Congratulations to all of our tournament winners, winning well over £20,000 in prizes!

Call of Duty 4 - dignitas
Counter-Strike: Source - Birmingham Salvo
Battlefield 2 - Epsilon eSports
Command & Conquer 3 - Apollooo
Crysis - Epsilon eSports
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance - Packard Bell
Team Fortress 2 - ^wotr^
Unreal tournament 3 - 4Kings - hypno
World in conflict - dignitas
FIFA 2008 - London Mint - Bully
Halo 3 - Sesame Street

The biggest ever LAN on UK soil has come to an end. With over 1,600 BYOC participants, i33 pushed the boundaries of what’s become a very familiar venue for many of us at Newbury. Eleven official tournaments were run over the weekend, with a combined prize fund of over £22,000. Birmingham Salvo took home the Counter Strike: Source €5,000 top prize, however the biggest tournament of the weekend was the €6,000 Call of Duty 4 play off, which was won by Dignitas. You can find videos of all the finals over on our Video on Demand page.

The exhibition hall was more impressive than ever with superb displays by Packard Bell, Activision, EA, Ubisoft and many more. Scan had stage and camera crew setup for their Guitar Hero 3 tournament, whereas Intel bought along a full bands worth of musical equipment for people to come down and try out throughout the event.

For now, we say goodbye to Newbury, and welcome in a new age of UK LANs. The new Stoneleigh Park venue will bring us a huge 3,500 square meter hall which will host all 2,000 BYOC participants under one roof, not to mention the huge camping areas, hotel, covered parking area, paintball arena, 4×4 track and much more. i34 has 20% off until 11th April so be sure to check it out.

We hope you all have a great Easter, and look forward to seeing you again in August!

Check out this voxpop video from some of the many people here at i33 this weekend…

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You can find the list of winning raffle tickets here. Please note our expiry date for claiming tickets is Monday 5th April 2008. Any prizes unclaimed after this date will be added to our next raffle at i34.

For more information about claiming your prize by post, see our raffle page.

The i33 Raffle will now happen at 6pm this evening! Make sure you check out all the great prizes you could win and head down to the Grandstand at 6pm to watch it in person. All winning tickets will be posted afterwards!

We mentioned the extreme cooling that took place yesterday… now see it in video! Read more…

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Ubisoft’s crack team of console-loving girls has set the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous play of a single FPS at 24 hours.

Starting at 10am on Saturday morning the intrepid three - Sarin, Jam and Kitt - played Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 for the whole 24 hours until 10am today. By 5-6am they certainly looked to be slowing slightly but received their second wind just in time to see them through to the end. Well done from all at Multiplay, we’re proud to have had another Guinness World Record broken at the i-Series!

Read more and see pictures.

The COD4 tournament is nearly coming to a close and over at the TEK9 website they are following the finals live, bringing you the latest updates, scores and more. Will TLR be able to take home the win or will it be dignitas? Check it out on the TEK9 website.

 Click here for the coverage

The Packard Bell Fifa ‘08 tournament final will be held on their stand at 5:00pm Sunday, with the top prize of a laptop! Come down and watch for will surely be an exciting game!

As you know i34 is 20% off for all i33 attendees during the event - those of you who are buying your tickets over the coming day or so can also win extra prizes on the Multiplay stand by reception. Open a box, find a prize and celebrate. Yes, Golden Tickets are available in some of these boxes.