Best tournament — PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, worst opponent — AMKAL ESPORTS: nqz’s key statistics with paiN Gaming

Yesterday, paiN Gaming announced the departure of Lucas “nqz” Soares from the club. Below are the sniper’s key stats from his nearly 29 months with the Brazilian organization.

It is known that nqz played 585 maps for paiN Gaming with a rating of 1.11. The sniper’s best Tier 1 tournament during this time was PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, where his average rating was 1.22, while his worst was BLAST Bounty 2025 Season 1 (0.81). The player played 66.0% of his total maps with a rating above 1.0. With the Brazilian player on the roster, paiN Gaming competed in four Majors, and its win rate over the past few months was 57.78%.

The most challenging opponent for nqz was AMKAL ESPORTS, against whom he played 4 maps with a rating of 0.7. At the same time, the two matches against Housebets proved to be the easiest for the sniper, resulting in a rating of 2.07.

nqz’s best result with paiN Gaming at a major tournament was a 3rd–4th-place finish at BLAST Rivals 2025 Season 2. As for Majors, the team finished the PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 in 9th–11th place, the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 in 3rd–4th place, and the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 and StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 in 12th–14th place.

Previously, Lucas “nqz” Soares stopped participating in events and temporarily put his career on hold, after which paiN Gaming signed Rafael “saffee” Costa to its main roster. Yesterday, the club officially announced the termination of its business relationship with the Brazilian player.