I posted a picture of a building near my home this year once and one of my followers, literally one minute after, posted the exact coordinates for it. Geoguesser is skill based, but I think there's automated tools as well. You can find similar pictures with google lens, but that doesn't always have location information. I still have no idea how he did it.
@@Timi7272 are you sure your gps tag is turned off in your camera settings? People can easily extract the coordinates by just looking at the metadata. No automated tools required.
Pro GeoGuessr player here! (I'm actually playing in the World League, you can see me in the clip at 12:27 😅) This is an amazing video, its extremely impressive how well you've covered all the different factors affecting how geoguessr functions as an esport, as well as the history of the game. I agree that it has huge potential as an esport, and I'm excited to see where it goes!
Great video, the only thing missing I think is a mention of Geowizard (or Geoguessr Wizard as he used to be known). He used to be the biggest Geoguessr RUclipsr in the world before he really branched out into other formats, and I’m sure his early videos got many people into playing the game. He surely had a massive influence on the game and the start of it becoming bigger and bigger
This is fair. I would have gone through some of the OGs in-depth but the vid was already at max length, so I had to just mention the dedicated streamers in passing.
As someone in the community, the geoguessr devs who run the main competitions are universally recognized as really bad at responding to user feedback and organizing the events. There's so much potential though if they get their shit together
i dont mind comebacks, but holy fuck the multipliers in the later rounds are TOO HIGH, make 5 amazing guesses in a row beating your opponent by a big margin and make one bad guess and its gg. you can genuinely have mediocre asf guesses for 3 rounds in a row and have it have 0 impact on the results. never could take that seriously ever
the multiplier should stop at 3x at round 6+ and extend the rounds past round 10. the game is fast so there's no problem for matches getting long. we are used to long matches anyway with the top esports today.
As someone who has watched the geogusser competitive scene for a long time now, I only hope the devs follow more and more of what the players want to grow the game.
answer: get google to use some of their near infinite $$$ to sponsor huge tournaments, (allowing more people to see the beauty of google maps and so drawing more people into it)
What stands out to me the most is that pro Geoguessr has an _incredibly_ appealing hype cycle for viewers. You get a bit of calm while looking around with the color caster giving their thoughts on the plausible location, and then the pros pick their locations and you get to see the difference between them, which builds hype, and then the actual location pops and the damage is dealt, and all the hype is released. That all happens over the course of about a minute, and it's just incredibly _fun._ I've watched League of Legends weekly for over a decade at this point, but I find myself more engaged when I watch Geoguessr.
They definitely have, the people that do that are just not publicly known. Pro geoguessr players probably have way more knowledge about things like signs and electricity poles though, since government employees can just look that up with external tools. Geoguessr players have to memorize it since using external tools is considered cheating.
GeoGuessr World Cup '25. Sponsors: TripAdvisor, Trivago, Hertz, Air France, Bing Maps (Cause google fked around and almost killed geoguessr), Mariott Hotel, and literally every single fking multinational brand that falls within the tourism industry. Make it happen please.
@@faraban.geoguessr8447 BUSINESS is about sponsorship though, and the reality is this is a business. Also, reality is, if the game wants to grow, it needs outside money to do that. The winner of the entire thing doesnt even make enough to from the tourney to get out of the "poor" rating in most 1st world countries. Let alone the person who finishes 13th or lower that only got $500. More sponsors would = better prize $ for the events.
Really good video. Excellent job at explaining the game, and the nuances of the game to newcomers. I was unaware Orlando got a sponsorship deal. Guessing by the actual World Cup there will be half a dozen people on the stage with one. Have to lol @ Fau having an Alberta bollard just propped up in the corner of his room.
Happy to see that the first LAN was mentioned here, Geoguessr kinda put it under the rug for some time! Like they used to call this "the first Geoguessr world cup" and then called next years world cup the same, so it's a good thing that it was mentioned here. French streamers like Antoine Daniel are a big reason for the popularity of the game in France, so that's why a lot of French players are really good at the game if some people are curious as of why!
