those of you that did not hear the tannoy, the Heroes of Newerth tournament has been rescheduled to sign in’s closing at 6:00 tonight. This is due to a lot of teams wishing to join in the event that they get knocked out of either TF2 or CSS. Please be aware that the sign in time will only be about 30 minutes before the first scheduled game so make sure you have all 5 signed in quickly. Once more briefing will be announced by tannoy, make sure you dont miss this opportunity to join another exciting tournament.

You will be updated as soon as possible if further changes occur

Sengar

Hi Starcraft 2 Players!

The group fixtures are now up, please use #css.tournament on IRC in order to request map changes, report scores and tell us about any issues you may have.

Here’s just an update for anyone currently signed up for the Heroes of Newerth tournament or are planning on doing so.

First off there are still a fair few teams who have not got full teams of 5, sign ups will close at 1:30. If you do not have a full team of 5 you will not be able to play.
Rules will be posted up shortly and can be discussed in the briefing which will be held at 2:00, listen out for the tannoy in case of changes. Please also make sure that you have your team leader in the IRC channel #Hon.tournament for any updates and easy contact. Im currently adding teams/players which have had sign in problems so they should also be up shortly. Finally games will start at 3:00 so make sure you grab some lunch and enjoy the tournament

Sengar

Due to the many problems the start of the Call of Duty 4 tournament is now delayed until 10am tomorrow morning.

The CoD4 admins.

Due to the problems with steam we have delayed the tournament until 10am tomorrow morning. Hopefully the issues will be sorted and stable by then and we get get stuck in for a day of TF2.

Due to the unfortunate server issues we are experiencing, we are waiting until 2100 to see if the issue is resolved. If the problems are fixed, games will commence at 2200.

Here are the seedings for the Call of Duty 4 Tournament:

1. Dignitas
2. FM Sapphire
3. Forin Beggers
4. vital.dBG
5. VATIC
6. watch and Learn
7. Starting from zero
8. zatu

We are currently creating CoD4 servers and will hopefully be ready to start in the next 2 hours.

Please keep your eyes and ears open for the briefing time which will be held in the Tote bar.

Thanks

Geo

If you are having trouble signing up for the Call of Duty tournament can you please come and see the CoD4 admins on 2nd floor grandstand, row Z1-3.

Can you also please make sure that a representative of your team is on internal irc #cod4.tournament

Briefing information and times will be available soon.

Beer welcome.
The CoD4 admins.

Afternoon guys and gals!

Call of Duty 4 sign-ups have been extended until 5pm.

If you are having problems signing up come see the CoD4 Admins at G2 Z1-3.

After sign-ups have closed please look out for more information on the tournament briefing which will be held in the Tote bar.

See you soon.
Your CoD4 Admins.

No install, no flash, no Java – Kingdoms runs straight from your browser, and we’ve got a special high-speed version for everyone at i40 to play for free!

Build your armies, train legendary heroes and send them forth to crush your enemies and expand your empire. You can join the i40 game world by visiting http://mightandmagicheroeskingdoms.ubi.com/partner/i40 – registration is easy using your Ubi.com or FaceBook login. (Existing players can change to the i40 world in their profile after they’ve clicked the link.)

Game sessions will be running midday 12 pm to 6pm on Friday and Saturday, with a special late night finale on Sunday from 6pm to midnight. See you on the battlefield!

Good morning everyone!

The Call of Duty 4 tournament sign-ups are now open. Can you please head to ClanForge and register
your team.

If you have any problems then please come and see the CoD4 Admins at G2 Z1-3.

Many thanks the CoD4 Admins.

We are pleased to announce that at insomnia40, Demon Broadband will be launching a new, very low latency gaming broadband product where gaming traffic is truly prioritised.

This will be ideal for serious gamers who want the best gaming experience at home, and a competitive edge over other players.

Demon Game Pro will provide a better gaming experience than standard products because of the lower network latency, improved ping times and 24×7 UK based, in-house technical support from a team comprised of dedicated employees (including some avid gamers) with an average of 11 years Demon expertise.

The service will offer speeds of up to 20Mb downstream and 1Mb upstream, free wireless router, free 24 x 7 in-house UK based support, traffic prioritisation and free static IP address.

Demon Game Pro soft launched on 20th, with it’s full launch at insomnia40.

To find out more, check out the Demon Game Pro website, or visit the Demon booth at insomnia40!

Across the weekend, Quiet PC are running a number of great fun tournaments on their stand, with swag worth £3000 up for grabs!

With kit from Zalman, Scythe, Noctua, Arctic and Gelid up for grabs, there is loads to get your hands on throughout the weekend.

Want to know more? Check out this post on our community forums where Paul AKA Skippylee from Quiet PC explains all about it!

We’re proud to announce the return of the iHunt; the fun iSeries game that gives players the opportunity to participate in a contest of intellect, lateral thinking and logical skill. The secret to winning? Just be the fastest thinker out there.

iHunt fanatics and Multiplay forum members, Hexxeh and Garywoo will be taking the reigns of the iHunt, and will be bringing you an exiting and adventure filled iHunt experience.

The contest takes place both in cyberspace and at locations throughout the event, and is open to any BYOC participant who wishes to compete in our 21st century treasure hunt. Bring your camera, mobile phone, notepad and stop-watch, you just might need them. Entry to this is free, with only a simple signup on the iHunt website needed. Compete in teams or by yourself. More info, and details about signing up will be announced at the start of the event!

We’ve now released the venue layout for everyone to see what changes we are making to the venue at insomnia40.
You can head over to our event guide map to see the new layout!

Check-in will now be done at the main Newbury ticket turnstiles by the Member’s car park. All entrance and exit to and from the event will be via this single security checkpoint.
We will have parking attendants on the main event setup days directing cars in the car park, and operating the system allowing you to get near the stands with your cars to unload.

Camping will be all in one area with festival showers and toilets on site. Many of you will never have noticed quite how big this area is, so don’t worry there is plenty of room!

We have also now confirmed which tournaments will be available to be selected with which, you can check the matrix over here

Ubisoft will be at i40 with their browser-based battles game Might and Magic Heroes Kingdoms. The developers have cooked up a special version of the game just for i40 which runs at a much faster pace than usual, fitting weeks worth of turns into 6 hours along with a few other fun tweaks. Build your army, train your heroes, and prepare to conquer the enemy’s lands in glorious battle!

We’ll be running three sessions between 12 midday and 6pm on Friday and Saturday, with a late-night finale between 6pm and 12 midnight on Sunday. You can reserve your username NOW here and details of how to join the game will be available at i40.

Today we are thrilled to announce that Dabs.com will be providing hardware prizes for the winners of Team Fortress 2 cup!

Adding to the already huge potential prize fund of £5000, Dabs.com have kindly agreed to provide the top teams in the Team Fortress 2 Cup with some great sets of hardware.
We’ll have more information on the specific items of hardware for each winner soon!

If you’ve not already entered the Team Fortress 2 tournament, you can enter yourself into a team here or find out more information about the tournament here.

ESET will be running a challenge across the insomnia40 weekend, to prove that you and your friends at the best at Fighting the Infected.

Visit the ESET stand on Friday and Saturday and set the best time in Left 4 Dead 2 Survival mode. Survive the longest across the weekend and you’ll be invited to set another time live on stage!

The winners will receive one of the latest Intel® Core™ i7-980X processor Extreme Edition each, worth over £800!

All you need to do to enter this tournament is to register at the ESET exhibition stand at insomnia40!

ESET will also be giving a massive 50% off ESET NOD32 Antivirus for all i40 visitors only! Come to the stand to make your purchases (cash sales only on stand) or see ESET staff on stand at i40 for your promotional code to purchase online!

Today we are very pleased to announce that S2 Games (the developers of Heroes of Newerth) together with SteelSeries, will be supporting the Heroes of Newerth Cup at insomnia40.

There is a huge £2,500 up for grabs! We will also have a trial key for everyone at insomnia40, allowing players to play 10 games of HoN for free!
SteelSeries will also be providing prizes for the top 3 teams in the form of the Xai Laser Mouse, the Kinzu Optical Mouse and the QcK mousepad, and a pair of the Siberia v2 USB headset for the Most Valuable Player in the tournament!

Tournament signups will be going live next week, and if you haven’t got a ticket yet for what is sure to be an incredible event with some amazing games, head over to our ticket page. Tickets are currently selling very fast, so make sure you don’t miss out!

You can find the rules here or enter the tournament by clicking the button below.

We’re now getting very close to our insomnia40 event and there is still loads of really exciting news to come.
With the best prize winning tournaments of the year and a completely packed exhibition hall, you simply cannot afford to miss out.

Remember that the only way to secure your place at the event is to purchase your ticket today!

Games tonight and tomorrow, schedule as follows:

All times in BST!

Wednesday 28th July:

eXelon vs fish123 – 7pm BST
VeryGames vs Neckbeards – 8pm BST

Upper Bracket Grand Final – 9pm BST: OX.Enermax vs TLR

Thursday 29th July:

Lower Final – 7pm
Consolation Final – 8pm

Thermaltake Grand Final – 9pm Thursday 29th

All the games are available to watch on the same STV:

STV: connect 85.236.102.72:33415

There will also be a Live Shoutcast and Stream provided by ESL Radio link here:

Stream and Cast: http://www.own3d.tv/live/46

Currently there is only their 1 caster but hopefully we will be able to hook in a special guest to co-cast with them. Be sure to tune in and watch as the games are set to be absolutely phenomenal.

Be there or be square!

We are very pleased to announce that Razer will be supporting the Starcraft 2 tournament at insomnia40!
Providing the top 3 players in the tournament with a great range of kit from their new Starcraft 2 range.

Up for grabs will be the Razer Spectre StarCraft II Gaming Mouse, the Razer Maurauder StarCraft II Gaming Keyboard and the Razer Banshee StarCraft II Gaming Headset

We are also very pleased to announce that we will have a very special guest in attendance at insomnia40 to help us produce the best coverage surrounding the event.

TotalBiscuit, the Cynical Brit, will be at insomnia40 providing you all with the latest up to date information on the Starcraft 2 tournament, including video coverage of the tournament and live casting of the tournament finals!

Currently the most viewed director on Youtube, beating the likes of 4OD and the BBC, TotalBiscuit provides authentic British Cataclysm and Starcraft 2 commentary.

You can check out his Youtube channel here and check out some of his previous videos!

If you’ve not already got a ticket for what is shaping up to be the best gaming event of 2010, secure your place now by purchasing a ticket here

Today we have finalised the rulesets for our most recent tournaments to be announced, Starcraft 2 and Battlefield Bad Company 2.

Want to get practising, find the sneaky routes round the maps or the best build order for your zerg rush? xD

Just head on over to our Tournaments Page to check out the rulesets for all of the tournaments at insomnia40.

You can now enter for your chance to win a ticket for and a place in the UK National Finals for World Cyber Games, held at insomnia40.

The qualifiers will take place in Guitar Hero 5, Tekken 6 and Forza Motorsport 3 starting on the 3rd of August.
Check out our online qualifiers page for more information!

A quick change to the Thermaltake Tournaments schedule! The changes/updates can be found HERE. Please be sure to take a look, especially if you are one of the final runners in the competition. With just 6 games remaining we are down to the final
6 teams and boy what a finish we have in stall. The top 4 set to take free TUP tickets to insomnia40 and skip straight the to elimination stages along with a top 4 seed. Tensions are high and there is still everything to play for, 1 more game lads and the final 4 will be duking out for that top seed.

Urgent Thermaltake Update!

De_Tuscan has been removed from the map rotation for tonights Thermaltake CounterStrike Source Qualifiers. This is due to a major bug in the map itself allowing players to shoot through multiple boxes at a time. This should not be possible and until an update is released or this issue is fixed the map will not be played during the Thermaltake Qualifiers. The map that you will be playing instead is Nuke for both Upper and Lower bracket games followed by Train for the Lower bracket and Dust2 for both Upper and Lower at 9pm.

Again we apologise for the inconvenience but these are issues that are out of Multiplays control. Good luck for tonights games and see you at 7pm BST!

With the 2nd week having drawn to a close and the 3rd week fast approaching i decided to put together a little write up with regards to how the tournament has gone so far, the big games and the surprising disappointments. The article itself is a little too large to post up here so if you want all the latest details, results and demo tips then head over to the Thermaltake Counter Strike Source News Section and enjoy.

For those still in the tournament be ready for 7pm BST on Thursday 22nd July for your games. Games to watch: DSRack vs OX.Enermax, H2k vs VeryGames, eXelon vs NeCKBeARdS and TLR vs MOD.#5* – All just a few of the big games coming this thursday. All Source TVs will be available on the night with demos to follow on Fileplay

See you Thursday!

We are delighted to announce that once again ESET will be returning to the iSeries!

ESET will be Fighting the Infected at insomnia40 with their Left 4 Dead 2 tournament held in their exhibition area with the Grand Final live on stage and on the stream of the event!

There will be loads of really fun activities running from the stand throughout the weekend and the chance to get your hands on some of ESET’s award winning products. ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security products will be on sale at massive discounts to i40 visitors plus find out more about ESET Mobile Antivirus!

ESET will be holding a PC Medic Service on Saturday & Sunday for anyone running or trialling ESET. ESET Technicians will be on stand to troubleshoot any issues and set up the gaming configuration for users!

So why not come and check out their booth at the event!

Just a quick update with regards to the Thermaltake insomnia40 CounterStrike Source Online Qualifiers.

All demos from the first 2 rounds are now uploded and available at:

Fileplay Demos Link – Click Latest Files or search for your team name in the top right – Enjoy!

With regards to the schedule, everything is going very well. To keep you all reminded and updated the schedule can be found below:

Thermaltake CS:S Online Qualifer Schedule

A very close tournament so far with Power Gaming still to play Neckbeards in the 2nd round of the upper bracket. Their game is scheduled for Wednesday 14th 22:00 BST. Will be a great game to watch! See you there!

It’s nearly here! Only a few hours remaining and the temperature is rising. Looking set to be one of the best tournaments this year, we are at the final hurdles. As always there have been a few hiccups along the way but we are looking set for a cracking tournament.

Here is what you need to know:

Signups are STILL open. They will remain open until 4:30pm. There are currently 6 remaining slots. These have become free due to some of the Invite teams being unable to attend last minute due to various reasons. Signups will remain open here:

http://tournaments.multiplay.co.uk/signups – use your Multiplay Login.

On a side note there are several teams with 4 that are not entered until they have a complete 5. Perhaps these teams want to jump on their players and make sure they are all signed up. To check you have 5 go here:

http://tournaments.multiplay.co.uk/events/Tournaments/ – Click CounterStrike Source on the left, then Teams, hover over your team name to see the players entered.

Schedule for the tournament:

Round 1 – Thursday 8th July – 7pm BST
Round 2 – Thursday 8th July – 8pm BST
Round 3 – Thursday 15th July – 7pm BST
Round 4 – Thursday 15th July – 8pm BST
Round 5 – Thursday 15th July – 9pm BST
Round 6 – Thursday 22nd July – 7pm BST
Round 7 – Thursday 22nd July – 8pm BST
Round 8 – Thursday 22nd July – 9pm BST
Round 9 – Wednesday 28th July – 7pm BST
Upper Final – Wednesday 28th July – 8pm BST
Lower Final – Wednesday 28th July – 9pm BST
Consolation Final – Thursday 29th July – 7pm BST
Grand Final – Thursday 29th July – 8pm BST – Best of 3!!!

Please make sure that a MINIMUM of one of your members are available in #Multiplay.css on Quakenet in IRC!!! This is mandatory! More information can be gathered there at any time.

Rulesets can be found here: http://iseries.multiplay.co.uk/i40/tournaments/css-online/

Brackets are released at 5:00pm! In 1 Hour! Simply go to: http://tournaments.multiplay.co.uk/events/Tournaments/ – Click on Matches!

Admins:

Damage – Lead Admin
FiRe – Lead Admin
beefcake – Admin
Gumpster – Admin
SBB – Admin

Additional News: We have made it possible for a number of teams to reschedule their first games due to DSRack LAN. We are moving their games to Tuesday 13th July or Wednesday 14th dependant on each teams agreement. So the unfortunate news is that perhaps 3 or 4 teams will not have games tonight but will be asked to play them Tues/Weds next week. We have done this to allow as much access to the tournament as we can and enable as many teams to participate as physically possible. Hopefully this wont affect any teams too much.

Please all be in IRC as of 6:30pm BST so we can stick to schedule. All have your CS:S updated, everything you need to play ready as we will not be waiting except for extreme circumstances. Any questions can be asked/answered there.

Best of luck to all the teams entered. CU ON

Thats right people, the time is drawing near. We are roughly 1 week away from the start of the online qualifications for Multiplays Insomnia40 Thermaltake CounterStrike Source Tournament. This announcement is being made to allow for an additional 48 hours to be added before signups close. Initially signups were due to close on the 30th June, yesterday, but we are extending them until Friday to allow for all teams to fill their rosters.

Now i suppose we should give you some incentive to sign up quickly. There were 48 open spaces and 16 invite spaces available, obviously the invite spaces are chosen by us however the other 48 are first come first serve. There are currently 81 teams signed up HOWEVER only 35 have full rosters! This means there are still 13 spaces available, however im pretty sure as soon as this announcement is posted they will go very quickly.

Something I would also like to bring to your attention. The tournament starts on Thursday 8th July, the day before DSRack LAN. Now there have been requests to make the games earlier to allow teams time to prepare for DSRack. Currently the games are scheduled at 7pm GMT and 8pm GMT, is this early enough? Currently the trail of thought is that we will use these times for the remainder of the tournament (the following 2 thursdays). Any feedback is welcome here.

Finally the confirmed invites so far: Reason Gaming, Power Gaming, FragMasters! Toxic, The Last Resort, RAGE.Enuzi, OX.Enermax, eXelon Gaming, VeryGames, DSRack, H2k. Final reminders have been sent to those outstanding. Should they be ignored we will move to the reserve invites.

Signups at: Tournament Signups!

See you there!

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Over the weekend we opened up signups for the Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup Online Qualifiers.

We will be running Online Qualifiers for the Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup, allowing 4 teams the chance to win free entry into Insomnia40.

Signups are now open for the 64 team double elimination online qualifiers. 16 teams have been invited so there are only 48 available spaces that will be issued on a first come first serve basis. Signups will close when 48 full teams (5 members) have signed up or the signup end date is reached on the 30th June.

Instead of 1st and 2nd place going through to the elimination round as if they had finished first and 3rd and 4th going through to the elimination round as if they had finished second, we have decided that the 4 winning teams will simply be seeded 1 – 4 in the elimination bracket at insomnia40. We hope this change will increase the incentive to enter the online qualifier. We will also release the confirmed invited teams shortly.

