Slin keeps on posting as if the people who don't have faith in valve to suddenly make tf2 an esport are impatient and short-sighted.
Yet, the idea that a 9-year old game that has languished in obscurity could suddenly compete with a game that came out in the past year and already has major sponsors, big lans, a league in korea, and a league in america is ridiculously naive.
What you are calling for is not just rare in the history of competitive gaming, it is literally unprecedented. Why should people believe that it's going to work out prior to something positive actually HAPPENING?
Even if valve spreads awareness about competitive tf2 to people that don't know about it yet, why would they themselves take the plunge on playing a game that came out when the biggest titles were brood war and counter strike 1.6?
For a long time, the challenge was merely to try to expose pub players to the competitive side of things more, and to create a matchmaking system to bridge the gap more easily. Now, even the pub population is fleeing to greener pastures, and the world of esports as a whole has become far more monopolized and with much higher entry fees than a few years ago.
Expecting tf2 to get big in 2016 is like thinking that David Hasselhoff will win an oscar or something