paiN confirm dav1deus addition

10-1-2025 19:12

The Chilean will link up with the Brazilian squad for the 2025 season.

paiN found lux's replacement in dav1deus

paiN have announced the signing of David "⁠dav1deuS⁠" Tapia Maldonado, confirming an earlier report by Dust2.com.br.

The Chilean rifler joins the team from RED Canids, who he represented from October 2023. During his time on the team, he averaged a 1.18 rating and attended the Copenhagen and Shanghai Majors RMRs, but RED Canids failed to qualify for either.

Following the Shanghai RMR, which RED Canids finished with a 2-3 record, the Chilean was benched alongside Gabriel "⁠nython⁠" Lino.

RED Canids bench dav1deuS and nython following RMR failure

dav1deuS replaces Lucas "⁠lux⁠" Meneghini on the paiN roster after the latter joined Legacy as the team's new IGL.

The 24-year-old will make his paiN debut at BLAST Bounty Season 1, set to start on January 14.

Date	Matches
BLAST Bounty 2025 Season 1
17/01/2025	paiN 12:00 GamerLegion	Match

paiN are now:

Rodrigo "⁠biguzera⁠" Bittencourt
Lucas "⁠nqz⁠" Soares
João "⁠snow⁠" Vinicius
Kaue "⁠kauez⁠" Kaschuk
David "⁠dav1deuS⁠" Tapia Maldonado

Henrique "⁠rikz⁠" Waku (coach)

Awesome, great addition.

2025-01-10 19:13

Let's go!

2025-01-10 19:14

oh my god, who the hell cares

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paiN #14 EYEBALLERS #113 kekwwwwwwwwww

2025-01-10 19:19

8 replies

2025-01-10 19:34

6 replies

2025-01-11 02:28

5 replies

2025-01-11 03:07

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well yeah of course flag - he's from Chile! a good player from there signed with paiN, a highly competitive top 15 team in cs! So yeah... of course his flag, what do you expect a Chilean to comment about? motm?

2025-01-11 10:14

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I responded to the guy saying flag to ME Also pain aren't "highly competitive"

2025-01-11 11:46

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pain are a very good team that's always in the legends stage of majors knocking on playoffs - they are not top 5 , but they're highly competitive in the cs scene,

2025-01-11 12:30

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Agreed, #65 is just being hard-headed. Pain always perform well at the biggest competition; they're a very good team and probably operate well within the green.

2025-01-11 19:36

cook that fraud

2025-01-11 03:49

fair enough take mr windows vista

2025-01-10 19:26

2025-01-10 20:41

People who actually watch CS care...

2025-01-10 22:40

i care about cs, but brazilian orgs changing players every other day, to never succeed and to never let their young talent to international its not really interesting, if anything, it's just depressing

2025-01-11 01:29

save insani

2025-01-11 04:08

Nope, he's gonna go to furia, back to mibr, to pain And then become a 1.05 player And then... oh, he's now old and washed Oops

2025-01-11 11:48

2025-01-11 14:59

Expected from drake enjoyer

2025-01-11 00:46

2025-01-11 01:28

i care

2025-01-11 01:27

rare chile flag lfg dav1d destroy bots

+++++111111

2025-01-10 21:47

chilean goat

2025-01-10 19:16

lets go painnn

2025-01-10 19:18

pain is GOATED in 2025

yippee

2025-01-10 19:20

downgrade..

2025-01-10 19:22

i think this is an upgrade, no? excited to see if this can take them to the next level

2025-01-10 19:23

upgrade but I'm still sad about -lux

2025-01-10 19:32

they dont speak the same language,no?

2025-01-10 19:24

dav1d has played on multiple brazilian teams so he almost definitely knows portuguese

2025-01-10 19:31

every south american can understand basic portuguese in mm. we always play with them

2025-01-10 19:36

Mano cala boca is what i always say

2025-01-10 21:48

Portugal es una isla

2025-01-11 22:15

Also it's not that hard to learn portuguese for a spanish speaker and vice versa, should be easy to adapt

2025-01-11 01:09

lets see what they can do now, lets goo pain

2025-01-10 19:29

0.97 rating against top10 1.02 rating past 3 months PaiN is cooked SA scene is slowly dying it looks like

2025-01-10 19:46

Dav1d needs to regain his previous form, he was a beast in 9z tenure

2025-01-10 21:49

Huge W, gogogo dav1deus

2025-01-10 19:41

lux was better and we shouldnt pretend like he wasnt

2025-01-10 19:58

why is luxs hltv picture is just his old picture photoshopperd to body of ''saadzin''

2025-01-10 20:02

the best move by a Brazilian team this transfer season. paiN are scarier now. not groundbreaking per se but maybe it's enough for them to truly break into tier 1.5

2025-01-10 20:04

They're tier 1 in majors for some reason lol, otherwise yeah, they seem to drop into tier 2 in other competitions. They make good money for it, at least. Hopefully they can remain consistent at other elite events.

2025-01-11 19:40

Lets gooooo

2025-01-10 20:25

Downgrade lol

2025-01-10 20:35

Upgrade lol

2025-01-10 21:10

2025-01-10 20:39

LETS HECKIN GOOOOOOOOO

2025-01-10 21:07

Only time will tell how good this move really was, lux was playing really well but dav1deuS is also a great player so we will have to see, hopefully it goes well tho, I'm all for more Brazilian teams picking up SA talents!

2025-01-10 21:14

-Dav1deuS +felps

2025-01-10 21:32

Now or never for paiN to do some real damage at the top. Hope for the best for biguzera to get a real chance to compete where he deserves to be.

2025-01-10 21:42

ez for dav1deus

2025-01-10 21:44

SACHEIIII!!!

CHI

2025-01-11 00:07

L-E!!

2025-01-11 01:50

I see lux at the same level as davideus and he was already adapted to the team, so I don't see a clear reason for this change... but let's see

2025-01-10 22:04

Questionable change if there was any investment, but understandable if -lux +dav1d made them money.

2025-01-10 22:11

DAV1DEUS is an anchor, and very good at it. Getting him frees up roles for Snow and Kauez. I imagine these are reasons for it

2025-01-10 23:53

He wasn't an anchor in Red Canis. He played mid ancient, anubis, dust2, con mirage, main nuke. And he was doing great, the best player in the two lineups

2025-01-11 09:57