A heroic comeback against a highly ranked player (Geoguessr Duels #2)

[@CamxCam.]

The duels are even better than Battle Royale. Cheers, Tom!

[@tom_wheeler1865]

You’re welcome

[@VictorF0326]

I'm baffled people think this is remotely real

[@CamxCam.]

@@VictorF0326 Why would you believe it's fake?

[@ryanolsen294]

@@tom_wheeler1865 lol

[@wfox98]

Tom, I never normally comment but I had to on this video as I was your opponent in the first round! The shot of adrenaline when I saw who I was up against was intense… Well played, I panicked a bit with Hong Kong but it was a good game up to then - hopefully I’ll run into you again sometime for a rematch. Love your videos, geoguessr or otherwise!

[@Coarsection]

well played!

[@lodiped]

@@voetbal12 I mean, his name does say Will Fox and his account is from 2010...

[@ImNotActuallyChristian]

@@voetbal12 sure lol

[@Lapraniteon]

@@voetbal12 Nope, that was me, shame on you

[@yuotueb]

@@lodiped could have been renamed for this comment 🤷‍♂️

[@DavidBennettPiano]

This is such a great Geoguessr format! Keep them coming 😊

[@Benhutchie22386]

Yo I’m subscribed to you 😁

[@iLoveCake67]

Hey David!! Nice to see you around here! Big fan

[@seancoolie01]

Cool to see ya here

[@adsr3870]

Haha, funny how some people have the exact same couple of interests... :)

[@AuXDubstep]

Two great and uncorrelated channels in the same place 🤨

[@TheLonelyGoomba]

This guy will be a few meters off the exact spot and then say "I'm not too good at this"

[@sticlavoda5632]

Dude, I used to watch your stuff many many years ago, when I was much younger. You really influenced a bit of my childhood dude. Quite nostalgic to be honest. Great to see you still around!

[@itsytyt5192]

ננ

[@ultrab2777]

I Havent heard your name since i was practically infantile.

[@sticlavoda5632]

@@ultrab2777 tru

[@katrin.6662]

"Oh fuck off" Tom is on fire and i'm here for it

[@RubbishFPS]

Poor Dan. He didnt deserve that.

[@ayigittekdemir]

16:28

[@bertberw8653]

"I've figured out how to gain points and move up the leaderboards: you have to win games and not lose games" Impressive, Tom 🧐

[@BuMPiHD]

😂😂😂

[@koraptd6085]

Supreme detective instinct

[@weascualquieras]

did anyone else saw the dead rabitt on the start of the third battle

[@toriawelsh7274]

I do love Tom's comedy....he keeps such a straight face when he says it too.

[@DailyShit.]

It‘s not comedy 😅

[@jaredf6205]

This game mode is fun to watch.

[@carsongarnett1700]

Imagine if Tom streamed this

[@txrxw]

bals

[@zabro8064]

@@carsongarnett1700 tons of streamsnipers?

[@jaredf6205]

@@zabro8064 we start showing up in the street view holding signs for him lol

[@AlecLeaper]

Tom 1 year ago: this shade of tree only grows on this coast in Sweden, I’ve narrowed the guess to within 50 meters Tom now: *staring at a sign that says Podgorica* I haven’t a clue

[@koraptd6085]

7:17

[@sqq3985]

He fell off 🚬

[@suteakachess]

Which video is this?

[@jookypooky]

That annoyed me so much 😂

[@Formula7Driver]

well, I thought that he was in Bosnia, because the board at 6:48 said Čelebić

[@unathleticremi]

I gotta say this seems like the most fun you've had with this game for a while. These are excellent to watch as well. Faster paced with more rounds per video. Thanks for uploading!

[@peterelwood]

Tom giving his opponents extra time while he looks for the exact street is gonna make me lose my god damn mind haha

[@DailyShit.]

He is used to that style of playing. He can‘t help it.

[@aureus79]

I'm loving the geoguessr renaissance! Keep it up mr.wizard, hope the ranked climb goes well

[@sclitchmusic]

Lol mr wizard

[@DoiInthanon1897]

You know Tom is liking a game mode when he posts 2 videos in a row related to it. Well done Tom! Great to have more Geoguessr videos recently.

