We’re very excited to announce that registration for the first season of the National Esports Leagues for Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Finland in CS:GO and League of Legends is finally open and will start in November 2018.

The Nordic National Esports Leagues is now the only way for teams in the Nordic countries to qualify to DreamHack’s Nordic Championship in 2019!

In addition to the prize money from the Nordic Championship, we’re paying out up to €25,000 per game in each league.

For PUBG, there will be a combined Nordic League instead of separate national competitions for Season 1, with a €10,000 prize.

To sign up and learn more about the leagues, visit challengermode.com.

Format

Instead of Seasons that last several months, with slow movement between divisions and prizes that are far and few between. The Leagues on Challengermode are played in what we call “Semesters”. This is a slightly different format than you may used to, but it’s dead simple:

A Semester is made up of 2 seasons. A Season is one month long (5 weeks). A Semester is therefore about 2–3 months long. There is a Fall and a Spring Semester, so 2 per year.

Teams are able to move up or down between divisions at the end of a Season. New teams can enter the league at the start of every Season, or at least 4 times per year.

The fall/winter Semester will start in November 2018: