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http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=146329&iskin=esports
Hello. My name is Choya, the head coach of MVP Starcraft II team.
After a long time, I am writing significant matter in SNS.
Our MVP team has signed a business agreement with IB SPORTS on November 11th.
We believe that this opportunity will help our team to advance much further.
Our team will get various supports from IB SPORTS such as operating main sponsors, hosting tournaments, MCN contents, and management of our team players.
IB SPORTS is sports broadcasting channel, operating by IB MEDIA NET which is a subsidiary company of GALAXIA SM (ex IB WORLDWIDE), providing various sports events program such as KBO, MLB, UFC, KLPGA, AFC, IAAF, WWE.
Superstars like Shin-soo Choo and Yeon-jae Son are belong to GALAXIA SM and Yuna Kim was in GALAXIA SM too . GALAXIA SM is also planning to develop various contents with partnership of SM Entertainment.
After it changed its title to GALAXIA SM on October 30th, MVP is the first company that signed a business agreement.
We hope you to support and show us a lot of interests. We hope all of you the best and we always appreciate your support! Thank you so much! ( source: Choya facebook )
Also the team roster will be announced on Friday (13th Nov):
Staff Update;
Courtesy of our very own TL Commentator of Wedding Ceremonies (GTR), he has shed some light on what IB Sports is.
On November 11 2015 22:01 GTR wrote:
IB Sports is basically the rival of SPOTV in Korea in terms of IPTV sports broadcasting.
Which means I'm assuming they are looking into entering the e-Sports broadcast market with this sponsorship.
Although with how the scene has shifted from cable (OGN/MBC) to IPTV (SPOTV/Hungryapp) to online broadcasting (Twitch/Afreeca) it might be hard for them to make an impact.
Update from choya facebook :
I am so happy to announce good news again! We will announce our team's naming sponsor on November 16th! We can't tell you who is our sponsor yet but it will be so grateful if we can get a lot of cheers and supports on 16th! We will make sure and try hard to advance to Post Season next year! Thank you so much!
Roster update:
On November 13 2015 00:15 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
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Good news! I don't really understand the extend of this relationship though but At least mvp gets money
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Germany3367 Posts
"After it changed its title to GALAXIA SM on October 30th, MVP is the first company that signed a business agreement."
So - is this MVP's new name? Is IB SPORTS their title sponsor?
Also the team roster will be announced on Friday (13th Nov):
https://twitter.com/MVPChoya/status/664377285152083968
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Australia18228 Posts
I'm guessing this is also why MVP is picking up a LoL team
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On November 11 2015 18:21 adymus wrote:
Our team will get various supports from IB SPORTS such as operating main sponsors, hosting tournaments, MCN contents, and management of our team players.
IB SPORTS is sports broadcasting channel
I like this. New tournament in Korea, possibly broadcast on TV? I'm just gonna accept that to be true until proven wrong :D
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More money to a professional team...
Won't ever be a bad thing, right
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Guess that is connected with them returning to LoL with a new team. Good news!
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Always good to see new sponsors. Though I still want a Kia eSports team
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On November 11 2015 18:40 TheOneAboveU wrote:
"After it changed its title to GALAXIA SM on October 30th, MVP is the first company that signed a business agreement."
So - is this MVP's new name? Is IB SPORTS their title sponsor?
Also the team roster will be announced on Friday (13th Nov):
I think he means when the overarching company chanced it's name
GALAXIA SM (ex IB WORLDWIDE)
so I'm guessing no.
Anyway; Good news!
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Umm, what does this sponsor actually do? Im kinda confused. But either way, can be bad so grats!
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On November 11 2015 20:20 lestye wrote:
Umm, what does this sponsor actually do? Im kinda confused. But either way, can be bad so grats!
They do sponsorship, isn't that enough? d:
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On November 11 2015 20:20 lestye wrote:
Umm, what does this sponsor actually do? Im kinda confused. But either way, can be bad so grats!
provide funds in exchange for marketing i.e. logos on clothes etc
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IB Sports is basically the rival of SPOTV in Korea in terms of IPTV sports broadcasting.
Which means I'm assuming they are looking into entering the e-Sports broadcast market with this sponsorship.
Although with how the scene has shifted from cable (OGN/MBC) to IPTV (SPOTV/Hungryapp) to online broadcasting (Twitch/Afreeca) it might be hard for them to make an impact.
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On November 11 2015 22:01 GTR wrote:
IB Sports is basically the rival of SPOTV in Korea in terms of IPTV sports broadcasting.
Which means I'm assuming they are looking into entering the e-Sports broadcast market with this sponsorship.
Although with how the scene has shifted from cable (OGN/MBC) to IPTV (SPOTV/Hungryapp) to online broadcasting (Twitch/Afreeca) it might be hard for them to make an impact.
Thanks for the insight
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spectacular news!
go choya, its ya birthday, go choya, its ya birthday
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On November 11 2015 22:01 GTR wrote:
IB Sports is basically the rival of SPOTV in Korea in terms of IPTV sports broadcasting.
