I've been watching a few Valorant pro matches from the Twitch Rivals tournament as well as the current G2 Invitational and I've found myself having a difficult time watching the game and keeping track of each round. I think the game lacks the right spectating tools to make for a proper viewing experience. There is too little information being shown to the viewer.

Here's a couple of suggestions on ways to improve the viewing experience:

1. Showing the loadout of all players on the screen at all times. CS:GO has this shown for both teams on two ends of the screen, and in my opinion Valorant should have something like it too. It displays each player's gun, money, grenades, health, and even armor throughout the round. The grenades can be replaced with the agent skills for Valorant. This is the most important thing that the game is lacking spectator-wise in my opinion

2. X-ray. Seeing teammates and opponents through the wall when spectating makes it so that viewers don't have to look at the minimap all the time to follow the flow of the round.

3. Cleaner death indicators at the top tab. In-game, when a player dies, their agent's avatar is removed from the top tab, making it clear that they are no longer alive and makes it easier to count the number of remaining players alive in the round. Spectating does not follow this, instead, there is a red x mark drawn on top of the avatar. In my opinion this is very jarring to look at because it's less of a clearer indicator for death and makes it more difficult to count the remaining number of players alive left. If Valorant copies the loadout tab from number 1 above it can even be used as a death indicator exactly like CSGO.

4. Texts indicating which team is the Defender/Attacker. In-game, the green tab indicates your own team and the red tab indicates the enemy team. This correlation isn't the same when spectating; the green tab is always the defenders while the red tab is always the attackers. This can be confusing for first time viewers and it would be helpful if there was just text somewhere indicating which team is defending or attacking at the given half.

I think Valorant can copy a lot of the tools CSGO has right now to improve its viewing experience. Personally I do not see the harm in copying ideas from other games if it allows your game to improve as well

Regardless I hope as time goes on the Valorant devs look for ways to improve the game's viewing experience because right now matches are really difficult to follow