The first two games have been held at the World Championships, and so far the seeds have held, but the scores were closer than many expected.

Here is a report on the USA-SWE game from info found on the WC web site:

The first match in the World Championships between USA and Sweden was hard, especially for Sweden who lost by a score of 31-38. The reigning world champions did well, especially #12 Mark Gilliland (3.0), #3 Mark Zupan (3.0), and #4 Bryan Kirkland (2.0). The Swedish team had to do without one of its big stars, Thomas Eriksson (3.0) who is sick but is expected to be able to compete in the next couple of days. Some of their older players, such as 42 year old 3.0 Tomas Engblom, and 50 year old J-O Mattsson did extremely well in this very first match of the world championships, along with their 25 year old "deuce," Pelle Kulle.

The Brits nearly upset the Aussies, but went down by 2 points, 34-36.