The Minecraft creative build competition starts today at 4:30PM so make sure you sign up here if you want to take part!
All you need to do is enter your Minecraft username when you sign up, or simply go see the guys on the Minecraft stand in the exhibition hall.
Sign ups will also stay open!

If you have any problems you can go to the Minecraft stand or the guys at helpdesk and they will do their best to help you out.

A warm welcome to everyone who’s arriving today at Telford for insomnia45, there’s loads of stuff going on today; make sure you get in early so you don’t miss out!

The exhibition opens at 10AM, check out the stands for competitions and the arcade that’s only £10 for the entire day.

Sign ups close today so if you want to get involved you must sign up for the respective tournament time;
MW3 by 11:30AM
CS:S by 4PM
Minecraft by 4PM
COD4 by 5:30PM
TF2 by 6PM
LoL by 6:00PM
BF3 by 6:00PM

For those of you who are getting here a bit later or if you want to catch the opening ceremony from your desk, you can watch it here from 11AM onwards as well as coming to the finals stage to get some great freebies!

(Box, anyone?)

Its so close you can taste it! Insomnia45 is only 2 days away, and the buzz is in the air already. All over twitter the craziness has already begun! Use the hashtag #insomnia45 when chatting about the event, and spread the word!

For those of you that cannot make it this weekend, we feel your pain, but all is not lost! We will be streaming so much video content from the event you won’t know what to watch!

As usual we will be hosting a live stream all weekend long of the main stage. This is the premier channel where you will find all of the tournament grand finals, along side other awesome activities like the Friday Night party, the “Classy“ Pub Quiz and the Asus Overclocking Masters UK Grand Final.

Event Live Streams

• League of Legends will be our premier tournament stream this time around, with top casters Deman and Joe Miller bringing you all of the hottest action from the LAN tournament. Already with the online qualifiers we have “Western Wolves” and Winfakt.lol showing themselves to be contenders, this should be one to watch!
• Starcraft 2 will also be streaming all day Saturday and Sunday, and will see some of the best UK SC2 talent head to head in one of the biggest E-Sports in the world.
• Counter Strike Source will be viewable via SourceTV throughout the weekend, you will find the details on this site closer to the kick off. Then enjoy the grand final casted by Joe Miller and Gonzo on Sunday!
• Team Fortress 2 will have a video stream all weekend, hosted by VanillaTF2, hosts of last summer’s TF2 extravaganza!
• Modern Warfare 3 (Xbox) will be streamed live all weekend by our friends at the Warped Gaming League by Rel and Goochhyy, and if Mana recovers from his injury he might be able to get involved too!
• Fighting Games will be taking place all day Saturday and Sunday, and Unequalled Media are providing a full weekend of awesome fighting action, from Super Street Fighter IV AE to King of Fighters XIII you will not be disappointed!
• We have a fully featured Minecraft stream all weekend! Featuring Minecraft masters Wol and bacon, you can tune in and find out how all of our Minecraft competitions are going, like the spleef, parkour and “Hunger Games” and follow the progress of the Minecraft Creative Competition – where people build simply EPIC THINGS in one single weekend.
• Call of Duty 4 will have the grand final streamed live to the world, and will be brought to you via Deman and A_Spec, to bring you one of the longest running tournaments of the iSeries!
• We’ll also be streaming Fifa 12 this event, with the 1v1 stream taking place on Saturday, and then 2v2 on Sunday.
• We also have some Battlefield 3, with the grand final taking place in our finals arena and live streamed on our main channel! Dignitas’ very own Dogbert will be your host for this one.

There will be so much awesome action happening this weekend that even if you’re not attending insomnia45, you can watch all of the action right here when the stream goes live!

As we love to say every chance we get – we are the biggest Minecraft Server Provider in the entire world, so we love to have the community come to our events and have themselves good times. This event we are taking it a step further and introduce to you – the Multiplay Minecraft Stand in our exhibition hall during Insomnia45.

Your host will be our very own Jonny “Slanty” Hughes, and helping him are two awesome guys from the Minecraft community – Luke “Wol” Lowrey and Simon “bacon” Pain (also previous winners of our Minecraft Creative Competition). Wol and bacon will also be producing a live show from the stand during the day to entertain the viewers at home, including interviews and coverage of all the goings on for Minecraft at the event. Tune in or just show up to see the progress of our £500 Minecraft Creative Build Competition, which is open to holders of a BYOC ticket for our event – make sure you sign up for your plot as soon as possible!

We are going to be giving away SO MANY prizes at this stand – including Mojang signed Minecraft J!nx T-Shirts, Multiplay Minecraft Servers, Minecraft J!nx Clothing and much more! But not just to anyone – we have a set of challenges and fun things to do all weekend to earn them, including:

• Parkour challenge maps – we give you a tricky course to run, climb and jump across – set the fastest time of the day and win a signed shirt! Different courses Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday!
• Spleef 1vs1 – Knock the blocks from under your opponents feet before they do the same to you! Quick knock out tournaments each day to win more cool prizes!
• Free2Play – Some machines will be available for you to simply sit and play Minecraft! Try survival or creative modes and see what you can do with the help of Minecraft experts. Spot prizes available just for visting the stand and trying Minecraft!

Also don’t forget we have a special seating area in the LAN hall for all Minecraft players to sit – spend the weekend trying out the latest mods and discussing Minecraft (and any other games you have!) and have a great time meeting new friends from within the community.

Oh yes indeedy. We have something for those Minecraft lovers out there at our insomnia45 event in Telford, England on May 4th-7th. We are launching our Creative Build Competition! Now this tournament is like part of the furniture (built out of wooden blocks created from a punched tree of course) and we would not want you to miss out on a weekend of building cool stuff for us all to see.

Have a peek at what happened during our previous event, insomnia44:

That is A_Spec showing us around the winning 3 plots of the insomnia44 Creative Minecraft Competition – you could be immortalised in a video like this one! You could be joining our host on the stage to explain how your creation works to show it to the crowd. We had everything from Indiana Jones Temples to Skyrim Fortress replicas built on the servers!

If you want to get involved – grab your ticket, read about the competition and get signed up now. Maybe grab one of our servers for yourself, so you can practise building with your team – they are currently on a 25% deal.

Progress Report – Xmas Online Build Competition

Currently our online version of this competition is running on our incredibly popular Multiplay Minecraft Servers where over 500 teams of hopefuls are creating all sorts of awesome things, for example, the image below was on the first server we checked today:

It appears to be a Japanese Temple Fortress built with impeccable attention to detail – we cannot wait to see what else there is to see. There are also things like a working game of Guess Who which 2 players can play and a Theme Park with Working Ridable Rides! Check out our videos coming in the next few weeks!