It does help with engagement. You don’t want people who like Geoguessr skipping the adventure videos and vice versa. The algorithm rewards channels with videos which are watched start to finish.
I think splitting up the channel between geoguessr and adventure videos is a mistake. Your most popular video ever uploaded is a geoguessr video (and there's a bunch in the top ten). I think even your newer followers understand geoguessr is part of your roots and having content in between adventure videos is a good thing, even if it's not for everyone. Trying to convince ~half your subs to move to a new channel just for geoguessr content might not be easy. Just my two cents.
Agreed, every time a TH-camr branches into different content they always feel compelled to create a second channel for it because they get worried about the algorithm or what not, which inevitably kills their momentum on both channels and they end up regretting it and/or abandoning one of them, seen it happen so many times. Maybe if you're a huge content farm it could make sense, but where Tom's at it doesn't make sense at all when all types of videos do really well, Geoguessr, adventuring and the quiz stuff like Sporcle (where one is currently 5th top most viewed).
Yeah - if anything, geoguessr feels like it'd be better main channel content from a purely analytics perspective (easier to consistently put out there, and easy to get into). An adventures/expeditions only channel would likely suffer from having inconsistent videos - a few weeks in a row of content, then nothing for a while, then back. That said, I could also see this channel being more limited on geoguessr content or on the geoguessr-like content (something like 1-2 videos a week, consistently) and then having any additional ones he records/does or that are more 'boring' videos could go on a second channel.
Yeah I agree. And if he decided to split it up anyways, it would make more sense to keep the geoguesser content here and move the adventures stuff to a different channel. Not the other way around. I like both but the geoguesser content is my favorite, followed by straight line missions and then the other adventure type stuff. Not a huge fan of geo detective except for when it’s a modern photo sent in by a fan. But personally, I think he should keep it all here and just try to do more geoguesser content in addition to everything else
I agree. I'd prefer it if the content all stayed on the same channel. It's all geography-related anyway. The algorithm knows I enjoy geography and it works very much in Tom's favor for me. I always see his videos in my recommended on the right side as soon as he uploads. Don't even need to check my subscriptions.
/You/ are GeoWizard, Tom, it doesn't matter what the content specifically is; Geoguessr, Adventures, they all fit under the same banner imo. I'll gladly watch whatever videos you put out, and I think the variety is a good option for drawing people in with one thing and possibly getting them hooked on another (which I know has happened to many viewers here!)
Plus, both are vaguely interesting to those interested in maps, exploring, and the world. They overlap enough that you do not need a second channel to indulge both.
A little advice: if you in russia and you see really high stairs at every entrance in a building its mean that you are probaly in yakutsk. In yakutsk all buildings are built on stilts because of permafrost.
@@NewBuildmini Not really. For example Murmansk built like any other city. Most of other Russian cities that is north of arctic circle are also in murmansk oblast so theyre built the same way. Norilsk Is also north of the arctic circle but has ordynary buidings. Yakutsk is probably the only city in the world that has large buildings constructed that way and is big enough to show somewhat often on geoguesser
@@MarionAntoine Permafrost means that ground is filled with small crystals of ice. So in summer when some of those crystals melt soil shrinks and expands again in winter when they are frozen again. so solid foundation will just crack. because of that they use stilts that can move instead of fully stable foundation. and stilts need some free space between building and ground to be able to move. beacause of that first floor is always elevated.
@@MarionAntoine Exactly. My geography teacher said that if the buildings were built as if they were in the South, they would eventually sink into the ground. Elevating the building slightly prevents the air under the buildings from melting the ice which would have otherwise sunk it.
keep these on the main channel!!!! helps the channels algorithm and it´s also annoying to check two channels for content. a good recommendation would be to hold a poll, but again, keep these on the main channel.
The Olive street thing isn't as much of a coincidence as it might seem. America has never been particularly creative with place names, and plant-based neighbourhoods are common all over the world. Some states have literally hundreds of Olive streets, many of them in major cities. Due to the grid-based system used in American city planning, the odds of any city having a junction called 12th and Olive is very high.
I did the play-a-long and I found an Olive Street in Seattle which crossed a 12th and 13th avenue (although admittedly none of the businesses added up like in Tom's Denver guess).
exactly what i came down to the comments to say. you don't even have to get that obscure to see it. we have 2 major places named Washington, there's a well-known Portland on each coast, over half of our states have a Springfield, even more states have a Riverside... and pretty much every town with more than like 20 streets has one named after a tree. usually Oak, but i wouldn't be surprised if nearly every state had more than one Olive street within it. and there are DEFINITELY at least a few more places with an Olive street intersecting a 12th and 13th street. a personal anecdote just to further prove my point... i was guessing that it was probably somewhere more east, like South Carolina or Pennsylvania (until i realized that the buildings and streets were nowhere near old enough to be the east coast, but that's beside the point). well apparently the actual location is about 3 a hour drive from where i live. i didn't even think it could be my own state, that's how many of every common name there are in this country. it's pretty mental, but even U.S. residents forget just how bloody massive our country is, especially compared to the *MUCH* smaller European countries. just to put in in perspective for our non-U.S. friends, a day trip for us can include a 4-5 hour drive ONE WAY, depending on when you are able to wake up. and many of us go on days- or weeks-long roadtrips where we *NEVER* *LEAVE* *THE* *COUNTRY* . it's bonkers.
The trees, old tram line in the middle of the street and green/purple colors on the street banners were all key clues for New Orleans. Incredible instincts as always Tom. Also in the Eugene one there was a USPS postbox, a useful tool for differentiating the US and Canada in the future.
The shorts is an awesome idea! But please don't split up the channel with Geoguessr and the other stuff. I can pretty much speak for everyone who watches you more regularly that we love everything you do and with one channel you maintain the biggest reach. :)
I love Geoguessr, that's what brought me to the channel over 3 years ago, but the reason I watch is you! The personality the humor and the wonderful content ideas you have. Keep up the good work and don't feel pressured to play geoguessr just to appease the crowd
Its the same with me, I only watch the geoguessr vids and I didn't watch any other channel, because I would've felt that I am betraying Tom and most significantly I knew I wouldn't have Tom in the vid, which is wat I enjoy the most!
Please do keep Geoguessr videos here. I love both content types and I wouldn't want to have to switch channels depending on content. Just keep it all in 1 channel. Please.
@@sigstenbockgard8080 obviously, when you have two types of relatively different content, your audience tends to split (not all of it of course). Uploading only adventure type of videos for a long period of time will result in losing some of the geoguessr audience, which is not interested in these types of videos (and wise versa). A lot of creators actually make second and third channels for gaming videos, vlogs or other things that might be detrimental for the main channel, and it works. And why are you against the second channel? It literally does not affect you in any way
@@alexanderginger754 mate you got to realise tom isn't a content machine like most big youtubers are, pumping out a video per day and hiring multiple editors so if there's a drop in uploads on this channel it will be much weaker against the algorithm and getting new viewers will be even harder, and look at it like this. sure, tom spends months editing his adventures and so he cant play and upload geoguessr but that wouldnt change with two channels lmao. the fequency and ratio of videos wouldnt change in the slightest so tom would just have a channel which he uploads geoguessr on once a month, do you think that's optimal for growth? and im "against" 2 channels because i understand that it will do the opposite of furthering his youtube career
Lots of creators have two (or more) channels it allows them to get more exposure and earnings. All you have to do is subscribe to both. Don't see why it's an issue if it helps Tom out.
"Are we recording?" "I can't believe that" "Get in!" "Ah!" "Oh, yeah!" "And we end on a high note" "That last round was spot on" - not your typical pronhub channel.
Public transport isn’t that common in the US. There’s only like 40 cities with light rail and it’s mostly the biggest ones. If you see any kind of public transport beyond maybe a bus, try to aim for a bigger city. Also, it probably will show that rail line on the map if there is one.
