biguzera renews paiN deal

18-6-2025 10:57

The 28-year-old has committed his future to the organization that has housed him since 2019.

Rodrigo "⁠biguzera⁠" Bittencourt has extended his paiN contract, the team have announced.

paiN have been contacted by HLTV in a request for further detail about the new contract but did not reply before the time of publication.

The news comes after paiN secured a Major playoff berth for the first time in Austin, after just missing out in Copenhagen (9-11th) and Shanghai (12-14th).

Date	Matches
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
20/06/2025	FURIA 02:20 paiN	Match

biguzera joined paiN in 2019, taking over the captaincy in 2023, and has overseen consistent placements in the top 20 of the world ranking.

The highly rated in-game leader has been linked with a move away, particularly to regional heavyweights FURIA as fans dream up various Brazilian superteams.

But biguzera has consistently shut down that talk — and has done so again by signing a new deal. That message was reiterated by paiN's announcement, which began with the word 'relaxô.'

biguzera on making Major playoffs: "I'm just wondering if it's a dream or not"

"Of course some day I want to play with these guys, FalleN, KSCERATO, these good players from Brazil," biguzera said in January. "But at the same time, I just want to grow with the team. If I see someone that's playing with me, growing and becoming a new star player, I will be very happy for him. It's a different happiness."

On paiN, he said "I just like the mood, the people that are here working with me, and I just like to be here."

paiN celebrate making Austin's quarter-finals

While FURIA have been the big dogs over the last six years of Brazilian Counter-Strike, paiN Gaming are heavyweights themselves, particularly in other esports like League of Legends.

With the team's star rising over the last few years and another biguzera renewal in tow, paiN's battle to become South America's hegemon will continue.

They are still:

Franco "⁠dgt⁠" Garcia
Rodrigo "⁠biguzera⁠" Bittencourt
David "⁠dav1deuS⁠" Tapia Maldonado
Lucas "⁠nqz⁠" Soares
João "⁠snow⁠" Vinicius

Henrique "⁠rikz⁠" Waku (coach)

paiN secure final Austin Major playoff spot over Virtus.pro

Nice.

2025-06-18 10:58

GOAT

2025-06-18 10:59

He's BIG and he's so ZUERA

2025-06-18 11:00

Cool guy

2025-06-18 11:01

-snow +me

2025-06-18 11:04

Falcons lost

2025-06-18 11:05

why does his profile show achivments without paris 2023? he was there, wasn`t he?

2025-06-18 11:06

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yeah, its a bug

2025-06-18 11:11

deserved, now lets win this major kekw

2025-06-18 11:07

Vamos

2025-06-18 11:10

I'm pretty sure this deal depended on whether they get into playoffs here or not so congrats

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Nah, paiN would have offered as well. No other BR IGL could replace him right now.

2025-06-18 13:09

I think they just didn't want to create a distraction as the stage 3 was happening

2025-06-18 14:41

guy is goddddd

2025-06-18 11:33

another contract jail

2025-06-18 11:40

#15

2025-06-18 11:43

paiN will be the best South-American team next season. Unless molodoy becomes the next m0NESY or something.

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So far molodoy looks to become the next m0nesy tho, so I think we will have nice competition in the SA :D

2025-06-18 13:01

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Every promising AWPer looks like m0NESY for their first few months in tier 1. Only the best of the best can maintain that level of output after they get "figured out" once.

2025-06-18 13:25

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Exactly, case in point: ultimate

2025-06-18 16:58

who are we talking about? i don't think there has been any "true" promising looking awper since m0nesy...

2025-06-18 18:11

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ultimate. nqz. w0nderful. hyped. All of these players have had massive upwards trajectories at points in their careers and looked like potential future top 3 AWPers. Then they fell back down to Earth. There are other names I could name but they'd be slightly copium.

2025-06-18 18:45

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none of those were even close to "next m0nesy" promising looking....we gotta get real here. They are all "good" awpers with potential that just got overhyped but were never even close. nqz got hyped as "the next fallen", "the best brazilian awper" and stuff like that just because brazil hasn't been able to produce an actual tier 1 awper since fallen, and yes he's good, and he's been having a great year in 25' but never m0nesy awper lvl conversation. ultimate got hyped because it was a liquid's finding that 90% of the community didn't know and was good enough to play on tier 1, that's it. w0nderfull got hyped because he had to replace s1mple and somehow navi managed to win that major, but even in his best moments he wasn't even close to m0nesy lvl awping and this year has been mediocre at best.....one could even argue he isn't even top 10 tier 1 awpers 25'. I don't even know what hyped is doing on that list honestly.... but yeah, that's the general idea, all hype but never any true substance to bring into the conversation from any of those.

2025-06-18 22:52

Re-read the thread from the start. You're making my point for me.

2025-06-19 02:36

you are not making any point, you are mistaking "potential to be a pro player" with "raw talent to surpass greatness", all those awpers you mentioned showed they had enough to play on tier-1 but none showed they had the actual talent to be discussed among the greatest, to break the notion of logic inside the server, etc. I mean, at some point last year they were all overhyped as fuck by the , and even then none was discussed on the same table as the actual top 3 (s1mple, zywoo, m0nesy).

2025-06-19 03:33

2025-06-18 12:24

2nd best fragging igl.

2025-06-18 12:43

whos the 1st?

2025-06-18 16:14

probably blitz

2025-06-18 17:13

Thats the best time you can renew a contract, knowing you cant do better than getting into playoff.

2025-06-18 12:57

goat igl fr

eh, i feel like there are prolly better options for him no

2025-06-18 13:24

Like what?

2025-06-18 13:27

in brazilian scene? nop Furia have Fallen, Mibr is a mess it would be a huge stepback, other teams are too small or just sticker hunters like Fluxo or Imperial

2025-06-18 14:09