Battle Royale Distance NMPZ #2 - Actually using the distance markers (Insane guess!)

[@BettySmite]

He understands the rules... Now he's truly unstoppable

[@TheLeedsBoyz]

Fancy seeing you here!

[@maszamap3888]

His final form

[@Olmar95]

If only he finds out what a bunch of guesses means, he would be golden.

[@meatsheet1979]

Does zap know you are here skiving from your duties?!

[@BettySmite]

@@meatsheet1979 plz don't tell

[@Trapper3000]

Like the new setup but who else misses “Are we recording? Yes we are.”

[@leidschevinnie]

The result is a severe shortage of Future Tom

[@guilhermedeoliveiraoda5379]

imagine how many times it actually wasn’t recording and we will never be able to watch it

[@Usikkert111]

Well now I do ☹️😞

[@Jaxcash]

@@guilhermedeoliveiraoda5379 He said on stream he’s never been not recording

[@ThomasSeeds]

@@Jaxcash he’s said it in afew videos here too😂😂

[@Ged_223]

Tom: I'm an unobservant twat. Also Tom: has a youtube channel based on observing his surroundings and noticing every little detail

[@Mnnvint]

"They didn't even know we were in Bhutan!"

[@waynerooney8278]

was just ab to comment this😂

[@kornelparoczai1763]

To be fair he isn't really a man of details, he's more of a "hmm this gives me estonia vibes" and "hmm that tree looks french" type of guy lmao

[@ThomasSeeds]

I was thinking the same thing

[@reddragon3132]

@@kornelparoczai1763 Yeah he definitely works more off intuition than details. I can imagine Tom being really good once he's so familiar that it's second nature, but it just takes him a while to get there

[@devinwright7828]

It's ridiculous how good he is when he actually learns how to play the game

[@coolio8477]

Shut up devin

[@gabeitch7074]

@@coolio8477 woah where did that come from?

[@lauramartins2345]

AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA true

[@onionskin3254]

@@gabeitch7074 shut up Gabe

[@xinicity]

@@onionskin3254 woah where did that come from?

[@ynwa9885]

As Tom finally learns how to use the distance markers, millions of children cry out in relief

[@zoetevelde8802]

😭

[@SuperSMT]

And a million geoguessr BR players cry out in fear

[@rodoguerrero534]

I’ll cry when we win a premier YNWA

[@ynwa9885]

@@rodoguerrero534 last year?

[@rodoguerrero534]

@@ynwa9885 gotta think bigger, teams on the drink right now:/

[@SylvainNoLongerSlave]

The Faroe round is amazing 🤯🤯

[@Dezomm]

For real. No moving, panning or zooming, a static view of some ocean, a mountain and a few houses on the other side of the water, and he gets it within 300yds on the first guess. insane

[@SuperSMT]

Fit for a new amazing guesses compilation

[@merseyviking]

A couple of friends and I visited the Faroes (beautiful country, worth a visit). And we stayed in that village, just on the right of that picture. My current desktop is from that hill looking back across the fjord.

[@kieranorgan4189]

@@merseyviking You and me both man recognised it immediately, its around for tjounvik

[@tonai]

And San Marino one

[@getinwizard2877]

“Get in” count = 0 Wholesome sign-off this episode at the end making me tear up ❤️

[@vuurniacsquarewave5091]

The Faroe Islands one would've been worthy of a "get in" honestly.

[@getinwizard2877]

@@vuurniacsquarewave5091 agreed

[@kyleayy]

Thank you for your service Get In Wizard once again!

[@Emily-mv4cx]

"This has got to be Bhutan hasn't it" Yes just what I was thinking...

[@Gameboygenius]

I would love to know Tom's thinking on that one tbh. This was the only guess where I went, how?

[@DUDERMAN]

If you've been in Bhutan in geoguessr often enough it becomes fairly obvious. I immediately thought Bhutan as well.

[@DNBENTHUSIAST]

@@Gameboygenius Bhutanese architecture is pretty recognizable. Especially gentle-sloped, overhanging roofs are common throughout the entire country. The older buildings usually have a combination of wood (pillars) and (white) stone walls as a base, almost like how Austrian houses are constructed. Also the entire country is extremely mountainous and it rains a lot (except in this shot, which was fairly dry for a Bhutan round).

[@smellypants5004]

@@DNBENTHUSIAST shut up

[@bibblybopbops441]

@@smellypants5004 Bruh. Why so mad?

[@andrewk5016]

Tom: I'm unobservant Also Tom: That dog's shadow is on a 42 degree angle, and that grass has a light hue, so I'm clearly in Romania.

[@elliejones7989]

When Tom says 'Duly noted' it sounds like 'Julie noted' and I like to imagine an old woman called Julie making notes off camera.

[@WilliamGurebo]

Hahahahahahahhahahaha

[@jlt131]

My name is Julie. I also noticed this. But i'm not old and I wasn't taking notes, must've been someone else >.

[@SemiGun]

Read this comment exactly as he said it, creepy

[@WilliamGurebo]

@@SemiGun yeah that happens to me alot, so creepy, or maybe we watch youtube all the time so it happens natually sometimes

[@jupiter75100]

Julie, do the thing!

[@br4chydios]

At 7 Minutes the game just ended early because the last person had no guesses left to contest when he was in last place after everyone's guess

[@blargo]

I guess that makes sense, but it prevents other players from refining their guesses to get closer and try to earn more lives, doesn't it?

[@CriticalThinking-wl3og]

@@blargo no, the most you can earn with a closer guess is 1 life. However you'll also have to spend one.

[@blargo]

@@CriticalThinking-wl3og Unless your new guess also moves you into the correct country to gain one more life? Probably splitting hairs at this point..

[@GuyFromNebraska]

@@blargo Correct country doesn't matter anymore. There's only extra lives for Survive Round, Correct Area, & Close Guess. So if the people already are in the correct area then guessing again won't net them any extra lives

[@StNeurion]

@@GuyFromNebraska Is "Correct Area" not correct country? I'm pretty sure in the previous battle royale video, Tom guessed Singapore but it was just across the strait in Johor Malaysia, so he got a life for Close Guess and Survive but didn't get the Correct Area.

[@n0lain]

That guess in the Faroe Islands was absolutely mad...it's my favorite country and I still might have gotten it wrong lmao

[@lezzly8581]

Tom: can observe a picture and work out where in the world it is with unbelievable accuracy. Also Tom: "I'm an unobservant tw*t"

[@BurntFossil]

Now if Tom just makes slightly fast guesses he can get more guesses in before time runs out.

[@niklas5275]

My thought exactly

[@blargo]

This. The round where he was staring at a wall of trees and wasted half the time before plopping down his first guess was painful. Or the other rounds waiting for others to make their guesses first - just burns the cool-down time between guesses. Poor strategy.

[@IG-64]

12:17 "I'm gonna go Italy" 12:24 finally presses the guess button me: "it's been 84 years"

[@JohannesWiberg]

Yeah what's the deal? In an earlier game he threw out guess quickly but didn't look at the distance, why not combine the strategies. Man I love the guy but I almost ragequit the video damnit.

[@rasmusbertelsen]

Especially on the hard ones. If have no clue where it is, then it seems you are better off if you start guessing right away.

[@shreyassali2291]

Something else that might help you: If you make 2 guesses a few hundred kms apart and the distance on the right barely moved, you should guess on either side of the middle line perpendicular to the line connecting previous guesses. The distance you can estimate by seeing how far the guy above you is

[@benedekistvan2655]

*Tom discovers distance* Every opponent: *why do i hear boss music*

[@dylqn1836]

Only last piece of advice which you seem to have missed on the Czech Republic round. You guessed to the east and was something like 48 miles away then guessed to the west of the country and was 43 miles away. Therefore meaning that because your second guess was around 100 miles away from the first yet only 43 from the nearest person so their closer guess must’ve been in the middle of your two guesses hence why the middle of the country wouldve been the best thing to guess. Thumbs up so he sees :)

[@Scotschie]

Indeed, I was shouting well before he said don't shout yet =D

[@Legpierna]

I mean, it wouldn't really be bound to just the middle of the country, more like a line bisecting the previous two guesses if you think about it. But he still should've guessed in the middle haha.

[@MrMatom55]

@@Legpierna Basically, you go in the middle of a line connecting the two guesses (bit more east, because Tom's second guess, which was more eastern, was closer), but vertically it might be bit more north or south than the exact point in the middle of the line connecting his first and second guess.

[@DixonD]

Imagine a huge circle where the target location is in the center. So if you make two guesses close to the border of the circle and the other person guesses on the opposite side of the circle, your guesses might be quite close to each other but very far away to the target location :)

[@Legpierna]

@@MrMatom55 yep, thats what I meant. The original comment suggested that since the two guesses were opposite to each other and around the same distance from the actual answer, that the spot was always going to be in the middle of it. But like you said, the actual place could be way further up or down on the map while still being around the same distance from both points as long as its between them in lattitude.

[@plushcap3320]

sees just a close up on the bush: "well thats a bit harder"

[@otokouno]

That Faroe Island guess was just insane, man!!! Definite shoo-in for insane guess compilations. BANG ON!

[@IcePlays]

I like how he moved like 100 miles east and his guess got like 5 miles closer so his instinct was "oh it must be even further East"

[@Onimirare]

he said he didn't pay attention to the number, he only saw that it went down.

[@MemeticsX]

Yeah; he's still getting used to the system. Give him time. He'll hone in on the best strategy, I'll bet.

[@dylanblack8714]

Once Tom understands the rules of anything he is unstoppable

[@chipskylark5500]

"these guys must not know we're in Bhutan" lol

[@nathanrosich6790]

today I learned Bhutan existed and where it is

[@MatthiasSchippling]

3:20 "Spital" is the Austrian and Swiss version of "hospital" (and Gasse is a small street). If a street name contains "Spital", it's usually near a hospital. Maybe that's helpful for you :-)

[@realhawaii5o]

Lmao for the last one I was thinking "That's the Museu nacional dos coches in Lisbon, I've been there" and it was right

[@etaiadmi]

i knew i would find someone in the comments who had been to whatever museum the chariots were in

[@realhawaii5o]

@@etaiadmi It's a cool museum to visit if you go to Lisbon 😛

[@danielacaldas6693]

i was screaming in the last one (as a portuguese myself)

[@Danny87R]

Haha yes been there too! Went there as a backup option cos the electricity museum was closed.

[@devotion3037]

Now he just needs to learn to have a sense of urgency and start scattergunning guesses earlier into the late game rounds / when he's in a low position, rather than just idling along until he doesn't have enough time left to react!

[@Nostalgia1709]

Yeah, it's maddening how he's just idling and slowly moving to click a guess when every second matters.

[@rayres1074]

Oh, there's a term for clicking around incessantly now? "scattergunning"? A nice word, ngl.

[@goncalocosta5814]

As a Portuguese seeing the Museu dos coches was one of the funniest things all week

[@antonioserra8422]

Eu também era a única q eu sabia só da imagem

[@danielacaldas6693]

same here

[@coolio8477]

That faroe island guess was Insane! I knew you were there exactly as soon as I saw the map

[@Lefthandedrighthandedgolfer]

Ahhhh the relief I felt reading the title of this video!! “Actually using the distance markers”

[@blargo]

Clickbait title. Should be "Actually noticing the distance markers, but still not sure how to use them." :-)

[@donaldowensiii7478]

Sameeee😂

[@MrMatom55]

@@blargo True lol

[@bschuss1]

That last round was absolutely brutal, but by understanding the rules he almost got it, that's what I call improvement. What bothered me though was the constant "I'm gonna wait with my guess" - this makes sense in normal Battle Royal, so as to not give away hints, but in this mode you want to guess fast because it gives you more time for other guesses if needed.

[@MagiSwag]

The only reason to not guess would be if you are certain you are on the marker.

[@GeoPeter]

I did win one game NMPZ. It was super tough though! Very good tries by you! :)

[@Zavstar]

Congrats. With full lobby? Or like his last game a depleted lobby

[@GeoPeter]

@@Zavstar Thanks! Full lobby :)

[@GeoWizard]

Well done mate! I’ll get there!

[@Zavstar]

@@GeoPeter youre a legend mate. Is there an unwritten rule that there has to be a full lobby to consider a nm or nmpz win legit one

[@GeoPeter]

@@Zavstar No, not really :)

[@thealienontheinternet]

15:55 “This has got to be Bhutan, hasn’t it?” Me: “Yes, bhutan.......... of course”

[@mpepp9]

I love this Battle Royale so much more than the country one. The country one is way too quick, especially when you get to higher divisions where you have to get the country within 5-10 seconds to have a chance. This one rewards thinking, logic and exploring a lot more, and it's so rewarding when you manage to get a 'perfect' round for the whole lobby to see! Hopefully they'll expand it with more locations/maps in the future.

[@nicktvhits]

Yea I’ve been playing the distance one much more recently than the country version. I find it way more fun

[@LordBhorak]

That last round. Paris was a good guess, but the tactic would have been to spam every "victorian" big city first and then start doing some other guesses. Madrid, Lisbon, Barcelona and then possibly Rome and Berlin after etc. But GG's all around! You've learnt well!

[@Poiuytster]

I was instantly drawn to Spain and Portugal given the Roman numerals to denote the century there on the signage. He had seven guesses at the start of that round so I probably would have spammed Madrid, Barcelona and Seville before going for Lisbon and Porto.

[@LordBhorak]

@@Poiuytster My initial gut reaction was "spain". And when Tom went for Paris, I agreed. But those carriages do look like 1500's Spanish/Portuguese things (like their ships from that time period).

[@corg_9939]

5:03 "Yeah I'm just gonna go Thailand" *moves to Iran*

[@jojogh10]

"But what can you do man, when you have some old Cinderella Mobiles.." This hit me xD I love how he's always in this passive hilariousness mode.

[@chucknorris2938]

If Tom were to be kidnapped, they would ask him for directions.

[@benmainbird]

Tom: looks on an empty street. Also Tom: "ok so we're driving on the right here"

[@Saareem]

Usually if the street sign (speed limit etc.) is on one side, it's on the side where you drive. So seeing the frontside of a sign on the right but none on the left usually means we're driving on the right. There might be some signs that are on the both sides and countries which use a different system, but this is the norm.

[@jimgu2578]

Your videos are a perfect mixture of entertainment, knowledge, and calmness. Very enjoyable indeed!

[@heathervivaviennetta]

"What can you do when you've got a bunch of old Cinderella-mobiles?"

[@4evermitzi]

i appreciate that we see him growing and learning a new style of play. it’s one thing to be great at geo guesser (a geo wizard, if you will) and another to show your growth to that greatness on your public platform. a simple show of your humanness in an impersonal digital world. thank you for being you and continuing to learn with us!

[@E11or]

When ,,Insane guess" is written in the title its gone be good!

[@_Shadbolt_]

A truly riveting watch. That last round was such a roller coaster. And you're welcome, Tom, happy to be a fan.

[@thomascat7044]

Step by step he's learning to use the information presented by the game and the rounds become so much more enjoyable to watch, I just think that in rounds where you don't really have anything to go by, like that last round in a museum, just click around without wasting time! You have so many guesses left (and, of course, there's the 5 second timer between them), that you can afford to just click around and hope for the best.

[@aiwithfrank5022]

Yeah, "I just gotta make a bunch of guesses". *waits for 10s between guesses*

[@bradyspage]

I am absolutely loving these videos of the distance rounds!

[@a.n.6374]

Unique cyrillic letters per language. At least for the slavic ones. Things like Mongolia, Kazakhstan etc. would have other givaways besides the language. Bulgarian - ъъ, while it does exist in russian it's extremly rare to see it there. Never in other languages. In Bulgaria we have road signs written in latin too, especially on major roads and at city/town entrances, villages might be in bulgarian only. There are a lot of store signs and such in latin, but those are usually brand names. You wouldn't see a sign with an entire sentence written in latin alphabet(except if it's in english side by side with bulgarian on some tourist spot). Russian - Ё ё, Ы ы, Э э are all very common and specific to russian - Ы ы in particular is a common word ending. Ukrainian - Ґ ґ(watch for the top bit going up, it's different to the normal Г г - that is in every language), Ї ї - both are only in ukrainian. Thre's also an І і, that can be seen in in belarusian too, but as Belarus is not often on Geoguesser, Ukraine is a safe bet. Belarusian - Ўў - as mentioned Belarus is not on, but this one is unique. Serbian - Serbia also uses latin - the further north, the more of it, cyrillic is seen more often in the south. If you see a mixture of both(and the latin is not just brand names or english translation as in Bulgaria), it's most likely Serbia(or Montenegro). The unique letters to look for in serbian cyrillic are Ћ ћ and Ђ ђ(again could be Montenegro). Macedonian - Ѓ ѓ and Ќ ќ no other language has those.

[@concorde__]

Love the choice of background music for this one tom. Nothing like the sweet sounds of crunching and spoon on bowl

[@myykkoll]

Tom: *500 miles away with 1 guess left to win* also Tom: *guesses 200 miles away*

[@jorgscz9175]

hahaha no worries about this distances Tom, we love your content

[@necaton]

omg he found out how the game works. im exited to see this. bet he got first! edit: thanks for the

[@Notaravisen]

Finally I can stop screaming at the screen... lol

[@bellini9374]

He's still missing a critical strategy: your best guess is always preserved, so it's good to spam guesses in the later rounds if you have a lot of guesses saved up rather than waiting for what other people do.

[@VeilStar]

"thanks for the" what now? Don't leave us hanging like this

[@necaton]

@@VeilStar thanks for the likes :)

[@teknotheef]

I appreciate the progress made in using the game mechanics here! Great rounds!

[@StephenHind]

"Man what do I do?" - hurry up, that's what you do!

[@kjdude8765]

I scream it at the monitor... Kind of.

[@singelx2023]

Me and my son love watching your videos, and he basically lost his mind a few days ago when you joined a battle royale we were in!!! He's gone and told all his friends about it because it's the hugest most amazing thing for him, they think he's ridiculous, but I think it's awesome lol!!

[@haythe-u3m]

Samoa, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and Madagascar are new and I've been having them a lot lately.

[@haythe-u3m]

Oh yeah Guam and San Marino are new too I think

[@MrDylsha]

@@haythe-u3m Guam not new

[@haythe-u3m]

@@MrDylsha Okay. I've played 1,000 games and only got a Guam round a couple days ago.

[@Amghannam]

American Samoa, not Samoa.

[@haythe-u3m]

@@Amghannam Sorry

[@PMundi]

Some tips for folks looking to use the distance tool to score better in this mode. I'm pretty sheit at Geoguessr normally but in this distance BR I'm at 15 wins out of 35. The key is understanding that the distances refer to a point on a circle around the actual target. A second guess then alters the distance by a certain amount, you gotta get a feel for what sort of changes imply what sort of geometry. As a rule of thumb if you see no change make the same distance guess in exactly the opposite direction. This mostly all works if its a tough round that few people would guess very accurately, or if you're in the last round zoomed in far already and trying to pepper the possible region with guesses. If you're quite sure you're somewhere in France in the last around and you got like 10 guesses, spend them all. No use saving guesses for next game. Additionally, a first guess if you just know it is a certain country is typically best put centre-mass of the road network. If 90% of a country's roads are in the north pick a road in the middle of the northen cluster and only look south if you have very distinct clues, or if the miles you're off by first looks to be too big to account for the east and west alternatives within that region.

[@SiMeGamer]

It's something he can practice on paper and simulate to get a better grasp of. It's pure geometry and linear algebra. Very simple stuff. Makes the game way more about using math than geography after the initial guess. I honestly don't like that although it gives people like me an advantage :/

[@PMundi]

@@SiMeGamer It will still only get you so far against great players, in a tough contest it ends up being a tool for picking between two cities in a region that you know tend to look quite similar, but instinct still reigns as the more important skill to have. For Tom he is giving himself a big handicap by not using up all his guesses in the later rounds, and by not guessing early enough to have time for a second and third guess in some others.