I'm gonna have to hop in and pull an erm actually 🤓 Oftentimes, it's just luck. It's still very impressive, but a lot of these sky/grass guesses are based on the camera quality, sometimes even the date of copyright. For example, if the sky looks grainy, it's very likely that it's going to be either India, Nigeria, or some other countries that have what we call "sh*tcam", as in shitty camera quality. So it's down to deciding between 1 of say 5 countries that match the given quality. He does get them wrong as often as the odds would suggest, but only posts them in shorts form when he gets them right. No one can consistently guess the correct country solely based on the sky, but even when watching his uncut videos, he is impressive as heck.
They should partner with, countries that promote their tourism industry. Yes companies have deep pockets but do you which has even deeper pockets, nations.
Wouldnt work. Countries would want optimal attractions highlighted, instead of a dirt road with a house that looks like it hasnt been lived in for 20 years being shown. Also, players would then know "oh, the gov of *insert country* is sponsoring", the map will weigh heavily to them, and they would focus more on practising that country. There was an event a couple months ago sponsored by Ford, and conveniently like 1 to 2 rounds every game were outside of a Ford dealership.... and I am sure any top tier player could just study a plethora of ford locs & have a super good idea where 1 was when it came up, imagine that now when all they have to do is memorize popular attractions of a country.
What do you mean country sponsored? Do you mean an event with just players from 1 country? Or do you mean an actual Country sponsoring an event? If its the latter.... wouldnt work. Every major country, and most minor countries covered by street view have specialists in that country already. On top of that, the country in question would probably only want "nice" looking locations, or popular tourist spots show, and would NOT want a random dirt road with 1 house that looks like no ones lived in it for 20 years to be shown., which takes away almost all the skill needed in the game. If you mean an event with just players from 1 country, theres honestly only 7 to 10 countries with a talent pool deep enough to have a GOOD QUALITY event of more than 4 players.
Most popular. He found a style of tiktok clips that worked, and went viral through that, and became famous from them. In his preferred mode, NMPZ, he absolutely COULD compete with the World Cup players in that format.....but as soon as you add in NM, his skills start to diminish, and in moving, he wouldnt even be in the top 500. Hes exceptionally skilled, and still honestly probably better than some who competed in the qualifiers for World League, but he would never win the WC, and honestly if he even made it to the WC, would get bounced in the round robin round...... so its just better for the game & his marketability to have him as a caster.
I don't think that there is a proper skill ceiling, you can never learn everything, state names, city names, postal codes, phone codes etc. are just the beginning... for every country in the world it's still a small-ish game, but attracts decent numbers of viewers regardless, the viewer ceiling seems very high
@@PingSharp what is there to elaborate about, it's one dimensional because there's a single skill set to master and that is identifying locations. The only way for players to get better at the game is getting better at identifying locations. It's literally one dimensional.
@@Masticore_ In my opinion there is a practical skill ceiling. No human is perfect, that is true for everything, but there are far more avenues for player's growth in games like league, rocket league or CS than there is in GeoGuesser. I expect the overall skill level at a professional level to plateau within a few years of international competition. Again maybe it's a doomer take and I'm completely wrong but without the introduction of rules allowing for dimensions into the game I don't see that not happening.
@@ailurusfulgens1849 there are way more ways to become a good geoguessr player than to become a good counterstrike player, for example. Some people specialize on identifying plants, some people focus more on infrastructure. Some people learn languages in order to become better, others learn when Google drove through each country in order to guess using its copyright. Most people don't even care about becoming good. They play casual maps, exploring abandoned buildings, special beaches or mountains. No joke, geoguessr is the most multidimensional game I've ever seen.
Do you watch pro GeoGuessr?
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Yeah I do it's as fun as the german pro pretzel cutting competition
@@ameame32 Any pro onion slicers?
