The MongolZ's fifth place in Valve’s world ranking might seem like an obvious reason why that system might be flawed, but they made absolutely light work of the Opening Stage.

Kicking it off with a 13-2 win against the hometown heroes Rare Atom, they followed that up with a 13-6 vs MIBR and then secured their 3-0 record with an absolute drubbing versus GamerLegion.

We’ve been quite impressed by GamerLegion since they went 0-2 in the RMR (especially because they made a mockery of Falcons) but that match was one of the most one-sided we’ve ever seen at a Major.

13-5 on Mirage and 13-2 on Anubis, GamerLegion never stood a chance as FL4MUS failed to record double-digit kills across the two maps, while Senzu and Mzinho both picked up 30 or more.

We haven’t seen Mongolians go this hard in China since Genghis Khan. Well, technically we didn’t see that, but you get the point.

The other team to advance with a 3-0 record is Liquid, despite the fact that NAF has so far played like he’s forgotten where his hands are.

That hasn’t mattered for much though, YEKINDAR seems to have located his hands again and ultimate is also firing on all cylinders after struggling in the past couple of months.

They even had some entertaining games, coming back from 9-3 down against Cloud9 on Ancient and getting revenge against Wildcard on Inferno. Okay, so the Wildcard game wasn’t as fun, but when is Inferno ever fun these days? “But tl;dr, your podcast is called Overtime on Inferno!” Shut up. Stop talking to a newsletter.

Their 3-0 game was also good, but mainly because their victory stopped FlyQuest in its tracks, and rampant Aussies are never a good thing.

It’s yet to be seen how well the two teams will do in the next stage, but our money is on The Mongolz to go pretty deep in this Major, so place your bets now and give us a cut when the winnings come in.

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