The COVID-19 pandemic has stilled sports stadiums and arenas into silence, with players kept in lockdown. But the quarantine culture has seen a surge in online gaming, esports, and sports simulation for stay-at-home fans. Esports—a digital media format where virtual game-play is streamed as video content, just like football matches, with players raking in millions has seen a surge in pandemic. Not only that due to the time of social distancing, self-quarantine, and containment, watching other people playing online games from computers and TV screens has surged. Mrigaank is planning to expand his Team Valor into Valorant and more game’s in future, His vision is to create a healthy environment in IGC, Additionally, in the past three months, the graph for the number of users has skyrocketed.

He believes that the number of users is expected to grow even more post-pandemic. Although their chances of a dip in the number of hours an average person is engaged in esports once the lockdown is over, the overall number of users is expected to grow. Since many are taking esports as a career option and the social isolation has jump-started the esports game in India, therefore, post-pandemic, he believes the number of users engaging in esports is expected to keep growing.