Grilled Birds recovered decently from their Trophy of Legends opening game loss to Argentinean V.106 winners G.E.S., to spam out the goals in their next two fixtures - from which repeat Golden Boot claimant Chan Ze Han bagged five for himself, as he refused to take a holiday from his duty. First, of course, there was G.E.S., whose defence and Italian custodian Stefano Perono Garoffo were on top form. The closest the Birds came was Chan's 56th minute free-kick curled aggressively off the goalpost, which had the Argentines take it through close-up strikes from Andrei Neacşu and Norbert Vreeburg.

That had the Birds matched against Danish Division Five side FC BronsoN next, and it would be a lot more enjoyable for them, with Chan adjusting his free-kick properly to set things off in the 15th minute. Finn Kjær and Roland Bergmann staged an early rally to tie it back up 2-2 by the 31st, but a strong contribution by Joe Reece, almost unbeatable in the air today, had Grilled pull away, and eventually finish up at 8-3 with Aw Keng Chuan profiting from loose defending in added time.

Swedish IV.155 club Zigge FC rounded out the day for Grilled, and this rainy contest would see Chan return to his hat-trick habits, again starting off with a beautiful dead ball delivery. Lim An Keng had opened by then, and Egemen Dinçer Ferzan added two of his own to Zigge's sole consolation by Vincenzo Grappi, to make it 6-1 at the final whistle.

The Buns started strong but withered in a mirror to the Birds' doings, as they set off with a Vitaliy Efendiev single-minute brace, in clapping Connecticut-based Crazy Yetis of the American IV.56, three goals to nil. Ong Li Jing answered the Yetis' determined start to the second half with a nippy counter down the left, but it was mostly luck that Gilberto Sorondo came away with a clean sheet here, after both José Sousa Torres and Phillip Friese shot straight at him in a late Yeti flurry.

Guatemalan II.2 club Team Nørholt and French V.155 champs Les Gros Poussins both then tamed the Buns by the odd goal, with Team Nørholt sitting on Giovanbattista Costantinis' 13th minute opener in comfort, and Brice André shaking Lau Keng Kwang free in the 35th minute for the more offensively-minded Poussins.

It was similarly tough on Grilled International, who advertised their usual brand of entertaining but ultimately badly flawed football, in winning just one of their three matches on opening day. French Division Six representatives Le Benfica de Toulouse began with Laurent Lecerf going toe-to-toe against International's best, but the Brunei side eventually tired, and let six in before Leri Bezhanishvili crashed a final act of defiance past Yvain Labrot, for 6-3.

A narrow 5-4 triumph over Romanian VI.119 team Supersport FC followed, despite a classy hat-trick by their beefy Brazilian Number Nine, Zé Ricardo Bianco. International's only response against Bianco was to score more than he did, and after two by Egidius van der Duin, Chua Jun Long would slip the decisive fifth goal into the net with ten minutes remaining, and the match ended with Arcadi Sansalvador looping it over the crossbar.

It couldn't last, and Hungarian H.I. V.222 outfit Immersieg then smothered International defensively in a 5-5-0, while taking full advantage of picked one-on-one duels to prevail 2-0. Gé Kohn would first outrun the isolated Shantinath Singh in the 68th minute, before Samuel Bevan accelerated past Sansalvador in the 83rd, to leave it on a platter for Franco Griva.