I played Red dead redemption 2 and thought of New Orleans by the tram tracks and the architecture of that white house. That may be common in more citites though; I'm rather Europeam 🤣
@@sys-administrator ya as a avid cyclist, I’m jealous how great you guys have it. Don’t need public transportation as much. In the US, cars really are the only option unless there is public transportation.
@@sys-administrator how the hell does the Netherlands have 100+ cities? Surely you wouldn’t have any land besides cities. Unless you define cities differently in the Netherlands.
Not too surprised that there would be multiple Olive streets near 12th and 13th streets. It's not uncommon for downtown areas of cities in the US to have a combination of numbered streets and streets named for types of trees.
As a Colorado native who lives just outside Denver, that third round made me crack up! It very easily could have been Denver, and you nailed it with the modern/progressive feel of the buildings as we have some of those in the Denver area, but the trees gave me more Pacific Northwest vibes. I went for Portland and got a decent score. The coincidence with Olive and 12th/13th was absolutely insane.
Former denverite here and yep the trees were the giveaway. The street names are very generic but the direction and intersection were great coincidences
Personally I would prefer one channel. That being said, I'll watch any video you post wherever you post it. I genuinely enjoy every video type you upload pretty equally, and it's not really because of the content of the videos, it's because of you. I find you endlessly entertaining. There's plenty of other people that post Geoguessr content or mission content, but I don't watch any of them, because they aren't interesting people.
Found you from your first straight line mission but fell in love with the geoguessr content after checking out the rest of your channel. Doesn't matter what you're doing, I'm watching because YOU make the content good, not the content itself (which is phenomenal regardless).
Tom, the New Orleans round had a huge give-away. That big tree next to the start was covered in beads. After that, easy to find Second street intersecting with the rail.
I found that too! Felt super lucky seeing that lol but it was a dead giveaway. Was originally zooming in on the trees to check out how much moss they were carrying lol
Tom, I don't think you should split the channel, we love the diversity of the content, it's your personality that makes every video interesting no matter the content, adventures or geoguessr.
The olive street one was hilarious i was thinking the evergreen trees look every west coast, as im from Seattle. But there was so many maple trees on the road (which i dont see much around washington i feel like) plus the progressive and new housing so i was like maybe Oregon something like Eugen or Medford. Then you found the streets in Denver and i was like "Guess im wrong again." (I suck a geoguesser) What an emotional roller coaster for me!
I was too frustrated by the fact that he kept thinking it might be Canada when there was a USPS postal box right in front of him lol! But yeah - the evergreen trees were screaming for it to be a PNW city.
He’s so blown away by the Olive and 13th Ave directional coincidence, but he doesn’t realize that US cities aren’t designed very creatively. I live in Denver, and while I wasn’t completely sure that it wasn’t Denver, it didn’t look too much like a street that’s a few blocks off of Colfax.
Re: the Denver/Eugene round, American city planners have very little imagination when it comes to naming streets. Between the numbered grids, presidents' names and flower/tree names, you'll find them everywhere. It was coincidental but not that surprising. You did however gloss right over the American postbox when you were still trying to decide if it was Canada or not.
You also missed that the "tree flavored" streets are actually just in alphabetical order. The equivalent of a grid with numbers one way and letters the other.
It is unusual for the avenues to be East-West rather than North-South though. I’m surprised there are two major US cities that do that and also satisfy the other conditions.
I think you should keep all your content on this channel if I'm honest. I love your Geoguessr and Adventure videos, and I think a lot of your fanbase would agree. Keep up the great work!
I was YELLING “St Charles Ave. in New Orleans!” 😂 (I’m from New Orleans). Fair play, Tom. It was fun to see you have a go at a location in my home town.
Even as someone who spent a total of 6 days in the US (and those 6 days in Boston), this was "get-in-able". I'm sure there aren't that many south-eastern US cities with such nice tram line tracks. At least New Orleans was the only one I could find.
I'm surprised that he didn't even mention/guess Mardi Gras parade while he was wondering about the "Rex" banners. I know it's a regional thing, but given Tom's worldly knowledge, I was expecting him to at least consider it.
I'm Canadian and even I was yelling St Charles New Orleans at my screen. Though I thought it was St Charles Street, oops. That trolley line is a historical landmark, and there are almost no remaining trolley lines in the southern US.
I like having a mix of content in one channel since I'm never sure what I'm going to get when a new vid pops up. I came here for the missions stuff but have enjoyed the geoguessr content immensely. It's not something I ever would have looked for on my own, but you're a very affable chap (despite being a J Peterson fan) and I'd happily watch anything you produce no matter the subject matter.
that "Big fan of Jordan Peterson" line is such a disappointment. it's weird that someone as kind as Tom would be a fan of someone as contemptible as Jordan Peterson
@@GriffinK10 there was more than one, and I'm pretty sure that big one is way too big to be a transplant. It's several hundred years old. Either way, it was a clue for me. Washington wouldn't have been too far off either.
The US loves naming their streets after numbers and trees. I live in a smaller town where all the north south roads are trees and the east west are numbers. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s dozens of olive+13th combos. I was kinda hoping Tom would look for the businesses and be able to see if it was right or wrong, but I guess he didn’t realize how common those names are.
Yeh, and they have a hard-on for lining up their streets exactly north-south and east-west as well (regardless of what the original geography was like), so the directions lining up perfectly isn't that odd at all.
One of the trees in Eugene looked very similar to a Redwood tree, which are only found in Northern California and Oregon. Combined with the USPS postal box, it was definitely in that area. Summit would make me think Mount Hood.
Tom, long time fan here. I have to say that I love the geoguessr videos more than anything, especially urban world and diverse world. I could watch you play geoguessr endlessly, already seen all of your videos. I just enjoy watching and listening to you go through your thought process, keep it up! Get in!
So glad the play-alongs are back, Tom! I recently played 1-23 and have been itching to have another crack at besting you. Regarding your channels, if you are open to my opinion as a viewer, I would keep the mixed content here on one channel (unless splitting it benefits you tangibly). I found your content when the How Not to Travel Europe series was posted on reddit, and started playing geoguessr because of the other videos I hungrily consumed from the channel! I love both styles of content equally, and if they had been separate I might have never found my passion for playing geoguessr. But regardless, whatever decision you make I'll be subscribing and following! Cheers Tom, all the best. EDIT (spoilers): Great rounds today. Round 1: I went for Irkutsk based on the cars as well, on the southeast side of town, ended up just beating Tom by 9 points with a 1334. Round 2: Very similar thought process as Tom (Go BVB!), ended up in Innsbruck based on the river angle and the other clues, but just wasn't confident enough to really take my time and get a perfect score, ended up 1500m away and dropped 5 points for a 4995. Round 3: This round was actually round 4 for the #14 Urban World play-along video (you might remember Tom's brilliant American accent). I had just played along with this one last month so I have to admit I knew where to go! Perfect score as a result. Round 4: Not a clue what REX stands for. The houses gave me a clue it was the South, probably coastal, thought maybe NOLA, but I ended up in Fayetteville, NC based on tram lines being also found in that city. I had a very similar reaction as Tom. I just didn't zoom in enough on NOLA to really see the lines, and I should've trusted my compass a bit more. A brutal 2138 for this one, but oh well that's what I get for doubting my gut and then being a little too laissez faire with the guesswork. Round 5: Lots of obvious clues once I looked around, but the Brisbane truck was a fun little red herring for me as well! Managed to get within 3m and snag a perfect score. TOTAL: 18467 Looking forward to the next one, Tom! EDIT EDIT: per wikipedia, "Rex (founded 1872) is a New Orleans Carnival Krewe which stages one of the city's most celebrated parades on Mardi Gras Day. Rex is Latin for "King", and Rex reigns as "The King of Carnival".
I fell in love with your channel and content because of your immense knowledge of navigation. Whether you're doing that on a straight line adventure or Geoguessr, it really doesn't matter. You have always stayed true to who/what GeoWizard is to me.
That Eugene, OR one was pretty nuts. When I first saw the picture, I immediately thought that the area looked like a college town. Based off of the trees and foliage, I figured that Eugene, OR would be a likely spot. But after Tom found the Olive St. in Denver, I assumed that I must have been wrong. The fact that it actually was Eugene even surprised me. What a crazy location!
I'd say keep it all on the same channel. You'll get some GeoGuessr traffic from the folks who mainly watch adventure videos - and it's easier for people who watch both (like me and many others!).
Hi Tom, I love your videos and have been a subscriber/patreon member for years now. I’ve always thought you have a very open and accepting personality which is why i was surprised to hear you were a Jordan Peterson fan (assuming you weren’t joking). I’m not sure if you have been following Jordan recently but I would encourage you to look into his recent behavior of transphobia (opposing Canadian laws prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity), sexism and body shaming (see his recent tweet regarding the Sports Illustrated cover model). I understand Jordan has a lot of material regarding self-help for young men which is what i’m hoping you’re referring to when you say you’re a fan, and by no means am I accusing you of condoning Jordan’s recent statements. Again, I am a huge fan and I just wanted to make sure you’re aware. Cheers!
@@lukebeggs9552 All the Wetherspoons #4. Timestamp 22:18. It’s not pretty. I do not agree with cancel culture and I dont want Tom to be ‘cancelled’, I simply just think he needs to think more about what he says and does if he wants to have a fanbase that is respectful and measured.
On that third one, the big Douglas Fir tree would immediately have me thinking Oregon, Washington or British Columbia, west of mountains. And a US Post office box rules out Canada. As far as the roads go, most American cities have numbered avenues and very many have tree streets, so not surprising that you found a red herring.
I was actually surprised with how much he knows about flags, architecture, trees, etc that he didn't immediately recognize the USPS mailbox. Plenty of other clues that's it's the US though so he got it.
I only started the play along when I recognised New Orleans, but the Eugene round definitely did not seem like Denver to me. Denver is very flat and dry so you won't get such big luscious trees there. The fir and redwood trees are definitely a north west coast thing. Also, the tram really helps for the New Orleans one as there aren't many US cities with them and the do appear on the map.
I love the mix of content you do, Tom! I'll join others in saying I dont think you should split the channel. Loving the adventure series and glad you're back on geoguessr!
I know many have said already, but I don’t think splitting the channel will do you any good. I am a huge fan of your GeoGuessr content, and I love your adventure series as well. The fact that you produce both, and the incredible rate you upload at, I think makes your channel a unique gem in this site. While I’m not familiar with the impact on a business level, I know as a viewer I’d appreciate you keeping the one channel. Love the shorts though!
His Athens pick made me cringe. There’s never that type of foliage anywhere that far inland. Plus Athens is even almost in the mountains. Savannah, GA however does look similar to that area
wow, I would have never guessed that Yakutsk would be in one of these Geoguessr videos. I lived in that area a few years ago and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that "Никольский" sign. Stay safe and healthy! With love, dude from Yakutia
Spent the last week or so playing this whole playlist - won 6, lost 18 so very proud of myself. This episode was the first time I've won with a round to spare - I recognised the Eugene one from a previous episode (which I got 5000 for the first time too, miraculously). Cheers Tom! Right, now for another playlist...
Those second and third rounds really threw me off. I expected the Alps round to be in Italy based on how close the mountains were but I was clearly wrong and as an American I thought that was Denver as well and found those exact streets you found. Absolutely hilarious that a completely different city has the exact same streets lol
out of interest: what made you think that mountains being that close would specifically mean Italy? I mean Austria is like 95% alps so you get views like this almost everywhere in the country. Same goes for Switzerland. The south of Germany also has a few bigger places right next to mountains. Maybe it's just me because I am from that region but reading Italy being the first association with that landscape for someone kinda surprises me, haha
@@_coffeebean_ I'm honestly not sure it was just what my gut was telling me lmao. I've visited Italy before and that looked like exactly where I stayed and I guess I assumed this was a small town right next to the mountains
18:16 as someone who lived for a long time in the PNW, I was certain as soon as I saw it that it must be Washington or Oregon... When you zoomed into Denver I thought oh well he'll look around then leave, but then you found the streets so I was forced to rethink my guess! But no! I was avenged haha
Being from EUGENE .. born and raised this is amazing! Love your videos and have watched you for yrs and somehow just found this! I love it! I was screaming this is Eugene! I just rode my bike down that street the other day!!
Lovely to see my home town Innsbruck and to hear that you spent some time over here! The "Studia" was a bit tricky because it's not really a shop per se, it is mostly a place where students can get the books they need for their courses, copy papers, etc, so it makes sense that it doesn't show up on google maps like a traditional shop.
hab bei geoguessr ah schu 2 mal innsbruck ghabt - ein mal beim botanischen garten, und ein mal beim sandwirt. vor allem einmal in am battle royal. und einfach nur 5m weg. waren die anderen sicher voll mad haha
Yeah if it weren't for all the Mardi Gras stuff banners and the street car lines it could be coastal SC or maaaybe Savannah with all those Live Oaks, but the street car line gives it away really. No rail in 99% of cities in the southeastern US. Not for public transportation anyway.
Tom! I was watching some of the older videos and you had the Eugene location already in #14. Thats actually insane, if you had remembered that couldve been a perfect score.
I knew it was New Orleans because I used to live there. Rex is the name of one of the Mardi Gras parade krewes (yes, that's how they spell crew, in the context of Mardi Gras).
So happy to have you back to geoguessr. Love all the rest as well, but this is what brought me to the channel and I'll always love these vids. I don't think you need another channel but I don't really care since I'll just sub the other one too. 1. Round Started off poorly in Russia. I also thought we'd have to be east and northern. In the end I was too cautious as I rarely get such Eastern rounds and was way too far west. Ended up with 200 points Second round went very well as I was playing with my gf and she'd been to innsbruck before. She recognizer the place so it was just a sort search on the map to get 5000 points Third round I felt the mid-West kinda vibes and just searched the biggest cities in the are for a correlating grid and the street names and got lucky in Denver. Was super stoked as I assumed I'd catch up some points from the first round assuming you weren't gonna find it. Was even more astonished when I saw the exact some thing happen to you!! Forth round I instantly thought of new Orleans because of the tram, the beads in the tree and that house. Saw the "second" Street sign but it took me a while to get that that was for the crossing street and not the street we were on, but I did manage to get the 5 thousand eventually. And the fourth round was pretty simple to find so I ended up with a score of 16852! Looking forward to the next time!
First time doing a play along, got a score of 12,250! I'm not very good at normal Geoguessr, so I'm very proud of myself! Love the content, keep up the good work!
Absolutely kicking myself about the new orleans round, us europeans dont really notice trams because theyre so common. Recognised the architecture from assassin's creed, and knew they like a good carnival in NO. Still managed to talk myself out of it and guessed somewhere in Missouri, fml
@@spkbertsch Yeah, the parade route was a huge clue. If only I'd actually listened to myself when I thought "Oh, parade, maybe it's New Orleans." instead of ignoring myself and thinking it was east coast.
Ha! I lived in Denver for six years, and was about to be truly flabbergasted, because it didn’t feel like Denver- when you found the street my mind was spinning! Fun round, thank you!
I found your channel through your Geoguessr videos and I love them, but I also very much like your other content like Geo Detective and No Roads Mission. There's just a lot of good content that I enjoy in your channel, so I don't think they should be separated.
Really hope you continue to do this kind of content, absolutely love watching it! I agree with others that splitting the channel up is probably not the right way to go.
So glad to see these coming out again. I'll always be subscribed here for the eventual geoguessr content. I like the longform videos because I enjoy the way you talk out your thought process when making the selection for each round.
I think the variety channel would be the best approach, like a lot of people are saying. Great vid btw, but the tangent on J.P. made my head tilt... Dude's a nutcase lmao.
Was very pleased with myself for guessing Innsbruck and New Orleans (and Sydney) correctly, but absolutely muffed it on the oregon round and went for New York. Also went for Irkutsk instead of Yakutsk in Russia :D.
@@lauraelisee Also there's a road sign that literally says "Second". So simply finding a road in New Orleans with tram tracks in the middle of it (you can see those in Google Maps) that align direction and curve-wise was more than enough, find a junction with the Second St. and you're done.
The biggest thing you missed was the mailbox to distinguish USA/Canada. I actually guessed Denver on that one too, mostly based on the types of cars/trucks around. Damn good effort!
If you were getting 25k views on these videos compared to adventures sure another channel but it all together brings your charecter to the forefront, you're adventures bring people to this content, and your geoguesser stuff brings people to watch adventures, love your content homie
I found you because of geoguessr but now I have grown to like you as a person so I watch the geoguessr videos and the adventure videos which I love equally.
For future reference: the 3rd place in Eugene Oregon, the blue mail bin had a USPS symbol, guaranteeing US location. Not that you weren't in the US, but it 100% eliminates Canada.
In the US virtually all cities use the Jefferson grid, which has a number system running vertically and alphabetical streets running horizontally, often using president names, trees, etc. Trees are the most common. Almost every city has a Wall, Broadway and Main street.
Living in New England, and then visiting NYC, I was astounded by the whole concept of a grid city. And then I saw that other cities in the US did it too! We just don't do those in the cow-path cities I live around. :-)
Ha! I used to live in those apartment buildings on Olive between 12th and 13th in Eugene, couldn't believe it when that popped up. Definitely difficult if you haven't been there though, that particular stretch of the street is pretty nondescript. One block north of that is the downtown area and you would've had tons of identifiers. The bus station (you can see it across the street on the right hand corner while facing north from that position) has EUGENE STATION plastered all over it.
Just wanted to say a lot of US cities have trees as street names, especially in downtown and university areas, so the chances of 13th and olive intersecting is actually quite high. I was thinking upstate New York or Pennsylvania and we were both way off lol
the type of tree is very west coast, you wont get it in new york, sorry for late reply but yea, its native to pacific northwest up to about penticton in canada
@@RandyMahnke Jordan Peterson has "agitated" against nobody. If you read anything he's said and not blindly followed whatever you heard about him mabye you'd know that.
@@smfe I work in the same field as him, I know what I'm talking about. He's agitating, that's a fact. No one in the clinical psychiatry takes him seriously, he's the crazy uncle no one wants to work with. Don't assume I have no clue if it's my profession, buddy
I was yelling at my screen when it was the New Orleans one. Ive been down a similar street when I visited New Orleans. The trees, French style buildings, the split roads with the street car tracks in the middle, the little left turn lanes. They were all so familiar.
We were just telling at the TV for the USA rounds. We live like 4 blocks from the Eugene, OR, location. We bike through a sort of tunnel that goes through that modern apartment building you were looking at all the time. And guess what. We moved here from New Orleans 10 years ago after living there for 7 years. We recognized that one instantly too. Rex is the name of the last (and oldest I think) Mardi Gras parade each year. If you had northwest Florida of New Jersey next (were me and my wife are from) we were about to start questioning reality at that point. Love the channel. Keep up the good work and come adventure here in Eugene. Or with my best friend who lives in Denver.
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I personally don't see a need to split the channel, lots of channels have different types of content.
I agree! Love how it’s being done right now it’s awesome
i have heard other content creators say that its better to stick with one kind of content for algorithms sake. but regardless id watch all his content
I wouldn't mind supporting two channels some people might only like one or the other but I'd support both.
He’d benefit very much financially from having 2 channels with revenue coming in
It does help with engagement. You don’t want people who like Geoguessr skipping the adventure videos and vice versa. The algorithm rewards channels with videos which are watched start to finish.
I think splitting up the channel between geoguessr and adventure videos is a mistake. Your most popular video ever uploaded is a geoguessr video (and there's a bunch in the top ten). I think even your newer followers understand geoguessr is part of your roots and having content in between adventure videos is a good thing, even if it's not for everyone. Trying to convince ~half your subs to move to a new channel just for geoguessr content might not be easy. Just my two cents.
I agree, it would be much less convenient!
Agreed, every time a TH-camr branches into different content they always feel compelled to create a second channel for it because they get worried about the algorithm or what not, which inevitably kills their momentum on both channels and they end up regretting it and/or abandoning one of them, seen it happen so many times.
Maybe if you're a huge content farm it could make sense, but where Tom's at it doesn't make sense at all when all types of videos do really well, Geoguessr, adventuring and the quiz stuff like Sporcle (where one is currently 5th top most viewed).
Yeah - if anything, geoguessr feels like it'd be better main channel content from a purely analytics perspective (easier to consistently put out there, and easy to get into). An adventures/expeditions only channel would likely suffer from having inconsistent videos - a few weeks in a row of content, then nothing for a while, then back.
That said, I could also see this channel being more limited on geoguessr content or on the geoguessr-like content (something like 1-2 videos a week, consistently) and then having any additional ones he records/does or that are more 'boring' videos could go on a second channel.
Yeah I agree. And if he decided to split it up anyways, it would make more sense to keep the geoguesser content here and move the adventures stuff to a different channel. Not the other way around. I like both but the geoguesser content is my favorite, followed by straight line missions and then the other adventure type stuff. Not a huge fan of geo detective except for when it’s a modern photo sent in by a fan. But personally, I think he should keep it all here and just try to do more geoguesser content in addition to everything else
I agree. I'd prefer it if the content all stayed on the same channel. It's all geography-related anyway. The algorithm knows I enjoy geography and it works very much in Tom's favor for me. I always see his videos in my recommended on the right side as soon as he uploads. Don't even need to check my subscriptions.
Tom: am i recording?
me, clearly watching the video: boy I hope he is
XD
/You/ are GeoWizard, Tom, it doesn't matter what the content specifically is; Geoguessr, Adventures, they all fit under the same banner imo. I'll gladly watch whatever videos you put out, and I think the variety is a good option for drawing people in with one thing and possibly getting them hooked on another (which I know has happened to many viewers here!)
Plus, both are vaguely interesting to those interested in maps, exploring, and the world. They overlap enough that you do not need a second channel to indulge both.
A little advice: if you in russia and you see really high stairs at every entrance in a building its mean that you are probaly in yakutsk.
In yakutsk all buildings are built on stilts because of permafrost.
Not just in Yakutsk, but pretty much everywhere north of the Arctic Circle.
@@NewBuildmini Not really.
For example Murmansk built like any other city. Most of other Russian cities that is north of arctic circle are also in murmansk oblast so theyre built the same way.
Norilsk Is also north of the arctic circle but has ordynary buidings.
Yakutsk is probably the only city in the world that has large buildings constructed that way and is big enough to show somewhat often on geoguesser
Why the permafrost is dangerous for building ? need solid foundations ? and so, why higher acces with upstairs ?
@@MarionAntoine Permafrost means that ground is filled with small crystals of ice.
So in summer when some of those crystals melt soil shrinks and expands again in winter when they are frozen again.
so solid foundation will just crack.
because of that they use stilts that can move instead of fully stable foundation. and stilts need some free space between building and ground to be able to move. beacause of that first floor is always elevated.
@@MarionAntoine Exactly. My geography teacher said that if the buildings were built as if they were in the South, they would eventually sink into the ground.
Elevating the building slightly prevents the air under the buildings from melting the ice which would have otherwise sunk it.
I’m so glad everyone in the comments and I are on the same page with keeping the channel as it is!!! Geowizard is Geoguessr+Adventure!
Please don't split the channel, the bread and butter geoguessr is the best!
keep these on the main channel!!!! helps the channels algorithm and it´s also annoying to check two channels for content. a good recommendation would be to hold a poll, but again, keep these on the main channel.
you should probably subscribe instead of just going to the channel for content lol
@@HazewinDog yt subscriptions are super wonky for me usually, and ive heard it is for many others too.
The Olive street thing isn't as much of a coincidence as it might seem. America has never been particularly creative with place names, and plant-based neighbourhoods are common all over the world. Some states have literally hundreds of Olive streets, many of them in major cities.
Due to the grid-based system used in American city planning, the odds of any city having a junction called 12th and Olive is very high.
I just looked around a few cities and couldn’t find any other one with an Olive and 12/13th intersecting 😅
I did the play-a-long and I found an Olive Street in Seattle which crossed a 12th and 13th avenue (although admittedly none of the businesses added up like in Tom's Denver guess).
exactly what i came down to the comments to say. you don't even have to get that obscure to see it. we have 2 major places named Washington, there's a well-known Portland on each coast, over half of our states have a Springfield, even more states have a Riverside... and pretty much every town with more than like 20 streets has one named after a tree. usually Oak, but i wouldn't be surprised if nearly every state had more than one Olive street within it. and there are DEFINITELY at least a few more places with an Olive street intersecting a 12th and 13th street.
a personal anecdote just to further prove my point... i was guessing that it was probably somewhere more east, like South Carolina or Pennsylvania (until i realized that the buildings and streets were nowhere near old enough to be the east coast, but that's beside the point). well apparently the actual location is about 3 a hour drive from where i live. i didn't even think it could be my own state, that's how many of every common name there are in this country. it's pretty mental, but even U.S. residents forget just how bloody massive our country is, especially compared to the *MUCH* smaller European countries.
just to put in in perspective for our non-U.S. friends, a day trip for us can include a 4-5 hour drive ONE WAY, depending on when you are able to wake up. and many of us go on days- or weeks-long roadtrips where we *NEVER* *LEAVE* *THE* *COUNTRY* . it's bonkers.
yeah im in california and i can think of multiple cities with these streets, not necessarily intersecting all the time but there are lots
TOM HAD GOTTEN THAT ROUND BEFORE IN AN EARLIER VIDEO
The trees, old tram line in the middle of the street and green/purple colors on the street banners were all key clues for New Orleans. Incredible instincts as always Tom. Also in the Eugene one there was a USPS postbox, a useful tool for differentiating the US and Canada in the future.
Yeah the white eagle logo on a blue box is a dead giveaway it’s US.
The shorts is an awesome idea! But please don't split up the channel with Geoguessr and the other stuff.
I can pretty much speak for everyone who watches you more regularly that we love everything you do and with one channel you maintain the biggest reach. :)
I love Geoguessr, that's what brought me to the channel over 3 years ago, but the reason I watch is you! The personality the humor and the wonderful content ideas you have. Keep up the good work and don't feel pressured to play geoguessr just to appease the crowd
I personally only watch the geoguessr content, but like you said I think he should absolutely do what brings him the most joy.
Its the same with me, I only watch the geoguessr vids and I didn't watch any other channel, because I would've felt that I am betraying Tom and most significantly I knew I wouldn't have Tom in the vid, which is wat I enjoy the most!
Please do keep Geoguessr videos here. I love both content types and I wouldn't want to have to switch channels depending on content. Just keep it all in 1 channel. Please.
What do you lose though?
@@alexanderginger754 what do you win by having 2 channels?
@@sigstenbockgard8080 obviously, when you have two types of relatively different content, your audience tends to split (not all of it of course). Uploading only adventure type of videos for a long period of time will result in losing some of the geoguessr audience, which is not interested in these types of videos (and wise versa). A lot of creators actually make second and third channels for gaming videos, vlogs or other things that might be detrimental for the main channel, and it works.
And why are you against the second channel? It literally does not affect you in any way
@@alexanderginger754 mate you got to realise tom isn't a content machine like most big youtubers are, pumping out a video per day and hiring multiple editors so if there's a drop in uploads on this channel it will be much weaker against the algorithm and getting new viewers will be even harder, and look at it like this. sure, tom spends months editing his adventures and so he cant play and upload geoguessr but that wouldnt change with two channels lmao. the fequency and ratio of videos wouldnt change in the slightest so tom would just have a channel which he uploads geoguessr on once a month, do you think that's optimal for growth?
and im "against" 2 channels because i understand that it will do the opposite of furthering his youtube career
Lots of creators have two (or more) channels it allows them to get more exposure and earnings. All you have to do is subscribe to both. Don't see why it's an issue if it helps Tom out.
"Are we recording?"
"I can't believe that"
"Get in!"
"Ah!"
"Oh, yeah!"
"And we end on a high note"
"That last round was spot on"
- not your typical pronhub channel.
"Is that a bellend?"
Such an insane stretch
7:30 i love the idea of putting flags and signs around the world that does not match the location just in case you see it on geoguesser
finally old school content back, get in!
Shut up leo
Public transport isn’t that common in the US. There’s only like 40 cities with light rail and it’s mostly the biggest ones. If you see any kind of public transport beyond maybe a bus, try to aim for a bigger city. Also, it probably will show that rail line on the map if there is one.
Yes, and it was even his first guess...
I kept hoping he would notice the tram tracks, it's such a big hint!
I played Red dead redemption 2 and thought of New Orleans by the tram tracks and the architecture of that white house. That may be common in more citites though; I'm rather Europeam 🤣
@@sys-administrator ya as a avid cyclist, I’m jealous how great you guys have it. Don’t need public transportation as much. In the US, cars really are the only option unless there is public transportation.
@@sys-administrator how the hell does the Netherlands have 100+ cities? Surely you wouldn’t have any land besides cities. Unless you define cities differently in the Netherlands.
I've been loving the new type of content, but the old stuff will always be the best!
innit!
Not too surprised that there would be multiple Olive streets near 12th and 13th streets. It's not uncommon for downtown areas of cities in the US to have a combination of numbered streets and streets named for types of trees.
As a Colorado native who lives just outside Denver, that third round made me crack up! It very easily could have been Denver, and you nailed it with the modern/progressive feel of the buildings as we have some of those in the Denver area, but the trees gave me more Pacific Northwest vibes. I went for Portland and got a decent score. The coincidence with Olive and 12th/13th was absolutely insane.
Minneapolis have Olive and 12th/13th
Former denverite here and yep the trees were the giveaway. The street names are very generic but the direction and intersection were great coincidences
Personally I would prefer one channel. That being said, I'll watch any video you post wherever you post it. I genuinely enjoy every video type you upload pretty equally, and it's not really because of the content of the videos, it's because of you. I find you endlessly entertaining. There's plenty of other people that post Geoguessr content or mission content, but I don't watch any of them, because they aren't interesting people.
This guy is sick man. I’ve been watching him for a good few years and he just makes my day every upload. So much respect for what your doing Tom
innit!
Found you from your first straight line mission but fell in love with the geoguessr content after checking out the rest of your channel. Doesn't matter what you're doing, I'm watching because YOU make the content good, not the content itself (which is phenomenal regardless).
Tom, the New Orleans round had a huge give-away. That big tree next to the start was covered in beads. After that, easy to find Second street intersecting with the rail.
I was a bit puzzled why he didn't check for the tram tracks as well 🤔
I found that too! Felt super lucky seeing that lol but it was a dead giveaway. Was originally zooming in on the trees to check out how much moss they were carrying lol
As an american, the existence of a tram line in a city narrowed the list of possibilities to a very small number of major city possibilities
Tom, I don't think you should split the channel, we love the diversity of the content, it's your personality that makes every video interesting no matter the content, adventures or geoguessr.
The olive street one was hilarious i was thinking the evergreen trees look every west coast, as im from Seattle. But there was so many maple trees on the road (which i dont see much around washington i feel like) plus the progressive and new housing so i was like maybe Oregon something like Eugen or Medford. Then you found the streets in Denver and i was like "Guess im wrong again." (I suck a geoguesser) What an emotional roller coaster for me!
The evergreens were screaming PNW
I was too frustrated by the fact that he kept thinking it might be Canada when there was a USPS postal box right in front of him lol! But yeah - the evergreen trees were screaming for it to be a PNW city.