To sign up head to tournaments.multiplay.co.uk/signups/ and use your normal Multiplay Login to register your team. All 5 members MUST be signed up to the team for it to be classed as a complete team so please ensure you all get signed up. This is looking set to be a great tournament with some great interest already so go get signed up!

If you’ve not already got a ticket for what will undoutably be the best event so far this year, head on over to our tickets page to secure your place today!

Today we are delighted to announce the Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup!

We will be running Online Qualifiers for the Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup, allowing 4 teams the chance to win free entry into Insomnia40. Signups will be opening here on the Multiplay website soon, with the Online tournament running throughout July.

The Grand Finals of The Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup will be held at Insomnia40 at Newbury Racecourse, with last chance qualifiers and up to £5,000 in prize money!

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If you’ve not already got a ticket for what will undoutably be the best event so far this year, head on over to our tickets page to secure your place today!

Today we are pleased to confirm our initial prize funds for the prize winning tournaments at Insomnia40.

First up we have a guaranteed £2,500 for the Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup, with the potential to hit £5,000 at 80 teams entering the tournament! One of the changes we’ve made to the prize structure this event is a much more gradual increase in prize money over lots of different entrance figures, based on the feedback after the last event.

Secondly we have a minimum of £2,500 for Team Fortress 2, hitting a massive £5,000 at 64 teams. We are overjoyed by the response this event has seen to our commitment to the Team Fortress 2 community, and we’re pleased to be able to reward that commitment with a prize fund it deserves.

Up third we have Call of Duty 4 with a minimum of £1,000, with the same potential for a massive £5,000 at 80 teams! We’re pleased to continue the support of Call of Duty 4 with it’s resurgence within the Call of Duty community.

Last but not least for this announcement we’re pleased to announce a new game to the Insomnia Series, Starcraft 2! There will be a minimum of £250 up for grabs, scaling up to a massive £1,000 should it attract the interest of 80 players on the weekend.

We’ll have announcements about Bad Company 2 and Heroes of Newerth coming soon, as will tournament sign-ups. We will be locking the amount of teams who contribute to the prize triggers 2 weeks before the event starts, so make sure you’ve all got tickets and you’re ready to sign up!

If you’ve not already got a ticket for what is shaping up to be the best LAN the UK has ever seen, head on over to our event page to secure your place!

Today we are pleased to announce the return of the World Cyber Games to the i-Series. As ever, the winners from the UK leg of the WCG will become UK representatives at the WCG Grand Finals 2010 which this year are being hosted in Los Angeles, California!

This years competition will feature the following games:

On the PC – Trackmania and Fifa 2010
On the Xbox360 – Forza Motorsport 3, Guitar Hero 5 and Tekken 6.

You will be able to compete to win a trip to the WCG Grand Finals 2010 at our Insomnia40 event hosted at Newbury Racecourse on the 27-31st of August 2010. All you need to be able to enter these tournaments will be a Spectator or Full Particpant ticket. All tournaments will be held on the Samsung WCG Stand at the event, so you’ll only need to bring yourself!

Could you become the next George Boothby, World Champion at Guitar Hero 3, at WCG 2008? Why not come and find out!

For those of you who haven’t heard of the WCG before, it’s a rapidly growing international olympics of gaming in which nearly one million players compete against eachother worldwide. The World Cyber Games is the world’s first Cyber Game Festival, designed to build a healthy cyber culture. The best gamers around the world gather into different cities to share the excitement and fun of games tournaments, with over 9.5 million spectators watching worldwide!

You can get tickets for insomnia40 now over at our events page, and you can currently secure yourself a massive 20% off until the 10th of May.

After our previous announcement of the first round of tournaments confirmed for Insomnia40, we’re now able to confirm that there will be a 5v5 SnD tournament run at Insomnia40!

We are still seeking additional sources of sponsorship for the prize fund, but we’re hoping to announce the initial prize funds for all of our tournaments very soon.
We realise that many of our customers were awaiting this announcement today, and there are currently just over 300 seats remaining for Insomnia40. Make sure you head over to our events page and secure your seat before it’s too late!

Don’t forget though that Early Bird ends at 23:59:59 on Monday 10th May 2010, so you haven’t got long to take advantage of the massive 20% discount we’re currently offering!

Yes, you read correctly. We have now officially entered unknown territory for the i-Series, breaking all previous records of ticket sales for the UK’s biggest gaming event. In just under a week since launching Early Early Bird, we have now sold over 50% of the tickets for i40, with over 1000 keen gamers securing their seats! Jeez. This is gonna be a scorcher of a lan!

If you’ve not secured your seat yet, you might want to hurry! With less than 6 hours remaining of Early Early Bird, you haven’t got long! What does that mean? Well, it means you can get 4 days of awesome LAN gaming for only £63! That’s 30% off! Awesome eh? Head on over to our i-Series site to find out more, and also don’t forget to check out our insomnia40 forums to see what’s going on in the community!

We have already confirmed prize tournaments for Counter-Strike Source, Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2, with more being considered!

Remember you only have until 23:59:59 GMT tonight (Wednesday 14th April 2010) to take advantage of this awesome offer!

The grand final between iQpad and Dignitas will take place on the main stage at 16:30 this afternoon, soon after the Team Fortress 2. 

Team XPLICIT have been disqualified from the tournament due to 2 players being found with the snd_restart exploit in their configs. This particular command reduces the effectiveness of flashbangs when activated, giving the player a serious advantage.

We have a zero tolerance policy on cheating, and anyone else found with cheats or exploits on their system, whether they have been actively used or not, will be dealt with in a serious manner.

We urge all players to check their configs and systems to make sure they are clean.

Ben ‘SBB’ Taylor
CSS Tournament Coverage

With the COD4 tournament in full swing we have seen some very close matches; VYE/Qpad lost out to Zedek (Divinity Gaming) 9 – 13 who went on to get knocked out by IQpad in the next round, whilst VKFX lost to Who? 11 – 13 only to get denied access to the next round by #Stimulus.

The lower final was a very close match between IQpad and #Stimulus – with scores being matched round for round. At 10 – 10 things looked set to head for overtime, but a 3 round push by IQpad saw off #Stimulus to secure their place in the Consolation Final!

The Consolation Final will be live on the stage at 12pm today! Will this be another replay of round 4 which saw R!ve snatch victory after 2 rounds of overtime? Well come down to stage and see for yourself, it promises to be a very close game!

The winner will go through to play Diginitas in the Grand Final at 5pm.

See you there!

Mike “GeoSnipe” Lambert
COD4 Lead Admin

With the first day completed and moving in to our second day of solid HoN games we are looking at some very competitive games in the double eliminations.

EPROX and DuperSuper had a hard fought game on stage at the beginning of the group stages yesterday. EPROX won out in the end with better hero picks giving them the advantage in the early lane phase. They quickly followed this through in to the pushing stage preventing DuperSuper from ever recovering from the early game damage.

Earlier this morning we have had Fracture pull off a very near upset against EPROX with the tide turning multiple times within the game. EPROX eventually won the game through much better farming but this was nearly matched by Fracture’s better team play.

This leaves the double elimination stage wide open with a few very strong unsseded teams looking to pull off some impressive upsets and take home some cash.

Final group standings are as follows with the top 4 teams from each group going through to the knockout stages.

Group A

1. Unique
2. 200+ APM
3. Messioso’s Angels
4. SuperHeroes In Training
5. [TX!!3]

Group B

1. EPROX
2. DuperSuper
3. Fracture
4. [TX!!2]
5. [TX!!1]

The fighting has continued this morning for the EA Battlefield Bad Company 2 Cup, with a strong challenge being mounted by dignitas with Epsilon eSports and Team Rush also putting out an impressive performance and progressing onto the next round.

Welcome to the finals day at i39! From 4:30pm GMT we will have the grand final matches for Counter-Strike Source, Call of Duty 4 and Team Fortress 2 in the Live Finals Arena, and live on the coverage stream via Fileplay. With £15,000 in prize money up for grabs, we’re sure to have some epic battles in the race to become crowned i-Series champion!

Throughout the day we will be showing you live matches from all 3 tournaments, as we build towards the final games. Stay tuned for all the live gaming action you could want on a Sunday!

We had a great afternoon with various clans battling it out for the EA Battlefield Cup, ranging from good old fashioned war with some unexpected victories right down to a team ragequit at the prospect of having to face dignitas!

Well the group stages are complete, with the top 4 teams from each group progressing into the double elimination round. Every team is allowed to lose once, which will put them in to a lower bracket where they will play other teams that have lost one game before. If a team loses here, they are out!

With all tournaments now kicked off at i39, everything is in full swing! We will be showing live group stages matches from both the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 tournament sponsored by EA and EA Store, and the Heroes of Newerth Tournament sponsored by S2 Games, live from our finals arena and also on our live coverage stream on Fileplay.

Don’t forget we also have the world famous i-Series pub quiz on later this evening from 9pm, as well as a live Q&A session with Multiplay head honcho Craig “Wizzo” Fletcher from 7pm. Don’t miss it!

After much consultation and discussion there has been an update to the rules for the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 tournament as follows:

The following weapons are not permitted to be used in the tournament:

1. M60

The following unlocks/specialisations are not permitted to be used in the tournament:

1. Grenade Vest (Doubles your 40mm and hand grenade load)
2. Explosive Leg Pouch (Doubles the number of explosives and rockets carried)
3. Ceramic Body Armour (Added protection against enemy fire and preventing damage from reaching fatal proportions)
4. Magnum Ammunition (Provides greater damage and increased range)
5. Improved Demolitions (Adds to the destructive power carried by mobile infantry and engineers)

Further information and discussion can be found on the i39 forums here

Well after a long day of long range nade spam, close cut knife rounds (see what I did there?) and wall banging, our first day of the COD4 tournament comes to a close. 

The group stages are under way, and some great games of COD4 are being played right now! 

Just a quick update for those that are currently signed up for or looking to take part in the HON tournament. Signups close at 14:00 saturday afternoon so those that were unfortunate enough to be knocked out of CSS or COD4 group stages you still have time to sign up after, though be quick! Briefing will subsequently be held at 14:30 to discuss the tournament and receive any questions you may have. Make sure a leader is designated and in the IRC channel at all times (#HON).

Group schedule is up.

If players don’t show, please be leniant for the first round due to the “flexible” nature of the timings this evening.

Thanks, and gl hf!

We have just finalised the seedings for the CSS tournament at i39.

Your fixtures will be up very shortly!

As always, for any issues, #css.tournament on internal IRC or seats G2-Y1 to Y3.

1-16th
——
1. FRAGMASTERS! TOXIC (ritch, Hughsy, MX, nayden, gem)
2. TCM-Gaming (stingEr, kev1n, warclown, PEZ, cauzed)
3. Good Looking Gamers (ShiGeru, w1p, boostey, fearLess, ace)
4. The Last Resort (Carrel, deathdisco, Macky, Tucker, Peakz)
5. Rive Gaming (bash, raii, Drazah, kmry, fudzx)
6. GECLAN (Whindanski, jordy, FurY^, menengroth, Tenshi)
7. ZombA.Mix (Sliggy, NeiL, evox, kiriyaMa, moLe)
8. Rasta. (Holl1s, criM, rass, foolio, surreal)
9. Twistedplay GSG (maArc, f00b, rain, ExumE, Mercy)
10. Imperial Esports.UK (moomin, trepje, ruiN, Spl@tio, tomh)
11. CrackClan (ADMiRE, ska, rhys, gand, Shadowman^)
12. Team Dignitas (ZooL, icebox, dN, SM, SkiddY)
13. Infernal Gamers (jagg, IrSimBa, dirtymagic, symo, orc)
14. Rasta.RWP (andy, batham, msk, Hayden, Shaulin)
15. Twistedplay.net (BowzAr, chanbOi, kryptix, danKo, Adam[5])
16. Oneworld (chri$, connor, SLeven, PulSe, mN)

17-24th
——-
17. intex (MouzoN, rix-, hendo, Pritch, gom8z)
18. invicta (Fasty, lil’p, Ruffles, ^Renegade, mGz)
19. VirginsRus (ALIG, silly, 1nfinity, wildcard01, sp00n)
20. Xplicit (choong, spandex, Medic, FLUDIE, neon)
21. instincts. (Phoenix, Slayre, FletchuK, Spoonman, Maz)
22. Sektor (Rory34, sickness, BoBNoB, remag, Intrix)
23. #teamc (tredz, inMe, TsuNami, facio, superdave)
24. c2 (apeks, JT, naapjusum, G-h0pp3r, Flex)

25-32nd
——-
25. Vatic
26. i.QPAD
27. putyourhandsup.auRic
28. Rasta.Clanbug.Mix
29. SYNERGY
30. Ki.i39
31. CK[mQl]
32. WITNESS

Ben ‘SBB’ Taylor
CSS Tournament Coverage

Due to unfortunate technical problems beyond our control the sign-ups for both the COD4 and CS Source tournaments have been extended to 1830, and the start times extended by one hour to 2000.

There is a meeting at 1830 hours for COD4 and 1845 hours for CSS in the bar (Tote building) that ONE representative from each team must attend.

If you have any issues regarding either of these tournaments please ask in IRC channel #css.tournament or come and see the tournament admins on row Y and Z.

Seedings for COD4 are finalised and CSS seedings will be published soon.

Ben ‘SBB’ Taylor
CSS Tournament Coverage

Due to the issues we have been facing we have extended the signups until 1830. Please make sure you have at least 5 members in your team otherwise you will not be added to the tournament.

If you have any issues please come to us @ G2-Z1 – G2-Z3

James ‘Fatal’ Scully
Call of Duty 4 Admin

Signups will now close at 17:30 – so you have 40 mins to sign your teams up. If you have a problem please come to the admins we can add players manually.

Want to practise your hax0r noscoping before the main event? Team Dignitas will be running a 2v2 tournament on their stand at 15:00, with some prizes up for grabs!

For more information please go to the Diginitas display area on the ground floor of the Grandstand.

Welcome i39 COD4 players!

Morning everyone

The CSS tournament signups will close at 1730, and the group stages begin at 1900.

If you have any issues with anything related to the CSS tournament please do not hesitate to contact us via the IRC channel #css.tournament or by coming to see our smiling faces on the second floor of the granstand, seats G2-Y1 to G2-Y3.

Ben ‘SBB’ Taylor
CSS Tournament Coverage

CSS Tournament – Preliminary Seedings

Welcome to the i39 tournament coverage provided by Multiplay.

Here are the i39 CSS tournament preliminary seedings.

Seedings are not final until sign-ups have officially closed on Friday, although they give a good indication of the final placings.

1-16th
——
1. FRAGMASTERS! TOXIC (ritch, Hughsy, MX, nayden, gem)
2. TCM-Gaming (stingEr, kev1n, warclown, PEZ, cauzed)
3. Good Looking Gamers (ShiGeru, w1p, boostey, fearLess, ace)
4. The Last Resort (Carrel, deathdisco, Macky, Tucker, Peakz)
5. FRAGMASTERS! SAPPHIRE (1H, Fyx, xXx, n3w, bsK)
6. Rive Gaming (bash, raii, Drazah, kmry, fudzx)
7. Gaming Excellence (Whindanski, jordy, FurY^, menengroth, Tenshi)
8. ZombA.Mix (Sliggy, NeiL, evox, kiriyaMa, moLe)
9. Rasta. (Holl1s, criM, rass, foolio, surreal)
10. Twistedplay GSG (maArc, f00b, rain, ExumE, Mercy)
11. Imperial Esports.UK (moomin, trepje, ruiN, Spl@tio, tomh)
12. CrackClan (ADMiRE, ska, rhys, gand, Shadowman^)
13. Team Dignitas (ZooL, icebox, dN, SM, SkiddY)
14. Infernal Gamers (jagg, IrSimBa, dirtymagic, symo, orc)
15. Rasta.RWP (andy, batham, msk, Hayden, Shaulin)
16. Twistedplay.net (BowzAr, chanbOi, kryptix, danKo, Adam[5])

17-24th
——-
17. Oneworld (chri$, connor, SLeven, PulSe, mN)
18. intex (MouzoN, rix-, hendo, Pritch, gom8z)
19. invicta (Fasty, lil’p, Ruffles, ^Renegade, mGz)
20. VirginsRus (ALIG, silly, 1nfinity, wildcard01, sp00n)
21. Xplicit (choong, spandex, Medic, FLUDIE, neon)
22. instincts. (Phoenix, Slayre, FletchuK, Spoonman, Maz)
23. #teamc (tredz, inMe, TsuNami, facio, superdave)
24. Sektor (Rory34, sickness, BoBNoB, remag, Intrix)

25-32nd
——-
25. Vatic
26. i.QPAD
27. putyourhandsup.auRic
28. c2
29. Rasta.Clanbug.Mix
30. SYNERGY
31. Ki.i39
32. CK[mQl]

Ben ‘SBB’ Taylor
CSS Tournament Coverage

Welcome to the i39 CSS tournament coverage from Multiplay! We will be posting news on all the tournaments throughout the weekend, so stay tuned!

Here are the preliminary tournament seedings. Seedings are not final until sign-ups have officially closed on Friday, although they give a good indication of the final placings.

