VALORANT Challengers East: Surge 2023 Participating Countries Announced

The organizers of VALORANT Challengers East: Surge 2023 have presented a list of participating countries that will play in the Challengers League for Eastern Europe. Starting in 2023, players and teams from 23 Central and Eastern European countries will compete against each other in a single TIER-2 level league.

List of countries included in the ranks of VALORANT Challengers East: Surge 2023:

• Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine

As one of the official Challengers leagues for Eastern Europe, teams participating in next year's VALORANT Challengers East: Surge 2023 will have a chance to earn a coveted spot in the international leagues at the EMEA Challengers Ascension tournament.

Recall that the winners of the regional leagues will compete in a single Ascension tournament, the champion of which will get a chance to qualify for the VCT. At the same time, the winners of the Ascension series guarantee themselves a slot in the partner league for the next 2 years. Thus, each partner league will be replenished by one team every year. However, teams that have made it through the Ascension series will lose their spots after 2 years and revert back to the Challengers.