Some people here like that Hekzy dude keeps saying that Valorat only have more viewers than CS because of Shroud watch parties, as if CS didn't have anyone doing the same thing. Gaules is bigger than CS itself, but his watchparties inflates the number of CS viewers even more than shroud's.
In this image from today you can see that Gaules alone is responsible for almost half of the viewers of the entire tournament, to make it even worse, this is an international tournament, one of the biggest of the year with a BR team vs an EU team, and in the end CS has only 315k viewers. So basically what I'm trying to say is that globaly Valorant viewership already surpassed CSGO and it will become even more evident when Masters Iceland happen, the first Valorant international tournament.
All of the CSGO diehard fans excuses are over. "Shroud watchparties", "Higher tournament viewerships", and etc