Azubu Accidentally Sponsors MIT Programming Team
— December 19, 2013Details have emerged of an Azubu sponsored team that the company continued to pay for over 480 days without realizing that the team had not made any appearances in leagues or tournaments.
The basic Intro to Computer Science class unintentionally earned the sponsorship after one of its students emailed Azubu about issues he had encountered with the company’s streaming service and was met with a request for bank details.
“Brian said some company wanted to help pay our tuition, like a special scholarship I guess,” another student said. “They even gave us these keyboards and mice to do our programming assignments with, but they make too much noise to use in the library.”
An Azubu rep confirmed the sponsorship. “We at Azubu want to reintermediate our holistic mindshare, grow our integrated markets, and leverage our enterprises.” He continued, “intuitive schema web channel front-end cross-media platform web-ready engagement viral action-item synergy upstream portal.”
Fearing dishonest or illegal activity, MIT CS Professor Horowitz contacted Azubu and was offered to split the class into two teams, Azubu Sword++ and Azubu Java-lin. “They’re Korean, I can confirm that,” he said. “Definitely Korean.”
Horowitz also announced that the Azubu scholarship money has allowed him to acquire a highly skilled Korean exchange student Lee “IM.Coding” Seung Hoon who promised to “show good programs.”