1-16th
——
1. FRAGMASTERS! TOXIC (ritch, Hughsy, MX, nayden, gem)
2. TCM-Gaming (stingEr, kev1n, warclown, PEZ, cauzed)
3. Good Looking Gamers (ShiGeru, w1p, boostey, fearLess, ace)
4. The Last Resort (Carrel, deathdisco, Macky, Tucker, Peakz)
5. FRAGMASTERS! SAPPHIRE (1H, Fyx, xXx, n3w, bsK)
6. Rive Gaming (bash, raii, Drazah, kmry, fudzx)
7. Gaming Excellence (Whindanski, jordy, FurY^, menengroth, Tenshi)
8. ZombA.Mix (Sliggy, NeiL, evox, kiriyaMa, moLe)
9. Rasta. (Holl1s, criM, rass, foolio, surreal)
10. Twistedplay GSG (maArc, f00b, rain, ExumE, Mercy)
11. Imperial Esports.UK (moomin, trepje, ruiN, Spl@tio, tomh)
12. CrackClan (ADMiRE, ska, rhys, gand, Shadowman^)
13. Team Dignitas (ZooL, icebox, dN, SM, SkiddY)
14. Infernal Gamers (jagg, IrSimBa, dirtymagic, symo, orc)
15. Rasta.RWP (andy, batham, msk, Hayden, Shaulin)
16. Twistedplay.net (BowzAr, chanbOi, kryptix, danKo, Adam[5])

17-24th
——-
17. Oneworld (chri$, connor, SLeven, PulSe, mN)
18. intex (MouzoN, rix-, hendo, Pritch, gom8z)
19. invicta (Fasty, lil’p, Ruffles, ^Renegade, mGz)
20. VirginsRus (ALIG, silly, 1nfinity, wildcard01, sp00n)
21. Xplicit (choong, spandex, Medic, FLUDIE, neon)
22. instincts. (Phoenix, Slayre, FletchuK, Spoonman, Maz)
23. #teamc (tredz, inMe, TsuNami, facio, superdave)
24. Sektor (Rory34, sickness, BoBNoB, remag, Intrix)

25-32nd
——-
25. Vatic
26. i.QPAD
27. putyourhandsup.auRic
28. c2
29. Rasta.Clanbug.Mix
30. SYNERGY
31. Ki.i39
32. CK[mQl]

Ben ‘SBB’ Taylor
CSS Tournament Coverage

With i39 looming large on the horizon this week, we are officially in mere territory. Many teams have been practicing their respective games, in anticipation of competing for a chance of the huge prize pot on offer at the event. There is however, one competition which has yet to be unveiled. One so challenging, so tough, so bizarre, that it surpasses every other tournament at i39 in its infinite awesomeness. I am talking of course, about the Multiplay Ultimate Gamer.

The concept is simple. You’re going to have a number of chances over the weekend to become a Multiplay Ultimate Gamer. Each competition will take around 1 hour and we’ll be posting the schedule on Friday, so don’t worry about it taking up your whole weekend.

To get an idea of what a becoming a Multiplay Ultimate Gamer will involve, please continue reading!

1. Trivia of doom – You’d better know your gaming as we’re going to whittle you down to 8 participants pretty sharpish
2. PC Round – No game is off limits here, so don’t think we’re going to stick to mainstream games. Armagetron anyone?
3. Xbox Speed Round – This is a head to head race to the finish across five different games. Be ready to learn fast and don’t think you can practice this, we’ll be changing it up over the weekend.
4. Profit! – No really, you’ve just won a prize!
5. Don’t think it ends there though. Step 5 is the bonus round where we’ve invited special guests to bring a game of their choice for you to challenge them at. Here’s where the mega prizes are, courtesy of the special guests. If the challenger loses? Rollover!

Warning: The above may well change depending how nice we’re feeling on the day.

In addition to the main competitions, we’ll also be running a variety of on the spot challenges, Street Fighter IV will return, there’ll be plenty of freeplay and have you ever seen someone DJ whilst skateboarding? Didn’t think so.

We’ll keep the i-Series page busy with what’s going on and don’t forget we will be releasing the schedule on Friday!

We are very pleased to announce that EA and EA Store will sponsor Europe’s first Battlefield: Bad Company 2 tournament at i39, with a whacking £2,500 prize pot! The latest in the Battlfield series, Bad Company 2 has proved to be insanely popular with gamers across the globe, and is sure to be just as popular at i39!

With a maximum of 48 teams, you will have to hurry in order to get your team signed up! First place will secure you a huge £1,500 prize, with second place getting £750, and third £250.

If you haven’t got your ticket for i39, head on over to our i-Series booking page and secure your place at the UK’s biggest gaming event! If you and your team already have your tickets, head on over to our Tournaments page on the i-Series site to enter yourselves into the tournament!

We will be posting rules on the tournament in due course.

Don’t forget to sign up for entrance to your tournaments of choice at i39!
You can find out more information on Tournaments page including the latest on our rules and maplists.

We’ve got over 40 teams signed up for CSS, meaning there are limited spaces available! You must sign up by Sunday the 28th if you wish to be seeded in your tournament!

To sign up, simply head over to the Tournaments page and click on your tournament page.

Multiplay are always keen to support the best new games coming into the competative market.
Because of this, we are now pleased to announce Europe’s first Bad Company 2 LAN tournament will be held at our very own i-Series event, i39!

Taking the format of a 4v4 Squad Rush competition, we’ve currently not got a secured prize fund for this tournament, but we’re seeking sponsorship from other sources and we’re confident we’ll have some awesome prizes ready to award.

Sign ups will be opening later this week, so stay tuned for more information!

As we approach 2 weeks to go to the event the rate of signups and payments is ramping up! We have just past the 1000 paid milestone which means we have only 600 seats left. “Only?!” I hear you scream! Historically we have seen over half the event seats sold in the last 4 weeks before the event, with it ramping to 200+ seats sold in a single day as people see them running out fast!

As we are now in the final run-up to the event it really is a good idea to get your bookings paid up and your seats picked asap. Act now before the truly mad rush starts!

If you have yet to book head to the tickets page. If you have already booked but not paid you need to head to the event payment page to secure it or call us on 0845 868 1337 between 9am and 6pm Monday to Friday to pay over the phone. Remember that your booking is only confirmed once you have paid for it!

Multiplay are pleased to announce Multiplay Ultimate Gamer!

Featured in the exhibition hall, the Multiplay Ultimate Gamer arena and staff will be hosting a wide range of challenges for teams and individuals to compete in during gaps from their main tournaments, or just offer a nice retreat for some casual and social gaming fun.

Ok not that realistic, but it still looks fun eh?!

By now you are all probably wondering what Multiplay Ultimate Gamer is, or at the very least questioning Dux0r’s sanity.

Over the i39 weekend we will be hosting regular opportunities to become a Multiplay Ultimate Gamer. Speed is of the essence here as you will be faced with a variety of gaming challenges to test all of your gaming skill. Only the fastest will emerge victorious and collect the rewards!

There’s plenty more to come so stay tuned! Oh and did I mention freebies?

It is with regret we announce the cancellation of the Halo 3 tournament at i39. It seems for a variety of reasons there just isn’t the uptake we have seen previously and running a prize winning tournament for the game just isn’t viable.

Instead, we will be using the resources from that tournament to go toward an exciting new feature in the exhibition hall which is due to be announced shortly.

Looking ahead, we will be liaising with the XBOX communities to see how we can improve things for the future, such as the i40 tournament line-up. We also still have other tournaments being discussed with sponsors so the line-up posted right now is likely to not be the final tournament list.

For people who were signed up to the Halo3 section of the event or tournament we will be offering a full refund due to this cancellation. If you wish to cancel your ticket please get in touch with us through our support site.

Earlier this month we announced what tournaments you could expect to see at the first instalment of the i-Series this year, i39. We are now proud to announce that you are now able to sign up to all of our first batch of tournaments!

We’ve also got some extra information on the tournaments including a breakdown of all of the amazing prizes up for grabs. To find out more about each tournament and to get your team signed up, simply head on over to our tournament page!

If you haven’t got a ticket yet for what is sure to be an incredible event with some amazing games, head over to our ticket page. Tickets are currently selling very fast, so make sure you don’t miss out!

Today we are very pleased to announce that S2 Games (the developers of Heroes of Newerth) will be supporting the Heroes of Newerth Cup at i39!

The minimum prize fund for Heroes of Newerth has more than doubled and will now be £2,250 increasing up to a massive £6,250 in one of the biggest potential prize funds we’ve ever had.

S2Games, also the creators of the Savage series, have a long history of supporting the communities around their games and a strong personal relationship with fans.

This contribution from S2Games is just another example of loyalty to fans of their games and we hope the community will reward this contribution with an amazing tournament.

If you’ve not played Heroes of Newerth yet, you can download the Closed Beta Client over at Fileplay

Tournament signups for i39 will be going live next week, and if you haven’t got a ticket yet for what is sure to be an incredible event with some amazing games, head over to our ticket page. Tickets are currently selling very fast, so make sure you don’t miss out!

Today we are pleased to announce the launch of a brand new ticket type for our events: The Xbox 360 Turn Up and Play ticket!

This allows those of you wishing to enter our Xbox 360 tournaments to do so without having to bring your own Xbox 360.

You can find out more information at our Turn up and Play ticket page!

Today we are ready to announce the first set of tournaments we will be running at the first i-Series of this year, i39. We have some old regulars, something new, and the return of an i-series favourite!

Counter-Strike Source (PC)
First up, for the PC we are pleased to announce another prize winning Counter-Strike Source tournament, held for the 16th event in a row! We have a guaranteed £2,500 up to grabs, and we’re currently seeking funding from other sources to try and increase this to as high as possible. Should we see 96 teams commit to and enter the tournament, we’ll have a massive £5,000 up for grabs!

Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (PC)
Secondly we’re proud to announce the return of the Call of Duty 4 prize winning tournament for i39. We’re committing a minimum of £2,500, with the potential for a massive £5,000 should we get 96 teams! As with CS:S and our other prize winning tournaments, we’re strongly seeking funding from other avenues and parties to help us make this tournament the huge return that this game deserves.

Heroes of Newerth (PC)
Third up for the PC, we have a new game for the i-Series; Heroes of Newerth! Our i39 tournament will be the highest prize funded HON tournament ever in the world to date! One of the fastest growing communities we’ve ever experienced, we’re very excited about Heroes of Newerth and we’re committing a minimum of £1,000 to a prize winning tournament! Should 48 teams sign up, the prize fund will hit £2,500, and should 96 teams up we’ll be giving away a huge sum of £5,000!

Team Fortress (PC)
Last but not least for the PC, we have our Team Fortress 2 tournament, with at least £1,500 increasing up to a massive £5,000! After the community rallied behind the tournament run at i38, we’re committing once again for a minimum guaranteed cash prize. Should 48 teams sign up, the prize fund will hit £2,500, and should 96 teams up we’ll be giving away a huge sum of £5,000!

Halo 3: ODST (Xbox 360)
For the Xbox 360 we’ve got Halo 3: ODST, now a staple of i-Series tournaments. There is a confirmed minimum of £1,500 up for grabs, increasing should the community support the tournament and attend in large numbers. Should 48 teams sign up, the prize fund will hit £2,500, and should 96 teams up we’ll be providing a huge sum of £5,000!

Responding to feedback from i38, our Xbox 360 tournaments will currently be limited to BYOX entrants only, and players will need to bring their own copies of the games used in the tournaments. We will be creating a new Turn up and Play ticket for our Xbox 360 tournaments in the near future. This will be in place in plenty of time ready for i39, and we’re also looking into running more Xbox 360 tournaments for i39.

Just to recap, here’s what we’ve got ready for i39 in this first release:
- a minimum of £2,500 for Counter-strike: Source on the PC
- a minimum of £2,500 for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on the PC
- a minimum of £1,500 for Team Fortress 2 on the PC
- a minimum of £1,000 for Heroes of Newerth on the PC
- a minimum of £1,500 for Halo 3 ODST on the Xbox 360

Head on over to our i-Series site to find out more! Tickets are selling fast, so book today to avoid disappointment!

Through a very good final, Epsilon a team who travelled to Newbury from Finland have taken away first place with a 13-3 victory over infused on Strike (infused map choice)

Oxmoze, who travelled here from France, have taken away 3rd place.

Congratulations to Epsilon on winning the COD4 Community tournament and  many thanks to everyone in the COD4 community who helped support this tournament.

The Call of Duty Admins.

Just a quick round up of the CS:S events so far, the finals are close in the distance for some teams but not without a final hurdle. In the final of the winners bracket is none other than Team Dignitas (seeded 2nd) and they are up against Reason Gaming (seeded 1st), this will be held in the Grandstand Ground floor.

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Counter Strike Source Matches are a familiar scene at the iSeries, and if you would like to get involved and watch if you are slightly bored, then maybe you should tune in to one of these SrcTV Ips!

Prize Winning Bracket:

Power Gaming Vs Dignitas: 85.236.102.72:27015

Intermediate Bracket:

Lod Vs 28mixeslater: 85.236.102.72:31115

Lower Bracket:

ATGx Vs cook* 85.236.102.72:31015

Thanks
CS:S Admin Team

Good afternoon everyone!

I would like to inform all teams that ALL demos from the CS:S tournament aside from the “Consolation Finals” have been uploaded to Fileplay, goto http://www.fileplay.net/files/events/i38 and then see where you would like to pick up demo’s as such. Please make sure if there are any missing that you inform us before the end of the event, as we will not have access to the dedicated servers after the event.

Hope This helps
CS:S Admin Team

Heya everyone!

Just to update you with the 2v2 CSS Tournament Sign Ups, there have been problems with sign ups, if you cannot sign up, and would like to please inform Gumpster via Seat J-3 on First Floor of Grandstand, if he is not there please use the pen and paper at his laptop, write down you & your partner’s booking ID and your team name! I will sort it out for you!

Hope this helps
CS:S Admin Team

Team YoYoTech 5 – 4 Power Gaming

By far the best game to be played at i38 as of yet, Power Gaming versus Team YoYoTech certainly didn’t fail to disappoint.
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The Call of Duty 4 Community Tournament signups will be closing at 18:15. We will be having the briefing in the Tote Bar at 18:30. The tournament will start at 19:00

The tournament is open to the first 16 teams who are signed up and have paid Kevlar (Element Manager) for their place.

Please ensure you are signed up / paid for the tournament and you have a representative at the the briefing.

Good Afternoon/Evening everyone!

Prize Winning Brackets are now up, and all matches are up on Clan Forge, Intermediate & Lower Tournaments are being worked on right now, we will update that, but we reckon, 5pm start!

2v2 Tournament has now been created and players can sign up at your leisure so get prepared for some carnage tomorrow afternoon. It will take place from 1.30pm – 9.30pm in time for the final, it is limited to 64 teams, so get signing up. Maplist i will confirm over the next hour or so!

Thanks
CS:S Admin Team

The Group Stages are completed in the the EA Sports FIFA 10 Tournament @ i38. Check out the final group standings and the draw for tomorrow’s Knock Out stages, where some UK FIFA giants have been drawn together over @ Sweetpatch.TV.

Going live now is the biggest game yet of the i38 TF2 Tournament. First seed Power Gaming will take on second seed Team YoYoTech on cp_Badlands, in what is sure to be a great contest. Both sides have lots to prove and are some of the best teams within the game, but both also have weaknesses due to fairly recent lineup changes.

Players to watch:

YYT – Byte and numlocked
Both of these guys are great players, but are playing in a slightly different environment

PwR – vaxjo and wltrs
If this Scout duo can perform, they could wreak havok

Source TV: connect 85.236.102.72:29415

Activision are the Lead Sponsor for i38, bringing the hottest game of the year; Modern Warfare 2.

They have the largest exhibition stand at the event, with MW2 brought to you on 24 PC’s, as well as 24 Xbox 360′s with 6 Xbox pods thrown in for good measure.

I don’t think we have ever had this many systems on an Exhibitor’s stand before, giving everyone at i38 an excellent opportunity to get hands on before you buy the game.

On top of all this, Activision are sponsoring a tournament for both platforms, with a £1,000 prize fund for each tournament. These tournaments are kicking off now and we will have latter stages played on their stand for people to watch. The Grand Finals will of course be on the main stage and streamed to the Internet to allow people not at the event to tune into the World’s first MW2 tournament.

Many thanks to Activision for their massive support for i38.

 i38 :: Counter-Strike: Source Competition #01 – TV #01
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 i38 :: Counter-Strike: Source Competition #05 – TV #01    85.236.102.72:27415

 i38 :: Counter-Strike: Source Competition #06 – TV #01    85.236.102.72:27515

 i38 :: Counter-Strike: Source Competition #07 – TV #01    85.236.102.72:27615

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 i38 :: Counter-Strike: Source Competition #24 – TV #01    85.236.102.72:29315

The tournament is underway and you can see all the photos and results from the tournament over at our partners @ Sweetpatch.TV.

The TF2 tournament will now be starting at 11am to deal with some server performance issues, but fear not, the finish time will not be delayed.
Group maps will be:
cp_badlands
cp_well
cp_gullywash
cp_granary
cp_freight_b3

Double Elim Maps: TBA

The Battlefield 2 tournament is starting today at 11AM, all schedules will be up soon!

The finalised map list for the tournament is as follows:

Road to Jalalabad
Gulf of Omen
Mashtuur City
Strike at Karkand
Sharqi Peninsula

The tournament setup will be one group of 6 teams, top 4 teams go through to double elimination. In contrast to previous communication the first games will start at 11AM.

The final is to be held on Sunday at 10:30AM and will be in standard double elimination format. First map will be picked by the team coming from the losers bracket, team from the losers bracket must win to advance to second map. The second map is picked by the team coming from the winners bracket and they must only win one of the two maps to win the tournament. The team from the losers bracket must win both maps.

Any questions or problems contact myself on IRC in the BF2 channel – SKaRT

The tournament is scheduled to begin tomorrow morning at 10am. Signups are closing at 10pm so get your teams signed up now!

Schedules will be posted later on tonight some time after signups close.

Good Evening Folks!

Hope everyone is enjoying the iSeries and is ready to kick start the CSS Tournament. I would like to rectify the rules covered in the team leader meeting.

Top 2 Teams go through to Prize Winning
Mid 2 Teams go through to Intermediate
Bottom 2 Teams go through to Lower
7th Team will NOT progress.

We have a new config that checks dxlevels, dxlevels 80 & 81 are acceptable, anything higher is UNACCEPTABLE, this rule is only being enforced in knockout stages. All normal rules apply, we will do random stop checks for vent.exe so please be aware this will happen. Group games tonight are 8pm, 9pm & 10pm, please make sure you are on time. Also make sure you have a representative in #css.tournament and/or #css. We will restart GROUP GAME matches at 10am. Please make sure you check your match planners.

2v2 Tournament Update, we will open sign ups for the duration of Saturday, which will close on Sunday Morning 11am, the games will commence at 1.30pm and finish by 9.30 for the 10pm CSS Grand Final. We will limit it to 64 teams for now. We will keep you updated on this.

UNRELATED NEWS: PLEASE BE CAREFUL IN THE STORM TONIGHT & SLEEP WELL!!!

Thanks
Gumpster

Following the briefing can we please reiterate some rules:

Classes to be used – The only classes that can be used are the stock classes that can not be changed.

Grenadier
First Recon
Overwatch
Scout Sniper
Riot Control (1 per team Only)

If anyone is using custom classes, please tell an admin asap.

Map rotation:
Due to MW2 being a new game we can not currently host the map names on clan forge, the map list is as follows: Favella, Quarry, Karachi, Highrise, Sub base, Terminal

Please follow this map list through your group stages, i.e First Map: Favella, Second: Quarry. Any problems please contact an Admin on Steam Group: I38 MW2 Tournament, IRC: #codmw2.tournament or Grandstand F1 Row: H

A briefing for the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (PC) is taking place at the tote bar at 7:30 tonight. All clan leaders must attend for vital information regarding the tournament.

