PVP

> An organization that also exist in the **Blue String Universe**.
>
> For the Blue String version, refer to, PVP

PVP is the main organization of "**Hanlim Gym**". It is a place where any high school student in South Korea can join to fight against each other to gain fame, power, money, etc until they graduated. Finally, with only the exceptional, they will be granted any wish that PVP will grant.

## Background

PVP is a fighting competition with branches all over the country. PVP is exclusively for students, with fighters retiring upon becoming adults. There are hundreds of fighters participating in PVP across all of its branches, with the Seoul, Incheon and Busan Branches containing the most fighters. PVP was founded by Seonggyu Choi from the Dowon Group as a source of underground income and probably other criminal activity. However, not all participants of PVP are involved in criminal activities and in fact, most of the participants, being students, only want a place to shine or be able to get a some fast cash before graduating.

Apart from the people attending physical matches, there are many viewers who stream the matches on the black sites on the dark web. The membership is around USD200 with members making bets on the winner. These bets are what make PVP big money. Furthermore, there is a community on the PVP black site where small traders sell privately-made weapons. Furthermore, the platform allows organizations to recruit fighters with PVP taking a commission fee and brokarge charge. This whole operation allows PVP to make over 100 million USD. Winners of fights gain reward in cash. Once you reach a BP of 9999, the reward would be of about USD500,000.

PVP has branches in 9 out of the 17 provincial-level divisions in South Korea: Seoul, Daegu, Busan, Incheon, Gwangju, Daejeon, Ulsan, Gangwon, and Jeju Island. The areas that don't have a PVP branch include: Gyeonggi, North and South Chungcheong, North and South Jeolla, North and South Gyeongsang, and Sejong. Each branch has it's own manager with Seoul's manager being Charles Kim.

It is unclear how many players there are in total, but based on the numbers of players per district in the Championship, it can deducted that there are about at least 860 players. This is based on the fact that Seoul's players make up about 18% of all the players in the Championship (23 players out of 128 players), thus since Seoul has 154 by Season 1, Episode 61, 154 players divided by 18% would give us the total number of players, which is 860. Furthermore, according to same episode, it is known that there are 71 players in Incheon and 68 players in Busan. As for the rest of the areas, the proportion of players is unknown.

### Battle Points and Tiers

Each player is assigned a Battle Point (BP) and as they climb up, they can gain BP and move from one tier to another. Once your battle point reaches a certain level, you can rise to the next tier through a promotion match. Tiers are divided 5 ranks based on BP and at the very top there is the Champion. Oddly enough, of the 9 districts, only Incheon does not have a champion. The tiers by BP are as follow:

* Common (BP 0-999)
* Rare (BP 1000-2999)
* Epic (BP 3000-4999)
* Unique (BP 5000-7999)
* Legendary (BP 8000-9999)
* Champion

Upon reaching 9999 BP, the fighter is qualified to be a “Challenger” and has the right to challenge the current champion.

### PVP Black Site

Weapon ListThere are other aspects of PVP such as the Black Site where players can aquire weapons. With an extensive list and even private groups creating personal weapons by request. It also allows space for criminal organizations to meet with contendors. PVP charges commission fees and brokerage charge

### Income

In reality, there are very few people that watches the matches. So the main source of income comes from the dark web. With membership fee being 200,000won. The bets from these dark web matches are what bring income in. In total of all income source, 100 billion won is made each year.

### Sponsors

Most of PVP's money comes from sponsors (groups that fund the players), the biggest one being the Unknown group. These are the elite 0.1% of VVIPS that exert quite a lot of influence over PVP, including arranging matches. In each branch there are sponsors which a fighter can affiliate with in order to gain allies, protection and other benefits. For fighters who don't affiliate with a sponsor groups, especially at the higher levels of PVP, they run the risk of being targeted by one or more sponsor groups for a multitude of reasons, whether that be hindering their business or refusing to join them. In the case of Seoul's largest sponsor group, Unknown, if a fighter rebels or resists them, they'll use their power to match them against members of Unknown who will target certain parts of the body, weakening them over time. These coordinated attacks lead to the fighter either retiring from PVP due to their injuries or out of fear of future punishment.

Current Known Sponsors:

* Unknown
* Royal
* Gangwon Sponsor - the name of the group is never mentioned, but their head makes an appearance after Yeongha's victory over Deccan in the Championship.
* Gwangju Sponsor - the name of the group is never mentioned, but their head makes an appearance after Yeongha's victory over Deccan in the Championship.
* Busan Sponsor - the name of the group is never mentioned, but their head makes an appearance after Yeongha's victory over Deccan in the Championship.
* FXDX - though only mentioned as a crew and not a direct sponsor group, since the No.1 fighter, Deathface, was a Challenger to Suho Kang, it could be assumed that FXDX is a sponsor rather than just a crew as it is mentioned that most fighters climbing up to be the champion need the support of the a sponsor.

### Events

Matches have no weight classes or penalties. Players must abided to not reveal PVP locations as it will damage the operations and everyone, including players.