[@SiMeGamer]

@@PMundi there are methods in the round before last to use a guess that is between two people and two more guesses in order to get an exact location using only the two numbers. I'm just saying that it's not very interesting since that makes this a pure mathematical skill. Yes, without any knowledge of geography (like me) you won't get very far, but if you can get good enough at geography to land in a relatively close area, you'll win almost every time if you have 2 guesses to spare. I just prefer how Tom does it in his fan photo videos where using what he has with no number information that doesn't make sense in a real situation. I get that this is a game and it's for fun and that mechanic seems fine, but I prefer a more pure version of the game where you are given a location and you have to use it as best you can to make a good guess. Perhaps that requires a little extra time per round. Idk. I just love Tom for his geography skills. I can look for math skills literally anywhere else. Perhaps it's just a personal pet peave (is that how you spell that?).

[@oscarkofoed534]

I'm shocked Tom has never accidentally moved or zoomed in these.

[@xvgm24]

The part 2 of him playing battle royale with GeoGuesser pros on the other hand...

[@tristan.thompson2289]

Honestly the best vids please post more 🙂🙂

[@serg9320]

Finally after so many comments he's understood We have done it

[@Kiwi2703]

Good job reading the comments and learning from it! Much better now. Good luck! Just one thing - don't wait until someone else guesses, there's no point to it (it's not like the country battle). It's actually much better to guess as early as possible, to give yourself more time to correct your guesses before the timer runs out. And in the last round you needed to litter all your guesses all around the most likely places, since you can't get a precise location and your timer is running out pretty quickly (instead of waiting).

[@jnd5192]

Always enjoy a geowizard video with a nice meal

[@44ThaNatos44]

You're crazy good at this, the Faroe Island guess without moving was a beauty !

[@tomasmarcataio2066]

You're really great, to understand and respect constructive criticism from your viewers is no easy task for most KZbinrs, I'm glad to be reminded how much better you are

[@kiiturii]

it's wasn't criticism lmao people were just yelling the rules of the game at him cuz he's a bit daft sometimes

[@tomasmarcataio2066]

@@kiiturii I said constructive criticism, you're giving it a pejorative meaning which is not intended

[@kiiturii]

@@tomasmarcataio2066 nobody was criticizing him over it lol

[@PPedroFernandes]

Omg I actually instantly knew what the museum was! It's the "Museu dos Coches Nacional de Lisboa" - Lisbon's National Carriage Museum. I've been there more than once and it clicked instantly! Of course I'm at an advantage living in Portugal

[@gretaghiringhelli9275]

tom: looks at a picture of mountains and correctly guesses bhutan in 0.2 seconds also tom: i'm an unobservant twat

[@liammcdonagh4242]

Wow. That’s was some impressive and juicy action

[@mattward3568]

The pain of rewatching the cursor dragged over to within an inch of Madrid, only to click Barcelona

[@ValSeanMo]

Love that you started learning to use the tools!

[@max.the.imperor]

*only 3 trees in the picture* Tom: "this is a bit harder"

[@jasperwijker2916]

Tom, you're such a nice guy. Love your attitude and personality. Love the videos even though I never play Geoguessr.

[@Roi93]

When your guess doesn't close the distance to your opponent go the opposite way and don't be afraid to overshoot. Overshooting will just make you closer, like the last round, if you did overshoot past Madrid you will have made it closer!

[@chancer6679]

I could watch u play battle Royale all day never stop

[@mcubananthony088]

Tom: “I’m an unobservant twat...” Also Tom: “That cat’s collar has a distinct pattern. We’re obviously in Uzbekistan.”

[@johnmurray188]

You act like this is so easy (which it definitely is not), I started watching your videos a while back. Keep up the great content 👏🌍

[@waynerooney8278]

tom, when you’re in the final rounds and you’ve identified the general area you’re in, you should just start littering the map with guesses. don’t worry about waiting for the opponent to guess

[@juliusgrnager6241]

What? Might be a bit effective in very specific situations, but maybe I’m not sure what you mean. It’s rare that he has an rough estimate and is 100% sure he’s in the right continent/country(especially NMPZ). If you litter the map before your opponent guesses, you can’t use your opponent’s guess to help you, because you don’t know which guess is closest. So this tactic is only really effective after one opponent makes a guess. In which case the advice should rather be: Guess a bit faster (you can only guess so many times because of the countdown each time you guess). But maybe I’m just confused. Could you give an example from one of his games, where he could have used it?