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 briefing will take place in the Tote building at 19:30. (The bar opposite the grand stand!)

Please can all team captains attend this briefing and be prompt as the tournament starts at 20:00.

Any questions please contact myself or mole in local irc #tf2, get signing up to the website for your teams and tomorrow we’ll have a great tourney!

Sign up to the tournament here (Signups extended to 10pm Friday latest)

To connect to local IRC please type /server irc.event.multiplay.co.uk and then join #tf2.

If your looking for a clan or a clan/mix is looking for that extra player please pop by and I’ll include you in the channel topic to make sure anyone who wants to play to grab that prize moneys or just to play “for the lols” isn’t missed out.

If anyone has any questions visit us at G1 – H1 or msg myself (Tapley) or mole on irc and await a kindly response. Games will start at 10am tomorrow sharp and you can view the clan forge tournament page to see who you’ll be playing where/when.

Dignitas and Element’s exhibition match is starting very soon on the Activision stand. It’s sure to be an exciting match, if you haven’t seen it action yet this is the perfect chance.

i38 this weekend will be hosting one of the first EA SPORTS™ FIFA 10 LAN tournaments in the United Kingdom, to be Adminned by the Sweetpatch TV crew. Please check out the full details here and sign up by the end of today to be in the tournament

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Good Afternoon folks!

This is just an announcement to let everyone know that all SIGN UPS will close at 6pm today, your first match should be at 8pm, then 9pm & 10pm for the evening.

If anyone does fancy a 2v2 Tournament, they should see “Gumpster” or “Damage” on 1st Floor Seats J3 & J4, we need to know how many people would be interested in a 2v2 Tournament, so we can plan whether to start tonight and do it outside of Main Tournament times.

Please make sure you join the internal IRC Channels, #css & #css.tournament, all tournament related information will be posted there!

Thanks
CS:S Admin Team

Dignitas and Element will be playing an exhibition match this afternoon on the Activision stand. The match will surely demonstrate what’s to come later on this weekend in the worlds first ever Modern Warfare 2 prize tournament. Check back soon for scheduling information.

Today we are pleased to announce that the very first Modern Warfare 2 tournaments on the PC and Xbox 360 are to be held at i38, 13th to 16th of November at Newbury Racecourse.

Activision will not only have a huge presence in our i38 exhibition hall, but they will be bringing with them the most hotly anticipated title of the year; Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

The game will be available to play in all it’s glory on 24 Xbox 360s, 6 Xbox 360 pods, and 24 of the latest gaming PCs on the Activision stand, with jDome technology giving gamers 180 degree vision of the action.

To celebrate the launch of one of the biggest titles this year, Activision will be sponsoring the world’s first prize tournaments for Modern Warfare 2 on both the Xbox 360 and PC, with a huge prize fund to be announced next week!

Tournament sign-ups will be available from the i-Series tournament website which can be found here

If you’ve not yet secured your place at Europe’s premier gaming event, head on over to our i-Series website and book now!

Try the awesome new Logitech G27 Racing Wheel @ i38 and you could get your mits on a brand new Driving Force GT Racing Wheel. Make sure you head on over to the Logitech stand during the event to get some practice in! Practice times are as follows:

Friday + Saturday (win mugs!)
We’ll have two racing rigs here throughout i38 for practice where you can race the GT5: Daytona International Speedway – Road Course (including the in-field) If you can get within 2s of our tame racing driver’s** lap time, you get a mug. How hard can that be?

Tournament Day – Sunday (win a wheel!)
Race 2 laps of the Daytona International Speedway and the quickest time of the day wins a Logitech Driving Force GT racing wheel! Runner-Up wins a copy of Codemasters’ Dirt2.

** Geoff Turton, founder of VisionRacer. He’s quick… very quick.

Today we are pleased to announce the hosting at i38 of one of the first EA SPORTS™ FIFA 10 LAN tournaments held in the United Kingdom. The tournament format will be XBOX360 and will be run again with the help of community site Sweetpatch. The tournament also has a prize fund of £1000 thanks to EA SPORTS™, Multiplay, Team Dignitas, Power Gaming and Sweetpatch.

Signups will be handled at the event.

Logitech are back once again at the i-Series, with a huge range of their latest hardware for you try out in the exhibition hall. A huge range of keyboards, G-Series gaming mice and the latest gaming headsets will all be on display for you to try out at your leisure, as well as the G27 racing wheel and the awesome VisionRacer VR3! They will also have the founder of the VisionRacer, Geoff Turton, on hand on the Sunday to talk about his racing rig, and organising a driving tournament, with a racing wheel and a copy of Colin McRae Dirt 2 up for grabs (come practice Friday and Saturday!)

Logitech will also be sponsoring the i38 Guitar Hero World Tour tournament, pitting gamers in a 1v1 face off for the chance to win a stunning Logitech wireless guitar controller! Made from Rosewood and Steel, and complete with touch sensitive neck slider, this is a seriously awesome bit of kit.

Make sure you head on over to our i38 tournament section and get signed up!

Back once again at the i-Series, Steelseries are supporting the Alienware CS Source Trophy with some top of the range kit for 1st and 2nd place teams! Steelseries will be giving prizes worth over £240 to each winning member of the winning CS:S team, including:

1x SteelSeries 5Hv2 in white worth £85
1x SteelSeries Ikari Laser mouse worth £85
1x SteelSeries Merc Stealth Keyboard worth £55
1x SteelSeries mouse pad worth £15-20

Each member of the runners up team will receive a SteelSeries 5Hv2 White each. Head on over to our tournaments sign up page if you havent signed your team up yet!

Long time supporters of the i-Series Logitech are back once more at i38, bringing you the Logitech Guitar Hero World Tour tournament! Put your musical skills to the test with Activisions latest incarnation of the Guitar Hero series, and battle it out against other guitarists in a 1v1 face off for the chance to win a stunning Logitech wireless guitar controller! Made from Rosewood and Steel, and complete with touch sensitive neck slider, this is a seriously awesome bit of kit.

Logitech will be giving this guitar away in the Guitar Hero World Tour tournament, along with a wireless GH:WT drum kit and many more prizes in the raffle! They will also be giving away some Ultimate Ears headphones for those to make the biggest artistic impressions. Want to be in with a chance? Get yourself signed up to the tournament and get practicing!

i38 is shaping up to be amazing, with new sponsors and exhibitors confirming every day for the event, it’s one not to be missed! The first announcement we have this week is the Alienware Counter-Strike Source Trophy Tournament, which has seen the prize pot for CSS increased to a minimum of £4,000! As well as sponsoring the CSS tournament, Alienware will also be at the event showcasing their latest M17x laptops and more at the i38 exhibition!

Tournament signups are now open, with a maximum of 128 team places available, so get your team signed up quick!

Based on feedback from i37 attendees, the crew from Crucial are ramping up their participation at i38 to include a 5v5 dodgeball tournament! w00t! If you have followed popular LANs like QuakeCon and PDXLAN, you know that Crucial Dodgeball Tournaments are a LAN staple in the US – we are proud to announce that i38 will host the first tournament outside of N. America!

Sign up your team of 5 here

Additionally, Crucial are cranking up their prizes to include some of their new M225 SSD drives as well as numerous Crucial Ballistix Tracer high-performance memory kits! And to make it even better, they’ll be bringing along hundreds of newly designed hardcore “Crucial Memory Hawg” T-shirts!

Not familiar with dodgeball? Below is a breakdown of the rules:

• Teams of 5 line up at either end of a 30’ x 60’ court.
• Five dodgeballs are placed across a centre line.
• At the starting whistle, players race to grab the dodgeballs.
• Players throw the dodgeballs at the competing team attempting to get them “out.”
• A player hit with a dodgeball is “out,” and leaves the court permanently.
• If a player catches a thrown dodgeball, the thrower is “out.”
• Once all members of a team are “out,” the remaining team wins.

The Dodgeball tournament will start promptly at 5pm on Sunday, with practice times on Friday between 5pm and 6pm. All of this will take place in the main marquee just outisde the main grandstand.

To confirm:
PRACTICE TIME: Friday 5-6pm
TOURNAMENT: Sunday 5-7pm

Check out these videos to see some Crucial Dodgeball action:

Netwar LAN | MillionManLan | PDXLAN | Dodgeball the Movie

Get your team together and sign up!

Here at Multiplay we’ve got some full BYOC tickets ready to give away completely free of charge.
What could be better than a weekend at Europe’s premier gaming event? Getting the same for free!

All judging will be done by Craig ‘Wizzo’ Fletcher himself, and the funniest entries will win full BYOC/BYOX participant tickets to i38.

Want to know how you can win? Check out our competition page.

All entries must be submitted by the 30th October to be in with a chance to win, so get filming!

Another week and another tournament supporter for i38! This time we have case makers Fractal Design, who are putting up 6 of their sleek Define R2 Cases, complete with Newton 800W PSU’s up for grabs for the winners of the Team Fortress 2 tournament at i38, with runners up also getting an R2 case each!

Not bad eh?

If you’re not signed up for i38 yet you need to hurry, as places are going fast! Head on over to our I-Series site for more information on the event and our tournaments and get signed up before it’s too late!

Today we are pleased to announce that Zowie Gear will be supporting i38′s Left 4 Dead tournament!

Zowie Gear produce high quality, efficient, and durable products all at affordable prices for the gamer market.

They will be giving 4 of their brand new Zowie Gear Hammer Headsets to the winners of our Left 4 Dead tournament, as well as some other great prizes for our world famous i-Series raffle!

To find out more about Zowie Gear, head on over to their website, or to sign up for our Prize Winning Left 4 Dead tournament, check out the tournament signups page.

Our November i-Series events are our only i-Series that doesn’t fall on a holiday weekend.

Because of this fact we have taken steps this event to make sure that our Prize tournaments are still able to be entered by those who don’t have the Friday and Monday free from Work / School / Uni.

This means that our Prize winning tournaments will start at the earliest on 6pm on Friday, and will be finished by Sunday night.

Just another reason to come on down to i38 and come play in our massive prize winning tournaments.
Secure your place at i38 here!

Along with this, we’re setting a deadline on achieving the prize trigger for our GoW1 tournament. There must be 20 teams signed up by the 1st of November for the extra prize fund to be released! Signups for GoW1 will be opened on Wednesday, so get your teams paid and ready!

So just to recap:

• £2,500 for Top 4 Halo 3 teams.
• £500 for top 8 Street Fighter 4 players.
• Up to £2,500 for the top 8 Team Fortress 2 players.
• £500 for the top 4 Battlefield 2 teams.
• £2,500 minimum for Counterstrike: Source.
• £TBA for a Call of Duty series game.
• Up to £1,500 for Gears of War one

Further expanding into the console community, Multiplay will be hosting a Gears of War Xbox 360 tournament at i38.

There’s a guaranteed £500 up for grabs with that increasing to a grand total of £1500 providing a minimum of 20 teams sign up.

If you haven’t signed up already, don’t forget today (14th September) is the last day for Earlybird so make the most of it!

Today we are pleased to bring you the first announcement of prize funds for our gaming tournaments at i38.

First of all we have a guaranteed £2,500 prize fund for the top 4 teams for our Halo 3 tournament on Xbox 360.  After the enthusiasm shown by the community at previous events we are pleased to commit our own funds to this tournament.

Also for the Xbox we have £500 for our Street Fighter IV Tournament on Xbox. Coming as a full weekend spectator? Why not join in the fun and try your hand at winning some prize money!

For PC Tournaments we have a prize fund promised live on stage by Craig ‘Wizzo’ Fletcher: £1,500 for the top 8 teams in our Team Fortress 2 tournament.

However, should the TF2 community rally and if we achieve 64 full teams signed up, we’ll increase that to a massive £2,500!

We are looking forward to running this tournament and hope the community rally to make this the best event for TF2 we’ve ever run.

Next up we have Battlefield 2. This game has had prize tournaments many times at our events before, and we’re offering £500 for the top 4 teams in the BF2 Tournament at i38.

For many events our Call of Duty and Counter-strike: Source series tournaments have been key in our prize tournament lineup.  Counter-strike: Source has a guaranteed minimum prize fund of £2,500, but we’re currently strongly seeking support for this tournament from other organisations to help bolster the offering to the CS:S community.

We haven’t forgotten Call of Duty and there will definitely be a prize winning tournament for a Call of Duty series game. We’re currently exploring all avenues of funding for this tournament to give you guys the best prize fund possible.

So just to recap:

• £2,500 for Top 4 Halo 3 teams.
• £500 for top 8 Street Fighter 4 players.
• Up to £2,500 for the top 8 Team Fortress 2 players.
• £500 for the top 4 Battlefield 2 teams.
• £2,500 minimum for Counterstrike: Source.
• £TBA for a Call of Duty series game.

Good Afternoon,

Hope everyone has enjoyed i37, this afternoon saw the final of the 2v2 Counter Strike Source Tournament between Pro-HL Badger Team and BB//, on aim_ak_colt & de_aztec, Pro-HL Badger Team came from the Upper Bracket and managed to round up a classy win of 16 – 6. A fantastic display from both teams despite starting the Tournament at 2am this morning. A big ask to pull off a brilliant display of shooting!

Many Thanks to all
CS:S Admin Team

Military Intelligence 5 were the 4th seeds after finishing second in their group, but this didn’t put them off as the won game after game to enter the final from the winners bracket.

Their opponents Rush Gaming had been put in the losers bracket following a clash with Gravity Train express in the second round of the knockout stages. They faced them again in the loser bracket consolidation finals, and this time were successful.

The final was close, with the second seed facing off against the fourth to produced a close final on Strike at Karkand. Military Intelligence 5 managed to wear down Rush Gaming’s tickets and won with a score of 168-142 over two rounds.

Congratulations to all teams involved, this was a fantastic tournament with plenty of fun & competitive games between some great guys.

Can all teams playing in the COD4 fun tournament please make sure both teams submit your scores so that your next matches can be scheduled by clan forge.

Thank you

Good Afternoon everyone,

Hope everyone is enjoying today, the CS:S Tournament comes to a close later tonight, but we still have more action on the way, with the Prize Winning Grand Final to take place at 6pm between TCM (who knocked out Dignitas in an epic Overtime thriller), and Reason Gaming (the current i-Series Champions), this takes place on the stage in Hall 1 at 6pm. However whilst the action for that has simmered for a 3 hour break, the Intermediate & Lower Tournaments have been racing away with some twists and turns, and general excitement. In the Intermediate Tournament, Iron Munkys lined up against a #Think Gaming that they faced earlier on, and beat 16 – 11 on de_inferno, however after beating Unique eSports, they went on to face Iron Munkys again, the elimination of maps began, and that left de_train & de_contra. The match got underway with both sides exchanging rounds, however Iron Munkys ran out eventual winners on de_train by 16 – 9. That earnt them their win in the Intermediate Tournament and a prize of a crate of Energy Drinks!!

In the Lower Tournament, Ministry Of Darkness Team 5Stars went undefeated in the upper bracket, and managed to win every match without fail, they faced a determined team, named .victum who wanted to claim some revenge against MOD 5stars for earlier beating them on de_inferno 16 – 13 in which proved a close match, too close for comfort, with MOD 5Star taking it on the 2nd to last round. They both eliminated the maps, and were left with de_nuke & de_inferno. On de_nuke, MOD 5star looked incredibly comfortable by taking a 11 – 4 lead as CT’s and then took the pistol round in the 2nd half, however, they went on to lose 12 rounds in a row, and could never find their feet as Terrorists. The second map proved even more damaging for the MOD lads, when they got battered as T’s 13 – 2 by a really determined .victum side. In the second half, MOD failed to make an impact and eventually lost 16 – 4. Team .victum win a crate of energy drinks as winners of the lower tournament.

Please stay tuned for the Grand Final of the CS:S Tournament, it will be on SourceTV  85.236.109.36:28015 & 85.236.109.36:27015 plus on the QuadV streams aswell. Later on tonight the CS:S Admins will be putting up 3 or 4 40man servers, so that teams can play the traditional 20v20 madness on a Sunday Night, Rasta have apparently got teams ready in line to take them on! So be prepared for some more carnage with beers and Counter Strike Source!!

Thanks
CS:S Admin Team

The Battlefield 2 5v5 Infantry Fun Tournament signups have now been closed, and all matches have been scheduled. Please make sure you have a representative on the event IRC server in the channel #bf2.tournament at all times.

Matches will kick off at 12, so please check the fixtures list to find out when & where you are playing. The server passwords will be announced in the IRC channel.

Good Morning LANers!

I do hope everyone had a resting sleep yesterday night, i certainly didn’t but all is ok!!! Just a general notice that the Prize Winning tournament kicks off with Team Coolermaster Vs Good Looking Gamers & a really fiesty match of Fragmasters Toxic Vs Fragmasters Sapphire at 10:30am this morning. In the Intermediate Tournament we have kicking us off, rin$e Vs eC*K! and Unique eSports Vs Mint.C at 10:30am. And to round up, Barrel Of Monkeys Vs CodeRed Gaming at 10:30am in the Lower Tournament. You can find all SourceTV’s to these matches on the internal website (clicking the left hand side under CS:S) and all fixtures should be in your match planners.

Good Luck & Have Fun
CS:S Admin Team

The COD4 fun tournament signups are now open; please go to clan forge and signup.
Signups will close at 6pm and the first matches will be played at 7pm.

Thanks

The COD4 Admins

The Battlefield 2 5v5 Infantry Fun Tournament signups are now re-opened following a short closure. They will close permanently on Sunday morning.

This tournament is open to players who have already been knocked out of their tournaments already, and those that are not currently entered in tournaments. Please make sure that you do not have any remaining matches that would clash with the tournament.

There are plenty of players without teams, and its likely that they will be able to play either to make up numbers in other teams, or as an entirely new team.

If you are having any touble signing up then please speak to either the helpdesk or AcidUK.

Good Morning People,

Hope everyone had a refreshing sleep, matches will restart in 5 minutes, could we please take the time to remind ALL CS:S clans that at least 1 member should be in the Internal IRC channels #css & #css.tournament so that any problems can be resolved quickly, and the admins can find you easily. If this can be done, we can inform all clans at once when your Double Elimination fixtures go up. Remember Top 2 go through to Prize Winning, 3rd & 4th through to Intermediate Tournament, and 5th & 6th go through to Lower Tournament.

Thanks & Good Luck today
CS:S Admin Team

Left 4 Dead sign ups will be closing in around about 1 hour for 10am. If you still need another player, or want to sign your whole team up get done before that time.

