With day one of the Major Elimination Stage wrapped up and day two already underway, it's time to look at the teams on the brink of a dreadfully long flight home.

Despite several upsets to kick off the second stage, the 0-2 group ended up right where it was expected.

With tough opening matchups against higher-seeded teams, paiN, GamerLegion, Wildcard, and BIG all found themselves trailing after the first round.

While there was some hope that paiN and BIG might pull off upsets against MOUZ and HEROIC, respectively, neither team managed to do so, as Jimpphat’s MAC-10 and NertZ’s 1.69 rating proved too much to handle.

Unfortunately for Wildcard and BIG, Spirit’s and G2’s upset losses in the opening round left them facing the sharks as the second round began. With the 0-2 nearly guaranteed, they needed something magical to happen in order to avoid it. Spoiler: it didn’t, though magixx did manage to pull this one out of the hat.

In the other 0-1 matchups, GamerLegion was simply unlucky to catch a shiny 1.33 rating YEKINDAR, while paiN lost crucial rounds to 3DMax in the later stages of their match, which ultimately cost them the win.

In the end, the team we're most surprised to see in the 0-2 position is paiN.

They showed promise during the RMR and Opening Stage, but the truth is, the initial BO1s are incredibly unforgiving. This raises the question of whether the Major should even feature BO1s in the first place, but we’ll save that debate for another time.