Party Astronauts through to ESL Challenger Katowice 2023

Party Astronauts will compete at the upcoming ESL Challenger Katowice 2023. Ben "ben1337" Smith's squad, which recently started competing under their previous tag, have won the North American Closed Qualifier, which ended this morning.

The team kicked off the qualifier with a victory over ATK, but then lost to Nouns and dropped to the lower bracket. Here, Party Astronauts managed to successfully use their last chance to defeat ATK again, and then took revenge on Nouns, securing an ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 spot.

The results of the ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 North America Closed Qualifier are:

ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 will take place from June 9-11 in Katowice, Poland. At the tournament, eight rosters will compete for a $100,000 prize pool and the ESL Pro League Season 18 spot.

The team list for ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 looks as follows:

 Virtus.pro
 paiN
 FORZE
 ENCE
 Party Astronauts
 Europe qualifier winner
 South America qualifier winner
 South Africa qualifier winner