I'm from the UK and even I know that the evergreens were screaming north west coast 😅
LITERALLY! I live in eugene currently and he even had me doubt myself when he was so sure it was Denver LOL
He’s so blown away by the Olive and 13th Ave directional coincidence, but he doesn’t realize that US cities aren’t designed very creatively. I live in Denver, and while I wasn’t completely sure that it wasn’t Denver, it didn’t look too much like a street that’s a few blocks off of Colfax.
Re: the Denver/Eugene round, American city planners have very little imagination when it comes to naming streets. Between the numbered grids, presidents' names and flower/tree names, you'll find them everywhere. It was coincidental but not that surprising. You did however gloss right over the American postbox when you were still trying to decide if it was Canada or not.
I was screaming at my TV when I noticed the USPS postbox lol
You also missed that the "tree flavored" streets are actually just in alphabetical order.
The equivalent of a grid with numbers one way and letters the other.
@@chrisnovak8782 Me too!!!!
It is unusual for the avenues to be East-West rather than North-South though. I’m surprised there are two major US cities that do that and also satisfy the other conditions.
I did not know it was exclusive to US
I think you should keep all your content on this channel if I'm honest. I love your Geoguessr and Adventure videos, and I think a lot of your fanbase would agree. Keep up the great work!
I was YELLING “St Charles Ave. in New Orleans!” 😂 (I’m from New Orleans). Fair play, Tom. It was fun to see you have a go at a location in my home town.
yeah as someone who lives in the south as well it killed me when he switched his initial guess from new orleans to georgia.
And when he couldn’t figure out what Rex was 😭😭
Even as someone who spent a total of 6 days in the US (and those 6 days in Boston), this was "get-in-able". I'm sure there aren't that many south-eastern US cities with such nice tram line tracks. At least New Orleans was the only one I could find.
I'm surprised that he didn't even mention/guess Mardi Gras parade while he was wondering about the "Rex" banners. I know it's a regional thing, but given Tom's worldly knowledge, I was expecting him to at least consider it.
I'm Canadian and even I was yelling St Charles New Orleans at my screen. Though I thought it was St Charles Street, oops. That trolley line is a historical landmark, and there are almost no remaining trolley lines in the southern US.
I like having a mix of content in one channel since I'm never sure what I'm going to get when a new vid pops up. I came here for the missions stuff but have enjoyed the geoguessr content immensely. It's not something I ever would have looked for on my own, but you're a very affable chap (despite being a J Peterson fan) and I'd happily watch anything you produce no matter the subject matter.
that "Big fan of Jordan Peterson" line is such a disappointment. it's weird that someone as kind as Tom would be a fan of someone as contemptible as Jordan Peterson
Is he really?
So what's the problem with liking J. Peterson?
@@Rockberries transphobic conservative is not a vibe
@@simonplimon So where can I see/hear this problematic/transphobic content?
“I can’t decide if this is Canada or the US”
USPS Bin front and center: 😳
it was the redwood trees that clued me in... i knew it was likely northern california or oregon. unfortunately i chose wrong and was 300 km off.
Saw that.
Or that its the same round in an urban world #14 - 16:30. Haha.
@@jlt131 It was a planted (or transplanted) redwood tree. They don’t grow naturally in cities like that and looks exactly like Washington
@@GriffinK10 there was more than one, and I'm pretty sure that big one is way too big to be a transplant. It's several hundred years old. Either way, it was a clue for me. Washington wouldn't have been too far off either.
The US loves naming their streets after numbers and trees. I live in a smaller town where all the north south roads are trees and the east west are numbers. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s dozens of olive+13th combos.
I was kinda hoping Tom would look for the businesses and be able to see if it was right or wrong, but I guess he didn’t realize how common those names are.
Yeh, and they have a hard-on for lining up their streets exactly north-south and east-west as well (regardless of what the original geography was like), so the directions lining up perfectly isn't that odd at all.
Tom didn't even noticed that the tree names were in alphabetical order, when searching for olive.
The zoning was all off too. He was in a pretty clearly commercial area but the map showed all single family house outlines.
It's like finding a High Street with shops on it in the UK.
If it was Oak he may have reconsidered because that’s way more common than Olive
One of the trees in Eugene looked very similar to a Redwood tree, which are only found in Northern California and Oregon. Combined with the USPS postal box, it was definitely in that area. Summit would make me think Mount Hood.
The way you said "Euzheen O-RAYgun" had me cracking up, and then your little cheeky glance at the camera kept me going lol just what I needed today
There's an Olive St meeting a 12th and 13th in Seattle, as well! Even a similar looking stretch of road with the trees.
yah, he guessed washington last time he had this location th-cam.com/video/lhJi2efEu1U/w-d-xo.html
Tom, long time fan here. I have to say that I love the geoguessr videos more than anything, especially urban world and diverse world. I could watch you play geoguessr endlessly, already seen all of your videos. I just enjoy watching and listening to you go through your thought process, keep it up! Get in!
So glad the play-alongs are back, Tom! I recently played 1-23 and have been itching to have another crack at besting you. Regarding your channels, if you are open to my opinion as a viewer, I would keep the mixed content here on one channel (unless splitting it benefits you tangibly). I found your content when the How Not to Travel Europe series was posted on reddit, and started playing geoguessr because of the other videos I hungrily consumed from the channel! I love both styles of content equally, and if they had been separate I might have never found my passion for playing geoguessr. But regardless, whatever decision you make I'll be subscribing and following! Cheers Tom, all the best.
EDIT (spoilers): Great rounds today.
Round 1: I went for Irkutsk based on the cars as well, on the southeast side of town, ended up just beating Tom by 9 points with a 1334.
Round 2: Very similar thought process as Tom (Go BVB!), ended up in Innsbruck based on the river angle and the other clues, but just wasn't confident enough to really take my time and get a perfect score, ended up 1500m away and dropped 5 points for a 4995.
Round 3: This round was actually round 4 for the #14 Urban World play-along video (you might remember Tom's brilliant American accent). I had just played along with this one last month so I have to admit I knew where to go! Perfect score as a result.
Round 4: Not a clue what REX stands for. The houses gave me a clue it was the South, probably coastal, thought maybe NOLA, but I ended up in Fayetteville, NC based on tram lines being also found in that city. I had a very similar reaction as Tom. I just didn't zoom in enough on NOLA to really see the lines, and I should've trusted my compass a bit more. A brutal 2138 for this one, but oh well that's what I get for doubting my gut and then being a little too laissez faire with the guesswork.
Round 5: Lots of obvious clues once I looked around, but the Brisbane truck was a fun little red herring for me as well! Managed to get within 3m and snag a perfect score.
TOTAL: 18467
Looking forward to the next one, Tom!
EDIT EDIT: per wikipedia, "Rex (founded 1872) is a New Orleans Carnival Krewe which stages one of the city's most celebrated parades on Mardi Gras Day. Rex is Latin for "King", and Rex reigns as "The King of Carnival".
I fell in love with your channel and content because of your immense knowledge of navigation. Whether you're doing that on a straight line adventure or Geoguessr, it really doesn't matter. You have always stayed true to who/what GeoWizard is to me.
The Jordan Peterson comment was a joke right? Right? Please say it was.
Keep it all in one channel, I like the variety 👌🏻
That Eugene, OR one was pretty nuts. When I first saw the picture, I immediately thought that the area looked like a college town. Based off of the trees and foliage, I figured that Eugene, OR would be a likely spot. But after Tom found the Olive St. in Denver, I assumed that I must have been wrong. The fact that it actually was Eugene even surprised me. What a crazy location!
Looked like Eugene straight away for me.
even more nuts is that he played the same round before th-cam.com/video/lhJi2efEu1U/w-d-xo.html
I'd say keep it all on the same channel. You'll get some GeoGuessr traffic from the folks who mainly watch adventure videos - and it's easier for people who watch both (like me and many others!).