These are the guys who make me scared to post nice pictures of my local park
I posted a picture of a building near my home this year once and one of my followers, literally one minute after, posted the exact coordinates for it. Geoguesser is skill based, but I think there's automated tools as well. You can find similar pictures with google lens, but that doesn't always have location information.
I still have no idea how he did it.
@@Timi7272 are you sure your gps tag is turned off in your camera settings? People can easily extract the coordinates by just looking at the metadata. No automated tools required.
@@Timi7272really good players can tell where you are just off the colors of the dirt and the skyline now a days lol. Scary people
LMFAO legit but the thing is they're a very little minority but still makes you anxious
Please don't. It's easy to track you down.
Pro GeoGuessr player here! (I'm actually playing in the World League, you can see me in the clip at 12:27 😅) This is an amazing video, its extremely impressive how well you've covered all the different factors affecting how geoguessr functions as an esport, as well as the history of the game. I agree that it has huge potential as an esport, and I'm excited to see where it goes!
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Holy 3h!T it's Feneb! lets go
Hi Feneb, congrats on your current 9th place in the World League! This is indeed a great video, probably the best description of the game I've seen.
@@FigsyGames Forget Feneb, I saw Figsy Games in the comments on here.
bro keep doing what u do, you have an insane talent
Who needs to spend trillions of dollars in surveillance tech when you can just hire these guys?
CIA just adding cropped pictures so they can be identified.
Great video, the only thing missing I think is a mention of Geowizard (or Geoguessr Wizard as he used to be known). He used to be the biggest Geoguessr RUclipsr in the world before he really branched out into other formats, and I’m sure his early videos got many people into playing the game. He surely had a massive influence on the game and the start of it becoming bigger and bigger
Truth! Geoguessr Wizards content is some of the real OG content
This is fair. I would have gone through some of the OGs in-depth but the vid was already at max length, so I had to just mention the dedicated streamers in passing.
@@tehjburzunderstandable! Great video nonetheless which will hopefully make even more people excited about Geoguessr
they did mention geowizard during the finals they showed a 3 second clip of him saying get in
Pretty much half of the current pros started playing because of his videos. Absolutely worth a mention.
Top tier esport. But they gotta fix the scoring a bit though. First rounds can be meaningless while round 8, 9, and 10 are way too important.
Without the positive upscaling though the rounds may drag for many, many, many more rounds after. Has to be a sudden death of sorts at some point.
As someone in the community, the geoguessr devs who run the main competitions are universally recognized as really bad at responding to user feedback and organizing the events. There's so much potential though if they get their shit together
i dont mind comebacks, but holy fuck the multipliers in the later rounds are TOO HIGH, make 5 amazing guesses in a row beating your opponent by a big margin and make one bad guess and its gg. you can genuinely have mediocre asf guesses for 3 rounds in a row and have it have 0 impact on the results. never could take that seriously ever
the multiplier should stop at 3x at round 6+ and extend the rounds past round 10. the game is fast so there's no problem for matches getting long. we are used to long matches anyway with the top esports today.
@@KTCA0P i agree, but there're better/fairer ways though.
As someone who watched the finals with some friends, that was one of the most exciting sports event ive seen in my life
So hype. The comeback attempt
True true. I watched it from rainbolt clips channel i think. That finals is more entertaining than dota TI final XD
@@fandikabagaskara2613 Ngl, that finals was really hyped
@fandikabagaskara2613 btw if you didn't know , that channel is stealing content. It doesn't belong to rainbolt :/
@@arifasatria7704 that's what we call cinema
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As someone who has watched the geogusser competitive scene for a long time now, I only hope the devs follow more and more of what the players want to grow the game.
answer: get google to use some of their near infinite $$$ to sponsor huge tournaments, (allowing more people to see the beauty of google maps and so drawing more people into it)
What stands out to me the most is that pro Geoguessr has an _incredibly_ appealing hype cycle for viewers. You get a bit of calm while looking around with the color caster giving their thoughts on the plausible location, and then the pros pick their locations and you get to see the difference between them, which builds hype, and then the actual location pops and the damage is dealt, and all the hype is released. That all happens over the course of about a minute, and it's just incredibly _fun._ I've watched League of Legends weekly for over a decade at this point, but I find myself more engaged when I watch Geoguessr.
