GeoGuessr Americas Finals - GRAND FINALS

[@vaantsy]

Rainbolt : golf commentary Pala : football commentary

[@mightytaiger3000]

bahahaha so accurate. thought their styles complemented each other well, didn’t understand why so many comments were complaining about it. I’d only think it’s annoying if the players can hear them- but I don’t believe they can.

[@WickedRichie]

Pala just talks over Rainbolt and waffles the entire time. Gets hella annoying

[@akmadsen]

Game 1 (Last chance): 1:01:45 Game 2 (Semi final 1): 2:07:26 Game 3 (Semi final 2): 3:13:49 Game 4 (Bronze match): 4:23:12 Game 5 (Finals): 5:11:53

[@jefry678]

Thanks

[@ryanolsen294]

king

[@dcaciolo1]

This format is way to long thank god they changed it

[@0tiii]

why is the bronze match only 3 rounds

[@rijntje73]

Pala makes this a jarring viewing experience in so many ways. Also, I wish the expert commentator could make more informative comments pertaining to the clues that (might) give away the location to the competitors.

[@whatsup9992]

Yeah, better this than just blurting out where it is straight away and not giving the amateur viewers any chance guessing themselves.

[@row3186]

You mean viewers?

[@amandamaranduba2825]

Parabéns, Orlando! Jogou demais, representou mto bem o BR 🇧🇷

[@DaniV183]

4:00:11 the moment

[@PrettyPassive]

I wish I had to the words to describe this beauty

[@inferiorpatty]

smoothest pro geoguessr player physical interaction…

[@some-guy-in-the-internet]

@@PrettyPassive Ludwig had quite a few

[@SalK-LS]

4:28:46 That yellow sign says "Merasjärvi" which is a Finnish language name. 'Järvi' is Finnish for 'lake'. That's why Jake knew that it had to be at least somewhat near the Sweden-Finland border.

[@expertpond9446]

Great watch, I gotta say rainbolt and the other commentator were really not on the same wavelength though, didn't enjoy them talking over each other that much...

[@noqtiz8233]

Exactly

[@Brosak.]

I don’t agree I think it was a good combo actually.

[@q_sean_p]

​@@Brosak. Yeah, rainbolt has the knowledge, and the other dude Pala has got great energy to keep it interesting! I think they are a great pair

[@Gatti333]

Guys I just discovered GeoGuessr and im in love, cheers to all :)

[@boombusmcgoobe3663]

I feel like they should have ZigZag and Rainbolt on commentary and switch Pala to the post game interviewer

[@bruceturnbull4219]

It's funny since Pala is mostly known for his Counter Strike work, and he only ever works as a post-match interviewer or a desk host in that game.

[@Brosak.]

I liked him, as a co commentator. He knew some basics and has good commentating skills while Raimbolt is full on knowledge. Good balance

[@if3763]

​@@Brosak.Rainbolt isn't full on knowledge tho. He doesn't know anything esp in moving e.g someone clearly 5ked or read a town name he doesn't realise

[@iSousa77]

To say Rainbolt doesn’t know anything is wild lmfao

[@palmtreegal3]

Fun tourney! Glad CG made it to the WC. I hope zi8gzag casts the games for the European (etc) finals (i's ok to have 3 casters if pala must stay..)

[@pato20995]

hope pala stays home, why is this man there

[@frisbeetarian34]

Great viewing over the last three days. Credit to all participants for the great spirit and comradeship, even when things were looking grim for a particular individual it was great to see competitors interacting and having fun.

[@fifty50destroyer]

This Pala dude is straight up annoying. Won’t stop interrupting.

[@eesti8106]

Pala makes the rounds almost unwatchable with sound. I like the idea of moving him to a pre/post game interviewer

[@J05H30H3]

Watched part 1 live… been catching up on these two days… amazing stuff love it

[@FastGuy1]

Loved the competition, the action, and overall the show! Keep it up Geoguessr!! Goodluck to all players

[@boombusmcgoobe3663]

Pala keeps talking over Rainbolt and cutting him off. It’s fine to have an inexperienced caster (Launders last year was great) but let Rainbolt speak, especially when you are literally interrupting with nothing meaningful

[@Kanthalas]

Pala has some ways to go in casting. He has a decent play by play voice, but its not as needed in GeoGuessr, If you are going to be the conduit to the lowest skill level watchers, you need to have 0 ego and ask questions to Rainbolt on behalf of the audience: Where are we, why do you think so, what else could it be, etc.

[@STKTSTKT]

I dont want him to be discouraged from casting because I think hes good, just not for this format/game/pairing tbh

[@Kanthalas]

@@STKTSTKT There have been many casters that weren't good when they started. But if they study and address issues that are constructively brought up, they can be fan favorites.

[@pinkdragon4830]

46:07 46:32 46:42 46:59 47:20 what does the editor have against CG😭

[@bearnbunnyrl]

bro said chile and got it wrong then fau said chile and got it right☠

[@contrasbeatshop]

💀💀💀 editor needs to put respect on cgs name fr

[@mahonei7]

bro gingey is a humble god +1 fan for him what a great person!

[@FastGuy1]

Gingey is my favorite person in the competition! - from a U.S player

[@GreetingsEarth]

​@@davidz2690how can the Internet exists without racist comments

[@Brosak.]

Gingey should be president of the world 🗺️

[@martinandredill]

Orlando jogou muito, qualquer um dos dois poderia ter ganho, foi no detalhe.

[@stephenworthington-white8294]

What a final plonk from CG!!! He knew it right away. Great game imho

[@roaming_gnome]

Orlandooo! Such composure under pressure. Good show!

[@Goore88]

nice format! but why is there a commentator without knowledge of the game constantly screaming into the mic? :D

[@NathanLipetz]

It makes it so hard to watch. Really brutal

[@solamano7239]

Yes, very aggravating.

[@DavidsKanal]

Nothing wrong with having a hype commentator. As long as they don't talk over each other, and the hype is delivered in the right spots, it adds good energy to the watch.

[@HeWhoShams]

Yet, he speaks over Rain all the time, repeats what Rain says.. just louder and doesn't allow actual good commentary to be heard​@@DavidsKanal

[@SymmRTA]

That's how it works. Rainbolt is way too stiff and robotic, he actually.adds some hype

[@joshubaruu]

possibly unpopular opinion but I like the touch of pro geoguessr players and pro casters. It adds a touch of reality as to what those who aren’t sweating Google maps may think when watching this

[@absolutegarbage3780]

yea agreed, lots of people complaining about pala but i like having both worlds, and if anything trevor saying "listen" every 5 seconds (was worse on previous days tbf) bugs me way more than pala not knowing too much about the game

[@ThatMartianArt]

For sure! This way everyone is being catered for. The only things i don't like about this is that Pala interrupts Trevor a lot which is kinda distracting.

[@warrier705]

​​@@ThatMartianArt. Yeah I didn't like them as a pair. They just didn't get on the same wavelength. Launders paired way better with Rainbolt last year during the World cup Pala kept talking over Rainbolt especially since Rainbolt is not exactly the loudest

[@Brosak.]

AGREED. Thx for this comment, all I see is people crying about Pala, who to me as someone viewing Geo first time ever, really liked the two of them together!

[@toxin6584]

pala is so bad at callouts that he even calls out the wrong car 1:36:39 that’s not no land cruiser 🤣🤣🤣

[@huntudown4]

Why do we have non player commentators

[@wingwaabuddha]

I will never understand why on all these gaming shows they have some non gamer ---- shooting and interrupting someone who knows what they are talking about. True he does have the ability to speak, but so does reinbolt..... He should host with another who plays the game

[@bearnbunnyrl]

ALWAYS ROOTING FOR CG!!!🤩🥳

[@denysveggetti747]

For the italian round in the semifinal (Jake vs Fau), "Bandita caccia" means that hunting it's forbidden (bandito it's another word for "vietato", which means forbidden)

[@pedroyaghdjian]

Would that be the equivalent to "banned"? In Portuguese we say "banido/banida"

[@denysveggetti747]

banned is still "bandito" but it's a lesser used word than "vietato" (forbidden), a "bandito" as a name, not ad adjective, is also an outlaw. We use banned (bandito) as in card games, where a card is not legal in a format, meanwhile as on a smoking sing there Is "vietato fumare" (smoking Is forbidden)

[@Brosak.]

What is up with Jake starring into the camera like a serial killer before the game starts 😂😂

[@Bomion]

Wow $5,000 he can pay for his flight over and maybe get a coffee at the airport!

[@davidz2690]

4:35:40 i think it means "no hunting" not watch out for bandits, considering it's italy

[@LZYDOG]

Yeah, I think RAIN was trolling but Pala didn't realize

[@Bliksemm]

@@LZYDOG😂

[@carbonell123]

If we could hear the clicking of the mouse, then surely the players could hear the extremely loud shouting by the hype man 🤣 I felt sorry for Rainbolt

[@BryanSchilligo]

Is the non rainbolt play-by-play guy EATING while calling the finals???