Hi Tom, I love your videos and have been a subscriber/patreon member for years now. I’ve always thought you have a very open and accepting personality which is why i was surprised to hear you were a Jordan Peterson fan (assuming you weren’t joking). I’m not sure if you have been following Jordan recently but I would encourage you to look into his recent behavior of transphobia (opposing Canadian laws prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity), sexism and body shaming (see his recent tweet regarding the Sports Illustrated cover model). I understand Jordan has a lot of material regarding self-help for young men which is what i’m hoping you’re referring to when you say you’re a fan, and by no means am I accusing you of condoning Jordan’s recent statements. Again, I am a huge fan and I just wanted to make sure you’re aware. Cheers!
well... i adore his content but in a wetherspoons geoguessr map video, he mocked people with learning disabilities so.... yeah. :(
@@Nooticus do you happen to remember which video that was? i don’t remember a comment like that but thats not good if he said something like that
@@lukebeggs9552 All the Wetherspoons #4. Timestamp 22:18. It’s not pretty. I do not agree with cancel culture and I dont want Tom to be ‘cancelled’, I simply just think he needs to think more about what he says and does if he wants to have a fanbase that is respectful and measured.
@@Nooticus That wasn’t so bad. He didn’t think his comment through clearly. Still the Jordan Peterson stuff got me on edge
Opposing legislation mandating speech is not transphobia.
On that third one, the big Douglas Fir tree would immediately have me thinking Oregon, Washington or British Columbia, west of mountains. And a US Post office box rules out Canada. As far as the roads go, most American cities have numbered avenues and very many have tree streets, so not surprising that you found a red herring.
Tom had gotten that one before in an earlier video
I was actually surprised with how much he knows about flags, architecture, trees, etc that he didn't immediately recognize the USPS mailbox. Plenty of other clues that's it's the US though so he got it.
yeah i was thinking portland within a few seconds, not familiar enough to have guessed eugene though.
The Doug Fir was a solid hint for sure.
Yes, and the greenish license plate indicates Oregon.
I only started the play along when I recognised New Orleans, but the Eugene round definitely did not seem like Denver to me. Denver is very flat and dry so you won't get such big luscious trees there. The fir and redwood trees are definitely a north west coast thing. Also, the tram really helps for the New Orleans one as there aren't many US cities with them and the do appear on the map.
North west*?
His refusal to notice the tram tracks had me screaming at the computer.
@@hunterwagner4130 Whoops, yeah I meant north west obviously.
I love the mix of content you do, Tom! I'll join others in saying I dont think you should split the channel. Loving the adventure series and glad you're back on geoguessr!
17:57 "summit, irrelavent"
*literally in the middle of the cascades*
I know many have said already, but I don’t think splitting the channel will do you any good. I am a huge fan of your GeoGuessr content, and I love your adventure series as well. The fact that you produce both, and the incredible rate you upload at, I think makes your channel a unique gem in this site. While I’m not familiar with the impact on a business level, I know as a viewer I’d appreciate you keeping the one channel. Love the shorts though!
Zooming in on the map to my old neighborhood in Denver has me feeling all sorts of nostalgia - thanks for that, Tom!
Tom, i live for these play along videos! this is what got me into your channel.
This remains my favorite type of videos from you
The New Orleans one hurt me haha. Almost no city in the USA more recognizable to me than NOLA. Especially after RDR2.
Yep, southern looking trees + tram tracks in a US city, had to be New Orleans.
Those middle-of-the-road tram lines are maybe the biggest thing I remember from having visited once. I thought New Orleans right away when I saw them.
Same with Eugene being in Oregon
His Athens pick made me cringe. There’s never that type of foliage anywhere that far inland. Plus Athens is even almost in the mountains. Savannah, GA however does look similar to that area
wow, I would have never guessed that Yakutsk would be in one of these Geoguessr videos. I lived in that area a few years ago and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that "Никольский" sign. Stay safe and healthy!
With love,
dude from Yakutia
That third round was pretty cool, since I live near Eugene and I visit there regularly. I recognized it immediately
As someone originally from Novosibirsk, I just love your pronunciation of the city
I hope you don't support your government fascist genocidal regime.
o reagan was a funny one too.
@@GigsTaggart Oh, ray gun!
@@GigsTaggart he does that for jokes
that 3rd round was ridiculous... ive been to both denver and eugene and this looked like denver SO MUCH
Yo! Just like the gold old days. Love this content.
Spent the last week or so playing this whole playlist - won 6, lost 18 so very proud of myself. This episode was the first time I've won with a round to spare - I recognised the Eugene one from a previous episode (which I got 5000 for the first time too, miraculously). Cheers Tom! Right, now for another playlist...
Good to see you finally go back to this sort of stuff. It is pretty much why I subscribed to you.
"I'm a big fan of Jordan Peterson"
Please, I require this to be a joke. Please say sike
Those second and third rounds really threw me off. I expected the Alps round to be in Italy based on how close the mountains were but I was clearly wrong and as an American I thought that was Denver as well and found those exact streets you found. Absolutely hilarious that a completely different city has the exact same streets lol
out of interest: what made you think that mountains being that close would specifically mean Italy? I mean Austria is like 95% alps so you get views like this almost everywhere in the country. Same goes for Switzerland. The south of Germany also has a few bigger places right next to mountains. Maybe it's just me because I am from that region but reading Italy being the first association with that landscape for someone kinda surprises me, haha
@@_coffeebean_ I'm honestly not sure it was just what my gut was telling me lmao. I've visited Italy before and that looked like exactly where I stayed and I guess I assumed this was a small town right next to the mountains
@@timlett99 ok I can understand that. As an European, I can see myself making similar assumptions with US landscapes
18:16 as someone who lived for a long time in the PNW, I was certain as soon as I saw it that it must be Washington or Oregon... When you zoomed into Denver I thought oh well he'll look around then leave, but then you found the streets so I was forced to rethink my guess! But no! I was avenged haha
Being from EUGENE .. born and raised this is amazing! Love your videos and have watched you for yrs and somehow just found this! I love it! I was screaming this is Eugene! I just rode my bike down that street the other day!!
Lovely to see my home town Innsbruck and to hear that you spent some time over here! The "Studia" was a bit tricky because it's not really a shop per se, it is mostly a place where students can get the books they need for their courses, copy papers, etc, so it makes sense that it doesn't show up on google maps like a traditional shop.
hab mi gwundert, dass er die nordkette nit sofort wieder erkannt hat. und dann über 100 umwege die 3 blocks in mariahilf auf da karte gfunden haha
hab bei geoguessr ah schu 2 mal innsbruck ghabt - ein mal beim botanischen garten, und ein mal beim sandwirt. vor allem einmal in am battle royal. und einfach nur 5m weg. waren die anderen sicher voll mad haha
That 4th round was the most New Orleans looking round I’ve ever seen😂
Even had a street car line lol
Yeah if it weren't for all the Mardi Gras stuff banners and the street car lines it could be coastal SC or maaaybe Savannah with all those Live Oaks, but the street car line gives it away really. No rail in 99% of cities in the southeastern US. Not for public transportation anyway.
yeah never been to new orleans but i knew it instantly. that and the sydney round are the only 2 i would have got full points on though.
Agreed. I admit the palm tree threw me for a mili-second (those are even more common in SC), but yeah - *very* NOLA. haha.
Tom! I was watching some of the older videos and you had the Eugene location already in #14. Thats actually insane, if you had remembered that couldve been a perfect score.
Binge watching his content and noticed the same.
“Tami S. Beach: Attorney At Law. Sounds like a movie”
I knew it was New Orleans because I used to live there. Rex is the name of one of the Mardi Gras parade krewes (yes, that's how they spell crew, in the context of Mardi Gras).
So happy to have you back to geoguessr. Love all the rest as well, but this is what brought me to the channel and I'll always love these vids. I don't think you need another channel but I don't really care since I'll just sub the other one too.
