Valve Regional Standings (VRS)
Tournament Coverage
This tournament complies with Valve's Tournament Operator Requirements in order to be "Ranked" as a Tier 2 Open Tournament under the Valve Regional Standings.
This does not confirm with 100% certainty that the event is "Ranked" and relies on data coverage by HLTV. EPIC.LAN will apply for HLTV coverage under their specific guidelines no more than 15 days prior to the start of the "Main Event" stage.
EPIC.LAN is not able to guarantee prior to the event if coverage is confirmed. We will follow due process to receive coverage as we have for all of our Counter-Strike LAN events since EPIC26.
Required Details
- Match Dates: 30/10/2026 - 01/11/2026
- Signups Deadline: 16:00 BST 29/10/2026
- Tournament Operator: EPIC.LAN
- VRS Filter: None
- Invite Start Rank: N/A (Open Registration)
- Invitation Date: N/A
- Visa Region: United Kingdom
- Tournament Location: United Kingdom (LAN)
- Admission Requirement: EPIC49 CS2 requires an EPIC49 BYOC Participant Ticket (£95.00) prior to tournament registration.
Teams will be seeded by the VRS Rankings October 5th 2026 invite update, for teams that do not have a VRS rank they will be seeded in accordance with a combination of the UKCS Rankings & Panel seeding.
Prize pool distribution can be found here.
Sanction(s) & Penalty Applications
Complete Rules and Guidelines for this EPIC.LAN CS2 Tournament can be found here.
If a Player, Team, or Representative are found to be in violation of the Rules or any accompanying documentation such as the Code of Conduct and General Rules, Tournament Officials reserve the right to apply any of the following sanctions that they deem fit for purpose based off of the severity of the infraction:
- Verbal Warning.
- Written Warning.
- Forced Broadcast Sanitisation.
- Communication Suspension.
- Communication Suspension.
- Game Forfeiture.
- Match Forfeiture.
- Disqualification from a specific tournament.
- Disqualification from multiple tournaments.
- Undefined time – temporary suspension from any EPIC.LAN competitions or activities.
- Undefined time – temporary suspension from any EPIC.LAN hosted events and associated venues, without refund.
- Permanent ban from any EPIC.LAN competitions or activities.
- Permanent ban from any EPIC.LAN hosted events and associated venues, without refund.
- Reduction and/or forfeiture of all prize earnings either monetarily or otherwise. (All forfeited cash prizing is donated to a charity of EPIC.LAN’s choice).
Sanction(s) Notification
EPIC.LAN reserves the right to notify you of a Sanction(s) at any time. EPIC.LAN does not publish the conclusion of investigations or reasoning for sanction(s). EPIC.LAN does not publicly announce the outcome of sanction(s) against individuals or organisations unless otherwise required by external terms and rules EPIC.LAN abides by, such as under Valve Tournament Organiser requirements.
Sanctions(s) that impact individuals or organisations may be broad and cover EPIC.LAN events rather than EPIC.LAN specific CS2 tournaments and not require publication.
EPIC.LAN may use various avenues of communication to notify of sanction(s) such as email, banning of EPIC.LAN user accounts, direct messaging via third party platforms, or in person at an event.
EPIC.LAN is not responsible for sanction(s) enacted by venues EPIC.LAN hires to host events. Such venue specific actions are out of our control but may result in a Player’s ineligibility to continue participating in EPIC.LAN competitions.
Appeals
Any appeals to applied sanctions are subject to correspondence to EPIC.LAN Management. All communication for appeals must be escalation to a member of the EPIC.LAN Management team who will assess Sanction appeals on a case by cases basis, considering infringement severity, previous Sanction(s), precedence, and other external factors.
EPIC.LAN will not consider your appeal if for an arbitrary reason not associated with EPIC.LAN, such as how a Sanction impacts a Player’s ability to participate at Ranked competitions or prospects within an organisation.
External Factors
Sanction(s) directly correlate to an Individual or Team’s actions whilst involved in an EPIC.LAN event, external factors are not considered. Similarly, should an issue be raised by a third party as to an Individual or Team’s actions outside of an EPIC.LAN hosted event or venue, these will also not be actioned. EPIC.LAN will, within the best of its ability, safeguard participants where threats have been levied against them by other participants outside of EPIC.LAN activities.
Evidence
EPIC.LAN will not apply sanctions that impact a player or team's ability to participate in our events without relevant and correctly sourced evidence. EPIC.LAN does not pre-emptively suspend anyones ability to participate based on suspicion. EPIC.LAN may only take action prior to an event where a situation may endanger or threaten the safety of our tournaments and participants.