The sign ups page can be found here, or hop into internal irc in either #l4d or #l4d.tournament, or come over to P-24

Matches starting at 11am approximately so please make sure someone is about on irc in #l4d.tournament.

Good evening folks,

Hope everyone is enjoying the LAN thus far, we have had problems, but we have tried to resolve them as best as possible. We would like to remind everyone it is 11am start, and for those extra special clans, they have 10am games aswell. We would like to retake the oppurtunity to remind all clans, that we have a tight schedule so if everyone could be on their servers by :05, it would be much appreciated. If there are any other problems, please feel free to talk to the CS:S admin team on Internal IRC, #css and #css.tournament, or catch us at around P-20. If you do reschedule any games, please make sure you inform the Admin Team, any other issues, you MUST make the admin team aware so we can inform your opponents.

Thank You
Your Friendly CS:S Admin Team

The first day of COD4 tournament has finished and an interesting one it was, thank you for your patience when matches were delayed due to power cuts but we all made it through in the end.
The rest of the group matches will start tomorrow at 11am sharp! Please make sure that you are awake and ready before then to make the rest of the tournament run smoothly.

See you tomorrow

The COD4 Admins

Reminder to left you know signups for L4D Fun Tournament close tomorrow at 10am with matches starting around 11.

Currently there are 8 full teams signed up, so if you haven’t filled your team or not signed up yet remember to do so. Click here to sign up.

If you want to know anything else check the rules, join either #l4d or #l4d.tournament on the internal irc, or come to P-24.

The Battlefield 2 signups are closing on Sunday morning. If you have been eliminated from your tournament and you wish to join the Battlefield 2 5v5 Infantry Fun Tournament then please sign up to the tournament as soon as possible. If you are unable to do this, then please speak to either AcidUK or the red shirt helpdesk, and they will be able to add you manually.

More teams means more fun matches, so lets try and fill all 16 team slots!

Just to let everyone know that Team Fortress 2 Fun Tournament Signups are open. To sign up, visit the Signup Page. We currently have 14 full teams signed up for Team Fortress 2 with another 13+ teams waiting to be fully signed up.

The rules to TF2 are here. Signup and enjoy the games =D

If you need any more information or help signing up to TF2 , Come see me at Q-25

Thanks,
Tirrel

Two younger brothers have been beaten out all of the competition, including their older brothers to earn a place in EA’s £10,000 Fifa 2009 tournament.

Brothers Michael and James Barrett entered the tournament with high hopes, however it was younger brother James that overcame tough opponents, knocking out ChrisyBu11ard in the semi-final to earn his place.

Dan and Matt Bushell also entered in a competitive spirit where once again the younger of the two, Dan made it to the final.

Good Afternoon Folks,

The CS:S Admin team would like to remind all Clans who are wishing to participate in the Counter Strike Source Tournament that there is going to be a short briefing in the Strollers Cafe at 1:30pm. Sign Ups will close at 1pm, with Groups & Fixtures shortly announced just after the briefing. If you do have any questions for the admin team, then the briefing is the place to go, so please make sure you are there at 1:30pm.

Thanks
CS:S Admin Team

The Call of Duty 4 Tournament signups will be closed at 1pm, please make sure you have signed up your team with 5 members or your team will not be put forward to play in the tournament.
The COD4 tournament briefing will take place at 1.30pm in front (outside) of the Strollers restaurant, can each team designate a team captain to attend the briefing and relay the information back to their team.

If you have any question regarding signups or the briefing please come see the COD4 Admins at Q22, 23 & 24.

Team Fortress 2 Fun Tournament signups are now open. To register, visit the Tournaments Signup Page. Currently, there are 7 full teams registered with a further 17 in progress. Rules for the tournament can be found here. If you can get a team together, please enter! Remember, it’s just for fun.

For more information or help, see Tirrel at seat Q-25

Good morning everyone,
    Counter-Strike: Source tournament signups have been reopened so please add yourselfs to your respective teams before they close at 1pm.

    If you are having problems adding yourself, please see the tournament helpdesk which is located in the admin area next to the tuck shop

Thanks,
CS:S Admin team

The Call of Duty 4 Tournament signups will be open Friday morning, you will have until 1pm to sign your team up with 5 members or you will not be allowed to play in the tournament.

If you have any question regarding signups please come see the COD4 admins at Q22 ? 24.

The finals of the EA Meet Your Match tournament will be held tomorrow on the main stage at Multiplay’s M Festival and the finalists have been announced here.

The draw for the Tournament will be made live on Sweetpatch TV @ 22:00 tonight.

Welcome to WiseStar 2 Tournament news

Welcome to Plants vs Zombies tournament news, full of Sunshine

Welcome to Peggle Deluxe tournament news!

Welcome to Asphalt 4 Tournament News

Welcome to Marvel vs Capcom 2 Tournament news

Welcome to Battlefield 2 Tournament news

Only 24 hours after the prize tournament schedules were announced, Multiplay are pleased to release schedules for both the WCG and Fun Tournaments. This will allow attendees to plan their event more efficiently, whether they are competing themselves, or coming along to watch some of the best players in Europe battle it out! What’s more, this event sees more tournaments than ever before….with more of them appearing on stage than previously.

All tournament schedules can be viewed here. Simply use the tabs at the top to switch between tournament types.

So now that you know when you are playing, you want to know where you can eat, watch stage games and visit the exhibition in between games right? Simply view the Event Plan and see where everything is!

Obviously you will now be planning your weekend better and doing more activities, you may be worried about getting a good nights sleep to recover each night. Fear not! we have magically found 5 Hostel spaces which we are selling on a first come first served basis. If you would like to snap one of these up, head over to our booking page now. We expect these to disappear quickly so make sure you get yours reserved with payment sharpish!

There is more announcements coming very soon, so watch this space!

Multiplay are pleased to announce the Prize Tournament schedule ahead of next weekends 2,070 player lan event. The stakes are high as teams battle it out for their share of a possible £23,500. Community and Tournament Manager Steve Lynch had the following to say:

“We have worked hard to finalise the schedules in advance this event, to allow teams more time to plan their weekend. We hope by releasing this teams can plan social activites around their games and get even more enjoyment out of the event.”

The i-Series has steadily grown and i37 will set yet another record for a LAN event in the UK. A huge 2070 have paid for BYOC tickets with many more waiting in the wings to attend. In addition to this even more people will be participating in the event via the M Festival Day passes.

Schedules for both World Cyber Games and Fun Tournaments will be released tomorrow.

The Prize Tournament Schedule can be viewed here.

We’re proud to announce the i-Hunt; new to the i-series this activity sees players finding themselves in a contest of intellect, lateral thinking and logical skill. The secret to winning? Just be the fastest thinker out there

The contest takes place both in cyberspace and at locations throughout the event, and is open to any BYOC participant who wishes to compete in our 21st century treasure hunt. Bring your camera, mobile phone, notepad and stop-watch, you just might need them. Entry to this is free, with no signups necessary. We will be announcing more information about how to enter at the start of the event!

Multiplay are pleased to announce a further fun tournament at this years M Festival event. Marvel vs Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes joins the XBOX 360 Fighting Games section, alongside Street Fighter IV and Virtua Fighter 5. The tournament will be open to both i37 spectators and M Festival visitors on the Saturday, as well as BYOC and TUP participants. Competitors attending for both the Street Fighter IV tournament and Virtua Fighter 5 tournaments will also be able to enter. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (a.k.a. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 or MvC2) is the fourth and final game in the Marvel vs. Capcom series of fighting games.

Further details of all tournaments including match schedules will be released over the next 48 hours, watch this space!

If you would like to see how this game plays why not watch the trailers on fileplay

Multiplay are pleased to announce that EA will be supporting FIFA 09 on the PC for the World Cyber Games 2009. The winner will have the opportunity to represent the UK in the World finals in Chengdu, China. Qualification will be through preliminary tournaments held at the National Final, taking place at Multiplay’s M Festival event at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. The Qualifiers for WCG tournaments will run on Friday the 7th August 2009 with the National Finals taking place on Saturday 8th August.

Participants must hold a valid UK Passport to be entered into the tournament. Further details of WCG and all tournaments featured at this event can be found on the i Series Website.

Registration for all of the WCG tournaments will end at 12pm Friday 7th August and must be made in person at the venue.

Further Details about M Festival can be found on the M Festival 2009 Website.

We are proud to announce that the finals of the EA Meet Your Match tournament will be held on Friday 7th August 2009 on the main stage at Multiplays M Festival. Meet Your Match will feature the top 32 players all battling it out for a share of the huge £10,000 prize fund. Data is currently being extracted to determine the top 32 players who will all receive their invites shortly. Expect more exciting announcements over the next few days!

For more information on Meet Your Match visit their website

Multiplay is pleased to announce some additional fun tournaments for i37. In addition to the popular tournaments for Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead we will also be running Battlefield 2, Plants vs Zombies and Peggle Deluxe Tournaments. Battlefield 2 will be open to i37 BYOC only and both Plants vs Zombies and Peggle Deluxe will be open to TUP participants on the Multiplay Stand.

Community and Tournament Manager Steve Lynch said:

“We have been listening to the community on what further tournaments they wish to participate in at the event. We expect these tournaments to be both popular and entertaining for the event. Battlefield 2 was a much requested tournament that we felt we could not ignore. Both Peggle and Plants vs Zombies should provide attendees with competition more on the light hearted side. This shows our commitment to make tournaments more accessible and provides appeal to the masses.”

Signups for these tournaments will open tomorrow.

Multiplay will be making some important changes to the way prizes are given out, and the overall structure of the Prize giving Ceremony. Previously Multiplay have held the Prize giving Ceremonies on the Monday, forcing winners to stay till the end to receive their rewards. This all changes from i37, as Multiplay will be holding the Prize Ceremonies at the end of each day. This means that should you win the Call of Duty 4 Final on the Sunday Afternoon, you will need to attend the Sunday night Prize Ceremony.

Managing Director Craig Fletcher had the following to say:

“We have listened to the concerns of teams attending our events, some of whom find it difficult to stay for a Monday afternoon presentation ceremony. We expect the change to multiple prize ceremonies to further increase the appeal of the i-Series to international teams. This in turn should help grow the spectator audience, both at the event and online. This demonstrates Multiplay’s continuing commitment to help grow e-sports, both in the UK and beyond.”

In addition to the above, the final tournament schedules will be announced within the next week, allowing customers to see for the first time when they will be playing, and allow them to plan their weekends more efficiently. Whilst they will not know who they are playing until signups close, teams will at least know when matches will be taking place.

We are pleased to announce that the Street Fighter IV (XBox 360) tournament has been elevated from a fun tournament to a Prize winning tournament! This will make i37 the first prize winning tournament for one of the biggest fighting games of this year.

The tournament will take place on Saturday 8th August in the M Festival hall. Both participants of i37 and M Festival visitors will be able to take part in the tournament which will be held in the “turn up and play” area of the hall. This means all you have to bring is yourself, then signup for the tournament and use our machines to take part! Alongside this tournament in the same area will be the WCG Virtua Fighter 5 tournament, competitors will be able to enter both so not only will you be able to win yourself some money – you could also win a trip to China to represent the UK in Virtua Fighter 5 at the World Cyber Games final in Chengdu.

An initial £200 will be awarded to the winner of Street Fighter IV, with £100 going to the runner up, a Further £50 will be given to the 3rd placed competitor. These prize funds are not yet cast in stone but are guaranteed. We will substantially increase this figure if signups prove popular! To give you an idea of the increases we are looking at making the total prize fund increasing to £500 should we get 64 signups, £1000 should we hit 128+ signups. So make sure you get all your friends involved!

To signup for this tournament you will need an M Festival day pass which you can book via our M Festival website Normally we would require customers to have a full weekend pass to enter tournaments but as this is our first event support Street Fighter in a Prize funded capacity we have reduced this to just a day pass. Make sure you dont miss out on what could be the fighting game tournament of the year!

Signups will open tomorrow (Friday 3rd July 2009) via our i-Series website.

We are pleased to announce the Xbox 360 tournaments for the upcoming World Cyber Games UK Nationals. The UK will be entering players for both Guitar Hero World Tour and Virtua Fighter 5 from the Xbox360 games division. Qualification will be via Qualifiers leading to the National Final held at Multiplays M Festival / i-Series event at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. The Qualifiers for these tournaments will be held on Friday the 7th August 2009 with the National Finals taking place on Saturday 8th August at the same venue.

Participants must hold a valid UK Passport to be entered into the tournament. Further details of these and all tournaments featured at this event can be found on The iseries Website

Registration for either of these tournaments will end at 12pm Friday 7th August and must be made in person at the venue. Further tournaments for both the PC and XBox 360 platforms will be announced within the next week.

Further Details about M Festival can be found on the M Festival 2009 Website

We are pleased to announce the first tournaments for the upcoming World Cyber Games UK Nationals. The UK will be entering players for both Asphalt 4 and Wise Star 2 from the mobile games division. Qualification will be via Qualifiers leading to the National Final held at Multiplays M Festival / i-Series event at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. The Qualifiers for these tournaments will be held on Friday the 7th August 2009 with the National Finals taking place on Saturday 8th August at the same venue.

Participants must hold a valid UK Passport to be entered into the tournament. Further details of these and all tournaments featured at this event can be found Here

Registration for either of these tournaments will end at 12pm Friday 7th August and must be made in person at the venue. Further tournaments for both the PC and XBox 360 platforms will be announced within the next week.

Heya everyone,

All CSS Tournament Demos from the Double Elimination, will be pulled off tomorrow morning (Monday).

Thanks
CSS Admin Staff

Sweet Patch – Fifa 2009 news site are running a sweet skillz football competition on their website for the duration of i36. Anyone can enter and have a video taken of the best skills they have to offer.  Check out some of the entries so far:

ChriSSyB – Fifa Chapion

Dux0r – Head Fifa 2009 Admin

Wins for Bazza, infused Ben, Hawkesy, Hughjarse, ChriSSyB, Potential, Classic and PimpZ86. Check out the results from the Double Elimination stages of the i36 FIFA 09 tourney here.

Hello everyone,

All demos from Rounds 1 & 2 are uploaded on Fileplay for your pleasures, hopefully the rest should be uploaded by the end of Sunday, but its slow progress.

Thanks
CSS Admin Team

Groups A, B and C complete with D in progress. Check out a brief round up from day 1 at the i36 FIFA 09 tourney…

by David Witts for www.sweetpatch.tv

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Just a reminder guys that the knockout stages start at 12:00 today, also dont forget that in the instance of overtime you play mr3 overtime and that if after 3 rounds of overtime the match is still tied then the match is decided in a single golden knife round.

Losers tournament double elim will start at 13:00 today.

The brackets will be up as soon as possible after the last group match has finished.

We will be moving the start time of the Company of Heroes tournament to 11:30am on Sunday the 12th. The change is being made in a move to get more teams and players involved in the tournament due to conflicts with previous tournaments that are potentially stopping people from signing up to the Company of Heroes tournament.

If you have any problems or want a chat come and see Kaution at seat AF-24 (at the end next to the centre walkway) If I am not at my desk please go to the Tournament help desk so someone can track me down for you.

- Kaution

Hey all,

Just to let you know that the Team Fortress 2 Sign ups are closing today at 11:30. If you havent got your team signed up. Please sign up as soon as possible. We currently have 13 teams that are ready to go.

We are aiming to get matches ready to start at around 12:30pm / 1pm. Please make sure you keep an eye on http://cf to see when and where you need to play your matches.

Cheers
Blizz

Hello,

Sign ups will remain open for
the Left 4 Dead Fun Tournament till 11:00 AM on Saturday. Please
make sure you have a team of 4 players minimum signed up to take part in the fun tourney.

Currently 12 of the 19 teams have 4 or more players.

Im about in #l4d and #l4d.tournament and sitting in the admin area if you have any problems.

Good luck and Have Fun
Cr4zy

Hello everyone,

This is a warning to all teams please be aware there is someone who has a known past who basically scams off teams, if anyone has been approached with a fully sponsored and fully funded team offer, please be vigilant it may be a scam, so keep alert.

Just keeping everyone safe
Thanks
CSS Admin Staff

Welcome to the Company of Heroes Section, for more information check back later

Welcome to the UnrealTournament 2004 section, for more info check back later.

Ventrilo servers can be requested from the Help Desk

Welcome to the Street Fighter IV section, check back for all the latest tournament news

Hey Everyone

Sign ups will remain open for
the Team Fortress 2 Fun Tournament till 11:00 AM on Saturday. Please
make sure you have a team of 6 players minimum to take part in the fun
tourny. There is currently 4 Teams signed up with 6 players.

If you have any problems in regards to signing up. Feel
free to message me on IRC in #tf2 or #tf2.tournament, or come to my
desk in K-25.

Good Luck and Have Fun
Blizz

Hello everyone,

This is your house friendly admins from CSS, i would like to inform everyone who are wishing to participate in the Counter Strike Source Tournament that there will be a Clan Leader meeting going over any problems you may have before the tournament at 1:30pm, in Strollers Restraurant, by the front doors. So if you could please attend so you dont miss any vital details that have been added before the tournament then it would be much appreciated.

Thank You
CSS Admin Team

Hey Everyone and welcome to I36 ^_^

Signups will remain open for the Team Fortress 2 Fun Tournament till 11:00 AM on Saturday. Please make sure you have a team of 6 players minimum to take part in the fun tourny.

If you have any problems in regards to signing up. Feel free to message me on IRC in #tf2 or #tf2.tournament, or come to my desk in K-25.

Good Luck and Have Fun
Blizz

Hi, and welcome to the i36 COD4 Tournament!

Signups for the tournament need to be in by 1pm FRIDAY; this is when we will start to schedule everything, so if your FULL team (5 people) is not signed up you will not be included!

The tournament will start at 2pm on Friday, prior to which there will be a tournament briefing the Strollers cafe by reception @ 12pm

For the tournament there will be a maximum of 8 groups, from which the
top four will go through to the knockout round, which is double elim. Seeding is based on the top to bottom scenario, as opposed to world cup.

If you have any questions then we (your admins) are happy to help you (the punters) at any point! We are sat at the end of row H and we are Harribo, Shed and Fatal. Shed is the pretty one.

Have a good night!

Our £2,500 Halo 3 tournament at i36 has had a fantastic response so far from the Halo community. With the large majority of the top European teams entering it should produce some fantastic matches.

The seedings for Halo 3 have been done through voting, and are based on such things as past LAN placements, whether the team has made changes and situation in the weeks before the event.

These seeds are not considered to be set in stone, but we’re confident they’re as suitable as can be considering the current sign ups.

