Disagree with other stuff but agree with this "It was also dumb to put it in Copenhagen when no one cares about valorant".
There are regions like BR and JP that will give you free viewers. I swear the whole valo team is getting lazy, their skins, the way they talk to their audience, the bug updates. I mentioned skins because you can see the care they put into their earlier skins, which in turn made people buy them plenty. even now, the top skins are all older skins not due to nostalgia but the amount of detail and unique-ness they gave to each of them.
The only positive improvement over the past year has been RGX bundle and fade while everything else has been sub-par. The game is still growing well in APAC/BR/JP and even NA, so they can still recover to "compete" with CS unironically but I dont see any positive signs at the moment, just "new" spam that isn't going to work long term. Even CS tried it for a while around 2016-2018? and lost some popularity until the devs, etc went back to working on actual bugs, mechanics, replay. Unless valo team focuses on basics like they did in the first year, this game is going to die in the next 2-3 years.