ESL FACEIT Group
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Aug 28, 2026
HawkaGUEST
I feel, I feel like sometimes there are team shirts, but maybe it's not-
Duncan ShieldsHOST
Basically, if you go to ESL, I believe they even set up a shop at theirs, but I think they also-
HawkaGUEST
Yeah
Duncan ShieldsHOST
... have, like, a deal with the teams for merchandise.
HawkaGUEST
Fair enough.
HawkaGUEST
Yeah.
HawkaGUEST
I, I, I do think in general, like, I know recently ESL, for example, like, they have been pushing their, their own, uh, like, shirts and stuff.
Duncan ShieldsHOST
Oh, yeah.
Matty WendoGUEST
By the next year in 2016, I made a few more contacts as like during the LA part of 2016, I'd made a few more contacts, met a few more people and they were pretty happy with like, they knew who I was.
Matty WendoGUEST
And I had a friend of mine that was working at the time at ESL and they put my name up because they go like, hey, this guy worked at Throwdown Esports for a very brief time, but he's got the personality that we need.
Matty WendoGUEST
Um, because there was an opening to do hosting for the AUNZ championship in the Zen league, um, in 2017, because, uh, fortunately a lot of the other team had gone off to IEM Oakland in the Intel extreme masters in Oakland.
Matty WendoGUEST
Um, and there was an opening there and they needed a host to host the stage for the players.
Matty WendoGUEST
Um, and I put my hand up.
Matty WendoGUEST
And I said, yeah, absolutely, I'd love to do that.
Matty WendoGUEST
And in 2017, with an acting background and enthusiasm for gaming, I landed my first gig at ESL hosting the AUNZ Championships.
Matty WendoGUEST
And that was over a two-day period.