1. LowLandLions
2. Team Dignitas
3. The Imperial
4. SK Gaming
5. Infused Gaming
6. N! Faculty
7. Outbreak
8. Status Quo
9. Signature
10. Druidz
11. Stricken
12. Aggression

First place will earn the team £1,200 and four BYOC tickets for i37 (worth £320).

Good luck to all the teams, see you there!

Yes thats right, space is running out fast for all you fifa players wanting a chance to win some cash!  Only 15 places remain so if you are intending to participate in this tournament then get yourself signed up now!

If you have not yet paid for the event but wish to play you can do this now, spaces for the event are limited with only around 400 remaining so don’t leave it too late and don’t miss out!

i36 is just around the corner, and we are pleased to announce the rules for the fun tournaments on the PC. The confirmed fun tournaments for the PC are: Company of Heroes, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, and Unreal Tournament 2004.

Fun tournaments are all about you enjoying the events atmosphere and playing a few games with fellow event attendees. Even though the fun tournaments do not have a prize purse, you will gain bragging rights and the respect of being championed the winner.

Signups for the fun tournaments are in high demand, so make sure you sign up in time. All teams can sign up by going here.

If you fancy a shot at winning some serious cash at i36, then look no further!  I36 will feature four great prize tournaments with a combined prize purse of £22,500.  Electronic Arts will be providing a staggering £10,000 FIFA 09 (xbox) tournament, the biggest single prize fund at an i-Series yet!  Rustlers and Multiplay have combined to bring £5,000 to Call of Duty 4 (pc). Multiplay will also be sponsoring the Counter-Strike: Source (pc) tournament which will have a prize pot of £5,000 for all you highly skilled Counter-Strike: Source teams out there. Last but almost certainly not least Halo 3 (xbox 360) will have £2,500 up for grabs.

If you fancy a chance at winning some major cash at i36 then make sure you sign up for your tournament before Friday 3rd April at 18:00 in order to guarantee your place.  You can sign up by going here.

The tournament rules for each game can be found below:

• Company of Heroes rules
• Left 4 Dead rules
• Team Fortress 2 rules
• Unreal Tournament 2004 rules

We are extremely pleased to announce that Rustlers, creators of the UK’s favourite hot snacks, have sponsored the Call of Duty 4 Tournament at i36.  Rustlers have met our initial investment of £2,500 to double the prize fund to £5,000!

Rustlers will also be in attendance at the event with an exhibition stand which will include sampling of their products.  More details on this will be announced soon.

This is fantastic news for our huge Call of Duty 4 community and There is now everything to play for in what’s going to be an excellent tournament.

Check out the CoD4 page on our i36site for more info.

Don’t forget to grab your i36 ticket whilst you’re at it – we have less than 400 spaces left and they’re going fast!

Get more info on Rustlers Hot snacks here.

Signups for Fun Tournaments at i36 are now available! We have 7 games lined up to run and once we have worked out which tournaments we are running when at the LAN the opportunity for you to enter more than one may come about. Fun tournaments at i36 are:

Company of Heroes 2v2 (PC)
Guitar Hero: World Tour 1v1 (Xbox 360)
Left 4 Dead 4v4 (PC)
Project Gotham Racing 4 1v1 (Xbox 360)
Street Fighter IV 1v1 (Xbox 360)
Team Fortress 2 6v6 (PC)
Unreal Tournament 2004 1v1 (PC)

To sign up for any of these tournaments go to the ClanForge Signup Page. Please note to sign up for a tournament you must be paid up for i36.

With the announcement of the Call of Duty 4 tournament obtaining prize money, we are now opening sign ups for EA’s £10,000 FIFA 09 Cup and our own £5,000 Counter Strike: Source, £2,500 Call of Duty 4 and £2,500 Halo 3 competitions.

For all tournaments players must sign up and pay for i36 before they will be able to sign up for their tournament. It is also recommended that any players wishing to enter a tournament read the i-Series Code of Conduct.

Full rulesets will be made available by 16:00 on Monday 23rd February for all games except Call of Duty 4, which will have a ruleset released about a week after a decision is made to use Promod 4 or DAMN:EU as the tournament mod for the competition. Maplists will be compiled and released by 16:00 on Monday 9th February.

Good luck to all teams and players entering!

Although this announcement arrives delayed due to the holiday period we would like to announce that CoD:WaW will not feature at i36 in April. After listening to feedback from the community we will be replacing it with Call of Duty 4 at the current prize fund of £2,500.

As regards to which mod to use, there has been no decision made yet. We will be watching carefully to see how the competitive community reacts between DAMN:EU and Promod 4 and base our decision based on that feedback.

We hope the community can pull together and not be divided over mods so that Cod4′s longevity as a competitive game can be kept at a position where it’s viable for us to support it as one of the headline tournaments at the i-Series for years to come.

No need to look twice – you haven’t misread it! EA really are putting up £10,000 of prize money for a FIFA ’09 Xbox360 tournament at i36!

In one of the largest prize funds we’ve ever had, one lucky winner will walk away with £5,000 in prize money – the largest single prize at the i-Series.

1st £5,000
2nd £2,500
3rd £1,000
4th £500
5th-8th £250

Rules and details are to follow but we wanted to let you know now so that you can start practising for what’s sure to be a hotly contested competition.

You can find the current list of confirmed tournaments at our tournament homepage.

EA have confirmed they are sponsoring three tournaments for i36.

Which tournaments and the prize fund breakdowns are yet to be decided, once our forums are launched on Dec 1st, why not put your view across about which tournaments you’d most like to see?

We are pleased to be able to bring you the first looks at tournaments and organised games at i36. We’re going all out on ways to keep your gaming going over the course of the weekend – ladders, organised big games and pickups to name just a few.

We’ve also announced prize tournaments for CS: Source, Call of Duty: World at War and Halo 3. Fun tournaments have also been announced, with more to come after being put to the vote!

You can also expect more Xbox and console tournaments at i36 – good news for you joypadders!

Check out our tournament homepage for more information.

The final day of Might and Magic Heroes Kingdoms on fast-foward as begun! This is your last chance to play the game as it will never be seen again – sped up so that hours fit into seconds, and armies are built up in minutes. We’ll also be offering a prize of a free Ubisoft game of their choice to the top five ranking players (by Domination points) at the end of the session!

You can join the exclusive i40 game world by visiting http://mightandmagicheroeskingdoms.ubi.com/partner/i40 – registration is easy using your Ubi.com or FaceBook login.

Today’s session finishes at midnight so join in now for some late night fantasy battles! Play now and take a shot at winning a free game!

Keep an eye on Sweetpatch TV for all the live progress from the i40 World Cyber Games FIFA 10 PC tournament.

This is taking place right now in the exhibition hall on the ground floor of the grandstand, if you want to see some 1v1 Fifa action played by some of the best players in the country make sure you come along and check it out!

The Sweetpatch TV website will be constantly updated with results of all the games that are going on.

They think it’s all over..It’s not yet! So make your way to the website to keep up to date with the scores.

Those of you who are taking part in the Team Fortress 2 tournament will be delighted to know that we can now reveal the prizes for the winners and runners up!

The winning team will receive 6 Asus 23″ 3D gaming monitors courtesy of Dabs, as well as  a pair of Nvidia 3D glasses worth £130!
The runners up will receive 6 £100 vouchers to spend on whatever they so desire from the Dabs website.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank Dabs, Nvidia and Asus for donating these prizes and their help with the tournament.

Happy fragging!

Play the Gamer is a live console gaming league, the very first of its kind in the UK. Those of you who were at i40′s opening ceremony will have already met a number of their employees.

PTG will officially launch their league on the 2nd and 3rd of September within the Empire Casino in Leicester Square in London.

This event will be ran over two days and will coincide with the “Poker in the Park” international poker tournament, at which there will also be a two day long tournament that you can all enter to win some fantastic prizes!

This event will also interest you if you are an Evander Holyfield Fan! Click on over to their press release to find out why.

The guys and girls from CCL Online are running a series of challenges and competitions at their booth on the ground floor of the grandstand.

They have a wide range of prizes being given away over the course of the weekend, including XBOX 360s with Kinect systems, PC components and much much more.

One of the activities they are organising is a Scalextric type “Hot Lap” challenge, the next of which is taking place today at 4pm this afternoon. They will choose participants at random by throwing a series of Kingston stress relief heads into the air, some with numbers on to indicate the chosen players! Each player will then get several laps with each of the cars to see who possesses the best reflexes and speed control. The winner of this event will ultimately receive a Kingston SSD drive.

They are also running a number of other tournaments such as “Pong for a Ping” and “Facebook FacePalm”, a full schedule of their events can be found over at their booth.

No install, no flash, no Java – Kingdoms runs straight from your browser, and we’ve got a special high-speed version for everyone at i40 to play for free!

Build your armies, train legendary heroes and send them forth to crush your enemies and expand your empire. You can join the i40 game world by visiting http://mightandmagicheroeskingdoms.ubi.com/partner/i40 – registration is easy using your Ubi.com or FaceBook login. (Existing players can change to the i40 world in their profile after they’ve clicked the link.)

Game sessions will be running midday 12 pm to 6pm on Friday and Saturday, with a special late night finale on Sunday from 6pm to midnight. See you on the battlefield!

The Relentess Energy Drink Crew are here at i40 and are  running a number of competitions with some awesome prizes.

If you’d like to take part in any of their challenges they can be found both inside the grandstand exhibitors hall and on the lawn outside Fuller’s Bar.

Inside (shouldn’t be hard to miss, look for the giant Relentless branded Land Rover!) they are running a fastest lap competition on Forza Motorsport. The faster times will go on a leaderboard with the winners receiving t-shirts, hats and Relentless Energy Drink, the budding Michael Schumachers of you out there will go into a final showdown with the chance to win Festival tickets and a PSP.

There is also a 1v1 Streetfighter 4 challenge running outside on the Relentless truck, after this you’ll get to face off against each other on DJ Hero, winners of this competition will also have the chance to win Festival tickets and other Relentless merchandise!

If you think you’ve got what it takes to win one of these challenges, please do make your way over and talk to one of the Relentless Crew!

The exhibition hall is now open! Feel free to pop along and see all of the exhibitors at i40.

If you want to check out some of the latest technology and hardware ranging from mouse mats to mobile phones and televisions, or if you just want to unleash your inner child and play on a massively over sized scalextric track, get yourself over to the ground floor of the grandstand before all of the freebies are gone!

Fighting the Infected with ESET’s Left 4 Dead 2 Tournament (£4,000 worth of Intel prizes for winning team).

Visit the ESET stand on Friday and Saturday and set the best time in Left 4 Dead 2 Survival mode. Survive the longest across the weekend and you’ll be invited to set another time live on stage in the final !

The winning team of 4 will each receive one of the latest Intel® Core™ i7-980X Extreme Edition CPU’s plus a top of the range Intel Motherboard, worth £1,000 a pair !

All you need to do to enter this tournament is to register at the ESET exhibition stand at i40 !

Check out our dedicated i40 website to see what else is happening ! lesslagmorefrag.co.uk

Today we’re pleased to announce all of the lovely food and drink that will be available at insomnia40!

Major changes from previous events include:

• A change in our pizza supplier to Stone Willys pizza, which will be cooked fresh on site, and is even better value for money than previous events! Get them delivered to your desk via our online ordering system
• Greens has now changed to Frankie’s Diner, including Frankie’s bar in the middle of the Long Room! Frankie’s will be serving high quality American Diner style food for both online ordering and sit-down meals.
• Tuck shop will now be performing delivery to your desk via the online ordering system!
• Our Online Ordering system has had a revamp, with all new pretty colours and sparkles and magic pixie dust.

Find out more on our Food and drink guide for the event, and don’t forget to top up your paypal account for the online ordering!

ESET Technicians are on call Saturday & Sunday. Text your number and location at i40 to 07563 118 003. ESET technicians will arrange to visit and will assist you with removing any viruses, customising your rig for better performance and advise you on the best security available for your gaming rig!

Check out www.lesslagmorefrag.co.uk/ for more information!

We are pleased to announce that at insomnia40, Demon Broadband will be launching a new, very low latency gaming broadband product where gaming traffic is truly prioritised.

This will be ideal for serious gamers who want the best gaming experience at home, and a competitive edge over other players.

Demon Game Pro will provide a better gaming experience than standard products because of the lower network latency, improved ping times and 24×7 UK based, in-house technical support from a team comprised of dedicated employees (including some avid gamers) with an average of 11 years Demon expertise.

The service will offer speeds of up to 20Mb downstream and 1Mb upstream, free wireless router, free 24 x 7 in-house UK based support, traffic prioritisation and free static IP address.

Demon Game Pro soft launched on 20th, with it’s full launch at insomnia40.

To find out more, check out the Demon Game Pro website, or visit the Demon booth at insomnia40!

Is your case looking old and run down?

Well Aquatuning has teamed up with the epic case manufacturer Coolermaster to offer you the chance to win the latest gaming case the HAF-X!

All you have to do is register here for your chance to win the case. A runner up will also receive a brand spanking CM Storm Sentinel Advance mouse.

Please note this competition is only open to insomnia40 attendees and the prizes must be picked up from the Aquatuning stand on Monday, the prize draw will be at 11am.

Across the weekend, Quiet PC are running a number of great fun tournaments on their stand, with swag worth £3000 up for grabs!

With kit from Zalman, Scythe, Noctua, Arctic and Gelid up for grabs, there is loads to get your hands on throughout the weekend.

Want to know more? Check out this post on our community forums where Paul AKA Skippylee from Quiet PC explains all about it!

We are pleased to announce we have confirmed another stand for insomnia40. Imacula will be at insomnia40 representing ZOTAC, Alienbags.co.uk and Synology.

Here’s some information about what ZOTAC have planned.

They will be displaying the latest GTX480 AMP! Edition, the ZOTAC DIY ZBOX Net-top featuring latest NVIDIA ION2 technology and the perfect LAN PC featuring ZOTAC M-ITX motherboard, graphics and Silverstone SG07 chassis.

They will also be running a couple of tournaments across the weekend, including:

Beat the Pro Gamer – win some exclusive ZOTAC and Alienware l33t t-shirts, wireless mice, SteelSeries Gear and graphics cards.

Build the ZBOX competition – the fastest person to build up a ZOTAC ZBOX will win a brand new unit over the weekend.

Alienbags.co.uk, the official laptop bags for Alienware laptops made by mobileedge, will be on force giving out customisable helium balloons which will win you prizes!

Come join in the fun and you could get a l33t t-shirt by ZOTAC and alienbags.

Just guess the weight of the exclusive alienware chocolate head to enter our competition!

Synology will be demoing for the first time their new NAS interface, DSM3.0. They’ll also be running a ninja photo competition, with the top prize being a DS1010 NAS worth over £650!

You can get 20% off a Synology NAS box as well direct from CCL at the event. Only the first 5 will be discounted, so make sure you’re quick!

All of these brands will be represented on one stand in the exhibition hall, so why not check it out at the event!

Ubisoft will be at i40 with their browser-based battles game Might and Magic Heroes Kingdoms. The developers have cooked up a special version of the game just for i40 which runs at a much faster pace than usual, fitting weeks worth of turns into 6 hours along with a few other fun tweaks. Build your army, train your heroes, and prepare to conquer the enemy’s lands in glorious battle!

We’ll be running three sessions between 12 midday and 6pm on Friday and Saturday, with a late-night finale between 6pm and 12 midnight on Sunday. You can reserve your username NOW here and details of how to join the game will be available at i40.

ESET will be running a challenge across the insomnia40 weekend, to prove that you and your friends at the best at Fighting the Infected.

Visit the ESET stand on Friday and Saturday and set the best time in Left 4 Dead 2 Survival mode. Survive the longest across the weekend and you’ll be invited to set another time live on stage!

The winners will receive one of the latest Intel® Core™ i7-980X processor Extreme Edition each, worth over £800!

All you need to do to enter this tournament is to register at the ESET exhibition stand at insomnia40!

ESET will also be giving a massive 50% off ESET NOD32 Antivirus for all i40 visitors only! Come to the stand to make your purchases (cash sales only on stand) or see ESET staff on stand at i40 for your promotional code to purchase online!

Today we are very pleased to announce that S2 Games (the developers of Heroes of Newerth) together with SteelSeries, will be supporting the Heroes of Newerth Cup at insomnia40.

There is a huge £2,500 up for grabs! We will also have a trial key for everyone at insomnia40, allowing players to play 10 games of HoN for free!
SteelSeries will also be providing prizes for the top 3 teams in the form of the Xai Laser Mouse, the Kinzu Optical Mouse and the QcK mousepad, and a pair of the Siberia v2 USB headset for the Most Valuable Player in the tournament!

Tournament signups will be going live next week, and if you haven’t got a ticket yet for what is sure to be an incredible event with some amazing games, head over to our ticket page. Tickets are currently selling very fast, so make sure you don’t miss out!

You can find the rules here or enter the tournament by clicking the button below.

We’re now getting very close to our insomnia40 event and there is still loads of really exciting news to come.
With the best prize winning tournaments of the year and a completely packed exhibition hall, you simply cannot afford to miss out.

Remember that the only way to secure your place at the event is to purchase your ticket today!

Here at Multiplay we’re excited to announce a new Headline Sponsor for insomnia40 – Demon Broadband!

Demon Broadband, one of the UK’s first ISP’s, will be helping us take the Multiplay iSeries events to a brand new level over the coming year. Demon broadband are providing us with an amazing new level of connectivity for the iSeries events, in the form of a 1Gb line, which will officially make iSeries events the fastest LAN parties in the UK!

In addition, Demon Broadband is launching a very low latency gaming connection where gaming traffic is truly prioritised, ideal for serious gamers. They also have a direct connection to the UK’s largest farm of game servers, in our very own London datacentre.

We’re hoping that this partnership will mean you get the best gaming experience at home and at our events, no matter if your game is against 5 other people in the same room, or with millions of others playing across the internet.

If you haven’t already secured your place at what will be the best gaming event of 2010, head on over to our tickets page and book now!

We are very pleased to announce that Razer will be supporting the Starcraft 2 tournament at insomnia40!
Providing the top 3 players in the tournament with a great range of kit from their new Starcraft 2 range.

Up for grabs will be the Razer Spectre StarCraft II Gaming Mouse, the Razer Maurauder StarCraft II Gaming Keyboard and the Razer Banshee StarCraft II Gaming Headset

We are also very pleased to announce that we will have a very special guest in attendance at insomnia40 to help us produce the best coverage surrounding the event.

TotalBiscuit, the Cynical Brit, will be at insomnia40 providing you all with the latest up to date information on the Starcraft 2 tournament, including video coverage of the tournament and live casting of the tournament finals!