[@Brosak.]

At one moment it did sound like that I remember hahahah

[@row3186]

Pala lol

[@Nayte08]

1:24:33 GeoWizard reference 🎉

[@michaelmacleod9869]

GET IN

[@houseoftyrell1544]

Pala is so annoying, he's non stop talking, keep cutting and overlapping Trevor's comment, he's also super loud like screaming in front of his mic.

[@PhatInAHat]

Enjoyable tournament, but again the multis are absurd - even if you must have them, the speed at which they go up is just too much and undermines the outcome of the games. Orlando would have won the Final by winning the 4th game if there were no multis, or they just didn't increase as much. It just seems wrong that tournaments should be decided by such an arbitrary layer added on top of what the players are doing and which doesn't accurately reflect the relative skill of the players' guesses across each game. The very first game of the first match today also demonstrated the way in which the multipliers really aren't fair.- CG won basically every single round, but Flyme won the game just because of the last multi round in India. If there was a different round order then CG would have won it. CG came through that match in the end, but it showed the multis clearly have too much of an impact. You also saw the exact same thing with the first game of Orlando vs Jake Lyons - Orlando won basically every round, but only lost the game because of the 5.5X final round (which also just happened to be US). It was a totally undeserved game win for JL. I've seen an argument for multis that they allow for comebacks, but a comeback should not be facilitated when they're so undeserved. The fact that CG and Orlando both still won their matches overall showed that you don't even need multipliers to have "comebacks" if the matches are best of 5 games (though not so much with just best of 3 as there's less room for error). Some people also claim the multis make things more "entertaining", but I don't find it entertaining to see players who played better across a game unfairly losing the game. No sports have such a silly scoring mechanic but they're still plenty entertaining to watch. It breaks some of the engrossment and suspension of disbelief to have such a silly and strange additional dynamic. If you must have multis for potential extra "drama", or to act as tie-breakers, then their impact should be significantly reduced and they should be introduced later on, e.g. have the rounds worth: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.5 2 2.5 3. But really they're unnecessary and undermine the integrity of the competition, especially given its claim to find the best Geoguessr player. Both players in the final were excellent, but if the rules were more balanced then there likely would have been a different winner.

[@garyp1128]

Agreed!

[@skanderbeg152]

i agree, there were several games where both players blundered but one got lucky and blundered early into the match and survived while the other didn't, and that doesn't reward the better player, just the lucky one.

[@DaniV183]

I disagree, if there were no multis the best russia or other big country player would have won. With no multi small countries hardly give points at all and at most times the players would just click middle there. But i agree the multis should be toned down. Edit: It's the 10 round limit that bothers me more

[@bearnbunnyrl]

@@DaniV183 my thoughts exactly. you have to really think about the region of the country, instead of just clicking middle and probably being fine if there were no multis.

[@skanderbeg152]

@VDani2004 i think it already comes down to who's better at the big countries. I see your point though, multis give smaller countries a bigger impact. But what if we could have a game of a preselected 10 rounds, in a determined order, starting with big countries and moving to smaller ones as the multis get higher? It would certainly change the atmosphere and strategy knowing you have hard countries first. But i wonder if it could be good.

[@leonardosoaresfuks294]

4:00:12 this is one of THE MOST AWKWARD handshakes of all time.

[@dvrama]

Indeed😂😂

[@the_chandler]

Hey rainbolt and Pala: STOP TALKING OVER EACH OTHER.

[@briantykelley7617]

Please fire Pala (he gave me a headache) and coach Rainbolt up a bit.

[@NathanLipetz]

Same. Had to keep muting or skipping ahead. Sucks really

[@arthur04ification]

Parabéns orlando!!

[@p2m488]

Orlando é muito bom, primeira eliminatória do cara e ele chega na final quase ganhando de um dos melhores jogadores da América.

[@SalK-LS]

4:24:58 OMG! I called out Eastern Oregon or Idaho. I really did not expect to be right! Altho, it was more central in Oregon that I expected. But, I still can't believe I would have been closer than both Jake and Fau. It just reminded me a little bit of the Okanagan in BC, but more south... and all that sagebrush...

[@fateaglio]

Nice! I called Greece when they went Italy and Spain hahahaha . I'm only rated 900 but sometimes you can get good guesses as a noob

[@SalK-LS]

@@fateaglio Yeah, I'm not even that great yet. I hover between Gold and Master.

[@tiffanybehmer7245]

I wish the multipliers didn't get so high. I want games to end with points on the board instead of knockouts every round.