[@waynerooney8278]

@@juliusgrnager6241 in the czechia round (17:10), he makes a guess and discovers that he’s 39 miles from his opponent. with so many guesses remaining, he should just make a diamond around his original guess to cover as much ground as possible edit: granted, in that round, time was limited, so perhaps a triangle would suffice, but the principle still applies

[@ashc151]

I agree - especially in the very last Lisbon round. He wasted so much time thinking about where to go, instead of just placing guesses in some of the major cities.

[@juliusgrnager6241]

Ok. He had one guess remaining and chose to guess somewhere in Poland which, indeed, was stupid. As he himself said. And he corrected himself after knowing that it’s probably better to just make a random guess in the middle of the country. So given that this is the only example from the video (maybe more?), I’m still left a bit confused. And he did guess every time the five second count-down was down. My point is just that I don’t see a situation where a fast non-thought out guess would make any sense. You wanna always use the information given to tune your guess. Might still be wrong. But I understand that the viewers may be “annoyed”(not annoyed but u know what I mean) whenever he guesses somewhere stupid. But I just don’t think his geometry skills are _that_ fast and well thought out right now.

[@waynerooney8278]

@@juliusgrnager6241 yeah, i get that, but at the same time, there are many rounds in which you’re unable to determine precisely where you are - like the side of the country you’re on. those are the rounds where it would be most beneficial to just start clicking mindlessly

[@zsfekete5211]

7:13 the person who was knocked to last place after your guess had 0 guesses so he could not have made it back in so the game ended instantly. I've noticed a bug early on when distance battle was introduced, that sometimes if you were last, guessed again, remained in last but the number of your lives went down to (2^n)-1 (where n is a natural number) (so 1,3,7), the game could end instantly. I suspected this could be because of how numbers are stored as binaries, since for example the 8->7 jump is 1000->0111 in binary, 4->3 is 100->011 and 2->1 is 10->01, so if for some reason not all digits changed at the same time, it's possible 1000 changes into 0000 before any of the original 0s flip to 1s, meaning the server sees your lives as 0. We learned plenty about this as different logical gate errors, never seen it happen in this way, but idk.

[@fiem6171]

The fact that he was so good without using the distance markers is actually insane, wonder how good he is with them (haven't watched the vid yet)

[@AwesomeBram]

Just did my first battle royale game and managed to get first place. Probably couldn't have done this without watching your videos!

[@nicolaie.g1413]

6:20 when you pass anyone in mario kart

[@CamxCam.]

Recently, the Battle Royale videos are the videos I get most excited about whenever I get the notification. Edit: 11:40 Fucking geographical madman!

[@stephenbaker7202]

Now if Tom could just start rapid-firing guesses on the last two rounds. There is ZERO benefit to waiting to see if the competition will guess above you at that point.

[@krytolandros1775]

Naive question, but what's the point in changing your guess if you haven't learned anything by guessing? Like why is rapid-fire guessing a good idea if your opponent isn't above you?

[@Saareem]

@@krytolandros1775 There's a limit on how fast you can guess. If the other competitors get a better guess right before the time runs out, there's no time to beat them based on the distances.

[@stephenbaker7202]

@@krytolandros1775 Good question. I would emphasize this strategy in low-info maps. In the last rounds you can make a set number of guesses due to the cooldown between guesses. If you have 12 guesses reserved, you waste guesses for every 5 seconds you wait for more information. There is the risk that you might not know which guess is closest, but depending on how little information there is, it wouldn't hurt to put those guesses out. Your first guess would be general ball-park, and subsequent guesses could narrow down like areas nearby. If you only have one location guessed and wait for the opponent, you assume that your next guess is in the right direction anyways.

[@Nappse]

@@krytolandros1775 Also a little naive side note you might already know; you don't really *change* guesses, as your best guess will be the determinant guess.

[@krytolandros1775]

@@Nappse I didn't know that, thank you for the clarification! I assumed it only went with your most recent guess. If you can guess multiple times and have the best chosen then I totally see why rapid-fire guessing at the end would be a good idea.

[@dereksavery3644]

Good improvement Tom, now you've got the strats

[@squelchedotter]

Nice! tbh I think it might be worth trying to get a higher division first before going for NPMZ? I assume gold+ division games will be enough of a challenge on their own...?

