"Blank-TV and ESL Pro Series Nordic have reached an agreement which gives Blank-TV.de exclusive rights to broadcast the HLTV and SourceTV for all ESL Pro Series Nordic matches, not covered by ESL TV. And the right to record all matches for download by the users.
This means for the average user, that the only place you can get live HLTV and SourceTV coverage is here at ESL Nordic or at Blank-TV

We at ESL Nordic are very happy to have one dependable partner that we can rely on for all our HLTV and SourceTV broadcast"

"For the past two seasons, and for all other ESL events HLTV.org has been doing our complete coverage, we pioneered our Dreamteam game on EPS Nordic season 2, developing it in a rapid pace to get it ready for the league start, we do weekly stats breakdowns and complete coverage of EPS Germany, and cover all other Pro Series leagues ESL provides. Therefore it was of course a big shock to us as we were informed via the ESL page today that we would not be allowed to show EPS Nordic at all.

The move come without any contact to HLTV.org what so ever offering us to compete with Blank-TV on terms or quality, it was simply made behind our back. In this, for us, very weird move all HLTV rights go to Blank-TV, a German HLTV broadcaster that does not even feature an English site, nor any kind of coverage that can match up against our complete package.

ESL puts emphasis on that this deal will ensure them a dependable partner, we can only speculate how more dependable than showing all matches, running all stats, instantly uploading all demos with stats highlights, and even covering the lan finals of ESL Nordic season 1 on-site."

"Quite entertaining newspost you have here, ok, lets get things a bit more straight.

I contacted Nix from HLTV.org in early/mid may about the issues that they did not in any way backlink from their HLTV to our matches, and we in ESL Nordic asked kindly whether they would be able to do so. We got declined quite harshly, then in early/mid june I approached Nomad/Nix again with an offer of them becoming exclusive HLTV provider for nordic if they gave us some simple backlinks in return, and linked to our matches. Once again the rebuttal was direct, and I gathered that HLTV.org were simply not interested in such a deal, and went to another provider, which in this case was Blank-TV, Blank-TV were happy to accomodate our request to become the exclusive HLTV partner and we agreed on terms that both parties could live with swiftly, which led to us agreeing terms, and setting up the deal.

We did not ban HLTV.org from anything we simply gave the rights which are ours to give, to someone else. This newspost, and the conversations I had with some HLTV.org staff proves that it was the correct move to do so."

"You asked us to put links to some horrible match page on the ESL site on our site, this we refused as it made no sense, your page provided nothing ours did not already, and we kept on going for season 2. You then again approached me at some point saying you were looking into something different from season 3, I told you where HLTV.org stood and we stopped talking, there was never any offer, any talks or anything official, so take your lies elsewhere. We'll keep doing our coverage, and you'll keep getting no back links, enjoy the PR."