The hype around esports is fading as investors and sponsors dry up
The only game I really see viable as a true nationally broadcast e-sport is counter-strike. Dead simple concept, intuitive mechanics even to laypeople, and the meta game can be explained in 10 minutes.<p>Maybe besides COD, everything else is too complex and requires to much prerequisite knowledge to really get into. I could probably get my dad to watch counter-strike. He would probably wouldn't go for valorent. Almost certainly not something like overwatch. And definitely would never watch something like league or dota.<p>Sure, there is money in e-sports catering to the communities that form around the games, but I think for most games they'll never reach outside their player community.