[@yaboi-bt7re]

A little help for you Tom. At 13:30 for the Denmark round: yellow license plates mean the vehicle is for work use ONLY, a license plate with 1/4 of it yellow in the left means it can be used for work and leisure (or something, don't entirely know) and a fully white means normal. So if you find a vehicle that looks like a vehicle used for work (like the van in the round) and it's yellow, chances are it's Denmark

[@magnuskongskov3532]

Yeah the half yellow half white (“papegøjeplade”) means that it is a car thats owned by a company, but also allowed for private use. Cars with any yellow on the plate has to have their back seats removed.

[@idontknowleavemealoneplease]

Awesome tip. Thanks

[@ilovebrownies1]

@@magnuskongskov3532 That last part is also true of green plates in Norway.

[@REXOZero]

That tip is amazing!! thanks man! unfortunately, I think I had less than 10 rounds in denmark.... in 2 years of geoguessr. I don't know why, but at least for me it's usually super super rare.

[@odinhdd]

I am from Denmark, and I can confirm this is correct

[@Happy_Shopper]

12:42 this is why I love Tom. Most content creators would cut that but leaving it in just makes him more endearing and genuine.

[@gameg_97]

The faces he makes after are pure content

[@hanswoast7]

@@gameg_97 You gotta be proud and loud sometimes ;-)

[@_invencible_]

On one of my online classes the teacher literally said "Hold on i'm gonna fart... Ok..."

[@richardohana8898]

That Podgorica on the sign at 7:20 hurt to miss. Love seeing you back with geoguessr content!

[@hippach]

Where does it say Podgorica?

[@florisengelmann]

@@hippach On the sign as Richard said.

[@michalvalla1055]

@@hippach Under the word: "alliance"

[@janczumaj8516]

Was about to write that

[@champagne.future5248]

There were two signs that said Podgorica. But to be fair I may have only noticed them because I read this comment first

[@greenday9090]

A small tip that the last guy should've paid attention to: If you're at full HP, and the other guy isn't, it's in your best interest to instantly guess anywhere on the map. You won't get any points (no healing but you're at full HP) but it will immediately put a timer and lower the other player's chances of getting a lot of healing.

[@lukapajovic8209]

If you are both good playe… oh, look, a horse 2:50 We love you Tom

[@MarcusH...]

and tom loves horse

[@ninjabob2456]

@@MarcusH... Absolutely - 27:55 "I'm shooting up" lol

[@bloodwolf2609]

The thing about duels is that there's also a bunch of meta gimmicks (like the rift in the sky which always means you're in Senegal etc.) so even if you're good at observing surrounding and identifying where you are, someone in the higher up ranks might have that meta info unlocked for any specific location and be able to insta-guess much faster too.

[@rayres1074]

That is true to any hobby though, isn't it? If you're a casual football player, you can have fun and be good through your own instincts. At higher, extremely competitive games (such as against higher rank Geoguessr players), you'll face adversaries who have tweaked their lifestyle to "meta" their performance (eating specific foods to increase specific bodily reactions; stretching specific muscles to increase performance at specific moments, etc). Not like you can't have fun without being meta - or being good, for that matter - just that if you wanna squeeze that 10% of increased performance, you gotta meta that shit.

[@cobalt4161]

@@rayres1074 I think the difference here is that the "meta gimmicks" he is referring to doesn't relate to the intended point of the game, which is guessing as close as possible, whereas the "meta" in football (eating specific foods to increase specific bodily reactions; stretching specific muscles to increase performance at specific moments, etc), is still related to the sport, as it is about physically and athletic prowess.

[@bloxxerhunt1566]

@@rayres1074 I mean I get your point but that's not a good example, as it isn't much more than preparing better for your games, just like you can study things like poles and bollards for Geoguessr. But yes, there are meta strategies in football (and every other sport for that matter), such as when sometimes players get intentionally physical in order to neutralize a good enemy player, or things of this sort.

[@rayres1074]

@@bloxxerhunt1566 In real life sports there are less instances of such "meta gimmicks", but on e-sports they're pretty common. Think about pixel perfect placement, frame perfect movements in speedrun, use of glitches to minmax and exploit the game, etc. I guess it all depends on the ultimate objective - and in the duel's case, it is to defeat your enemy, which works better when you're excruciatingly fast, and technically you're still within the boundaries of the game. But yeah real life sports is a bad example, although one could argue that perfecting the biomechanics, hypertrophy, strength and mobility gaining to ultra-specific levels as it's often the case in cutthroat competitive sports is somewhat "meta" as well, considering you're getting better at something that transcends the sport.

