VALORANT's championship tour also known as VCT is heating the reason unpredictable happening. I don't know about eSports and especially VALORANT at all.
But I certainly say that the future of the eSports population will rise from today thanks to the effort of various gamers or talents. And this phenomenon will unchanged easy.
VALORANT is relatively rigid content in tactical shooter games and defines as a title for the professional gamer. For example,
APEX Legends is one of the popular game titles, and most matches finish within 20 minutes. Or Call of Duty's match can exit matching and only take a few minutes per battle.
But VALORANT is not.
Despite the APEX Legends match finishing in 20 minutes, VALORANT takes one hour for the full match to end. And CoD allowed exiting from proceeding match, on the other hand, that behavior will make trouble.
Therefore, the more recent the game title is, the more rigid rule is.
Considering the above case, I think that the population of watchers will increase more and more, but practical players decrease gradually.