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This would mean that three of the five players from the ex-iBP roster will reunite, leaving Josh \u201csteel\u201d Nissan and Tyler \u201cskadoodle\u201d Latham out of the mix. Skadoodle is a tenured primary AWPer for Cloud9, while steel is a popular Twitch personality, who has apparently had bad blood with one of his former teammates. Steel was also recently nominated as streamer of the year for his CS:GO<\/em> and PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds<\/em> broadcasts.<\/p>