It's just your biases showing. Valorant events literally won awards after awards every year. (https://esportsawards.com/previous-winners/esports-awards-2024/)

Most recently an EMMY for the coverage of LA champions. (https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fs4gqhq01212f1.jpeg)

The truth is there is a significant crossover from HLTV users and VLR, it's just your type of scene more.

XLG is the best chinese team for sure but they're playing with a sub

Damn the train might be delayed a bit here I feel like. GenG is looking very clean.