Pain Gaming

Because the players are good.

And yeah, maybe they could have made the major with that... with that you know three uh what was it yeah with that 90 89 but now it's down to 38 and they have nothing left to play so they're just waiting to see how how things go um just waiting to see how the other teams play so yeah sucks to be them i guess um final event that wrapped up uh recently that has an effect on the major is it's circuit x curitiba in brazil season four um Yeah, main beneficiaries here, Imperial and Pain, the two grand finalists.

We have nothing to say about the play of this event, I would assume, because I would assume that both of us were asleep when it happened.

And I would rather die than watch this Pain lineup play.

So I don't care much about that, but I do care about the major race.

Imperial looking very likely to make the major now after beating Pain and winning the event outright.

Pain, I mean, specifically, they have slightly decreased their chances because of the event.

But they have increased their chances since like before today in the event as a whole and with other games as a whole.

That's one.

Legacy, LinVision, MIBR, Pain Gaming, Falcons, Team Liquid.

That's another.

Mongols, Tyloo, Wildcard.

We're not even talking Rainbow Six.

So, you know, like, it was great, obviously, that, like, Pain Gaming, a huge org in Brazil, supported this game.

Like, it was great that Rogue, at the time, was, like, on the upswing, especially partnered up with, like, Steve Aoki.

Like, they obviously saw an interest in our scene, in particular KingGeorge, when he was, at the time, one of the biggest streamers, and they obviously picked up vertical gaming.

Yeah, and I mean, again, I'm sorry to keep talking about CBLoL, but this is the thing they do on CBLoL, right? They have a guy called Takeshi.

So Kied and Pain are like two of the biggest orgs in Brazil history, right? So Loop has played for Pain for many years.

Takeshi played for Kied for many years.

And literally, you will see casters literally baiting Takeshi.

If you look at Americas, uh, that's, uh, again, kind of like just on, on the, only on the edge is there some leeway.

I think there's-- Pain is maybe a little misleading in this case, I would imagine, because they still have two Brazilian tournaments where they can, where they can make up the gap that they've, uh, lost-

Seems unlikely though, doesn't it?

...

Sure.

And then I th- I was gonna include M- M80 in that mix, and then Liquid is one that you would want, right? Uh, they also haven't had that many opportunities because of where they've been at in the VRS.

Um, but then after that, like Dendelion, Wildcard, NRG, Imperial, Pain, Fluxo, it's a bit of...

It's a, you know, pick your poison type beat, right? It's, it-

Dendele in the 90s.

After that it's NRG and Imperial who are the most likely to fall out, but even then they have quite a sizable lead as far as chance on Wildcard, Fluxo and Pain, how the mighty have fallen.

Uh, so yeah-

Yeah

He's never been good for any stretch of time.

And it's just by by really pinning your future to this player, you have actually now ruined the brand of pain gaming ever.

to the point that you're just trying to bring in random guys from your Academy team or Tier 2 Brazilian CS, and it is absolutely cost you everything.

Like, the name Pain Gaming is laughable in the second season of 2026, and that is all in part due to Snow.

I blame practically everything on Snow.

And the thing is, players don't always ask to be hyped like this, but the fact that he... eventually did have to get his good spots.

And I was okay with it, you know, in the beginning in Pain, especially when Pain were good, when he was in roles, as you said, Maui, where you could argue that maybe not always the most optimal for him.

Not the roles that you get a lot of freedom.