ESL has announced today that its parent company, Turtle Entertainment GmbH, has entered into an agreement to acquire the New York City-based ESS Agency, formerly the Esports Services Agency. With the announcement, ESL will be opening a full production studio and office in Los Angeles, California, making it ESL’s seventh global office location.

Full article:
http://www.ongamers.com/articles/esl-launches-north-america-operations-with-purchase-of-ess/1100-1146/

Aeromi

France14463 Posts

March 31 2014 13:25 GMT

Does that mean no WCS by Redbull/MLG for Season 2 ?

NovaMB

Germany9534 Posts

March 31 2014 13:25 GMT

Looks like ESL keeps WCS AM at least for this year, which would be amazing.

TelecoM

United States10890 Posts

March 31 2014 13:26 GMT

So this is great news for NA scene?......... GOGO NA!!

Serinox

Germany5224 Posts

March 31 2014 13:26 GMT

On March 31 2014 22:25 Aeromi wrote:
Does that mean no WCS by Redbull/MLG for Season 2 ?

Probably. MLG probably doesn't want it back and Red Bull does not have a setup yet to host all of that.

Fusilero

United Kingdom50293 Posts

March 31 2014 13:26 GMT

On March 31 2014 22:25 NovaMB wrote:
Looks like ESL keeps WCS AM at least for this year, which would be amazing.

WCS AM, in America? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

NovaMB

Germany9534 Posts

March 31 2014 13:29 GMT

On March 31 2014 22:26 Fusilero wrote:

Show nested quote +

WCS AM, in America? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Lets not get ahead of ourselves.

Also looks like ESEX can predict the future
http://esportsexpress.com/2014/03/esl-annexes-wcs-north-america/

Musicus

Germany23580 Posts

March 31 2014 13:30 GMT

Maybe Rotti's future work place? Would be great, back to the ESL roots

MtlGuitarist97

United States1539 Posts

March 31 2014 13:31 GMT

It would be really cool if IEM and DH both started doing more in NA. They put on awesome European tournaments and I'd love to see organizers other than MLG and NASL (RIP in piece) investing into NA's scene.

Micro_Jackson

Germany2002 Posts

March 31 2014 13:31 GMT

#10

Take that ´merica the europeans are coming.

messioso

Denmark635 Posts

March 31 2014 13:32 GMT

#11

robih

Austria1086 Posts

March 31 2014 13:33 GMT

#12

rotterdam and incontrol to cast WCSAM

MasterOfPuppets

Romania6942 Posts

March 31 2014 13:34 GMT

#13

Looks like things have gone according to plan. It's nice to see that we get to keep WCS AM at least for now, hopefully it won't go the way of NASL.

On March 31 2014 22:29 NovaMB wrote:

Also looks like ESEX can predict the future

wut

ThomasjServo

15244 Posts

March 31 2014 13:34 GMT

#14

I kind of wish they were losing the NYC office if it is purely administrative. I don't see why operations couldn't be moved to LA entirely and save some coin on the lease in NYC. Who knows maybe there were conditions to the acquisition, but NYC seems like a huge money sink if they aren't recording there.

Xums

Germany19 Posts

March 31 2014 13:35 GMT

#15

On March 31 2014 22:31 Micro_Jackson wrote:
Take that ´merica the europeans are coming.

again!!

I'm glad to see ESL is expanding into NA. A few more Tournaments besides MLG and Redbull should be like a Reanimation for the NA scene.

At Least: Dreamhack, it's your turn!!