[@XiSparks]

Tom, I have always played vicariously through you, but this duels experience has encouraged me to make my own account and play too! Thanks Mr. Wizard

[@Bourner]

Woah, those duels are so intense. It's awesome how basically one good guess against the other one can have such an impact!

[@jessarnold2709]

innit!

[@InterMalager]

16:20 - "oh f*ck off" i spat my drink out laughing when he went that quick and you came out with that

[@cherishiskisa]

tom's commentary kept making me laugh out loud in this one... the stuff about the horse... "is this guy my long-lost twin brother?!"... this format is sooo much fun, i love playing it, and watching you play it is so much fun, too! brilliant!!

[@KalinPopov]

One day, Tom will realize that people just google signs, streets and shops and that's how they are so close.

[@leobourbonnais]

yes easy to spot when your opponent is almost spot on in cities with signs or names and very far away when the round does not have googleable content!

[@Matkatamiba]

Eh, they're still gonna get beat if you rush them and you have good game knowledge. Plus, you can't type most of the characters on a regular keyboard.

[@jessali_]

Those insane guesses of that one person could be legit though because there were signs that gave it away (Tom didn't notice them) or the landscape was super distinctive for a very specific region.

[@rafaelsodre_eachday]

Oh. So that's what's happening. There was I, thinking everyone played like Tom.

[@JohnnyStambino]

Yea they need to lock your screen and not allow you to tab out or you forfeit. I knew right away something was fishy with how accurate that kid was. It’s in every game these days, no one is legit and most people cheat for exploit to win.

[@TheIllerX]

I love the small "oh, f off" when the opponent make a guess first.

[@Gianipilotlife]

I think it's more important to vote quickly if you know more or less where it is instead of trying to find the exact street etc. That's time wasted where you are not putting the pressure on him and the result is a difference of only a couple points. I'm especially talking about the Iceland round, the guy had it spot on, you however lost only 20

[@Mathemagical55]

Exactly! After identifying the location as Francistown, Botswana Tom then wasted precious seconds trying to guess which side of the city he was on! Denying the opponents that extra 5 or 10 seconds is much more valuable than fine-tuning your guess.

[@devotion3037]

@@scladoffle2472 He said himself he wants to move up the rankings.

[@Kylirr]

@@scladoffle2472 baby_crying.mp3

[@rdmz135]

@@scladoffle2472 not very clever are you..

[@sqq3985]

Ranking up will happen naturally

[@cmft9358]

I could legit watch these for hours on end they're so fun! 😄

[@jessarnold2709]

innit!

[@anepicjourney]

I love your "competitive" geoguessr content, keep it coming! Also, you're great, yes, but I actually like that you don't get the locations 100% spot on or immediately all the time. Keeps it entertaining, not knowing if you'll win or not. Watching players in the top 20 of the world that guess correctly every location NMPZ within 5 seconds gets pretty boring, there's no suspense, they're too good for content

[@stuartfrance5284]

12:43 why i subscribe, man of the people and no bs. Pure KZbin, classic, retro, OG, legend.

[@mooodeuce]

These videos used to awe me and are what made me start playing geoguessr. Now they give me extreme anxiety. Real edge of your seat stuff.

[@josiahrichardson5741]

No matter how bad my day is, I always look forward to your content and the joy it brings to you and this community.

[@Starphixx]

I enjoy this a lot, there is something about your attitude and your voice and just how you are. Always makes me feel.. content, happy and relaxed, i dont know why but its amazing. keep doing what youre doing!

[@Mlynoph]

Mate, don't ever doubt yourself. No matter how rusty you think you may be, you're the goat in my and many peoples eyes! Been here for a while and always love the content, especially the new modes!

[@Benhutchie22386]

Just wanted to say I absolutely love these videos and enjoyed this one particularly! Some brilliant guessing from you. I have some suspicious that the guy who did not guess the last round was using google as he got very close scores on cities and very far scores on rural areas. Keep it up! :)

[@Bence3]

I definetly want this to become a regular format on the channel and not just occasionally played. I had the most fun watching Geoguessr in a while. Please never stop uploading these. Climb as high as you can in the leaderboard. Thanks Tom!