Somewhere, someone in the military is already trying to weaponize this.
bold of you to assume they haven't already
They definitely have, the people that do that are just not publicly known. Pro geoguessr players probably have way more knowledge about things like signs and electricity poles though, since government employees can just look that up with external tools. Geoguessr players have to memorize it since using external tools is considered cheating.
GeoGuessr World Cup '25.
Sponsors: TripAdvisor, Trivago, Hertz, Air France, Bing Maps (Cause google fked around and almost killed geoguessr), Mariott Hotel, and literally every single fking multinational brand that falls within the tourism industry.
Make it happen please.
Oh please no, geography and journey is not about sponsorship, leave us alone from tourism commercial imperatives
@@faraban.geoguessr8447 BUSINESS is about sponsorship though, and the reality is this is a business. Also, reality is, if the game wants to grow, it needs outside money to do that. The winner of the entire thing doesnt even make enough to from the tourney to get out of the "poor" rating in most 1st world countries. Let alone the person who finishes 13th or lower that only got $500. More sponsors would = better prize $ for the events.
I love that Launders is part of the casters
GOAT, lau is the man
Really good video. Excellent job at explaining the game, and the nuances of the game to newcomers. I was unaware Orlando got a sponsorship deal. Guessing by the actual World Cup there will be half a dozen people on the stage with one. Have to lol @ Fau having an Alberta bollard just propped up in the corner of his room.
Happy to see that the first LAN was mentioned here, Geoguessr kinda put it under the rug for some time! Like they used to call this "the first Geoguessr world cup" and then called next years world cup the same, so it's a good thing that it was mentioned here.
French streamers like Antoine Daniel are a big reason for the popularity of the game in France, so that's why a lot of French players are really good at the game if some people are curious as of why!
I've seen both finals with Consus and Blinky and I must say: it's my second favourite esports alongside Rainbow Six and behind CS
Wb rocket league super fun to watch
i can't believe you guys didn't add the clip of rainbolt getting really accurate on geoguesser based on the sky alone. literally just blue.
I'm gonna have to hop in and pull an erm actually 🤓
Oftentimes, it's just luck. It's still very impressive, but a lot of these sky/grass guesses are based on the camera quality, sometimes even the date of copyright.
For example, if the sky looks grainy, it's very likely that it's going to be either India, Nigeria, or some other countries that have what we call "sh*tcam", as in shitty camera quality. So it's down to deciding between 1 of say 5 countries that match the given quality. He does get them wrong as often as the odds would suggest, but only posts them in shorts form when he gets them right.
No one can consistently guess the correct country solely based on the sky, but even when watching his uncut videos, he is impressive as heck.
I did NOT know that someone got signed by an org. Good for them.
geoguessr world cup is a breath of fresh air.
Lets go! Good to see Geogeussr on the channel keep it coming
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Government Farming Recruits lol
They should make a smell based version where you have to smell armpits blindfolded and then guess who it was from a lineup. Call it "B.O. guesser"
lmao hahaha
"The trees look polish" he said
Sometimes they unironically do look Polish.
This is the first esport i can see having a VR category
The idea of Geoguessr is just perfect...
GeoGuessr eSports be ballin.
14:50 if sims 4 had esport then surely this game will find its place
These are the type of players. You should not trashtalk online
They should partner with, countries that promote their tourism industry. Yes companies have deep pockets but do you which has even deeper pockets, nations.
Wouldnt work. Countries would want optimal attractions highlighted, instead of a dirt road with a house that looks like it hasnt been lived in for 20 years being shown. Also, players would then know "oh, the gov of *insert country* is sponsoring", the map will weigh heavily to them, and they would focus more on practising that country. There was an event a couple months ago sponsored by Ford, and conveniently like 1 to 2 rounds every game were outside of a Ford dealership.... and I am sure any top tier player could just study a plethora of ford locs & have a super good idea where 1 was when it came up, imagine that now when all they have to do is memorize popular attractions of a country.
