<...> The important thing is, popular teams are already playing it and it's mainstream in different platforms.
Yeah, the top esports team know that there's potential in Valorant, it's just a matter of time now cuz you don't wanna end up like Apex Legends (showed some promise for a while but ended up being forgotten
) some major tournaments are starting to pop up (liquipedia has a few in A-tier
here), so it's possible that in Q4 this year or Q1 next year we'll see the first S-tier tournament
Well, Apex Legends is kinda different from Valorant, it's a battle royale and all FPS players are still interested in the CS:GO type of match even it got launched and mainstreamed. I used to play Apex legends for 3 seasons, and obviously battle royale aren't suitable in betting platforms because it's hard to know who's gonna win if the drops on a certain area are RNG. Definitely, a good team will still lose if they have a fight with a gold armor team while wearing white armor. Anyways, many people are already thinking that Valorant is almost the same with CS:GO, I doubt it will have the same future with Apex Legends and besides, they have different game developers and I know that Riot Games will spend millions of money to make the game last longer as they did on the league.
Another thing is that Valorant is still a new game and one of the best way to keep your game for a long time is having a bind with the community. As CSGO have ways to tell what they want like making maps, Valorant don't have that. Well, Valorant in their first release have their bonds too but some players are worrying how the maps are so claustrophobic and not that well-made.
As I said, it is still a new game so obviously there will be a lot of development that will happen through time. Still, I don't see CSGO going down because of Valorant.
As I'm saying, it has a solid community right now and it doesn't need to wait for it to be popular because it is currently popular. The fact that ex-pro CSGO players are shifting into Valorant, the game is good and it will definitely build a good community because they have fans, and popular teams on the pro scene are also making teams at Valorant which definitely has massive supporters. I don't think that maps are so claustrophobic, i played it many times and already played competitive, it's easy to adapt to the environment 'cause I'm a real player of online games. I didn't even mention that CS:GO will have downfall just because of Valorant, as a gamer, I still see them as a different game and there are plenty of people who still prefer CS:GO. What I'm pointing about is, Valorant has already those requirements.
Did you hear about shroud? King of the Reddit who's good at FPS games? There are many rumors that he's one of the lineups of C9 in Valorant. I hope there are no more excuses about having a good community 'cause if they're really fans of eSports, they know how influensive shroud is. And besides, there are many famous CS:GO players out there on the Valorant pro scene. Even it's just a rumor or lets assumes that it's not true, the community of Valorant was really huge right now so I don't get it why the game needs support, did they knew the capabilities and power of Riot Games, oh c'mon.