* **Regular Matches** - a match between two fighters of similar BP.
* **Promotion Matches** – a specific match designated for a player who is qualified to rise up to the next tier.
* **Agreement Match** - is a match formed by the agreement of both parties and is not restricted by the difference of BP between the two players. Usually, this does not happen often as the player with higher BP has more to lose, however, Yeongha is about to trick Irezumi into a fight with Seoyeon's help, using his fake BP account money to lure him into an agreement match.
* **Battle Royale** - a match where you have multiple fighters, usually 4 to 5, in the same arena, fighting till the last one standing. Scarface was the first one shown winning one of these Battle Royales, while Yeongha, later, also was participated in one and rose victorious.
* **Exhibition Match** - a match between the schools of a district. Deccan participated in one of these matches between the best fighters of the various schools in Incheon. He easily defeated all of them, winning the exhibition match.
* **Series of Matches** - one of the bigger summer events as students are on vacation. Fights are arranged almost 24 hours-a-day. Matches that were schedule once or twice a week would be rescheduled to every 2 to 3 days.
* **Fever Time** - it is an event to help player whose BPs had plunged more than 5000 points because of unfortunate cases. Until two players recover their BP, they will have an unlimited amount of matches without time limit. However, only 2-3 players end up as beneficiaries. Yeongha was able to regain 6230 points through fever time. Likewise, Red Brick was able to get back his BP back to the 8000s through fever time.
* **District Event Match** - happens once in a blue moon. Legendary players from each district gather to fight each other.
* **Championship** – largest event in PVP with 64 rounds of battle that starts at every December each end of the year. Each district gets a number of seats in proportion to the number of players they have in their district. For example, Seoul gets 23 seats as it has the highest number of players (154 players), followed by Incheon (71 players) with 11 seats and Busan (68 players) with 10 seats.

### Championship

The Championship is the main focus of Season 2. As mentioned, players from all branches gather. The winner is awarded the "Black Card" which is grants the owner any one wish, ranging from money, fame, pretty much anything as PVP is an illegal organization under the "Dowon Group", thus there is probably no legal restrictions (i.e. murder, etc) unless it is becoming the president of Korea.

There are various rounds in the championship, each with it's own rules. For more details, please check out the Championship page:

Championship
## History

**MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!** The history of PVP includes information from Season 2 and thus may contain heavy spoilers. Please read at your own risk.

* Seonggyu Choi establishes PVP.
* PVP organizes the first Championship and Charles Kim becomes the first Championships' Champion.
* PVP begins to form more rules and restrictions.
* Suho Kang becomes Seoul's Champion
* Suho Kang wins one of the Championships and obtain the Black Card.
* Charles Kim recruits Yeongha
* Because of player Goliath's incident PVP officially bans the use of Steroids.
* Yeongha participates in the PVP Championship

## Structure

The specific power structure in PVP is not completely revealed, but it is clear that the founder and Chairman, Seonggyu Choi, is at the top. Each district seems to have one manager and below them are other staff and assistants, with at least one PVP announcer per district.

## PVP Fighters

This is a list of the PVP fighters. On mobile, click on the name to read a summary and BP of the fighter. Also, some of the text is cut off if using mobile. For more explicit info, refer to **Hanlim Gym Character** page (Note: Not all fighters are listed).

* By BP
* By District

This is a list of fighters by BP, not by district. Fighters whose BP are not disclosed are in the unknown section. Though there are many PVP fighters, only fighters mentioned by names are listed here with the exception of Seoul Ranked 23rd, as he is mentioned a few times. Furthermore, because Yeongha and Kangyoon's BP continue to go up and down, they are listed in Legendary as that is their most recent development. Lastly, aliases are in "bold" where as non-bold names would be their actual names. There are cases where some characters only have aliases and vice-versa, some characters may have no alias (i.e Suho, Yeongha).

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This is a list of fighters by district rather than BP. Because Seoul has too many fighters, only fighters Legendary and above are mentioned.
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Again, the list above is not exhaustive, but it includes most members that have made an appearance.

## Power and Reach

PVP's Highest Chairman is Seonggyu Choi, who is also the Vice President of Dowon Group. Seonggyu's influence as the Down Group's Vice President extends to PVP, allowing the organisation to hold a lot of power in the country, with law enforcement allowing PVP to operate and serious incidents being covered up through bribery. However, covering up serious incidents can be quite costly as was showcased when a warehouse housing a drug called pentakill, belonging to the Mapo Branch of Unknown, Seoul's largest sponsor group, caught fire. As a result, Seonggyu spent a large sum of money to keep his and the name of everyone related to the warehouse and drugs out of the news. He was so enraged over it that he murdered Seokho Kim, the largest distributor of pentakill who provided its recipe to Unknown's Mapo Branch leading to the incident, out of rage with his name plate. Speaking of Unknown, it appears to be either an affiliate of the Dowon Group or a group which Seonggyu, as PVP's highest Chairman, can control due to the fact that their first-in-command isn't Seonggyu, despite him still being heavily involved in their activities.

Below are other assests that belong to PVP:

Apart from the general fighting rings, for the Round of 16, a large stadium was built for the final battles.

## Affiliates/Associates

Since the founder is Seonggyu Choi from the Dowon Group, PVP most likely is part of the Dowon Group as another source of illegal income.

## Trivia

* The number of PVP is 010-1234-XXXX. The last digits are blank but in one panel, it was: 010-1234-789X.
* One of the few organizations to appear in Superstring and Blue String.
	+ In season of Get Schooled, PVP was directly mentioned when a former player, Golden Mad Dog, mentions of it while fighting Hwajin Na.
* It is unclear if female players are allowed to partcipate. Considering how there has been no female players currently, it can be assume women are not allowed. The closest is perhaps "Blue Rose," a player with long hair but was briefly seen behind once. It can be assume this player is also male.
* In the Superstring Mobile game:
	+ PVP is the equivalent of players in the game battle against other real time players. There are also ranks that will give players BP points to be used for materials and gene maps.
	+ In Hanlim Lim and Suho Kang's skill, the PVP is used as the background for their attack.

## Gallery

PVP Infobox.pngUnicorn winning the PVP Middle Match.pngYeongha witnessing his first PVP fight.pngUnknown (PVP) Infobox.pngCharles staring at the screen with the players.pngUnknown (PVP)Unknown (PVP)
Full Gallery Page
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