Source: KeSPA

The Korean e-Sports Association has officially announced the Shinhan Bank 10-11 Proleague Season.

Shinhan Bank is once more the sponsor of the Proleague, continuing a four year run of sponsorships that began in 2007. The new season will begin on Saturday, October 16th.

Secretary General Choi Won Jae of KeSPA stated “We’d like to thank Shinhan Bank for their sponsorship, and the fans for their neverending support. All of the pro-gaming teams and everyone at KeSPA will work hard to make the Proleague the best e-Sports league there is.”

Representatives of Shinhan Bank said “E-Sports is becoming a global trend and Korean e-Sports is at its center. By sponsoring Korea’s main e-Sports brand in the Proleague, we hope to work together with KeSPA to contribute to the advancement of e-Sports in Korea as well as become a leader in global e-Sports.”

Before the season officially begins, there will be a series of events held at the Lee Hae Rang Gallery at Dong-guk University. On the 13th there will be a 2010-2011 season trophy showing, winning team predictions, and other events. On the 14th, there will be a media day and special event for fans.

The schedule for the new season will be announced at the media day and fan event, where coaches and players from the teams will be giving interviews.

Original post by supernovamaniac

@official_KeSPA: SHINHAN BANK Pro League will be finally opened on this Sat. (Oct. 16). Detailed things including match-ups will be unveiled on tomorrow. ^^

As you can see in the TL calendar, the Shinhan Bank Proleague 2010-2011 has been confirmed and will start this Saturday.

Details on first match, match schedule etc. will be released tomorrow (Thursday) during KeSPA's Media Day event.

P.S. There is no confirmation yet on whether or not Gretech and Kespa finished the negotiations.

EDIT: It seems like OGN is working on Starleague Season 3 (Perhaps this is referring to ANOTHER Korean Air Sponsor? Only time will tell if that 'Season 3' is referring to same sponsor or not. Either way, it seems like OSL is going to happen).

@ognlive: 현재 스타리그 시즌3 관련 논의가 진행중입니다. 조금만 더 참고 기다려주시면 좋은 소식이 있을듯 하네요~

RT @cuty_rocker: @ognlive 프로리그는 개막한다고 하는데 스타리그는 아직 아무 소식이 없나요???

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES49507 Posts

October 13 2010 05:06 GMT

well we should have FPL sign ups soon...Can't wait.

HURRAH!!!

vectorix108

United States4633 Posts

October 13 2010 05:07 GMT

AHHHHHHHHHH AWESOME. i cannot wait for proleague to start. any news on when the Estro player draft will be?

supernovamaniac

United States3046 Posts

October 13 2010 05:08 GMT

On October 13 2010 14:07 vectorix108 wrote:
AHHHHHHHHHH AWESOME. i cannot wait for proleague to start. any news on when the Estro player draft will be?

When I find additional info, I'll post it ASAP (since Milkis is on hiatus, and I basically put myself in a better position for now for college apps (a.k.a. active during nights))

Ideas

United States8059 Posts

October 13 2010 05:08 GMT

woooooooooooo! can't wait! hopefully MBC didnt get fucked out of it.

Marine50

Australia1764 Posts

October 13 2010 05:08 GMT

Yay, Good news!
Finally, can't wait! Thanks for the news

Shizuru~

Malaysia1676 Posts

October 13 2010 05:09 GMT

so.... kespa is going to just ignore blizzard/gretech and go ahead with it anyways? if that is so, i don't like where this is heading :o

supernovamaniac

United States3046 Posts

October 13 2010 05:10 GMT

On October 13 2010 14:09 Shizuru~ wrote:
so.... kespa is going to just ignore blizzard/gretech and go ahead with it anyways? if that is so, i don't like where this is heading :o

There's no confirmation. It means that we know NOTHING about what happened. KeSPA and Gretech might have found the solution, or KeSPA might have announced this without finishing the negotiations.

Only time will tell if things went well or not.

Enderbantoo

United States465 Posts

October 13 2010 05:12 GMT

CANNOT WAITT!!!!

J1.au

Australia3596 Posts

October 13 2010 05:15 GMT

#10

Hurray, best SC related news in a long time. May the upcoming Proleague season be a full and exciting one. Long live BW!

lynx.oblige

Sierra Leone2268 Posts

October 13 2010 05:18 GMT

#11

Wow Korean Air Season 3 would be awesome, haha. Hurrah to Proleague though. Hardcore missing FPL.

Antoine

United States7481 Posts

October 13 2010 05:21 GMT

#12

finally some good news about BW

hopefully they found a resolution.

sCCrooked

Korea (South)1306 Posts

October 13 2010 05:22 GMT

#13

I'm going to have a bloody heart-attack with all these ups and downs. I read the rumor thread and wanted to strangle babies, then I this news was announced in the Twitter update and I was happy again :D

everstarleague

China89 Posts

October 13 2010 05:22 GMT

#14

when you finally will be tired with sc2 and find you even can beat some great sc2 player by some extreme or some well planed tactics, we can find sc1's merit.

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES49507 Posts

October 13 2010 05:28 GMT

#15

On October 13 2010 14:22 Diminotoor wrote:
I'm going to have a bloody heart-attack with all these ups and downs. I read the rumor thread and wanted to strangle babies, then I this news was announced in the Twitter update and I was happy again :D

You need to Chill bro....Korean Air OSL S3.Oddly enough Gom.tv was the longest number of times the sponsor of MSL(4 seasons)

arbiter_md

Moldova1219 Posts

October 13 2010 05:51 GMT

#16

This is awesome news. Let the BW show its magic again!

topspinserve

United States147 Posts

October 13 2010 05:52 GMT

#17

I hope there will be FPL! It can definitely see huge difficulites in doing it, what with all the confusion about who's even playing anymore and for which team they're playing, but I really hope there's some way to work it out.

Hrrrrm

United States2081 Posts

October 13 2010 05:52 GMT

#18

I really do hope Gretech and Kespa worked something out. If they did not, things are going to get extremely ugly in the coming months.