[@TimmmTim]

European Guessrs are far far superior. This doesn't feel like a finale, guys are 100s kms off.

[@sannev8407]

totem's total silence in the first challenge lmao

[@MTE999]

Most awkward trophy presentation 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

[@gippygames]

Didn't realize at first that FAU is Fungus. I know his full handle is "fungusamoungus" but saying "Fau" just doesn't sound as cool as "Fungus". I hope he switches back to "Fungus" for the World Cup. Here's hoping for a Fungus vs. Consus rematch!

[@dislexyc]

1:45:00 "that looks familiar. Like Portugal's northern interior familiar" As soon as I saw the houses above the road, I knew I was right

[@FE25n]

What a final

[@leafbelly]

CG: I hope I can see some U.S. rounds Geoguessr: The U.S. does not exist

[@akmadsen]

2:21:08 "We have a concrete bottom of that pole there." Rainbolt, that's a flag pole, not a utility pole, and they pretty much all have a concrete base like that here in Denmark. :)

[@nowindskimountain]

It should be a - let's say - $1000 dollar price pool for players who manage 5000 points (exact spot).

[@boombusmcgoobe3663]

then they’d go broke every time Blinky plays

[@TheCrazyFreak]

Had so much fun watching all 3 days! Congrats to everyone on a great competition, regardless of whether they made it to the World Cup or not. Super happy to see CG make it though. 😊 As for the people complaining about casters/commentators: I don't get it. Personally, I liked the contrast between Geo expert and Geo non-expert commentators. I'm already hyped for the Europe championship in April. 😃

[@GeoCuh]

LETS GOOOOOOO GINGEYYYYYYYYYY MY GOATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[@fpslVlonkey]

Lets go CG!!! Chi-Town Represent!

[@noqtiz8233]

Bro I swear these matches are incredible but why is the second caster constantly shouting and interrupting Traver men.

[@dzonibboying]

Would be cool to hear players talking to eachother during rounds

[@EscapeFromDaSystem]

theres needs to be a serious vote DO WE LIKE PALA or not - my view is YES him and rainbolt are ying and yang, body and mind, salt and pepper - I approve 👍

[@kyleosho]

Loving the humbleness from the champ- wp by all.

[@igor2901]

Parabéns Orlando, representou demais!

[@stevenanderson7046]

Lol the captions say Petoria, Peter Griffin's sovereign state

[@sayansingha6370]

4:36:56 Jake the troll 💀

[@Hobbes250]

Stole Latvia brick 😂 Rainbolt is so good at commentary

[@notellan]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 GGWP Orlando!! Sabe muito!

[@dymasaur]

i can’t lie, the commentator constantly interrupting rainbolt got SO annoying

[@navebucketdude]

that final game was a nail bitter, amazing

[@ezbe808]

L for making the game cost

[@no.way.out_]

For the love of god, how can someone meet this Pala guy and think It's a good idea to have him as a commenter, i don't understand. He fcking ruined it with his nonsense screams interrupting rainbolt all the time.

[@cbearslife4950]

no need to dog pile anymore, but hopefully take it in stride and learn from the experience, you can grow and learn or take it personally and feel dejected. you've got it, you just need to hone it and practice mr. pala.

[@edgarb.4221]

“WHY IS HE IN IOWA” 😂

[@gunnar4554]

5:27:55 nothing like eating while broadcasting

[@Brosak.]

Shout out gingey, honestly puts a smile on me he so cool !

[@znojnyj]

Would appreciate chapters for these vids

[@lukeasselin9126]

at 2:06:11 why is Pala blinking so much, it abnormal how much he's blinking

[@son-of-truth5959]

I thought the commentators did a great job rainbolt a little ruff around the edges but with expert view and pala not much knowledge but with obvious announcer and hosting experience. The pauses/ breaks are way too long on the replay

[@mightytaiger3000]

I think their styles complement each other too. Although Pala could definitely talk over Trevor less. There were a lot of gems Rainbolt was sharing that were hard to listen to because Pala started talking.

[@OutlandsRanch]

I hear a lot of criticism of Pala, but I would just like to point out that the man has EPIC hair. :)

[@timwildauer5063]

I’m still upset you have to have a paid account to play 😡

[@boombusmcgoobe3663]

bro it’s 2$ for a month and u can share the account with infinite people

[@Maisaraae]

it's all about money dude

[@kyle1376]

@@Maisaraaesomeone developed and maintains a game and it takes money from them to do so. You think it should be free?