[@flyingchimp12]

We need more of this series Tom... I want to see how high you can make it, particularly if you can get top 100. If you keep at it I’m sure you’re good enough to get there

[@SamFr1000]

Tell the second player to "fuck off", every time they guessed before you, really tickled me. Top video, Tom. Thank you.

[@Anonymous-ot6hi]

This was way more fun than what i thought was possible

[@alexandrecoragem3383]

Tom i must say i was shocked when you spawned in Avenida 5 de Outubro in Portugal, a street i go through almost everyday. Geoguesser is such a beautiful game for making us feel connected in some way! Thank you so much for your content!

[@rossanred]

14:00 there's something about the skylines of southern South Africa in GeoGuessr that really gives it away. I don't know if it is an effect of the camera used in South Africa, or if it is the sky itself (I've never been there), but you can sometimes see it in other high latitude areas too, like the Faroe Islands or southern Patagonia or even Lesotho. It's really cool.

[@sondre2]

Probably the most engaging video series on the channel! These battles are intense and very fun to follow while making my own guesses alongside. :) Cheers from Norway

[@blindamalgam7125]

the roadkill at 24:57 lmao I’ve never seen that in geoguessr before, wonder if the google car is responsible

[@erickrahn]

i found a dead kangaroo near kangaroo island in australia before

[@AlwaysOnForever]

Google: well, i see nothing

[@chasemorse149]

Hells yes Tom so good to be able to watch you play again and it genuinely looks like your having fun and enjoying yourself. Love the missions but I come back for the geoguessr content and could never get bored watching you play as long as your enjoying yourself. You were actually the first person I ever saw play this game I had never heard of at that time called geoguessr. So glad to see your hardwork paying off in regards to the channels sucess as of late, me and my Gf have been watching for probably 2 years now and were both so happy to see a cool bloke like your self actually be able to provide for you and Verity and do all the cool shit youve always wanted to do. Thanks again for the banging content my boy. Best wishes from Los Angeles

[@sdfkjllshadflhadfshl]

These are fantastic. I could even see you do a follow up video explaining your choices in more detail as everything happens so fast.

[@PaulusFrank]

I can tell that this mode is not for me because I think the pressure takes the fun away from the game. I definitely enjoy these videos as they let me be part of the duels experience through you, and stress out when the opponent has already guessed! The soundtrack is really good

[@serg9320]

The duels are great fun to watch, glad you are enjoying playing it too. I hope to see this frequent your channel for the foreseeable future.

[@neil_st6073]

This is very enjoyable to watch with the tense music. Dropping those frustrated F bombs was hilarious.

[@munchingfire2165]

Love you man keep up the great work loving the vids

[@felixman97]

13:32 in Denmark the lorries and vans (basically the commercial use vehicles) have yellow plates, while the normal cars have white ones :) anyway excellent video as always, Tom!

[@seansllvn]

Love these Duels videos

[@andymcl92]

Iceland level tip: don't know if you know this already and missed it, but the sign you can see when you start in Iceland (on the right at 17:57) had a letter in it that you only get in Iceland, the thorn. Looks like a P with the bump in the middle of the stem (þ). Extra info, it's a TH sound. We used to have it in English, then with printed text we replaced it with the letter Y, which is why places were named things like Ye Olde Pub. Its actually THE Olde Pub!

[@nataliaerina711]

This format is so interesting to watch! Keep them coming

[@ImTheFool08]

Loving this game mode! Honestly you don’t even have to edit the rounds - I love the long format and love hearing the thought process. So fun to watch!

[@Baltzy24]

Man, you're just a cool dude. Lots of positivity and a genuine good time. It's not a wonder why you're succeeding on this platform!

[@jessarnold2709]

innit!

[@theocurtis02]

The bollards and the road markings were both Danish in that second game, the yellow number plate was probably someone who has driven from the Netherlands. Great video!

[@Lucas-yp7li]

Such a good series! Please more

[@moelr_]

This content is the best on KZbin! I love your channel! I love your personality, your adventures, your GeoGuesser WISDOM! Feels like my Patreon subscription isn't enough. Thanks Tom!!!

[@danielsmart8013]

I could watch you do Duels all day, man. So epic!

