Welcome to all esports and Counter-Strike 2 fans! From October 26, 2025, to November 1, 2025, one of the biggest tournaments of this autumn — PGL Masters Bucharest 2025 is taking place. Sixteen teams will compete for the championship title and a prize pool of 625 thousand dollars. Today we highlight the Quarterfinals playoffs match paiN Gaming vs Legacy, which promises to be exciting. While the teams prepare, we’ll share our CS2 betting tips and insights on this match.
How the bookies view it: Legacy favorite
Most bookmakers, with a slight advantage, consider Legacy the favorite in the match against paiN Gaming at PGL Masters Bucharest 2025. The team won the previous tournament and is currently in good form.
paiN Gaming form. What result can be expected from paiN Gaming
Our betting tips and CS2 picks for the paiN Gaming vs Legacy matchup begin with analyzing paiN Gaming form. The team played a large number of tournaments in 2024, showing promising results along the way.
Their most notable achievement was at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024, where they showcased both skill and resilience, finishing in the top 9-11.
paiN consistently ranks among the top teams in Latin America, often winning B-tier events such as RES Latin American Series #4 and Global Esports Tour Rio de Janeiro 2024, earning $100,000 for the latter.
paiN roster: biguzera, nqz, snow, dav1deuS, dgt
A key milestone was qualifying for IEM Cologne 2024 through regional qualifiers. At the event, they lost their opening match to Liquid (0-2), but bounced back in the lower bracket to defeat fellow Brazilians Imperial (2-1), finishing top 8.
Later, they competed at BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024, securing a now “classic” top-8 finish.
paiN also participated in PW Shanghai Major 2024. In the Opening Stage, they beat Imperial, then lost to GamerLegion but recovered with wins over C9 and FlyQuest. In the Elimination Stage, they fell to MOUZ, Ledgeili, and 3DMax. In a must-win match, they defeated BIG.
On the main stage of the Shanghai Major, paiN went 1-3, ending top 14.
The 2025 season began with BLAST Bounty Season 1, where paiN once again made it through qualifiers by defeating GamerLegion and FaZe. In the playoffs, they faced NaVi and came close to victory, but lost 1-2, finishing top 6—a sign that this team is aiming higher.
At IEM Katowice 2025, they placed top 20, but did much better at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025: they went 3-1 in the group stage with wins over Astralis, Falcons, and VP, losing only to MongolZ in a tight match. Unfortunately, in the playoffs they fell in the first round to MOUZ and finished top 8.
At ESL Pro League Season 21, they advanced from the group stage with a 3-2 record. In the top 16, they beat GamerLegion but lost to G2 and NaVi, and were later eliminated by Eternal Fire, placing top 14.
After that, paiN played at PGL Bucharest 2025 and IEM Melbourne 2025, finishing top 16 in both events.
At the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025, paiN started their run in the second stage, qualifying for the third stage with a 3-1 record. They lost their first two matches to strong opponents — Spirit and G2 — but bounced back with victories over Nemiga, 3DMAX, and VP, advancing to the playoffs with a 3-2 score.
In the playoffs, paiN defeated FURIA 2-1, but in the semifinals, they lost to The MongolZ 0-2, finishing 3rd-4th at the tournament.
After the success at BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025, paiN Gaming slightly declined in form. The team placed top 20 at IEM Cologne 2025, top 16 at BLAST Bounty Fall 2025: Closed Qualifier, and top 12 at CS Asia Championships 2025.
Legacy form. What result can be expected from Legacy
We continue our CS2 tips with analyzing Legacy form. Legacy is a relatively new team, created in 2023, and starting from B and C-tier tournaments they managed to rise to a higher level of play.
In the 2023 season they managed to place TOP-16 at CCT East Europe Series #1 and CCT North Europe Series #7. Later, they reached the top 40 at Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #2.
After that, there were a few successful events, more precisely two. Legacy placed Top-6 at CCT Online Finals #3 and Top-8 at BLAST Premier: Fall American Showdown 2023. A truly successful performance came at CBCS 2023 Season 3, where the team defeated paiN Gaming in the grand final.
Legacy roster: latto, dumau, saadzin, n1ssim, lux.
Later they competed at LEON x TEAMPLAY Season 2, as well as at CCT East Europe Series #4 and CCT Online Finals #4. Both tournaments ended for them in the top 9.
The team’s main achievement, if it can be called that, was their performance at PGL Copenhagen Major 2024, where Legacy reached the Top-20. After that, the team constantly tried to show strong results at various Tier-2 tournaments: CBCS Season 5 and CCT Season 2 North American Series #3, where they stopped at Top-4.
In the 2025 season Legacy made decent progress. The team participated in several S-Tier tournaments. These were PGL Bucharest 2025 and IEM Masters Dallas 2025, where the team placed Top-12 and Top-16 respectively.
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 turned out to be quite successful for Legacy. They started from the First Stage, where they won with a score of 3-2. In the Second Stage, a team that was not even supposed to be at this tournament and got there by accident, closed the stage with a 3-0 result (!), defeating 3DMax and FaZe.
However, in Stage 3 Legacy failed to repeat their previous success, being eliminated with a score of 2-3 and placing 9–11th at the tournament.
After that, the team participated in several qualifiers and A and S-tier tournaments without significant success.
At ESL Pro League Season 22, Legacy did not perform very well. In Stage 1, the team finished with a 2-3 score and was eliminated from the tournament, placing in the Top 19.
The CS Asia Championships 2025 turned out to be very successful for Legacy. The team qualified for the playoffs from 2nd place in Group A, defeated HEROIC in the semifinals, and in the grand final, after a close match, beat 3DMAX to become the champions of the tournament.
Recent head to head
paiN Gaming and Legacy have faced each other 9 times, with the former winning 7 matches and the latter winning 2. The match at PGL Masters Bucharest 2025 is very important, as the victory will allow the teams to advance to the semifinals of the tournament.
Which maps does paiN Gaming pick and ban most often?
Let’s analyze both teams map statistics to make smart CS2 picks.
Strong maps
- Nuke: high win percentage (60.7%) with 28 matches played.
Average results
- Mirage: average winning percentage (51.9%) with 27 matches played.
- Dust2: average winning percentage (45.5%) with 33 matches played.
Weak maps
- Inferno: low win percentage (36.7%) with 30 matches played.
- Ancient: low win percentage (33.3%) with 9 matches played.
- Anubis: low win percentage (27.3%) with 11 matches played.
- Train: low win percentage (00.0%) with 6 matches played.
Which maps does Legacy pick and ban most often?
Strong maps
- Inferno: high win percentage (68.2%) with 44 matches played.
- Mirage: high win percentage (65.9%) with 41 matches played.
- Nuke: high win percentage (64.9%) with 37 matches played.
- Dust2: high win percentage (62.5%) with 32 matches played.
- Ancient: high win percentage (61.3%) with 31 matches played.
Average results
- Anubis: average winning percentage (54.5%) with 22 matches played.
Weak maps
- Train: low win percentage (33.3%) with 6 matches played.
Predicted result of the match between paiN Gaming and Legacy at PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
Most analysts and experts consider Legacy the favorite in the match against paiN Gaming at PGL Masters Bucharest 2025. The team won the previous tournament and is currently in quite good form. However, paiN Gaming should not be underestimated, as they won their Group Stage. In our opinion, based on previous results, paiN Gaming will win this match. Fans should expect a dynamic and exciting game.
Betting prediction: paiN Gaming wins.
