Road to #1 Ranked Geoguessr Player - Smurf Encounter??
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มี.ค. 2023
- In this video, It's time for some more road to #1 Geoguessr. Will I be able to break the moving curse today?? Let's see!
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This series for me is actually one of the most enjoyable videos on yt atm. Please keep uploading until you hit that #1 spot!
same!
shall do :D
Stefan could be a smurf, who knows, but the playerbase on geoguessr is definitely getting better very rapidly. I'm slightly higher rated than him and I don't think he played too far out of his league.
The first opponent, Base, here. Just like some of the other commentators I don't think that second guy is a smurf (though I cannot excluse the possibility of course). Now that I am solidly in master's the situation is that unfortunately at least half of the games are against legendary league players like you, sometimes it is someone even higher rated than you are such as Jake. The thing is that you do have to keep it up, and although not consistently (would help not to miss obvious rounds such as that Albania where I went Greece was in retrospect) you would have good games once in a while with some degree of luck, e.g. I remember winning against someone from top-10 once recentish.
The match making is actually quite crazy, because yesterday besides matching against you I also on the other hand matched with some silver league players for whom it was like the 2nd duel ever and who were truly new - guessing Venezuela and stuff - I really wish there was some way to, perhaps like a toggle, match only against people of more or less the same elo, as it is quite frustrating for both parties when such a huge gap happens (you either feel like you don't know anything or on the other hand you almost don't want to discourage the person who just joined by guessing too well).
I really don't think the second player was a smurf. They've played almost 1000 games. I think they just played their heart out.
What if they just used Google
@@luwn00bz I don't think there's any evidence to support that accusation. All of those guesses were totally reasonable.
I think the thing with moving is that youre guessing slower due to looking for signs. Most of the time you already know the right region but youre looking for signs to give you confirmation which gives your opponents time to look for signs also, so that they can make a good region guess too. Without moving you wouldve guessed faster and your opponents werent able to look for signs. Anyway, keep going!
@24:00 Arthur's Seat, major landmark in Edinburgh
Great vid zi8gzag no one really appreciates how hard it is to upload daily. Can you get Ziggi to host tourney on Saturday?
I’ll see what I can do for you
@@zi8gzag 🐐
Tip for zooming in on the map. Take just one second before you start to scroll to place your mouse where you want to go instead of scrolling immediately. I always have trouble with just scrolling immediately, like you, and just that one second to place the mouse helps a lot.
This episode was hilarious, so many crazy things happened 😂
Bro made a roller coaster of this series so it can last longer, what a legend 🗿
I don't understand why people use smurfs in Geoguessr when the matchmaking is so loose. It makes much more sense in games where you can get to an Elo where you have trouble finding games.
Yeah it's pretty obnoxious IMO because when your skill level is clearly way beyond your Elo and profile border people are naturally going to think you could be a cheater, which causes unnecessary doubt and paranoia that could have easily been avoided by using only one account. I dont think the Stefan Tomic guy was a smurf though because his border pretty much matched his Elo. Probably just played well and got locations he knew. People way underestimate the amount of luck involved in individual duels. The biggest difference between good players and the best players is just consistency. A 900 rated player can keep up with a top player for 10 rounds in a row and then get the wrong continent or something.
I've never played geoguesser but enjoy the videos of people playing but never heard the term "smurf" what's it mean?
@@4waydiablopb It means high skill players registering a new account or using a low elo account to enjoy smashing people again. Pretty pethetic in my opinion
@@4waydiablopb it's a gaming term for ppl who are very high skilled making new accounts to play against lower ranked players (usually for a narcissistic ego boost)
Geoguessr is just one of those games where you can learn a lot of knowledge just playing single player or watching TH-cam and never actually touching duels. It might be his main account but just not a duels player. If it is a smurf then yea I don't really understand the point unless he just feels good smashing lower rated players.
21:43 The company name on the red building did actually include the name of the city, Skänninge, which is between Motala and Mjölby, but it is small enough that I would not expect anybody from outside to know it. It is quite common in Sweden for a company to include the city name in the company name if they are a bit niche and want to establish themselves as The One company that does that thing in their town. I have seen Betongborrning i Göteborg AB, which just means "concrete drilling in Gothenburg Inc" and if anybody googles for that they will be among the top hits.
i started watching the rainbolt tournaments a couple months ago and really started enjoying the game a lot more because of that. This series however, has inspired me to start playing and test what I can pick up and learn from watching you. I have peaked so far at 516 but im sure in a few weeks ill be pushing 600 by actively watching and learning. I love how well you explain stuff and point out things that are easy to start remembering and picking out in my own games. Cant wait for more content
You will. I watched geoguessr TH-camrs like Zigzag play for months before I actually started playing myself. Now I’m in the Champion division a few months later. It really is crazy how much of a head start I had with just watching them play. You can learn so much from these guys
keep it up friend
Favourite youtuber hands down. Love your unexplored world videos and these ones!
I LOVE these videos! Thanks so much zigzag
I purposely keep my rating low and keep tabs on Oscars sleeping schedule so I can match him in Duels. I have 12 different smurf accounts ready to steal your ELO every day. 😈
💀Okay youtube commenter
Bro’s too dedicated
I don't like your profile pic
Thanks for the daily uploads bro! I like the idea of No Moving, putting down the marker and only then moving. Maybe it will actually help you :)
Hey, I wanted to provide some well-meant perspective on that game during which you were wondering whether your opponent was a smurf (at 4:58 - 10:15). I am currently at a rating of 795, and probably could climb up to 900-ish more or less with the skill I have right now (haven't focused on Duels that much). And I guess as a side note, I am from Europe/Finland & have an interest in languages, which helps me quite often when I see signage.
Round 1: My first thought was Bulgaria, mostly since that's where I've heard that a lot of snow/winter coverage is. I know that's not an exhaustive thing, but I just got that vibe, and honestly was ready to learn from you why you thought it was Hungary, if it would have been there. :D
Round 2: Wouldn't have been sure whether it was Norway or Sweden, would've probably gone near Oslo and the border of the two.
Round 3: Actually, for some reason, my first thought was something totally off (Japan :'D), but after moving for 10 seconds I believe I would've plonked it somewhere in the mountains of France or Spain.
Round 4: Initial vibe was somewhere in the Balkans or Greece etc., with the sign you saw I would've recognized the language to be Albanian.
Round 5: Knew that it was somewhere in southeast Asia just by vibes, and with the Malaysian flag and the sign I would've gotten the country. Wouldn't have remembered any regional metas.
Round 6: Nothing else to say about that than I recognize the Malta stonewalls after missing them a couple of times while playing A Community World / A Diverse World. :'D
Round 7: This is where it's a 60/40 chance for me to be too far away, since distinguishing Jordan & Qatar & UAE is a little bit tough for me. Might've still stayed alive even when going a few hundred kilometers away, might've gotten the city.
Round 8: Don't think I would've gotten the exact city, but the language definitely would have put me in Slovenia or Croatia, and at worst in Slovakia or so. Most likely surviving the round, unless I'm already at only 200 hp or something.
Round 9: My vibe was somewhere in the dry parts of Argentina or Chile, difficult to predict whether I would've been close enough to survive the exact Santiago guess, but probably against a guess farther away, I would've survived, 75% sure.
So yeah, I think it really varies sometimes just based on the rounds that you get, and your pre-existing background and knowledge that might not even be from anything Geoguessr-related. This guy was also a bit higher on the ratings than me, so it'd make sense for him to e.g. recognize 1-2 of the rounds I didn't immediately recognize / guess a bit faster than me. And also, it's very possible that the skill required for certain ratings would be increasing continuously, so at the time you were at 900 rating, the requirements were quite different. Anyway, I want this to come across as a view-broadening and friendly thing, not trying to defend the other player if they actually were a smurf. Love following this series and learning something new every time! And wishing you luck on the next duels! :)
Fingers crossed for an episode without losing next time 🤞 Great video as always
Love your vids, you got me into geoguessr and its been so fun!
cheers alex:)
@@zi8gzag congrats on your first fan account lol
Oh my god, I've been to that street in Bratislava, I remember that building on the corner, I might have taken a photo of it too.
Lovely stuff Zi8gzag
Great video, liked it ! 🙏
Highly doubt that was a smurf. There's little to zero reasons to smurf in geoguessr and i am lower rated than him and could pick every country in that round instantly. Its not like his region guessing was insane either. Its not a conspiracy or a cheater every time you get outplayed
yeah when you get easier rounds like that and guess quickly there's not going to be as much skill expression really. It's just going to all be down to the more difficult rounds or waiting for either one to mess up due to the pace.
It would be to knock out your competition. Aka be able to take lots of points off of well rated players
Hi Baz! :)
I'm 1155 ELO and i would not be able to pick that Croatia out instantly. Zig is 1380 ELO and he couldn't pick it out instantly. Either you're especially good at picking out Croatia for an 800 ELO player, or you're full of it.
@@runfastwalkslow or just be European lol
You're right about Hans Christian Andersen. He also wrote The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen, which Frozen is based on. :) Hang in there, you'll break the curse next time! :D
As a 900 rated player myself, I really don’t think the 2nd opponent was smurfing. Snow coverage with the flag antenna is Bulgaria to me, and the Chile round was a world map moment so you click capital. Rest of the rounds were very easy and you both got it
Zagreb was a nice get as well imo. Croatia takes some process of elimination, not as much surefire meta as other eastern euro countries.
In my opinion you take too long to guess when you already know the region. You’re so quick at that, I’d suggest you use that more often. You give your opponent a lot of time to look for clues, while you already now the region. Either way, I love this series!
On the Sweden round the Åhman Traktorcentrum was just the company name but it's someone family name as you said but the other company had the name of the town as you suspected but it's quite small.
This is the series that will never end lol.
The amount of times I zoom into Malaysia when I’m going for Greece is unreal. So it’s not just you Oscar 😂
Maria seemed to just be insta-guessing the capitals or middle of the country. An interesting strategy.
You are so good at this game
Amazing skills!
a youtuber from Polish graf gave you a challenge in Geoguessr if you wanted to know that one of the best players in Poland added a video in which he explained everything at the beginning
By the way
it was in this episode that he performed the hardest geography challenge of guessing all regions of the world.
not sure how to get this to the "higher ups"... and i don't know who runs the tournaments... but it'd be so fun to do a skewed world 15 seconds tournament
i had always wondered why you would zoom in on the totally wrong place when looking for a country
I feel like on stream you could try to bash out a load of games in a row until you move up a bit because you can only progress so much doing a few every few days
gg, i didn't see the pole markings for Taiwan so i went Japan thinking low cam, :(
Andersen indeed wrote The Ugly Duckling.
Did you deliberately put up the 'like the video' text while you were zoomed in on th A3 and not seeing it 😂
21:34 nice 350z
i swear you are just so incredibly unlucky lol
Definetly Smurf lowering the ratings of his competitors by playing as a 800-900 Elo against them on a side account. If he loses, no big deal. But if he wins (like it happened to you), he takes 30 points off a competitor... 😠
They should really only let master ranks compete with each other AND 1600+ should be a new rank!
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Now that Trevor has taken a break from hosting tournaments, maybe you can organise one? :D
Better make sure the qna is done this weekend!! Much love anyways
Hans wrote the little mermaid I believe
22:09 As you pointed out, the 2 digit blue roads do go up as you go higher in the country.
I think you would be better served by trusting your gut without moving as much. The speed with which you region guess is your best asset.
OMG U BEAT BENDY
An 800 rated player know what Qatar looks like is not suspicious. He didn't even know to go Johor on World map Malaysia.
Can anyone explain to me what a smurf is
Can anyone fill me in on what "plate seems czech" means? Does Slovakia have slightly different plates?
Slovakia has its coat of arms on the plate and it looks slightly reddish when blurred
@@wookgg Thank you. I got super tilted that I didn't know that but looking at examples it's quite hard to tell 😢
In the past few days it's been crashing quite a lot. I think it's because so many people are trying out the new games...
if its ULICE, Thats Czechia and ULICA is Slovakia
Yayyy
What is a Smurf
Someone who is a good player, but has a secondary account that is much lower in rating. It’s basically a really good player disguised as a low Master.
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