We’re partnering up with Grosvenor Casinos to take CS:GO esports out to venues across the country over the coming months with a total of £10k on the line. The one-day events will have PCs provided, so all you have to do is turn up (with your own peripherals if you prefer).

Qualifiers will be taking place at:

• Grosvenor - Newcastle – 14th July

• Grosvenor - Coventry – 21st July

• Grosvenor – Manchester - 29th July

• Mecca – Glasgow Quay – 11th August

• Grosvenor – Reading (South) – 19th August

Winners will go on to the grand final at Grosvenor Coventry later this year to compete for the grand prize.

Each qualifier winning team will receive £750 and runners-up £250, with the grand final champions taking £3000, second place £1500 and third place £500.

Qualifier tickets cost just £50 per team to enter and due to the nature of the venues, the tournament is restricted to ages 18 and over.

You can take part in the tournament and follow all the results at grosvenor.epiclan.net.

Jon Winkle, epic.LAN Managing Director comments, “epic.LAN has always provided community-level tournaments for esports and recognises that some of the barriers to taking part in esports for new teams are the costs of entry and transport. That’s why we’re really looking forward to delivering this new tournament series with the team from Grosvenor Casinos so we can bring esports straight to the community and give more people opportunities to get involved”.

Callum Scott, Events & Entertainment Project Manager at Rank Group added, “We are very excited about working with epic.LAN. Having played for 10 years, I know how hard it can be to get some much-needed LAN experience. We wanted to work with epic.LAN to offer tournaments outside of London, bringing it to the players and helping grow to our UK talent. It’s all about building a starting point for our future world-class teams!”