paiN confirm dav1deus addition

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.

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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.

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BLAST Bounty 2025 Season 1
17/01/2025
12:00
Match

paiN are now:

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

Brazil Henrique "⁠rikz⁠" Waku (coach)

Chile David 'dav1deuS' Tapia Maldonado
David 'dav1deuS' Tapia Maldonado
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.09
Maps played:
844
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.68
Brazil Lucas 'lux' Meneghini
Lucas 'lux' Meneghini
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
681
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.66
Brazil Kaue 'kauez' Kaschuk
Kaue 'kauez' Kaschuk
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
710
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.67
Brazil Gabriel 'nython' Lino
Gabriel 'nython' Lino
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.03
Maps played:
1025
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.64
Brazil Henrique 'rikz' Waku
Henrique 'rikz' Waku
Age:
33
Team:
Brazil João 'snow' Vinicius
João 'snow' Vinicius
Age:
17
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
546
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.65
Brazil Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt
Rodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
1257
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.64
Brazil Lucas 'nqz' Soares
Lucas 'nqz' Soares
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.11
Maps played:
727
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.57
#2
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Finland Eestu
Awesome, great addition.
2025-01-10 19:13
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#3
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Czech Republic knom1s
Let's go!
2025-01-10 19:14
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#4
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Sweden Mr_Vista
oh my god, who the hell cares
2025-01-10 19:14
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20 replies
paiN #14 EYEBALLERS #113 kekwwwwwwwwww
2025-01-10 19:19
93
8 replies
#19
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Sweden Mr_Vista
flag
2025-01-10 19:34
4
6 replies
#59
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Latvia riraie
flag
2025-01-11 02:28
12
5 replies
#60
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Sweden Mr_Vista
No
2025-01-11 03:07
0
4 replies
#64
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Germany Sol1taire
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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3 replies
#65
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Sweden Mr_Vista
I responded to the guy saying flag to ME Also pain aren't "highly competitive"
2025-01-11 11:46
0
2 replies
#67
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Germany Sol1taire
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
2
1 reply
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
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#61
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Russia HikZ
cook that fraud
2025-01-11 03:49
3
fair enough take mr windows vista
2025-01-10 19:26
5
Me
2025-01-10 20:41
0
People who actually watch CS care...
2025-01-10 22:40
4
4 replies
#57
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Sweden Mr_Vista
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
1
3 replies
save insani
2025-01-11 04:08
0
2 replies
#66
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Sweden Mr_Vista
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
0
1 reply
D:
2025-01-11 14:59
0
Expected from drake enjoyer
2025-01-11 00:46
3
1 reply
#56
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Sweden Mr_Vista
flag
2025-01-11 01:28
0
i care
2025-01-11 01:27
3
1 reply
#55
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Sweden Mr_Vista
flag
2025-01-11 01:28
0
rare chile flag lfg dav1d destroy bots
2025-01-10 19:14
5
1 reply
+++++111111
2025-01-10 21:47
0
chilean goat
2025-01-10 19:16
7
#7
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Brazil luckezada
lets go painnn
2025-01-10 19:18
0
pain is GOATED in 2025
2025-01-10 19:19
4
#11
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Ziz | 
Croatia styxxje
yippee
2025-01-10 19:20
0
downgrade..
2025-01-10 19:22
1
i think this is an upgrade, no? excited to see if this can take them to the next level
2025-01-10 19:23
1
1 reply
#18
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Brazil Whillpull
upgrade but I'm still sad about -lux
2025-01-10 19:32
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#14
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Sweden weatye
they dont speak the same language,no?
2025-01-10 19:24
0
5 replies
#17
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Ziz | 
Croatia styxxje
dav1d has played on multiple brazilian teams so he almost definitely knows portuguese
2025-01-10 19:31
6
4 replies
every south american can understand basic portuguese in mm. we always play with them
2025-01-10 19:36
12
3 replies
Mano cala boca is what i always say
2025-01-10 21:48
8
1 reply
#73
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Spain Silber_
Portugal es una isla
2025-01-11 22:15
0
#53
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Brazil praxedes
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
3
lets see what they can do now, lets goo pain
2025-01-10 19:29
1
#21
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Brazil lilpeepBigCityBlues
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
0
1 reply
Dav1d needs to regain his previous form, he was a beast in 9z tenure
2025-01-10 21:49
6
#22
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Spain mavericko19
Huge W, gogogo dav1deus
2025-01-10 19:41
1
#23
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Korea syjeon
lux was better and we shouldnt pretend like he wasnt
2025-01-10 19:58
4
#24
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Kazakhstan Shingis2kk
why is luxs hltv picture is just his old picture photoshopperd to body of ''saadzin''
2025-01-10 20:02
3
#25
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Brazil choquo
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
6
1 reply
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
3
#27
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kl1m | 
Germany ProjectPat
Lets gooooo
2025-01-10 20:25
0
#28
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Argentina Ademar
Downgrade lol
2025-01-10 20:35
3
1 reply
Upgrade lol
2025-01-10 21:10
4
GL
2025-01-10 20:39
0
LETS HECKIN GOOOOOOOOO
2025-01-10 21:07
1
#33
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Brazil MrLucas
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
5
-Dav1deuS +felps
2025-01-10 21:32
0
#35
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Egypt BomberMan_
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
1
#36
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Portugal MUTIRIS_VAC_SHOT
ez for dav1deus
2025-01-10 21:44
0
SACHEIIII!!!
2025-01-10 21:44
1
2 replies
#49
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Chile 25thBaam
CHI
2025-01-11 00:07
1
1 reply
L-E!!
2025-01-11 01:50
1
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
1
3 replies
Questionable change if there was any investment, but understandable if -lux +dav1d made them money.
2025-01-10 22:11
0
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
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1 reply
#63
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Kazakhstan Nyaaamm
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
0
ESL challenger SA warrior, is at most the same level as lux
2025-01-10 22:15
0
EZ for dav1deuS!!!!
2025-01-10 23:10
0
Ok
2025-01-10 23:18
0
#47
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Brazil bacuri_fps
lets go davigod
2025-01-10 23:39
0
#50
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Chile 25thBaam
dav1deus will carry brazilian bots as always
2025-01-11 00:09
1
#51
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Taiwan Arkam47
Get insani here when.
2025-01-11 00:35
0
nobody cares
2025-01-11 14:32
0
Goat
2025-01-11 19:51
0
dav1d good for the wate
2025-01-13 20:09
0
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