Sonic has secured main sponsorship for the first season of the "official" Sonic Proleague! The sponsor Gabangpop was announced on February 3rd on the opening day of the league, which is played online.

As for team sponsorship, currently 5 out of the 8 teams have obtained sponsors and are taking on new names.

>>> R&S Thread <<<

Schedule
+ Show Spoiler [Weeks 1 - 3] +

Week 1
02/03 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry GoRush
02/05 [image loading]

/ Sonic LSW Shark
02/07 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry TheMarine

Week 2
02/10 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry GoRush
02/12 [image loading]

/ Sonic LSW Shark
02/14 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry TheMarine

Week 3
02/17 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry GoRush
02/19 [image loading]

/ Sonic LSW Shark
02/21 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry TheMarine

Week 4
02/24 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry GoRush
02/26 [image loading]

/ Sonic LSW Shark
02/28 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry TheMarine

Week 5
03/03 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry GoRush
03/05 [image loading]

/ Sonic LSW Shark
03/07 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry TheMarine

Week 6
03/10 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry GoRush
03/12 [image loading]

/ Sonic LSW Shark
03/14 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry TheMarine

Week 7
03/17 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry GoRush
03/19 [image loading]

/ Sonic LSW Shark
03/21 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry TheMarine

Week 8
03/24 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry GoRush
03/26 [image loading]

/ Sonic LSW Shark
03/28 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry TheMarine

Week 9
03/31 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry GoRush
04/02 [image loading]

/ Sonic LSW Shark
04/04 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry TheMarine

+ Show Spoiler [more..] +

Week 10
04/07 [image loading]

/ Sonic Carry GoRush
04/09 Semi Play-offs / Sonic LSW Shark
04/11 Play-offs / Sonic Carry TheMarine

04/16 / Proleague Finals / Sonic Carry LSW

Format
Best of 9 All-Kill

Map order
1. Fighting Spirit
2. Circuit Breaker
3. Neo Electric Circuit
4. Mist
5. Neo Jade
6. Blue Storm
7. New Sniper Ridge
8. Circuit Breaker
9. Fighting Spirit

Teams
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Kwanro + 1 amateur
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Pure + 1 amateur
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Pusan

Sea

Jaehoon

Tyson

Lazy + 1 amateur
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Britney + 1 amateur
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Modesty + 1 amateur
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Sky,

HiyA,

beast,

SalDaGa,

Killer + 1 amateur
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ZergMaN,

ZerO,

Snail,

Brave,

PianO + 1 amateur
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Ever)Z(crOw (Z)

Soma

New Sponsors
Modslook - MBC
Commawang = CJ Entus
HTML - SKT
SBENU = Sonic Team (Amateur All Stars)
Gabangpop = Main Sponsor

Note: Until the sponsorships prove to be long-term (at least 2 seasons), we're sticking to old team names.

Prizepool
1st place ~ $4.700
2nd place ~ $2.800
3rd place ~ $1.900

Commentary
(Z)

Sonic

Kim Carrier
(Z)

Lee Seung Won
(Z)

GoRush

TheMarine

Shark

+ Show Spoiler [hypu plz] +

SoSPA's mastermind and shoe mafia boss, (Z)

Sonic.

His supervisor, [image loading]

Kim Carrier,
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no longer in tears.

MBC's (Z)

Lee Seung Won
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the poet known for his charming voice,

OGN's (Z)

GoRush

and

TheMarine

with MBC's (Z)

Shark!

...not bad but no (Z)

StarCue wtf

Format, schedule and other updates will be added here so please subscribe to the thread or check it regularly.

Sources: Facebook Afreeca + Show Spoiler [Korean text] +

소닉 프로리그 메인 스폰서 잡았습니다.
2월 3일부터 진행 되며. 스폰서 공개는 2월 3일날 합니다.

기대 많이 해주시구요.

프로리그가 첫 회다보니.
상금은 1등 500 2등 300 . 3등 200으로 갈것 같습니다.
해설진분들은.

김태형해설,이승원해설,김정민해설,박태민해설,서경종 해설
그리고 BJ 소닉.
이렇게

가게 됩니다.

프로리그 팀 스폰을 받은 팀은 현재 5팀입니다.

모즈룩 -
가방팝 -
컴마왕 -
신발팜 -
스베누 -

3팀이 아직 확정이 안된 상태라. 열심히 영업 뛰면서. 뛰어 다니고 있습니다.
우리 선수들 다 스폰 받은 상태에서 진행 될수 있게 열심히 뛰겠습니다!

프로리그 기대 해주시구요.

10차 스타리그. 그리고 앞으로 진행 될 . 스타 복수혈전(기업 스폰 조율중인데 확정 되면 발표하겠습니다)

소닉TV 홈페이지 등. 해야 할 일이 정말 많이 있네요.