Currently the most viewed director on Youtube, beating the likes of 4OD and the BBC, TotalBiscuit provides authentic British Cataclysm and Starcraft 2 commentary.

You can check out his Youtube channel here and check out some of his previous videos!

If you’ve not already got a ticket for what is shaping up to be the best gaming event of 2010, secure your place now by purchasing a ticket here

You can now enter for your chance to win a ticket for and a place in the UK National Finals for World Cyber Games, held at insomnia40.

The qualifiers will take place in Guitar Hero 5, Tekken 6 and Forza Motorsport 3 starting on the 3rd of August.
Check out our online qualifiers page for more information!

We are pleased to announce that Radio 1′s very own Devin Griffin will be attending Insomnia40!

The Relentless Colosseum Games will be held at Insomnia 40, bringing 32 sponsored teams from the 32 boroughs of London to battle it out in the Ludus Magnus / Cyber Gladiators tournament, one of the most unique charity fundraising events ever.

BBC Radio 1 DJ and Ludus Magnus Patron, Devin Griffin, will be showcasing his creative skills to the community for charity to inspire the youth to “stop the killing and start creating” as part of the Ludus Magnus zero harm campaign.

We’ll have more news about what you can expect Dev to be doing at insomnia40 will follow shortly.

We are delighted to announce that once again ESET will be returning to the iSeries!

ESET will be Fighting the Infected at insomnia40 with their Left 4 Dead 2 tournament held in their exhibition area with the Grand Final live on stage and on the stream of the event!

There will be loads of really fun activities running from the stand throughout the weekend and the chance to get your hands on some of ESET’s award winning products. ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security products will be on sale at massive discounts to i40 visitors plus find out more about ESET Mobile Antivirus!

ESET will be holding a PC Medic Service on Saturday & Sunday for anyone running or trialling ESET. ESET Technicians will be on stand to troubleshoot any issues and set up the gaming configuration for users!

So why not come and check out their booth at the event!

We are pleased to announce that DinoPC.com will be sponsoring our Multiplay area and showcasing their latest hardware.

Here’s what Jonny Raymond from DinoPC.com has to say:

"Think you have what it takes to be the next Lewis Hamilton?

Visit DinoPC at the insomnia40 event, where you can set your fastest lap on our racing simulator.

There are 3 prizes available. The fastest lap wins NVIDIA 3D Glasses and 22" 3D-Ready Viewsonic screen, second position wins a Gigabyte H55N-USB3 mini-ITX motherboard and third position wins an Antec ISK300-65 mini-ITX case.

DinoPC is a London-based system builder. At Dino PC we always aim to give you more, bringing you the latest technology before the competition, and regularly updating our product range to make sure that only the best components go into every custom built PC. With a custom built PC from Dino PC you get much more than a beige box, we pride ourselves on providing service and support that receives regular praise and recommendations from our customers."

To find out more about DinoPC.com check out their website, or come visit their booth at Insomnia40!

Today we are pleased to announce that we are now taking Pre-Orders for Gameservers on the hottest title of this summer, Medal of Honor.

As an official EA Ranked Server provider for Medal of Honor and other EA titles, we’ve got the highest quality gaming server setup around.

We’ve got a bespoke network finely tuned to be the best for your Gameserver, and the best server hardware that money can buy. You can always be sure to get the best performance possible from a Multiplay Gameserver.

Want to experience the best before the game is released? Purchase a Bad Company 2 server today and you’ll be able to swap to Medal of Honor upon release instantly and at no extra cost!

As ever all our game servers come with instant setup, free web hosting, free mumble voice comms server (or half price Ventrilo/Teamspeak server) and course our fast and efficient support! Why not head over to www.multiplaygameservers.com and check out our amazing offers.

Over the weekend we opened up signups for the Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup Online Qualifiers.

We will be running Online Qualifiers for the Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup, allowing 4 teams the chance to win free entry into Insomnia40.

Signups are now open for the 64 team double elimination online qualifiers. 16 teams have been invited so there are only 48 available spaces that will be issued on a first come first serve basis. Signups will close when 48 full teams (5 members) have signed up or the signup end date is reached on the 30th June.

Instead of 1st and 2nd place going through to the elimination round as if they had finished first and 3rd and 4th going through to the elimination round as if they had finished second, we have decided that the 4 winning teams will simply be seeded 1 – 4 in the elimination bracket at insomnia40. We hope this change will increase the incentive to enter the online qualifier. We will also release the confirmed invited teams shortly.

To sign up head to tournaments.multiplay.co.uk/signups/ and use your normal Multiplay Login to register your team. All 5 members MUST be signed up to the team for it to be classed as a complete team so please ensure you all get signed up. This is looking set to be a great tournament with some great interest already so go get signed up!

If you’ve not already got a ticket for what will undoutably be the best event so far this year, head on over to our tickets page to secure your place today!

Today we are delighted to announce the Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup!

We will be running Online Qualifiers for the Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup, allowing 4 teams the chance to win free entry into Insomnia40. Signups will be opening here on the Multiplay website soon, with the Online tournament running throughout July.

The Grand Finals of The Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup will be held at Insomnia40 at Newbury Racecourse, with last chance qualifiers and up to £5,000 in prize money!

Thermaltake became the number one choice for PC DIY enthusiasts worldwide with its innovative breakthrough product designs. The concept of “Quality”, “Performance”, and “Reliability” have been incorporated into the design of Thermaltake PC Chassis, Cooler and Power Supply to assure the components meet the highest standard. Click here to find out more about Thermaltake and TT eSports, Thermaltake’s brand of eSport peripherals.

If you’ve not already got a ticket for what will undoutably be the best event so far this year, head on over to our tickets page to secure your place today!

Today we have some great information on what Relentless Energy will be bringing to Insomnia 40!

Here’s what Relentless have to say:

“We are pleased to announce Relentless Energy drink will be supporting Insomnia40 this year and bringing along some great interactive activation!

Sound good? Why not come and check out Relentless Energy at our Insomnia40 event 27th – 30th Aug.”

If you want to find out a little more about Relentless before the event check out the relentlessenergy.com website.

You can also expect to see some really fun and interesting activities taking part in the beer garden around the outside area, including some great music from their mobile stage and an awesome atmosphere.
They will have some special surprises for everyone on the day, so stay tuned for further announcements!

Quietpc.com have now confirmed what they will be bringing for you all to experience at Insomnia40. Here’s what Paul Lee from Quietpc.com had to say:

“Ever wondered what all the fuss is about with ATI Eyefinity? Do you want to give it ago? WTF is ATI Eyefinity anyway? Well now is your chance to find out because Quietpc.com will have two systems for you to play on, both with 3-monitor setups. The systems will also include Zalman’s latest 3D monitors, so you can even play in 3D for total immersion!

As well as that, they will also be the latest and greatest products from Zalman, Scythe, Arctic Cooling, Fractal Design and Noctua on show. There will be prizes to be won with our daily competitions. There will be freebies to give away and last but not least we might even have Rock Band blasting out! Cya there!”

Find out more about Quietpc.com over on their website, and come check out their stand at the event!

We are now ready to confirm a huge group of companies that will be involved in Insomnia40! Here’s the list we’ve got for you today:

• Relentless
• Samsung
• Samsung Mobile
• World Cyber Games
• Coca-Cola
• Kustom PC
• Microsoft
• S2 Games
• Team Dignitas

We’ll have loads more information on what these guys are all doing here at our event shortly, stay tuned for more information! You can find out more about all of our exhibitors for Insomnia40 here.
If you’ve not already got your ticket for Insomnia40, why not head on over to our events page and secure your place at the best LAN event the UK has ever seen!

Building on the success of i39, Mad Catz will be returning in August along with successful sponsored partners TCM Gaming in tow. Visit our stand to come and show your support for the guys during their tournaments, try your hand at a head to head against our pro’s or simply just come for a natter. In addition we will be running competitions across the whole weekend with some fantastic prizes – Be the envy of your co-gamers and instantly up your gameplay by bagging yourself a R.A.T 7, the most talked about gaming mouse to date!

You can check out their website at http://www.cyborggaming.com, see you there!

Aquatuning UK Europe’s largest PC Modding and Watercooling company has confirmed they will be attending i40 in force this year. We last saw Aquatuning at i37 where they took the unique approach of sponsoring the toilets, and due to the success of that campaign they have scaled things up and will have a stand at i40.

Although they are being quite secretive with what they have planned for us we do know that they will have Custom PC Magazine and Bit-tech staff on hand so we expect to see few big announcements from Aquatuning in the coming weeks.

If you are not familiar with what Aquatuning is all about check out the Aquatuning website for more info.

Yes, you read correctly. We have now officially entered unknown territory for the i-Series, breaking all previous records of ticket sales for the UK’s biggest gaming event. In just under a week since launching Early Early Bird, we have now sold over 50% of the tickets for i40, with over 1000 keen gamers securing their seats! Jeez. This is gonna be a scorcher of a lan!

If you’ve not secured your seat yet, you might want to hurry! With less than 6 hours remaining of Early Early Bird, you haven’t got long! What does that mean? Well, it means you can get 4 days of awesome LAN gaming for only £63! That’s 30% off! Awesome eh? Head on over to our i-Series site to find out more, and also don’t forget to check out our insomnia40 forums to see what’s going on in the community!

We have already confirmed prize tournaments for Counter-Strike Source, Team Fortress 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2, with more being considered!

Remember you only have until 23:59:59 GMT tonight (Wednesday 14th April 2010) to take advantage of this awesome offer!

We are pleased to announce the winners from the R.U.S.E. tournament today, with some great prizes being awarded from SteelSeries!

There was one winner per day, and we should be in touch with you soon to confirm your addresses. Congratulations!

Friday – Dwarfy
Saturday – sPec1alJ
Sunday – DyLan
Monday – RTO

If you haven’t already checked out this amazing game, head on over to the R.U.S.E. website to find out more!

ESET have given us an amazing offer for all of us customers!

Get a massive 30% discount off ESET software, valid for 1, 2, 3 and 4 User Home Edition licenses on all durations for ESET NOD32 Antivirus, ESET Smart Security and even ESET Mobile Antivirus for PDA’s/Smartphones!

All you need to do is the use discount code i39ESET to claim your huge discount.

ESET were at our i39 event this past weekend, with some great offers. If you didn’t attend then you missed out!

This code still works after the event however, so you can still get your hands on 30% off!

Alan on the ESET stand has 50 ESET NOD32 Antivirus boxed products going for just £20! That’s a massive £15 saving off of the usual price.
These will be available on a first come first served basis, so why not head on down and get your hands on some amazing protection!
Also available will be ESET Smart Security for only £35!

Antec will have massive presence at i39 and will be running a very exciting PSU competition, with over 40 high end PSU’s being given away! We will also launch our official sponsorship with Team Dignitas at the event. Finally, we have the brand new GTX-480 card on the Antec stand, so make sure you come along to see the future of PC gaming.

We will have a LAN setup on the Antec stand, with one of the machines housing the GTX-480. We will also be loaned a couple of Team Dignitas players, so you can come and play on our LAN against them. The highest scorers / best times from each day against the pros will win high end Antec PSU’s.

In true i-series tradition we will share a stand with Kustom PC’s again too, and they will be selling all the Antec goodies with some exclusive special offers up for grabs!

Of course, we will have on display all the latest and greatest Antec kit so please come and take a look and if you have any questions, we will be happy to answer them for you.

With i39 looming large on the horizon this week, we are officially in mere territory. Many teams have been practicing their respective games, in anticipation of competing for a chance of the huge prize pot on offer at the event. There is however, one competition which has yet to be unveiled. One so challenging, so tough, so bizarre, that it surpasses every other tournament at i39 in its infinite awesomeness. I am talking of course, about the Multiplay Ultimate Gamer.

The concept is simple. You’re going to have a number of chances over the weekend to become a Multiplay Ultimate Gamer. Each competition will take around 1 hour and we’ll be posting the schedule on Friday, so don’t worry about it taking up your whole weekend.

To get an idea of what a becoming a Multiplay Ultimate Gamer will involve, please continue reading!

1. Trivia of doom – You’d better know your gaming as we’re going to whittle you down to 8 participants pretty sharpish
2. PC Round – No game is off limits here, so don’t think we’re going to stick to mainstream games. Armagetron anyone?
3. Xbox Speed Round – This is a head to head race to the finish across five different games. Be ready to learn fast and don’t think you can practice this, we’ll be changing it up over the weekend.
4. Profit! – No really, you’ve just won a prize!
5. Don’t think it ends there though. Step 5 is the bonus round where we’ve invited special guests to bring a game of their choice for you to challenge them at. Here’s where the mega prizes are, courtesy of the special guests. If the challenger loses? Rollover!

Warning: The above may well change depending how nice we’re feeling on the day.

In addition to the main competitions, we’ll also be running a variety of on the spot challenges, Street Fighter IV will return, there’ll be plenty of freeplay and have you ever seen someone DJ whilst skateboarding? Didn’t think so.

We’ll keep the i-Series page busy with what’s going on and don’t forget we will be releasing the schedule on Friday!

We are pleased to announce that Coolermaster will be providing our raffle and Multiplay Ultimate Gamer with some awesome prizes! We’ve got Gladiator 600 cases, Silent Pro M 850W PSUs and the latest CM Storm Sentinel Advanced gaming mice worth over £1100. Fancy being in with a chance of winning one of these amazing prizes? Just pick up some tickets to our famous i-Series raffle from the event front desk!

ESET deliver the fastest, most effective antivirus software, ESET NOD32 Antivirus, with spyware and malware protection available to combat viruses, spyware, rootkits and other internet attacks and ESET Smart Security with additional 2 way Firewall and AntiSpam, keeping your identity and data safe from hackers and thieves.

Those gamers amongst you will know that protecting your PC whilst getting the most out of your gaming machine isn’t always the easiest of tasks, but with ESET NOD32 Antivirus/Smart Security’s Gamer Profile, you can be safe in the knowledge you will always be protected whilst still getting the best gaming experience out of your hardware.

With heavily discounted software and the opportunity to get hands on with their products, why not check out ESET’s stand at i39 to find out more about this great group of products?

For those of you who are new to our i-Series events at Newbury Racecourse, the venue can be a bit daunting.
Because of this, we’ve got a site map detailing everything you should need at the event.

We’ve got all of the most important things listed, food, showers, camping, everything. Never get lost finding a pint ever again!

To get your hands on the latest version, just click here!

As we approach 2 weeks to go to the event the rate of signups and payments is ramping up! We have just past the 1000 paid milestone which means we have only 600 seats left. “Only?!” I hear you scream! Historically we have seen over half the event seats sold in the last 4 weeks before the event, with it ramping to 200+ seats sold in a single day as people see them running out fast!

As we are now in the final run-up to the event it really is a good idea to get your bookings paid up and your seats picked asap. Act now before the truly mad rush starts!

If you have yet to book head to the tickets page. If you have already booked but not paid you need to head to the event payment page to secure it or call us on 0845 868 1337 between 9am and 6pm Monday to Friday to pay over the phone. Remember that your booking is only confirmed once you have paid for it!

Multiplay are pleased to announce Multiplay Ultimate Gamer!

Featured in the exhibition hall, the Multiplay Ultimate Gamer arena and staff will be hosting a wide range of challenges for teams and individuals to compete in during gaps from their main tournaments, or just offer a nice retreat for some casual and social gaming fun.

Ok not that realistic, but it still looks fun eh?!

By now you are all probably wondering what Multiplay Ultimate Gamer is, or at the very least questioning Dux0r’s sanity.

Over the i39 weekend we will be hosting regular opportunities to become a Multiplay Ultimate Gamer. Speed is of the essence here as you will be faced with a variety of gaming challenges to test all of your gaming skill. Only the fastest will emerge victorious and collect the rewards!

There’s plenty more to come so stay tuned! Oh and did I mention freebies?

Share the fun with the new Nintendo DSi™ XL

With bigger screens, pre-installed software, two styluses and a wider viewing angle, the new Nintendo DSi XL is larger and more incredible than ever before! Visit us at i39 on 2nd – 5th April to see how the Nintendo DSi XL builds on everything the Nintendo DS™ has to offer – and takes it to another level. Now get ready to experience the bigger, bolder world of the Nintendo DSi XL!

You can find out more about Nintendo and our other confirmed exhibitors at i39 on our exhibitors page.

If you haven’t already got your ticket for i39, why not head over to our booking page and secure your place now!

Have you got EA SPORTS FIFA 10 on the PS3? If so then the FIWC UK Online Pre-Qualifiers will be of interest to you!

The FIFA Interactive World Cup is the World’s largest FIFA 10 gaming tournament operated by FIFA and in partnership with EA SPORTS and Sony Playstation.
These online pre-qualifier events will be taking place on the newly launched EA SPORTS MATES Leagues platform where users are able to create and manage their own leagues and cups.

Here’s where to sign up and find out more

-FIWC UK Online Pre-Qual 3 (22 Jan 2010 – 01 Feb 2010)

-FIWC UK Online Pre-Qual 4 (12 Feb 2010 – 19 Feb 2010)

-FIWC UK Online Pre-Qual 5 (22 Feb 2010 – 01 March 2010)

-FIWC UK Online Pre-Qual 6 (03 March 2010 – 10 March 2010)

These events act as a lead in to the UK Live event at the Emirates on the 22nd March where the UK Champion will be crowned and a trip to Barcelona will be the prize.

Barcelona will be the Global Final with a prize of $20,000 on offer so make sure you don’t miss out!

We are pleased to announce the return of an old i-Series favourite to i39 today, ProjectorGames!

ProjectorGames offers remakes of classic games and brand new, simple party and arcade games with a twist and can support up to 512 players on a SINGLE screen!

Check them out at the event for some great fun games, I know our staff will certainly be spending some of their weekend there!

Today we are pleased to announce that the very first Modern Warfare 2 tournaments on the PC and Xbox 360 are to be held at i38, 13th to 16th of November at Newbury Racecourse.

Activision will not only have a huge presence in our i38 exhibition hall, but they will be bringing with them the most hotly anticipated title of the year; Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

The game will be available to play in all it’s glory on 24 Xbox 360s, 6 Xbox 360 pods, and 24 of the latest gaming PCs on the Activision stand, with jDome technology giving gamers 180 degree vision of the action.

To celebrate the launch of one of the biggest titles this year, Activision will be sponsoring the world’s first prize tournaments for Modern Warfare 2 on both the Xbox 360 and PC, with a huge prize fund to be announced next week!

Tournament sign-ups will be available from the i-Series tournament website which can be found here

If you’ve not yet secured your place at Europe’s premier gaming event, head on over to our i-Series website and book now!