Which means I'm assuming they are looking into entering the e-Sports broadcast market with this sponsorship.
Although with how the scene has shifted from cable (OGN/MBC) to IPTV (SPOTV/Hungryapp) to online broadcasting (Twitch/Afreeca) it might be hard for them to make an impact.
This makes this much more clear, thanks!
Good news for MVP, hopefully. They'll have money to pay for that League team now!
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On November 11 2015 22:01 GTR wrote:
IB Sports is basically the rival of SPOTV in Korea in terms of IPTV sports broadcasting.
Which means I'm assuming they are looking into entering the e-Sports broadcast market with this sponsorship.
Although with how the scene has shifted from cable (OGN/MBC) to IPTV (SPOTV/Hungryapp) to online broadcasting (Twitch/Afreeca) it might be hard for them to make an impact. Is there any chance that having a competing sponsor might cause issues for MVP in terms of participating in SSL? I know that OGN and MBC got along well enough, but these are two different companies...
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On November 11 2015 18:40 TheOneAboveU wrote:"After it changed its title to GALAXIA SM on October 30th, MVP is the first company that signed a business agreement." So - is this MVP's new name? Is IB SPORTS their title sponsor? Also the team roster will be announced on Friday (13th Nov): https://twitter.com/MVPChoya/status/664377285152083968
MKIB?
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On November 11 2015 22:01 GTR wrote:
Although with how the scene has shifted from cable (OGN/MBC) to IPTV (SPOTV/Hungryapp) to online broadcasting (Twitch/Afreeca) it might be hard for them to make an impact.
It is not "shifted" - it`s expanded.
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Bisutopia19319 Posts
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Awesome, look forward to seeing that roster.
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On November 12 2015 01:46 bduddy wrote:Show nested quote +On November 11 2015 22:01 GTR wrote:
IB Sports is basically the rival of SPOTV in Korea in terms of IPTV sports broadcasting.
Which means I'm assuming they are looking into entering the e-Sports broadcast market with this sponsorship.
Although with how the scene has shifted from cable (OGN/MBC) to IPTV (SPOTV/Hungryapp) to online broadcasting (Twitch/Afreeca) it might be hard for them to make an impact. Is there any chance that having a competing sponsor might cause issues for MVP in terms of participating in SSL? I know that OGN and MBC got along well enough, but these are two different companies...
I don't think so, CJ Entus players have some OGN patches on their shirts.
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interesting that a new broadcasting company sponsors MVP after hearing rumors of another Korean league next year
EDIT: For those wondering the rumor is in reference to something Catz said in this video at around 29:20
+ Show Spoiler +
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Awesome! Looking forward to seeing more matches with MVP next Proleague season. 
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On November 12 2015 05:01 Aeromi wrote:Show nested quote +On November 12 2015 01:46 bduddy wrote:On November 11 2015 22:01 GTR wrote:
IB Sports is basically the rival of SPOTV in Korea in terms of IPTV sports broadcasting.
Which means I'm assuming they are looking into entering the e-Sports broadcast market with this sponsorship.
Although with how the scene has shifted from cable (OGN/MBC) to IPTV (SPOTV/Hungryapp) to online broadcasting (Twitch/Afreeca) it might be hard for them to make an impact. Is there any chance that having a competing sponsor might cause issues for MVP in terms of participating in SSL? I know that OGN and MBC got along well enough, but these are two different companies... I don't think so, CJ Entus players have some OGN patches on their shirts.
CJ E&M own OGN which is why.
Competiting cable channels haven't stopped teams from appearing on other channels. Only time that this was a problem was GOMTV and its Classic tournament, but that was more because it wasn't KeSPA sanctioned.
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If they're getting into LoL, does that mean they're dropping their teams in the other Mobas? Doesn't Kespa have a thing about that?
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choya is the new gerrard. without the matchfixing, I mean.
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37065 Posts
Excited to hear about the new SC2 lineup!
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More good news!
I am even more happy because Choya is happy
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so that implies that IB Sports isn't the title sponsor?
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On November 12 2015 08:32 Circumstance wrote:
If they're getting into LoL, does that mean they're dropping their teams in the other Mobas? Doesn't Kespa have a thing about that?
I don't think that's a rule. MVP just happens to be the only Kespa team to branch outside of the Starcrafts/LoL.
That being said, I'm glad we're getting title sponsors now. I felt the new Kespa teams lacked legitmacy because they haven't secured those big sponsors yet. We kinda had LG-IM but that ended up being the saddest story on the planet.
We had Team 8-> Jinair quite some time ago and Startale into Sbenu recently. Hopefully more teams can secure themselves big sponsors soon.
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On November 13 2015 10:48 bduddy wrote:
so that implies that IB Sports isn't the title sponsor?
seems the case, I wonder what the rumors of their name sponsor claim to be.
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New naming sponsor will be revealed in around 2 hours (15~16:00 kst). Even Choya doesn't know what it is because the boss couldn't believe him that he does too much twitter and facebook.
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