The best VALORANT teams of 2023

VALORANT’s professional scene reached an entirely new level in 2023 with the official franchising of the tier-one circuit, making even more opportunities possible for the world’s best players.

From historic rises to meteoric falls, teams at all levels of the VCT wrote their own storylines in 2023, but at the end of the day, five memorable teams make our list of the best of the year. These teams battled through the initial kinks of franchising and still managed to come out on top.