[@pr3ludejr]

Buying a game or program is how things used to be. You grew up in the free apps with micro transaction era I take it.

[@timwildauer5063]

@@pr3ludejr no, I started playing in the early of GeoGuessr when the entire thing was free. If they offered an option to pay a lump sum instead of paying every month, I’d probably do it. All this monthly subscription stuff is garbage.

[@kamorata955]

change the other commentator.. only yelling

[@caphaddock1126]

Are the ocations previously chosen or random from all the availables in the coverage?

[@HeWhoShams]

Pala ruined this ngl. He just repeats what Rain says and yells over Rain when he's trying to give ACTUAL good insight

[@Comradpetito]

PERFECT TO SLEEP

[@rockst4r90]

It would be nice if rainbolt would explain his thoughts more. At the start of every new round he states for example: "this is brazil" or "lets see who finds out where in ireland this is" - as a new player, cool that you know your shit, but can you maybe explain why this dirt road is urugay? tbh its pretty frustrating at timest. Just tell me something like: black google car - those street markings - this is "insert land here" ... would be way more interesting

[@mightytaiger3000]

If you watch his channel he does go into detail. For this he is a commentator of the game at hand. So, not really the time to be specific about how he plays the game. Kind of like if commentators of soccer games started explaining the rules for soccer instead of commenting on the present game.

[@boranboynuk]

@@mightytaiger3000 Yea but this is not soccer, and it's not the rules of the game, it's literally the game. It's a knowledge game so it's more like a chess match and if the commentator says oh "oh this should be Knight to b3 here" it would be great if he explained why that is. Especially here; let alone the new players at home even the other commentator doesn't know why we're in Brazil.

[@jaycubes]

2:34:08 nah you know exactly what you meant

[@jaycubes]

nevermind its a little too ambiguous now cause i thought of kanye....

[@blvck5943]

Nah u right

[@gustavogomes8990]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 ON THE TOP OF THE WORLD

[@Elra94]

4:00:12 Classic Gamer moment

[@vicrh]

Orlando guy is far the best one. Thing is that damage scaling is just stupid.

[@jjhicky]

Orlando sold me so hard 😂

[@sy_2227]

9/10, point away for pala screaming and fake hyping even in moments where there is no hype needed, watch the comments, hundreds of likes for comments about him

[@MrKylePopovich]

01:01:45 round 1

[@xinmao3289]

Bookmark here 1:33:58

[@davebrycekopp]

amazing

[@hannerhan3021]

Someone get bloom and pando there

[@backsteps]

Bloom was there at the analyst desk

[@begliirab]

1:45:37 epic!

[@trauma._]

It's so fun knowing Pala's voice from CS tournaments and meeting him here again, it instantly makes it more fun to watch

[@Martin-rn2iu]

Please guesser team do not put Paul on the finals or at least tell him to calm down and not interupt rain bolt.

[@slightlydamp3338]

tbh the "professional casters" do not add a lot of value and are honestly quite annoying, I think it's much more entertaining to have a caster who is actually knowledgeable in the game....maybe it's a different story if geoguesser players like rainbolt or zigzag didn't have camera presence or confidence when casting, but they do, so I don't really see the value in having non-geoguessr players casting

[@theoafman9068]

I disagree. I don't want to just hear rainbolt talking 500 words per minute for hours on end. Plenty of esports have good production with color commentary and a play by play that is a better commentator even if they aren't an expert in the game. It's nice to break things up and have a lighthearted personality that isn't purely analysis continuously

[@MrCguy24]

@@theoafman9068no there really isn’t. Name a game where the casters don’t know

[@FastGuy1]

I honestly think they add some action to the game.

[@theoafman9068]

@@MrCguy24 in pro sports plenty of play by play casters weren't professional players (in fact most weren't)... People like MonteCristo weren't pro league of legends players and he even transitioned to overwatch league. Shout casting / play by play in both esports and professional sports hasn't and doesn't require being a "pro" or "expert".

[@MrCguy24]

@@theoafman9068 Yes but those commentators are always accompanied by people who are very knowledgeable about the game

[@contrasbeatshop]

CG is so cute

[@begliirab]

Thank You US for keeping english english, coz when im listening british - it sounds like im getting pared in ears by the nail. "Welcom efe reee pootieeee"

[@ThatMartianArt]

🤡

[@mightytaiger3000]

🤣

[@Bestpolevaulter]

Why is the commentator dude not in the competition? He seems to know every location

[@JLo83]

Cause he's the subject matter expert there to commentate. Plus he's gettin paid way more to broadcast than the players probably