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Skadoodle benched for Pop Flash

tamagao

August 24, 2020

T1 T1 Korea Rank #2 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-oh (김태오) Sylvan Go Young-sup (고영섭) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) OPer Tyler " Skadoodle " Latham has announced he will not play with T1 during this weekend's Pop Flash, the final North American tournament of the Ignition Series.

Tyler Latham

@Ska

An update to my fans, and fans of @T1: As you may have noticed, I haven't been playing with the squad in competitions, and again won't be competing in this weekend's event.

Skadoodle noted that he has not played with the team in recent events, referencing the Pittsburgh Knights Invitational Gauntlet Series when the team's coach fRoD played in his place.

He said he will return to T1 at an unspecified later date, but in the meantime he will practice with other teams. He said he has been working on expanding his agent pool and improving on his impact with the Operator (OP).

Tyler Latham

@Ska

I have been grinding to expand my agent pool and overall impact with the OP and will be back with T1 when the time is right, but in the meantime am going to be practicing with other teams to stay sharp. I'll be back soon and better than ever

Skadoodle was the last player officially signed to the T1 roster, joining them in June. He still played with the team during the beta before his signing.

T1 have not yet announced a replacement fifth.

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#1

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hope Ska can find his form and come back strong. would hate to see him underperform

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Renvas

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Maybe going to 100 Thives? I mean now that Nitro join maybe Ska felt like the team could become like the good old days..

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deva

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Scapegoat for T1's poor performance. He'll be better off somewhere else. Anyone who believes that random puggers like crashies & food are more valuable than him in the long run are out of their mind.

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He wasn't being scapegoated, he's too passive to be an awper in this game and doesn't play jett, that's terrible

Most impactful players are jett awpers while Ska was playing fucking sage and not getting any impact

From CSGO he's been too passive, Dazed, Sgares every IGL he's had has said he's too passive, in CSGO he had a terrible impact rating for being too passive and would rarely get his team any advantages, in Valorant u need your OPer to be aggressive looking for picks

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Team Liquid doesn't run Jett OP for example.

As a team you need to play around each player's strenghts, not try to follow some "meta" that won't hold true in a couple months anyways. Imo this will be a loss for T1 and I find it funny that noone talks about how abysmal Azk has been, or crashies/food during important games.

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C9fansarecucks

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It's not about just Jett, it's about Skadoodle being passive

Scream literally said Jett is the most OP agent a few days ago, EU meta is completely different right now from NA meta, u can't compare that, no one is EU also uses phoenix while in NA the best teams do, in EU Scream uses Reyna while in NA almost no one does

The issue with Ska is that he's too passive overall, not just in game but also while communicating, Brax with cypher/omen gets more entry kills than Ska

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It's seem to be a good move!!! Skadoodle been terrible. I'm sure if he does not get better he going to stay out!!

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this some PR spin IMO... you dont go play with other teams when ur simply trying to get better at awping with jett

he gone

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While true that I doubt Skadoodle would be able to improve rapidly to the point of return by the turn of the next major event, hes still a very valuable player.

There's no reason T1 would just release him unless another organization buys him out.

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