항상 응원해주셔서 감사드리며. 제가 하는 일이 실패하더라도 시도 해보고. 실패 했을때 건의 많이 해주시구 혼내주세요.
지금은 쉴틈이 없습니다!

항상 겸손하게 사업하고. 열심히 살겠습니다!

R&S Thread

Disregard

China10252 Posts

January 24 2014 17:03 GMT

Too bad its mostly online =(

Plissken_2097

Spain628 Posts

January 24 2014 17:06 GMT

Great news!! So Sonic is sponsoring 2 teams? Also it's a shame having that nice studio rented and doing the matches online. I guess not all players are constantly showered with balloons like bisu and have tight schedules. So pumped to see how this works out.

traceurling

United States1240 Posts

January 24 2014 17:12 GMT

WOOOOO PROLEAGUEEEEEE

thezanursic

5497 Posts

January 24 2014 17:13 GMT

http://redd.it/1w1mif

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thezanursic

5497 Posts

January 24 2014 17:14 GMT

On January 25 2014 02:06 Golondrin wrote:
Great news!! So Sonic is sponsoring 2 teams? Also it's a shame having that nice studio rented and doing the matches online. I guess not all players are constantly showered with balloons like bisu and have tight schedules. So pumped to see how this works out.

Yeah... I think it's nice to see that the team will have 8 leagues, but I'd prefer 6 teams and have it online (More players per team, less teams, easier to schedule for offline and less chance of WO). 1 or maybe 2 matches a week and have it played online.

Greg_J

China4409 Posts

January 24 2014 17:18 GMT

It's great that a few more sponsors have been picked up. Obviously the ultimate aim would be to have enough money and commitment from the sponsors to have the games offline, training houses and the players fully pro again. But that’s a fair way off yet. It’s just great that everything is moving in the right direction for now. I look forward to seeing more great games.

thezanursic

5497 Posts

January 24 2014 17:20 GMT

Mildly hoping that Golden Cross get's implimented for this Sonic Proleague season!

Also front page this!

Hyde

Australia14568 Posts

January 24 2014 17:45 GMT

Dat commentary lineup.
So Moodslook = online clothing store
Gabangpop = online store
Commanwang = PC maker
Sonic sponsoring two teams isn't too bad I guess since he's getting exposure too. But I really hate how Sonic holds off sponsor announcements.

Seriously, we're just in January of 2014 and we're already jam packed with BW content. I'm afraid to say there's almost too much BW content lol

Boonbag

France3318 Posts

January 24 2014 18:08 GMT

#10

On January 25 2014 02:45 Hyde wrote:
Dat commentary lineup.
So Moodslook = online clothing store
Gabangpop = online store
Commanwang = PC maker
Sonic sponsoring two teams isn't too bad I guess since he's getting exposure too. But I really hate how Sonic holds off sponsor announcements.

Seriously, we're just in January of 2014 and we're already jam packed with BW content. I'm afraid to say there's almost too much BW content lol

BW 2.0 will produce more content than you ever imagined.

2Pacalypse-

Croatia9530 Posts

January 24 2014 18:30 GMT

#11

So excited for this!

The_Red_Viper

19533 Posts

January 24 2014 18:38 GMT

#12

So the whole league will be played online and not only the opening day?
I guess i didn't understand it correctly :D

Heartland

Sweden24600 Posts

January 24 2014 18:39 GMT

#13

There's too much good news. It's making me worried.

TheAvatar

Sweden11 Posts

January 24 2014 18:41 GMT

#14

Only good news in bw and only bad news in sc2 :/

dRaW

Canada5744 Posts

January 24 2014 18:57 GMT

#15

some epic shit :D

hp.Shell

United States2527 Posts

January 24 2014 19:06 GMT

#16

Wow, cool!
So those five sponsors are for ex-SKT, MBC, Hwaseung, KHAN and CJ. Any guesses as to the matchups between teams and sponsors?

My guesses-

Moodslook - CJ
Gabangpop - KHAN
Commawang - MBC
SinbalFarm - Hwaseung
SBENU - SKT

purakushi

United States3301 Posts

January 24 2014 19:08 GMT

#17

Amazing! Love all of this great news for BW <3
BW renaissance!

deathgod6

United States5064 Posts

January 24 2014 19:09 GMT

#18

This is going to be sick.

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

January 24 2014 19:22 GMT

#19

This is incredible.

Stratos

Czech Republic6104 Posts

January 24 2014 19:29 GMT

#20

On January 25 2014 03:38 The_Red_Viper wrote:
So the whole league will be played online and not only the opening day?
I guess i didn't understand it correctly :D

Atm there's literally 0 information about online/offline (unless I'm missing something), so it's just mine and other people's assumptions that it's mostly going to be online with perhaps the finals offline in the studio.