1. Round Started off poorly in Russia. I also thought we'd have to be east and northern. In the end I was too cautious as I rarely get such Eastern rounds and was way too far west. Ended up with 200 points
Second round went very well as I was playing with my gf and she'd been to innsbruck before. She recognizer the place so it was just a sort search on the map to get 5000 points
Third round I felt the mid-West kinda vibes and just searched the biggest cities in the are for a correlating grid and the street names and got lucky in Denver. Was super stoked as I assumed I'd catch up some points from the first round assuming you weren't gonna find it. Was even more astonished when I saw the exact some thing happen to you!!
Forth round I instantly thought of new Orleans because of the tram, the beads in the tree and that house. Saw the "second" Street sign but it took me a while to get that that was for the crossing street and not the street we were on, but I did manage to get the 5 thousand eventually.
And the fourth round was pretty simple to find so I ended up with a score of 16852!
Looking forward to the next time!
First time doing a play along, got a score of 12,250! I'm not very good at normal Geoguessr, so I'm very proud of myself! Love the content, keep up the good work!
You’re a big fan of Jordan Peterson? Jesus… things are worse than I thought.
Yeah this is putting me off really hard.. Hope Tom could adress this some way and hopefully realise what a pathetic nutjob Jodan is...
New Orleans round, the biggest clue was the streetcar/tram :)
Thats how new orleans looks like so easy
and the "parade route" sign!
Biggest clue was the beads dangling in the tree.
Absolutely kicking myself about the new orleans round, us europeans dont really notice trams because theyre so common. Recognised the architecture from assassin's creed, and knew they like a good carnival in NO. Still managed to talk myself out of it and guessed somewhere in Missouri, fml
@@spkbertsch Yeah, the parade route was a huge clue. If only I'd actually listened to myself when I thought "Oh, parade, maybe it's New Orleans." instead of ignoring myself and thinking it was east coast.
“Get in!” count: 1
27:05 that’s got to be the most flamboyant Get in to date
Fuck yeah I was looking for you
You’re the only TH-camr I watch and will only ever watch❤️
Ha! I lived in Denver for six years, and was about to be truly flabbergasted, because it didn’t feel like Denver- when you found the street my mind was spinning! Fun round, thank you!
“Big fan of Jordan.” Really? That seems out of character.
The tribe has spoken, no channel split! Glad to see Sydney get a look in - I had my retina reattached at that eye hospital after a footy incident ;-)
i knew that location straight away as a local, but i was ready for a good laugh if he went off on the brisbane water tangent.
I found your channel through your Geoguessr videos and I love them, but I also very much like your other content like Geo Detective and No Roads Mission. There's just a lot of good content that I enjoy in your channel, so I don't think they should be separated.
Really hope you continue to do this kind of content, absolutely love watching it! I agree with others that splitting the channel up is probably not the right way to go.
So glad to see these coming out again. I'll always be subscribed here for the eventual geoguessr content. I like the longform videos because I enjoy the way you talk out your thought process when making the selection for each round.
Please do not split the channel. I like both type of videos.
joining the choir of convincing myself that jordan peterson comment was a joke
I think the variety channel would be the best approach, like a lot of people are saying. Great vid btw, but the tangent on J.P. made my head tilt... Dude's a nutcase lmao.
The legendary series is BACK! I've watched every single one of your videos since 2019, so it's always a pleasure when you upload new ones.
Watching your videos when I can't sleep just to relax and distract my mind never fails!! Thank you for your effort!! ✨✨✨✨🌿✨✨✨
innit!
Was very pleased with myself for guessing Innsbruck and New Orleans (and Sydney) correctly, but absolutely muffed it on the oregon round and went for New York. Also went for Irkutsk instead of Yakutsk in Russia :D.
Hey Tom, the New Orleans round if you look in the middle of the road there’s the cable car tracks. That might have helped a bit. ☺️
Not to mention the festival beads in the tree and the sign that says "parade route". ;-)
@@JacksonCarson I didn’t even see that!! Great catch.
@@lauraelisee Also there's a road sign that literally says "Second". So simply finding a road in New Orleans with tram tracks in the middle of it (you can see those in Google Maps) that align direction and curve-wise was more than enough, find a junction with the Second St. and you're done.
Also the flag has traditional new orleans graphics on it. Plus that architecture is only really found in New Orleans
@@lomuss5 Yes - and "REX" aka KING festival is culturally relevant, but I don't think the average European geoguesser would get that.
The biggest thing you missed was the mailbox to distinguish USA/Canada. I actually guessed Denver on that one too, mostly based on the types of cars/trucks around. Damn good effort!
If you were getting 25k views on these videos compared to adventures sure another channel but it all together brings your charecter to the forefront, you're adventures bring people to this content, and your geoguesser stuff brings people to watch adventures, love your content homie
I found you because of geoguessr but now I have grown to like you as a person so I watch the geoguessr videos and the adventure videos which I love equally.
For future reference: the 3rd place in Eugene Oregon, the blue mail bin had a USPS symbol, guaranteeing US location. Not that you weren't in the US, but it 100% eliminates Canada.
There was also a Speed Limit sign, in Canada it would be labelled Maximum (because that also works in French).
@@jordivermeulen2519 Whoa, I never knew that's why it was maximum in Canada. Makes sense!
In the US virtually all cities use the Jefferson grid, which has a number system running vertically and alphabetical streets running horizontally, often using president names, trees, etc. Trees are the most common. Almost every city has a Wall, Broadway and Main street.
I wanted to see how common/accurate the alphabetical order was, so zoomed into a random town and landed right on 12th and Olive. 😂
Living in New England, and then visiting NYC, I was astounded by the whole concept of a grid city. And then I saw that other cities in the US did it too! We just don't do those in the cow-path cities I live around. :-)
"Destroy capitalism, someone has kindly suggested on this wall" cracked me up lmao
Ha! I used to live in those apartment buildings on Olive between 12th and 13th in Eugene, couldn't believe it when that popped up. Definitely difficult if you haven't been there though, that particular stretch of the street is pretty nondescript. One block north of that is the downtown area and you would've had tons of identifiers. The bus station (you can see it across the street on the right hand corner while facing north from that position) has EUGENE STATION plastered all over it.
Crazy to see my city and a place Ive been before in one of these videos. Great episode!
Just wanted to say a lot of US cities have trees as street names, especially in downtown and university areas, so the chances of 13th and olive intersecting is actually quite high. I was thinking upstate New York or Pennsylvania and we were both way off lol
the type of tree is very west coast, you wont get it in new york, sorry for late reply but yea, its native to pacific northwest up to about penticton in canada
As someone who lives in the correct city of the third round, watching you choose denver was so painful lol
big fan of jordan peterson?
@@206hxcx How dare he like somebody that you don't! That's unacceptable!
@@Bendrix27 if he likes someone who agitates against people like me I have all the right in the world to dislike that
@@RandyMahnke Jordan Peterson has "agitated" against nobody. If you read anything he's said and not blindly followed whatever you heard about him mabye you'd know that.
@@smfe I work in the same field as him, I know what I'm talking about. He's agitating, that's a fact. No one in the clinical psychiatry takes him seriously, he's the crazy uncle no one wants to work with. Don't assume I have no clue if it's my profession, buddy
Same here, big fan of the man. Very hard for a lot of people to hear someone break through their fog of idiocy.
I was yelling at my screen when it was the New Orleans one. Ive been down a similar street when I visited New Orleans. The trees, French style buildings, the split roads with the street car tracks in the middle, the little left turn lanes. They were all so familiar.
We were just telling at the TV for the USA rounds. We live like 4 blocks from the Eugene, OR, location. We bike through a sort of tunnel that goes through that modern apartment building you were looking at all the time. And guess what. We moved here from New Orleans 10 years ago after living there for 7 years. We recognized that one instantly too. Rex is the name of the last (and oldest I think) Mardi Gras parade each year. If you had northwest Florida of New Jersey next (were me and my wife are from) we were about to start questioning reality at that point. Love the channel. Keep up the good work and come adventure here in Eugene. Or with my best friend who lives in Denver.