Elliott Griffiths

It was a bad day for GamerLegion 3-0 pickers, and an even worse day for poor beastik.

These are The Contenders - the best of the rest, but not in stage one and would only have an outside shot at getting a taste of glory.

You might have to bare with us a little bit, because there's been a ton of games on day one.

These five teams are The Challengers - not quite good enough to be Contenders, but not far off.

These six teams are The Hopefuls - those who have dreams and aspirations of a deep run, but with limited evidence to suggest it's their time just yet.

ash joins yNk, STYKO, dupreeh and Pimp to form the desk at the upcoming IEM Cologne Major, with Freya as the main presenter.

These teams are The Question Marks, so named as to accurately label our mixed feelings on them.

The Welterweights are so called because nobody expects them to pack enough of a punch to break the jaw of the heavyweights at the top.

IEM is set to return to China this year in November in Beijing, filling the Bloomage Biotech·Biohyalux ECM Arena.

Falcons will have to wait a little bit longer to taste their first silverware with karrigan at the helm.

NAVI were largely untroubled as they overpowered a plucky but ultimately inferior GamerLegion team.

Sorry karrigan, but getting donk'd happens to the best of us.

BetBoom missed a golden opportunity to go up 1-0 on Ancient and lived to regret it.

It's been a while since we saw such a comprehensive donking.

Are Vitality... finished?

Wow. Wow wow wow wow wow.

FUT fell to B8 in the lower bracket 2-0 to exit Atlanta in what seemed like an event they had a real shot at doing something in.

Aurora held firm to eliminate The MongolZ and sneak into playoffs at the end of the day in Astana.

The deadly Magnojez/FL4MUS duo we mentioned yesterday just toppled the best team of all time, by the way.

kyousuke and m0NESY dovetailed for nearly 130 kills to sink The MongolZ and push Falcons into the playoffs.