ESEA has announced its 26th season with $150,000 in prize money, a LAN which will be announced at a later date, and most importantly a restructuring of some of the national leagues which will now feed into ESL's national championships.

Having recently revealed a grassroots initiative in which ESL's national championship winners are given spots into ESEA's MDL, ESEA has now revealed that they will split the national open division from the Pan-EU Intermediate and Main divisions.

The national open divisions will now feed directly into each country's national championship, with the exception of Russia and Turkey's open division which will still lead to ESEA's Intermediate and Main divisions as there is no clear partner running a national championship in the region.

Teams from countries with national championships will now be able to play the regular Pan-EU ESEA leagues as well as their national open divisions

With this change, teams from countries with national championships will be able to play their national open leagues which lead to ESL's national championships and end up feeding the ESEA MDL. Teams from countries with national open divisions will still be allowed to play the Pan-European leagues as well as their national leagues, concurrently.

These are the national open divisions and the national championships the winners will qualify for: