I'd say many people misunderstand my skills a bit, since much of what I put out on TH-cam is more chilled gameplay for enjoyable content. In the past I also became known as a US expert (I regret this a lot) and it hurt my reputation in world gameplay. During the pre-quali and quali I played at the skill level I like to think I have, and while I don't disagree that I'm one of the weakest WC players, I think I can play stronger than people expect. Also having a content background I think will be beneficial for the mental aspect, same goes for folks like zi8gzag and Jake of course. Anyway just my rant of thoughts :)
Yess excited to watch the tournament! :) I’ve been rewatching your long form tournament videos a lot so I knew almost everyone’s names but I didn’t really know much more about them so this was insightful to watch! I’m rooting for Zi8gzag to win because I’ve been watching his TH-cam videos a lot since the tournaments stopped and they’ve been pretty informational! :)
I was really hoping you'd make this video!! needed yours and Ziggi's insight, you better make a reaction after the WC :) (crazy that Jake just beat Trabota in his Road to WC series 😭)
According to Jake's track record in his series, he should probably be in "Likely to win". But to be honest, I agree that momentum and Blunders _really_ get to him, and the format it particularly bad for him. Plus his seeding, I think it will be an amazing underdog series if he fights his way out of Group D. Would love to see it!!! for context - in the tiers above, he's won against: Trabota, Kodiak, maccem, Fungus, Wolftrekker and zi8gzag. He's won against every competitor he's played in "Could Win" and "Underdog" EXCEPT for CG. So, yeah I agree CG is underrated lol.
@@arrowheaded i watched one of the vids, a best of 5 with, iirc, 1 moving, 2 no moving, 2 NMPZ. Do you know if the actual tourney is similar or substantially different in format?
Yo Rainbolt. Video idea for you. In professional baseball, the baseballs are made from lots of different materials, but one of the ingredients is mud from a secret river in New Jersey. There are some public clips out there of the mud being collected but not enough for normal people like us to be able to figure out where it is. You could find it easily though by looking at the clips. One thing to note is that you might damage a generational family business in the process though
Intriguing and kinda cursed video idea submission. For the sake of the business, they can hope they lucked out and are too far away from any map coverage. .. but a skilled Geoguessr AND Google Earth user might prove their discovery inevitable.
As you said, I don’t know a lot about Trabota, but having watched a lot of Jake’s content and seeing how insanely Blinky does in all the different competitions Trabota must be one hell of a player for you guys to rank him higher. Looking forward to it!
Gotta back that "you have to keep up". I used to be a lower level pro around 2020, stopped playing for a year and a half or so, came back in 2022 and I'm so far behind, and yet I'm way better than I used to be in those 2020 days. The community has advanced so far and keeps advancing all the time; you have to keep up or you're nowhere near the top. Also, I'm rooting for the OGs; Topotic was probably the best back when I was playing out of the people participating, but Radu's also higher than I expected. Want to talk about a real OG, though? Granis was the GOAT of the early days. Don't know how many people will recognize his name, but he was insane, especially at Russia but even across the board. The attention eventually got to him (he's deleted multiple youtube channels), but I saw him stream a couple times and post on youtube some and it was always stunning to see how good he was.
Personally, i think if youre going to have fungus in likely to win, I think Jake should be right next to him given they have very similar play styles and skill levels. I also think he wil have less anxiety in the tournament given his temperment and experience but I could be wrong.
@@dgmullin1 for real! Compared to his list, I mostly saw Fungus and Lennli outperform. Those 2 also happened to be my favorites to watch. Lennli was such an amazing and sweet presence! I missed a couple Fungus games and interviews, gotta rewatch to catch them because he seemed real cool too
This tournament is gonna go so hard. I'm rooting for Zigzag, screw the 8, as he's my favourite personality, but I underestimate him just because he's a content creator, despite his content consisting of a 2 hour coaching session on Mexico.
I couldn’t see especially outstanding stats from Blinky, compared to consus, stique, harmless... Has Blinky proved himself recently? Does he have unique knowledge that sets him ahead in duels? I’m out of the loop 😅 They said he won the last world tournament, I must’ve missed that. I want to get hyped and know what Blinky is all about! lol Edit: oh wait he’s the guy who has been constantly making 5ks for months on the daily’s. Idk why I can’t recall him from previous competitions.
As a regular viewer of rainbolt and his tournaments I legit have no idea who Trabota is. but I am pretty hyped to see him in this tournament. I mean maybe he has been in other things but I legit never heard of him until just now. I don't think I have missed a tournament in over a year if it's on rainbolts channel. I am voting for Ziggy to win I was going to vote Alok but I think Ziggy is going to get my vote because I just like his content. Alok is probably a better shot and he is really nice so if he wins that would be cool. Everyone really seems good so I am just hoping we get close matches I don't want to see anyone get stomped.
Can someone explain to me what the difference between likely and probably is? When I look it up in the translation dictionary those two are the exact same words in German and I would have put them at the same level of likeliness/probability (😅) :D.
Honestly, in the dictionary likely and probably mean the same thing, but I associate probably with meaning almost certain (70-90%) and likely meaning more than half (>50%). So they have the same dictionary meaning but probably is usually higher than likely in conversation.
@@AlphaZero4000 Very interesting, thank you. So likely basically means "more likely than not" in conversation, i.e. just above 50 %? Without that knowledge I would have put both of them into the 2/3 to 3/4 category (so 66 % to 75 %).
@@MrReese Yes that's my personal take. Someone else might use it differently from me since they really are synonyms, but I hear it most often used that way.
Probably and likely are the same in vernacular English as well. The phrases used are Probably *will* win and likely to win. The word: will suggests the odds are higher.
@@aa-sk9bl In moving games if CG gets a sign hes basically 5k'ing in a country as big as USA thats a major advantage. I do agree that there are some really strong big country players. Just wanted to shout out my boy CG lol.
@@tylermulekthing is though all of these competitors will know that about CG, so the max time they’ll give him on any US round is about 18 seconds, so it’s unlikely to help.
In my opinion the categories don't make much sense. 2nd should be "likely to win", 3rd "could win" and 4th "unlikely to win"; 1st and 5th can stay the same. Edit: 27:35 This makes much more sense.
I think they did not want to appear to be mean. They are probably close to many of the people on the list, so it is not like when you rank like top sports teams. Also they are normal people that do this for fun.... not like top sports players who make millions every week.
You guys talk about, "one mistake can make you lose". Why not change the gameplay less independent on luck and more on skill. Like for example, the players them self can set amount of damage multiplier before locking in guess. So if you really confident and good you can set higher damage per round. It's just an example, there is many more ways of making it more skill based. I'm new to this competitive geoguesser, so maybe I'm missing something obvious? Why this type of game mode that they played in the finals?
@@EJproductionsxD There is a small moving component in the settings, but it's duels, and in duels it's always a waste of time to 5K--much better to just guess somewhat close as fast as possible to prevent your opponent from getting good info.
@@ReAnna__ ohh thank you, I was wondering what the format was. Just straight duels. Do you know what map it uses? Also is it team duels at any or all points of the bracket?
The world cup was limited to 18+ competitors so he couldn't have been in anyway, but yeah he got removed from all records and his account banned for cheating
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I'd say many people misunderstand my skills a bit, since much of what I put out on TH-cam is more chilled gameplay for enjoyable content. In the past I also became known as a US expert (I regret this a lot) and it hurt my reputation in world gameplay. During the pre-quali and quali I played at the skill level I like to think I have, and while I don't disagree that I'm one of the weakest WC players, I think I can play stronger than people expect. Also having a content background I think will be beneficial for the mental aspect, same goes for folks like zi8gzag and Jake of course. Anyway just my rant of thoughts :)
Winning as an underdog would feel a lot better, especially since you came from the qualis, best of luck to you my man, we believe in you
Bros yapping💀
@@snippledipple9515 too many words for your tiktok fried brain to handle huh?
@@snippledipple9515 nah bro let him cook
Nothing bad in being knowledgeable about the US, you never know if that might bring you further than others!
"Imagine losing to a washed TikToker" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love how Rainbolt has been posting a lot lately
jit ain't posted in a week wym
@@west9046 he has a second channel
Yess excited to watch the tournament! :) I’ve been rewatching your long form tournament videos a lot so I knew almost everyone’s names but I didn’t really know much more about them so this was insightful to watch!
I’m rooting for Zi8gzag to win because I’ve been watching his TH-cam videos a lot since the tournaments stopped and they’ve been pretty informational! :)
I was really hoping you'd make this video!! needed yours and Ziggi's insight, you better make a reaction after the WC :)
(crazy that Jake just beat Trabota in his Road to WC series 😭)
I’m going to check out that video Immediately…
According to Jake's track record in his series, he should probably be in "Likely to win". But to be honest, I agree that momentum and Blunders _really_ get to him, and the format it particularly bad for him. Plus his seeding, I think it will be an amazing underdog series if he fights his way out of Group D. Would love to see it!!!
for context - in the tiers above, he's won against: Trabota, Kodiak, maccem, Fungus, Wolftrekker and zi8gzag. He's won against every competitor he's played in "Could Win" and "Underdog" EXCEPT for CG. So, yeah I agree CG is underrated lol.
@@arrowheaded i watched one of the vids, a best of 5 with, iirc, 1 moving, 2 no moving, 2 NMPZ.
Do you know if the actual tourney is similar or substantially different in format?
@@Michael-kp4bd not certain, but I believe it's based off of the actual WC format.
I am on the grind lately 😤💪🏻
Yo Rainbolt. Video idea for you. In professional baseball, the baseballs are made from lots of different materials, but one of the ingredients is mud from a secret river in New Jersey. There are some public clips out there of the mud being collected but not enough for normal people like us to be able to figure out where it is. You could find it easily though by looking at the clips. One thing to note is that you might damage a generational family business in the process though
Intriguing and kinda cursed video idea submission.
For the sake of the business, they can hope they lucked out and are too far away from any map coverage.
.. but a skilled Geoguessr AND Google Earth user might prove their discovery inevitable.
@@Michael-kp4bd exactly haha
As you said, I don’t know a lot about Trabota, but having watched a lot of Jake’s content and seeing how insanely Blinky does in all the different competitions Trabota must be one hell of a player for you guys to rank him higher. Looking forward to it!
Imagine filming 2/3 of this video while pretending that Jake didn’t exist 😢
Gotta back that "you have to keep up". I used to be a lower level pro around 2020, stopped playing for a year and a half or so, came back in 2022 and I'm so far behind, and yet I'm way better than I used to be in those 2020 days. The community has advanced so far and keeps advancing all the time; you have to keep up or you're nowhere near the top.
Also, I'm rooting for the OGs; Topotic was probably the best back when I was playing out of the people participating, but Radu's also higher than I expected. Want to talk about a real OG, though? Granis was the GOAT of the early days. Don't know how many people will recognize his name, but he was insane, especially at Russia but even across the board. The attention eventually got to him (he's deleted multiple youtube channels), but I saw him stream a couple times and post on youtube some and it was always stunning to see how good he was.
Love all the content lately. And Ziggi content. 😊
Predicting a debre win.
Please get Ziggi, Project Bloom and Pando on the stream for WC commentary booth!
Can't wait for the World Cup, All 24 contestants are Legends and have done an amazing job to make it too the world cup. Good Luck too all
competitive google maps goes so hard
Personally, i think if youre going to have fungus in likely to win, I think Jake should be right next to him given they have very similar play styles and skill levels. I also think he wil have less anxiety in the tournament given his temperment and experience but I could be wrong.
He out
this aged like milk
Brad’s tier list was pretty dang accurate overall!
Everyone sleeping on Fungus tho!
@@dgmullin1 for real! Compared to his list, I mostly saw Fungus and Lennli outperform. Those 2 also happened to be my favorites to watch. Lennli was such an amazing and sweet presence! I missed a couple Fungus games and interviews, gotta rewatch to catch them because he seemed real cool too
Blinky and jhk are my favs. You're good too, trevs
This tournament is gonna go so hard. I'm rooting for Zigzag, screw the 8, as he's my favourite personality, but I underestimate him just because he's a content creator, despite his content consisting of a 2 hour coaching session on Mexico.
Who's here after Consus won?
fungus the biggest upset on this list. and rainbolt said there's gonna be a player that will rise right after ranking him
RC the GOAT for me, i also would have put CG higher, underated player imo
My hot take is that Fungus should be way higher than that
In addition Blinky is top 1 obviously
I couldn’t see especially outstanding stats from Blinky, compared to consus, stique, harmless... Has Blinky proved himself recently? Does he have unique knowledge that sets him ahead in duels? I’m out of the loop 😅 They said he won the last world tournament, I must’ve missed that.
I want to get hyped and know what Blinky is all about! lol
Edit: oh wait he’s the guy who has been constantly making 5ks for months on the daily’s. Idk why I can’t recall him from previous competitions.
Will it be streamed on Twitch?
edit: I should watch the video first lol
As a regular viewer of rainbolt and his tournaments I legit have no idea who Trabota is. but I am pretty hyped to see him in this tournament. I mean maybe he has been in other things but I legit never heard of him until just now. I don't think I have missed a tournament in over a year if it's on rainbolts channel.
I am voting for Ziggy to win I was going to vote Alok but I think Ziggy is going to get my vote because I just like his content. Alok is probably a better shot and he is really nice so if he wins that would be cool. Everyone really seems good so I am just hoping we get close matches I don't want to see anyone get stomped.
Not to be confused with derZiggi.
For how volatile the game is, this tierlist had pretty good accuracy
Trabota is goated tbh
Who are the most humble/kind/wholesome people in this group? Gotta know who to root for personally
@@alienoidyt1definitely!
you should do a video where you spend a few minutes on a single geoguessr place and try guess the exact location (within like 5 metres squared)
Hello Rainbolt ! Where will I be able to watch the Geoguessr Tournament?
You will be able to watch it live on GeoGuessr's official twitch account (October 13-14th!!)
Thank you !
Can someone explain to me what the difference between likely and probably is? When I look it up in the translation dictionary those two are the exact same words in German and I would have put them at the same level of likeliness/probability (😅) :D.
Honestly, in the dictionary likely and probably mean the same thing, but I associate probably with meaning almost certain (70-90%) and likely meaning more than half (>50%). So they have the same dictionary meaning but probably is usually higher than likely in conversation.
@@AlphaZero4000 Very interesting, thank you. So likely basically means "more likely than not" in conversation, i.e. just above 50 %?
Without that knowledge I would have put both of them into the 2/3 to 3/4 category (so 66 % to 75 %).
@@MrReese Yes that's my personal take. Someone else might use it differently from me since they really are synonyms, but I hear it most often used that way.
Ich würde sagen likely ist ‚kann gut sein‘ und probably dann ‚wahrscheinlich‘
Probably and likely are the same in vernacular English as well.
The phrases used are Probably *will* win and likely to win. The word: will suggests the odds are higher.
These games will be decided in USA, Canada and Russia. I think players like ALOK, Fungus and CG have major advantages.
What percentage of the World Cup players have their US area codes on lock these days?
Besides Fungus for Canada. Alok and CG are nowhere near the best Russia or US players in the tourney
@@aa-sk9bl In moving games if CG gets a sign hes basically 5k'ing in a country as big as USA thats a major advantage. I do agree that there are some really strong big country players. Just wanted to shout out my boy CG lol.
@@tylermulekthing is though all of these competitors will know that about CG, so the max time they’ll give him on any US round is about 18 seconds, so it’s unlikely to help.
Canada ain't that hard since most of it doesn't have coverage, USA depends if you have info. I'd say Indonesia, Brazil and Russia will be deciding.
I like how the titles of tiers suggest there are only tiers S, S-, A+, A and B.
It's a private qualifier and the field is absolutely stacked so those really are the only tiers.
Shiina will show how great the Japanese community is😎
Did he?
Lets goo Trabota, super happy that my country is being represented!
Imagine beating opponents with Lim Chu Kang regionguessing or pinpointing… on high multi of course.
BRO RAINBOLT WOULD TRAVEL TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND IT FEELS LIKE HOME
your the goat Rainbolt you inspire me to play GeoGuessr.
27:21 Brad‘s voice tho😳
rooting for zi8gzag!!
almost always i wish that this guy trained me to guess like him for free
Consus op
routing for: zigzag, cg, radu
who I actually think will win: consus, debre, blinky
Amazing video
CG to the top.
What happened to stique, did he quit? I haven't had time to watch in a while but I remember he used to win like every tournament
He was accused of cheating and got banned + he is not 18
Oh wow. Did he really cheat though?
17:39 LMFAO
Bro low key flexed his god teir excel skill 💀
Rainbolt can you please find where the mlb mud is if you don’t know what that is please look it up 🙏🙏🙏
how good would boky be if he would play? just curious
#1 favorite to win surely
In my opinion the categories don't make much sense. 2nd should be "likely to win", 3rd "could win" and 4th "unlikely to win"; 1st and 5th can stay the same.
Edit: 27:35 This makes much more sense.
I think they did not want to appear to be mean. They are probably close to many of the people on the list, so it is not like when you rank like top sports teams. Also they are normal people that do this for fun.... not like top sports players who make millions every week.
If you can’t find your father, Rainbolt will.
Rooting for my boy Lennli
Where is the tournament and what is it's name?
I want my boy zigzag to win
RC OR CG FINNA WIN
if it's a handsomeness ranking rainbolt gonna be on the S tier for sure 😎
Wait... Jake Lyons where?
Where can I find that spreadsheet since it’s not in the description
@@Canadagraphs shame, do you happen to know where I can find it?
have you ever had Nepal?
has he guessed Nepal here
You guys talk about, "one mistake can make you lose". Why not change the gameplay less independent on luck and more on skill. Like for example, the players them self can set amount of damage multiplier before locking in guess. So if you really confident and good you can set higher damage per round. It's just an example, there is many more ways of making it more skill based. I'm new to this competitive geoguesser, so maybe I'm missing something obvious? Why this type of game mode that they played in the finals?
The luck is part of the fun and if you can anticipate it it makes you a better player
Blinky Debre final imo
ANOTHER TIER LIST
common Tragoata W
What's happened in the past 3 months?
Good idea not to include ProjectBloom so you didn't have to create a tier above "#1 Pick To Win"
W List
Its a shame 5ks are not encouraged. I feel they should be, the knowledge is needed to solve some rounds...
Had the format of the tournament been posted? I want to understand how it discourages certain types of play style and knowledge.
Why is that?
@@EJproductionsxD There is a small moving component in the settings, but it's duels, and in duels it's always a waste of time to 5K--much better to just guess somewhat close as fast as possible to prevent your opponent from getting good info.
@@ReAnna__ ohh thank you, I was wondering what the format was. Just straight duels. Do you know what map it uses? Also is it team duels at any or all points of the bracket?
@@Michael-kp4bdi’m not sure abt teams, but it’s just on world map
Rainbow Dash
Try geogussr in vr pls
my money is on Blinky
Jake lyons?
someone tell me please - where is stique?
I'm pretty sure he was too young to compete
Go Radu the goat
I have a question, haven’t been in touch in the geoguessr lore, but why is Stique not included?
seconded, smth happen with him? where he at
oh apparently he got banned for suspected cheating 😟
The world cup was limited to 18+ competitors so he couldn't have been in anyway, but yeah he got removed from all records and his account banned for cheating
He was removed by geoguessr for posting the bowling gif one too many times
i miss the days of kurt (retired)
🙏
Friend 1 and Friend 2 will also always be in our hearts❤️
Cabbage
🥬
Why isn't Rainbolt playing in the World Cup? (I'm new.)
He isn’t as skilled as the players going. Very good but he hasn’t dedicated as much of his life recently like many of them have
I don’t have anything really too comment so um yeah.
yea ig
Play GeoGuessr IRL
My gut feeling is: Radu win, Shiina and Gelotris land spots in the finals.
consus ftw
well well well
This is irrelevant but I just had the best orange ever.
This is slightly relevant but I just had a Kiwi which absolutely slapped. Love to 🍊 from 🥝
Why are you ranking countries in the thumbnail when you are actually ranking players
Ok
havent watched geoguessr stuff in a minute now, what happened to stique?
cheat
Why is Stique not competing??? Everyone told for years he was/is the best player in the world and he doesn’t compete in the World Cup?
He’s been banned for cheating
Also he is not 18 yet and was forbidden to compete for this reason even before he was banned...
11:10 ARGENTINA
ARGENTINA!!!
Where are you from?
I have one task for you. Find my father.
AS IN MAKE ANOTHER ONE
did stique qualify for the world cup? is there a list of everyone going to the world cup?
stique banned bro and these 24 players are going to the wc
@@kornelnemeth4846 no way, what happened?
Is alok Brazilian?
serbian
@@Lennli ah, ty. There's a big DJ in Brazil called Alok. During the pandemic, he did a live stream presentation from his apartment. It was cool.
#lasagna
once again, France on top
Very similar to wirtual vid
Epic
actually i’m the best geoguessr player
Reanna makes it to finals, I hope she wins
wait anna and anananah aren't the same girl?
Anananah is a guy haha