Logitech are back once again at the i-Series, with a huge range of their latest hardware for you try out in the exhibition hall. A huge range of keyboards, G-Series gaming mice and the latest gaming headsets will all be on display for you to try out at your leisure, as well as the G27 racing wheel and the awesome VisionRacer VR3! They will also have the founder of the VisionRacer, Geoff Turton, on hand on the Sunday to talk about his racing rig, and organising a driving tournament, with a racing wheel and a copy of Colin McRae Dirt 2 up for grabs (come practice Friday and Saturday!)

Logitech will also be sponsoring the i38 Guitar Hero World Tour tournament, pitting gamers in a 1v1 face off for the chance to win a stunning Logitech wireless guitar controller! Made from Rosewood and Steel, and complete with touch sensitive neck slider, this is a seriously awesome bit of kit.

Make sure you head on over to our i38 tournament section and get signed up!

Back once more at the i-Series are gaming giants Ubisoft, with some mouth watering titles to get your mits on! The gaming side of the highly anticipated movie & game combination Avatar will be on show in the exhibition hall at Ubisoft’s stand, as well as the chance to get to grips with their new strategic war game Ruse. If you haven’t seen anything on Ruse yet, head over to our comprehensive gaming download site Fileplay, and watch the trailers and gameplay teasers in glorious high definition!

We have been informed by our suppliers today that Jolt Cola has filed for chapter 11 in the US, which means that for now our Jolt pre-orders will be on hold until we can confirm our stock for the event. Mountain Dew pre-orders are unaffected by this, so you can still order your supplies for i38! We will post more information on our Jolt supplies when we have it.

As we get within 3 weeks of i38, more sponsors and exhibitors are joining every day! Today we can announce the addition of four new exhibitors at i38: Gigabyte, Sapphire, Alienware and Ubisoft!

Gigabyte will be showcasing some of their latest products, as well as showing off some awesome liquid nitrogen overclocking courtesy of Benchtec. Sapphire will also be in attendance showcasing their latest hardware, as well as putting some top of the range kit up for grabs in the world famous I-Series raffle!

Alienware will be not only sponsoring the Counter-Strike Source Trophy, now with an increased minimum prize pot of £4,000, but will also have some awesomes surprises in the exhbition itself! We will give you more information on this shortly. Finally Ubisoft, the developers of the epic Assassins Creed series, will be showing off some of their latest titles at the event, with a chance to get hands on with some of their upcoming releases. Nice.

So there you go! With over 750 seats already sold and only 3 weeks to go, seats are going fast!
Book now and get seated to ensure your place

New to our events at i37 were Western Digital, who have now confirmed they will be coming back for a second event!

Western Digital will be showcasing their new WD Caviar Black 2TB hard drives, their VelociRaptor series of high performance drives and the new 1TB external Passport drives.

The popular family of WD Caviar Black drives, now led by the new 2 TB capacity, is perfect for gaming, high-performance desktop systems and workstations.
WD VelociRaptor is the next step up for the speed-craving PC enthusiast, and as with all WD drives, attention to detail in features, performance and reliability is a top priority.

Visit the Western Digital homepage for more information about their products, or visit their exhibition at i38!

Another week and another tournament supporter for i38! This time we have case makers Fractal Design, who are putting up 6 of their sleek Define R2 Cases, complete with Newton 800W PSU’s up for grabs for the winners of the Team Fortress 2 tournament at i38, with runners up also getting an R2 case each!

Not bad eh?

If you’re not signed up for i38 yet you need to hurry, as places are going fast! Head on over to our I-Series site for more information on the event and our tournaments and get signed up before it’s too late!

Today we are pleased to announce that Zowie Gear will be supporting i38′s Left 4 Dead tournament!

Zowie Gear produce high quality, efficient, and durable products all at affordable prices for the gamer market.

They will be giving 4 of their brand new Zowie Gear Hammer Headsets to the winners of our Left 4 Dead tournament, as well as some other great prizes for our world famous i-Series raffle!

To find out more about Zowie Gear, head on over to their website, or to sign up for our Prize Winning Left 4 Dead tournament, check out the tournament signups page.

Fancy a free participant pass to i38? Of course you do!

With the UK’s biggest LAN only 5 weeks away, tickets are starting to sell fast! So how do you get your mits on a free pass? Well, head over to our Twitter page, follow the @iSeries feed, then re-tweet the latest tweet to be in with a chance to win!

But that’s not all! We will also be selecting at random 5 other re-tweeters to win a free Fileplay Subscription! Good eh? Make sure you check out the i-Series homepage for all the latest information on the event too!

Quickly becoming a permament feature at i-Series exhibitions, we’re pleased to announce that Quiet PC are back once again for i38.

Here’s what Paul ‘Skippy’ Lee has in store for you:

“As usual we will be showcasing the very latest products from Zalman, Scythe, Arctic Cooling, Noctua and Fractal Design giving you the chance to see the products in action.

Head over to http://www.quietpc.com/ to see the products on offer, or follow @quietpc on twitter for their latest product information!

At i38, Kustom PC return with their usual offering of computer equipment at excellent prices.

The Kustom PC Stand will enable you to purchase all those items you may have forgotten to bring to the event, or should the worst happen, to replace breakages.

They’ll also be here showing the latest gaming peripherals – a great chance to try out the ‘touchy feely stuff’ and accessorise your PC with some LAN essentials.

Most of their range of mice, mats, keyboards and headsets will be able to view and try at our stand – it’s much better than window shopping on the internet.

For more information, check out the Kustom PCs Website, or follow @kustompcs on twitter!

Whether you’re a gamer looking for that cutting-edge case or a system integrator seeking a reliable and efficient power supply, you’ve got a lot of factors to consider, from performance to stability to style.

Antec will be in attendance at i38 showing their high performance PC components in our Exhibition hall.

A PC is an investment, and you should settle for nothing short of the system of your dreams. Build it. Believe it. That’s the Antec way.

To find out more, check out Antec’s website or follow @AntecInc on twitter!

Crucial Memory Technology are back once again! Historically one of the most interactive exhibition stands, you can play a variety of games involving Crucial Memory sticks.

Their games often include stacking the famous Crucial Pink Pigs, and playing Jenga with their memory!

Aside from the fun and games, Crucial will be showcasing the latest and best in memory technology here at i38.

Their website can tell you more about their products, or follow @crucialmemory on twitter!

Today we are pleased to bring you the first announcement of prize funds for our gaming tournaments at i38.

First of all we have a guaranteed £2,500 prize fund for the top 4 teams for our Halo 3 tournament on Xbox 360.  After the enthusiasm shown by the community at previous events we are pleased to commit our own funds to this tournament.

Also for the Xbox we have £500 for our Street Fighter IV Tournament on Xbox. Coming as a full weekend spectator? Why not join in the fun and try your hand at winning some prize money!

For PC Tournaments we have a prize fund promised live on stage by Craig ‘Wizzo’ Fletcher: £1,500 for the top 8 teams in our Team Fortress 2 tournament.

However, should the TF2 community rally and if we achieve 64 full teams signed up, we’ll increase that to a massive £2,500!

We are looking forward to running this tournament and hope the community rally to make this the best event for TF2 we’ve ever run.

Next up we have Battlefield 2. This game has had prize tournaments many times at our events before, and we’re offering £500 for the top 4 teams in the BF2 Tournament at i38.

For many events our Call of Duty and Counter-strike: Source series tournaments have been key in our prize tournament lineup.  Counter-strike: Source has a guaranteed minimum prize fund of £2,500, but we’re currently strongly seeking support for this tournament from other organisations to help bolster the offering to the CS:S community.

We haven’t forgotten Call of Duty and there will definitely be a prize winning tournament for a Call of Duty series game. We’re currently exploring all avenues of funding for this tournament to give you guys the best prize fund possible.

So just to recap:

• £2,500 for Top 4 Halo 3 teams.
• £500 for top 8 Street Fighter 4 players.
• Up to £2,500 for the top 8 Team Fortress 2 players.
• £500 for the top 4 Battlefield 2 teams.
• £2,500 minimum for Counterstrike: Source.
• £TBA for a Call of Duty series game.

Once again we say goodbye to the i-Series at Stoneleigh Park, left only with the memories of defeats, victories, the pub quiz and the greatest LAN party in the world!

Many thanks to EA and our other sponsors for making this event possible and a massive congratulations to all of our tournament winners.

Whatever the future holds for i38 we sincerely hope to see you there.

Event Coverage

i-Live HD Thursday – M-Festival and i-Hunt

i-Live HD Friday – EAS

i-Live HD Saturday – Tournament News

i-Live HD – Pub Quiz Slide Show

Photo Gallery

Photos Thread

Feedback Thread

Congratulations to the lucky winners of the i37 raffle, click more to see the full list of winning tickets. See the thread on the forums for what to do if you’ve won.

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Scheduled for 5:00pm, between the CoD4 and CS:S finals Craig “Wizzo” Fletcher will be presenting some new and exciting news for Multiplay. Following this will be a question & answers session where you can present any feedback, questions or concerns you may have for the i-Series, or any other Multiplay services.

A survival mode Left 4 Dead competition is starting now on the Multiplay stand in the exhibitor stall. The game is simple – best score on Lighthouse wins the prize, although tactics must be kept within the spirit of the game, no exploits or glitches taken advantage of will be counted as a winning score. Top prize so far is a processor, with three i38 tickets for the runners up. The competition will be running for the rest of the afternoon and again tomorrow.

The doors for the UK’s biggest LAN party have opened for Early Arrival participants, marking the start of the 4th i-Series at our new home in Stoneleigh.

A couple of notable differences for i37 include a new bar area near in the Strollers food court, near the front entrance. Massive air conditioning units have also been installed to aid in keeping the summer event a comfortable gaming climate.

Stay tuned for more updates on the new i-Hunt and exclusive beta keys for i-Series attendees on the main i-Series news site or Twitter.

3rd August 2009 – Multiplay are pleased to announce that Radio 1 DJ Devin Griffin will be making an appearance on Friday 7th August to open M Festival. Dev is really passionate about gaming and fighting games such as Street Fighter are high on his list of favourites. In conjunction with Colosseum Games, Dev will be taking part in a Celebrity Fun Street Fighter 4 tournament on the main stage at M Festival.

Held from 7th – 10th August at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, M Festival is the largest electronic games festival in the UK – and ranks high as one of the premium gaming events in Europe. The purpose of M Festival is to bring the world of computer games and gaming technology to the public at large, whilst also appealing to the existing games community.

The M Festival events aim to bring more awareness and exposure of how far games have come, by bringing both the hard core and casual gamers together for a four day celebration of gaming. This latest announcement shows that M Festival is making real progress!

BBC Radio 1 recently announced Dev as the new host of the weekend breakfast show, previously he was presenting the early breakfast on BBC 1Xtra. Dev was at 1Xtra since the station launched in 2002 – first presenting a Saturday show with Reggie Yates, and then hosting his own weekend show before early weekday breakfast.

On opening M Festival Devin Griffin said “I am looking forward to attending and opening M Festival at Stoneleigh Park on Friday, meeting so many gamers in one place will be fun. I have been playing Street Fighter for years and with Colosseum Games we are excited to bring our celebrity tournaments to M Festival”.

Multiplay Managing Director Craig Fletcher said “We are very excited about Dev’s attendance at the M Festival. Having such a high profile figure attending who is truly passionate about games shows not only just how far gaming has come along in the mainstream, but the growing audience and appeal of our events. No longer is being a gamer associated with being antisocial but quite the opposite. It’s a very social pass time and more and more people in the UK are discovering just how engaging and rewarding it can be.”

About Colosseum Games: Established in 2008, Colosseum Games is a community focused company that specialises in celebrity gaming events and projects for the creation of commercial/educational games for the community by the community. Through our extensive virtual intellectual properties provided by our CEO, Omar Jobson-Lewis and developed by the Colosseum geniuses. These games are played and mastered by our cyber gladiators on the new stage of the Colosseum. Our vision “to solve environmental, social and economic problems
by creating innovative solutions by interactive entertainment. Working together for creating and grooming the creative geniuses of our future.” This is made possible by our ever growing community and continued support from our honourable pillar sponsors.

About Multiplay: Multiplay are organisers of the UK’s largest video games festival, the i-Series. Established in 1997 they have over ten years of experience in organising LAN parties and have seen tens of thousands of gamers attend the events. Complimenting their events Multiplay are also Europe’s largest online games service provider, offering server hosting for the best multiplayer games of the day. Their self-owned and operated network infrastructure connects the UK with mainland Europe, providing the fastest connections to their servers.

Quiet PC have issued the following press release on what they will be bringing to i37:

UK, York, 31st July, 2009: Why are there over 2000 gamers crammed into one massive hall during the height of summer? Simple, to win a slice of the £15,000 prize money with the winners invited to play for the UK at the next World Cyber Games, you’d be mad to miss it. Quietpc.com will be showcasing at Multiplay’s Mfestival (featuring i37) some of their latest gaming weaponry, including the revolutionary 3D PC Gaming monitors and their Ultra-quiet Xboxes.

3D gaming continues to grow and grow and Quiet PC know seeing is believing.
If you fancy a play or have not experienced 3D gaming before, feel free to pop down to the Quiet PC stand and test over 10 popular 3D games on their Zalman monitors that add an extra dimension to your gaming!

Quiet PC will also be showcasing some of their latest products from manufacturers Zalman, Scythe, Noctua and Arctic Cooling. You’ll find new PSUs, cases, CPU & VGA coolers and much more. You can even buy products at a special i37 price.

Finally they will also be playing a range of Xbox games on a modded Xbox 360. This Xbox has been upgraded with one thing in mind, noise reduction. See here for more details and if you have any questions feel free to ask them when you are there!

Western Digital have confirmed they will be attending Multiplays M Festival. They will be showcasing their latest range of Hard Drives and Storage Solutions from their own booth in Hall 1. Western Digital are still finalising details of what they will be offering, however make sure you check them out!

Western Digital are the latest exhibitor to confirm, with more exhibitors looking likely to confirm in the run up to the event. We will post more details on Western Digital as soon as we receive them.

The Press office here at Multiplay is literally buzzing this morning, with Southpeak Games releasing the following Press Statement:

Leicester, July 31st – SouthPeak Games is pleased to announce that the highly anticipated multiplayer first person shooter Section 8 will be playable during this year’s Multiplay M Festival – which incorporates the world famous i-Series event. Taking place between August 7 and 9, this is the first time the epic multiplayer FPS has been publically playable in Europe.

For the duration of M Festival, FPS fans can finally go hands-on with the PC and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft® versions of the game. What’s more, the European beta of Section 8 will be exclusively available for download – a full three days before open beta launch – so gamers can take their frag-fests home with them. Finally, anyone who fancies themselves as a sharp shooter should come along to SouthPeak Games’ booth to take part in a range of challenges and tournaments to win some awesome prizes.

Available for Xbox 360 and PC this September, Section 8 is a large-scale, sci-fi first person shooter where fast-paced action meets military strategy in the far reaches of the galaxy. Join the epic battle between the 8th Armoured Infantry and the Arm of Orion by taking part in fierce squad-based combat across majestic alien worlds.

Choose the experience you want to play by customising your own equipment Loadouts, and dynamically manipulate the flow of combat with on-demand vehicle requisitions, strategic asset deliveries and Dynamic Combat Missions.

For more information on Section 8, visit www.joinsection8.com. Multiplay and the I-Series take place at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, from August 7until August 10. For more details, head to http://iseries.multiplay.co.uk/.

We are not done yet with announcements today, keep watching for even more exciting news later

We have wanted to do this for some time now, and at i36 we trialled our Chill Out Zone which was packed all weekend! However for i37 we will be taking this one step further. The Chill out zone will return where you can relax and play Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 games all weekend.

That’s great and everything, but what about being able to speak to us? where’s the all important freebies? Well, you can head across from the Chill out zone to our stand this event, pick up some free Candy Floss and go watch some gaming movies on our superb Fileplay movie site. Then you can head onto the pcs and test out our awesome gameservers! We will be holding sessions where you can speak to members of the team and find out what plans we have for the future. We will also be handing out free energy shots, more information on these will be appearing later today.

Make sure you don’t miss out on our important announcement…live on stage between the CoD4 and CS:S finals. We will also be hosting a question and answer session. Keep checking the i-Series website over the course of today as we have some fantastic announcements lined up.

SouthPeak Games have become the latest exhibitor to confirm their attendance at Multiplays i37 / M Festival Event. Details are being kept under wraps but we can reveal SouthPeak Games will be showcasing their new first person shooter, Section 8.

If you have been living under a rock for the past year why not check out the following trailers and behind the scenes video footage of the game on Fileplay:

Developed by TimeGate Studios, Section 8 is an epic multiplayer FPS that gives players unprecedented strategic control over the battlefield, employing tactical assets and on-demand vehicle deliveries to dynamically alter the flow of combat. Set in the distant future when humanity is facing a growing insurrection among its colonies, Earth dispatches the elite 8th Armoured Infantry to turn the tide.

Utilising advanced powered armour suits, these volunteers are the only ones crazy enough to smash through enemy defences and drop directly into the battlefield from 15,000 feet. Their bravery earned them the nickname “Section 8”, an old military regulation where soldiers were classed as unfit for duty due to mental instability.

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We are still over 2 months away from i37 and the exhibitors are starting to fully confirm. After their successful and busy stand at i36, Quiet PC have become the next exhibitor to confirm. If i36 is anything to go by we can expect a good mix of noise reduced xboxes running a host of games, real 3d gaming, the latest Zalman products and a whole host more. More news on what Quiet PC will be offering this time around will be released in the coming weeks. In the meantime make sure you check them out

One of the first exhibitors to confirm for i37, Aquatuning, have launched their new UK website. Stocking over 1,000,000 cooling and modding products, this is fantastic news for the UK consumer. What’s more, To celebrate the launch of their new shop they are offering
all UK customers free standard shipping on all orders over £50!

This fantastic offer is only available for a limited time and will finish on 14.06.2009 at midnight. Delivery methods included in the offer are UPS standard and Royal Mail!

Head on over and check them out!

We are pleased to confirm the first sponsor of i37, Aquatuning will be sponsoring the event in a very unique way! We don’t want to let the cat out of the bag just yet but keep your eyes peeled for more information over the coming days.

So who are Aquatuning I hear you say? Aquatuning are a huge German based cooling distributor, who will very shortly be entering into the UK market. To give you an idea of their scale they have over 1,000,000 products in stock! This is fantastic news for the UK consumer and if you can’t wait for their UK site to open
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