[@lucasriel5824]

Nothing surprises me out of you anymore but that Faroe Islands guess was mental bruv absolutely love to see it was hoping for a “GET IN”

[@Valgue__]

3:12 there's a tip to guess closer when you see that kind of signs The number before the street's name is the number of the Vienna's borough you're in, and you can find maps on the internet and try to remember some of them ;) This kind of round occurs quite a lot so it can be useful

[@Valgue__]

@@thesimser2960 true but you won't always see Vienna written ;)

[@Skaplurf11]

I have a tip for you Tom! The bollards are pretty hard to learn, but the ones with two orange stripes are always either Czechia or Slovakia! Easiest Eastern Europe bollard to recognize. Hope this helps!!

[@ethohalfslab]

GeoWizard: gets *AMERICAN* Samoa also GeoWizard: "It must be one of those new countries they added"

[@zsandmann]

He means they just added some new countries to Geoguesser, not that the country itself is new.

[@ethohalfslab]

@@zsandmann American Samoa isn't a country. It's a US territory :P

[@blargo]

countries recently mapped in street view and/or added to the game, not newly established countries...

[@ethohalfslab]

@@blargo Again, American Samoa isn't a country. No part of my comment refered to "newly established countries" >.>

[@blargo]

@@ethohalfslab good point!

[@TiGGowich]

God it feels so good to see you finally use the distances lol. It was so frustrating to see you ignore them before - well done mate. You are doing so much better now

[@ChrischLBaby]

I think it's noteworthy to say how he admits that he may have played it wrong so far and is now taking all the critiques into consideration. I felt so bad reading the comments for the last video because most of them were quite hostile and sounded super annoyed. I didn't understand why people even watch him when they get so upset by his 'incompetency'. I think you handled this very well and you earn my respect for that!

[@erlingpanduro5973]

That Faroe Islands guess was just a beauty. Holy smokes.

[@bonnyandmouse]

Glad I can watch the series now without pulling my hair out

[@Phoenixx327]

Epic game tom love ur videos always have your stuff on at night to help me sleep

[@quintium1]

If you're in the last 1v1 battle just click around as soon as possible. You don't have to wait until your opponent makes a guess better than you

[@martinclerked]

Tom you are one of my fave youtubers right now

[@AussieDesigns]

I don't know who needs to hear this but you're worth every second, don't give up it will get better. 💙

[@Riomojo]

That Faroe Islands guess was scary impressive

[@davidrowell9589]

How the hell did he know that was Bhutan? This guys is pure genius

[@tachms]

The houses are very distinctive. Bhutan is easy.

[@HetThakkar809]

The blocks on the road are quite unique as well

[@otokouno]

Bhutan is easily the most distinctive country in Geoguessr. The architecture, the roads, the pebbles littering the side of the road, and of course, the endless span of mountains make it unique.

[@Amghannam]

You clearly need more practice lol. Bhutan is easy to know.

[@tonypapas9854]

That Faroe Islands guess was sick!

[@etmr]

Wonder what the top comments will be now that he uses the distance infos 😂

[@heinrichhunzekunze9693]

always lovely when a place pops up in Toms Videos that you`ve been many times. Wien 8.!

[@tupakavoker]

It's Russia at 04:00 Good thing to remember is that if something is written in Cyrillic and it has no apostrophes/comas/dots above letters and everything just looks clean - its either in Russian or Belarussian. And because Belarus isn't in the map - it will surely be Russia, or neighbouring countries like Eastern Ukraine or Kazakhstan maybe

[@Dimad817]

Белоруссии нет в игре

[@tupakavoker]

@@Dimad817 тогда извиняюсь, но чисто по языку - я в принципе прав

[@MultiGerel]

since Belarus doesnt have street view, it can only be Russia!

[@tupakavoker]

@@MultiGerel yep, just learned about it

[@Dimad817]

@@tupakavoker Там много стран нет в игре. Если ты зайдешь в maps, то тех стран, в которых гугловская машина не ездила, нет в игре

[@jeroplane]

This was peak GeoWizard! You could tell Tom was absolutely in the zone here! A few more games practicing the distances in the final rounds and he'll be unstoppable.