ESL has just announced that it will be expanding its operations into North America with a new league, The National ESL. Heading this league will be figureheads from various communities, including Trevor "Midway" Schmidt of Gotfrag fame, and John "Alien" Clark and Steve "Xterm" Devaney, two veteran League administrators.
According to the press release, the "National ESL’s new website will go live on July 5th with the release of Intel Extreme Master’s North American Qualification information including its North American LAN Finals and prize money."
National ESL launches into North America
The new league, National ESL, will focus on North American eSports with a release date of July 5th.
NEW YORK- In preparation for the 2010 qualification of Intel Extreme Masters, Turtle Entertainment releases its new league for North America, National Electronic Sports League (National ESL). The league will feature major community leaders to run its league operations with a focus on building from inside the community.
Leading National ESL will be Trevor “Midway” Schmidt, founder and former owner of GotFrag.com. Schmidt established and created the community around GotFrag while building one of the strongest brands in eSports. He is considered by many to be one of the key community members in eSports. Schmidt will head a team made up of famous league administrator including John Clark and Steve “xterm” Devaney, two veterans in their field.
"I have been looking for an opportunity to make an impact on eSports in the USA in a way that can be meaningful and help push eSports forward,” said Schmidt, National Head of National ESL. “This is a real opportunity to take advantage of ESL’s success and expand the company into North American eSports and help improve one of the biggest events in the eSports calendar in Intel Extreme Masters for North America."
The new National ESL will use the existing ESL website system which currently supports 1.6 million unique visitors per month, due to over 2,500,000 ESL members. Each year ESL conducts over 100 eSports events while hosting 400,000 matches in its website per month.
National ESL’s new website will go live on July 5th with the release of Intel Extreme Master’s North American Qualification information including its North American LAN Finals and prize money.
Intel Extreme Masters
The Intel® Extreme Masters is the global league of video game champions since 2006. The league arranges the hardest and most popular competitions in Counter-Strike, World of Warcraft and Quake Live. eSports champions from Europe, Asia and America. Live tournaments at the world’s largest IT- and Gaming conventions feature the top performers of the season - global stars in eSports. The fourth season had its exciting final at CeBIT 2010, finding the top teams and players in the Intel® Extreme Masters World Championship. The IPTV station ESL TV presents the best games of the season live and reports directly from the offline events.
Further information is available at:
www.intelextrememasters.com or
http://www.intel.com/consumer/game/teams/events.htm
Turtle Entertainment GmbH
Turtle Entertainment was founded in 2000. The company quickly grew to be the European leader in the sector of electronic sports (eSports). The Electronic Sports League (ESL), operated by Turtle Entertainment, is active in 37 different countries worldwide. The league portal
www.esl.eu reaches above ten million visits a month generated by more than 2,5 million registered users. Turtle Entertainment broadcasts ESL events via IPTV channel ESL TV since 2007. The headquarter has over 170 employees and is located in Cologne, Germany. Turtle Entertainment owns the majority of the Chinese eSports league PGL (Pro Gamer League) since 2007. Important business partners of Turtle Entertainment are global corporations such as Intel, Alienware, ASUS, adidas, Volkswagen, Nokia, Trend Micro, Sennheiser, Windows 7, Sidewinder, Razer and gamed.de.
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dazator will not be allowed to play and his spot will be given to 
MatoD, player who managed to be in the quarter-finals in both 3rd and 4th qualifier cups. Complete players list can be found on this link.
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Cup updates
Quake Live qualifiers. We will host four Quake Live qualification tournaments where the top 4 from each qualifier will advance to our online finals to meet with 16 invited players, making it a total of 32 European players.
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DaHanG, the current American champion, and 15 qualified players will participate to the Playoffs during 4-5th September. And Finally, the Finals will be played with the best 8 players from the Playoffs in October in 
Stermy in the second group stage.
ESWC Finals 2010 will take place from Thursday to Sunday at the New Port Bay hotel in 
Cyrus "proZaC" Malekani and 
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Sc00T in the next week (the exact date yet to be announced).
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