Kirania mentioned!!! He's mega goated in NMPZ
best knowledge testing competition
Other way to increase revenues for the game is i think a country sponsored event.
What do you mean country sponsored? Do you mean an event with just players from 1 country? Or do you mean an actual Country sponsoring an event? If its the latter.... wouldnt work. Every major country, and most minor countries covered by street view have specialists in that country already. On top of that, the country in question would probably only want "nice" looking locations, or popular tourist spots show, and would NOT want a random dirt road with 1 house that looks like no ones lived in it for 20 years to be shown., which takes away almost all the skill needed in the game. If you mean an event with just players from 1 country, theres honestly only 7 to 10 countries with a talent pool deep enough to have a GOOD QUALITY event of more than 4 players.
GeoGuessr is never gonna be a successful esport until we get that a mid caliber player was texting minors
That butterfly is too Japanese, this is from Hokkaido
I can binge your vids for hours!
The thing I hate geogussr is their greed in money before they have free to play but now they canned it
i dont play it BUT you gotta see the finals for yourself before watching this video
no "gradient of Senegal" D:
Note this people have the potential to be FBI Agents btw 😂
This can even be a big tv/web show. Why just limit to esports niche
wait so rainbolt isnt the best geoguesser, just the most popular? or does he not compete?
just the most popular, still probably a top 100 player though
Most popular. He found a style of tiktok clips that worked, and went viral through that, and became famous from them. In his preferred mode, NMPZ, he absolutely COULD compete with the World Cup players in that format.....but as soon as you add in NM, his skills start to diminish, and in moving, he wouldnt even be in the top 500. Hes exceptionally skilled, and still honestly probably better than some who competed in the qualifiers for World League, but he would never win the WC, and honestly if he even made it to the WC, would get bounced in the round robin round...... so its just better for the game & his marketability to have him as a caster.
Did you try street walk immersive videos instead of static street views? 🎉🎉❤
The governments about to hire whoever won this
Video Excel esports next?
WHERE LIZ?
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Shout out to geowizard
so u are saying there is a purpose to studying geography now?
good video
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$50 lol
do a don't @ me on Pokemon Unite, that game has SERIOUS E-Sports potential, and to me it will reach 5 million dollars in 2029.
Doomer take, maybe, but the issue with geoguesser is that it's one dimensional and there's a skill ceiling. It has very limited possible growth.
please elaborate on the one dimensional take lol
I don't think that there is a proper skill ceiling, you can never learn everything, state names, city names, postal codes, phone codes etc. are just the beginning... for every country in the world
it's still a small-ish game, but attracts decent numbers of viewers regardless, the viewer ceiling seems very high
@@PingSharp what is there to elaborate about, it's one dimensional because there's a single skill set to master and that is identifying locations. The only way for players to get better at the game is getting better at identifying locations.
It's literally one dimensional.
@@Masticore_ In my opinion there is a practical skill ceiling. No human is perfect, that is true for everything, but there are far more avenues for player's growth in games like league, rocket league or CS than there is in GeoGuesser. I expect the overall skill level at a professional level to plateau within a few years of international competition.
Again maybe it's a doomer take and I'm completely wrong but without the introduction of rules allowing for dimensions into the game I don't see that not happening.
@@ailurusfulgens1849 there are way more ways to become a good geoguessr player than to become a good counterstrike player, for example. Some people specialize on identifying plants, some people focus more on infrastructure. Some people learn languages in order to become better, others learn when Google drove through each country in order to guess using its copyright.
Most people don't even care about becoming good. They play casual maps, exploring abandoned buildings, special beaches or mountains. No joke, geoguessr is the most multidimensional game I've ever seen.
what a dumb esport
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