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CS:GO Major Winner Ska Joins T1's Valorant Team

By Noam Radcliffe

Ska previously played for Cloud9's CS:GO team.
Ska previously played for Cloud9's CS:GO team. / Courtesy of StarLadder

T1 Esports signed Tyler "Ska" Latham to its inaugural Valorant starting lineup Wednesday, completing its lineup with the former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professional player.

Ska, who previously went by Skadoodle, played CS:GO from 2012 to 2019 and is most famous for his time with Cloud9. He was part of the Cloud9 roster that won the ELEAGUE Boston Major in 2018, becoming the first North American lineup to win a Valve-sponsored Major. He left the active lineup in 2019 to stream full time under the Cloud8 banner.

CS:GO Major Winner Ska Joins T1's Valorant Team

Ska joins Braxton "Brax" Pierce, Keven "AZK" Larivière, Austin "crashies" Roberts and Victor "food" Wong on T1's lineup. Ska, Brax and AZK played together on the CS:GO team iBUYPOWER from 2013 to 2015. Valve banned the latter two from professional CS:GO when they were revealed to have participated in an instance of match-fixing.

Details on the Valorant esports scene remain under wraps, but Riot Games is committed to building an infrastructure around the game.