The two teams served up a borefest in Invercargill last night, with Scotland running out a 15-6 victor, after leading 9-3 at the break, in a tryless 80 minutes.
From this display it is hard to see either side making much of an impact at the tournament.
Good teams need match-winners and game-breakers, and neither team had any of them in sight last night.
Scotland fullback Sean Lamont made one good break with about 10 minutes left but it was snuffed out by the desperate Georgian defence, and that was the closest Scotland got.
The conditions did not help matters, with light rain throughout, but both teams pushed the pass too often, and could not make much room through the defence,There was not much subtlety from either team.
Plans to move the ball wide and look for the overlap were left firmly in the changing room.
The sides wanted to gain dominance up front early on, but that seemed to go on all night, with Scotland, which had the majority of possession and territory, especially in the second half, failing to find a way to the tryline.
There was always going to be a game in this tournament which would be divisible by three and this was it.
Georgia is rugged - there is no doubt about that - and will never throw in the towel.
But they appear to have a limited game plan, and the outside backs would never get tired of handling the ball too often.
Scotland coach Andy Robinson said after the game he was happy to take the win and praised his side's defence around the ruck.
He said conditions dictated much of the play but the side had been happy to come away with nine points from its first two games of the tournament.
Neither team got over the try line to even be held up, while Scotland was more accomplished in the set piece and grabbed some Georgian ball in a couple of key lineouts.
Scotland first five-eighth Dan Parks played to the conditions and kicked the ball into the corners well when needed.
But too often he failed to push the pass when needed and pushed his outsides across the field.
The opening exchanges were brutal and everything that had been said about the tough Georgian forward pack was there, front and centre.
Scotland tried to, somewhat naively, take the Georgians on up front early on but got nothing out of them and failed to make many metres.
Georgia scored the first points of the game midway through the first half with first five-eighth Merab Kvirikashvili knocking over a monster penalty from 52m.
Scotland grabbed the ball from the kick-off and had an immediate chance to even the scores, but Parks scuffed his kick.
Parks, though, did not make the same mistake three minutes later as he tied the score up.
Scotland began to hang on to the ball and the over-eager Georgians started conceding penalties.
But the Scottish side lacked any penetration and could not find a way through the Georgian defence.
Parks put his side ahead just past the half-hour mark with a penalty from near touch. He then snapped over a dropped goal to give his side a scratchy 9-3 halftime lead.
Best for the winners were No 8 Kelly Brown and prop Euan Murray, while for Georgia, No 8 Dimitri Basilaia ran the ball up hard.
Georgia travels to Dunedin today to play England on Sunday, while Scotland's next game is a crunch match against Argentina in Wellington on September 25.