[@mattrg320]

I absolutely love Geoguessr Duels. They might have nailed it. I hope you enjoy it as well, it's very fun to watch you play.

[@PixelatedSpirit]

This game mode is really entertaining! I won't complain if you upload more of this

[@Gray.1063]

I never thought that I could favor anything more than the standard GeoGuessr content you create on this channel but I really think duels is my new favorite for sure! Please post more!! It would be even cooler if you did something like a series, “road to rank 1”. Even if you never achieve rank 1, it could at least give you more of a reason/motivation to post duels more frequently.

[@hschuler7892]

Loving the duels content! However, you should make whatever content YOU LIKE and whatever it is I WILL WATCH. First and foremost I watch for YOUR PERSONALITY!!! Much love from Michigan.

[@volpswagon]

Hey mate. Just wanted to send a quick note of thanks. You’ve brought many smiles into our home over the last few (stressful) years. Been great fun getting to watch your games, your adventures and everything in between. Hoping life is treating you well outside the walls of KZbin. Much love from Toronto.

[@J05H30H3]

If it’s a small country and you know it, you should guess immediately!. Don’t give them a chance to catch up by finding something.

[@sticlavoda5632]

So cool to see Romania often on these duels. It's quite funny, as a Romanian, to see you struggle with the language. Cheers! To be fair, without the text I wouldn't even know I am in my own country

[@Steead]

I'm rank 920 and your 2nd opponent was 100% a cheater. I went to the location of the South Africa round @ 14:31 and there was a sign with the nearby town name on it just down the road. Yet somehow when there's no street signs he guesses Colombia on the most obvious Brazil I've ever seen. Plenty of them about unfortunately lol.

[@mike.og13]

What gave it away as Brazil, if you don’t mind answering?

[@milkman8039]

@@mike.og13 The red soil, rurality, road quality, lack of trees and just general appearance makes southern Brazil one of those areas that's almost instantly identifiable by an experienced player

[@sethadkins546]

I feel like Tom's aggression was his subconscious trying to tip him off that he was a cheater

[@nicolasspray]

@@milkman8039 i'm from brazil and that road is actually in a good shape for brazil standards lol

[@Simco_]

The opponent got his signs mixed up. He saw the black back and thought it was the Columbian cross. Both those countries have the clue but he got them switched.

[@descendingforth]

These classic geoguessr videos are gold.

[@aquamd8459]

Tom! You've already passed Ludwigs rank and division in a single day! 😂 You're better than you think you are! Keep at it! We love DUELS!

[@joshez_]

Love these! I feel like duels heightens the emotional stakes, which makes for a great viewing experience.

[@villehyttinen1161]

11:23 You just ran over a cat!!🤬

[@neefofway8746]

Aye bad luck

[@zcasias]

PLEASE keep these coming. Very entertaining

[@EJproductionsxD]

Loving these. Could literally watch one a day

[@PeacemanBZ]

I can see how this one guy got those two insane guesses. At 15:15 there was "Riau" on that sign which is a province of Indonesia. Not hard to find on the map. So his guess in the middle of Riau absolutely makes sense. The crazy South Africa guess in the round before isn't that crazy as well. The mountains look very much like Lesotho, but the type of camera footage (Gen2) is South Africa. So you want to guess in South Africa close to Lesotho. Because the landscape looks quite dry, it makes sense to guess more inland. That's why he went west of Lesotho. East of Lesotho it is much greener.

[@kainvancalcar585]

It was great playing you Tom, if you ever want a rematch let me know :)

[@Refridge01]

Duels are so fun to watch. Thank you Tom, we would love to see your journey on the leaderboards

[@slaytanic34]

Love the duel mode. Please do a weekly duel video!

[@mrwalter7205]

I just want to say to you Tom that you’re good enough at geoguesser to make your videos fun to watch and your not too good to the point we’re all lost. I love hearing you work things out loud and the thought process behind it. Also please start using the space bar to make guesses. Thanks

[@sloppytuna_]

Please keep these coming. Duels is such a great format and the videos have been great thus far!

[@cucurbitdev]

Great format, please do more of these! The showdown with the grey bearded wise man was very tense

[@Toropetskii]

Good to see you learning to pile on some pressure when confident in that last round. Hope you'll join me in the top 2k or so shortly!

[@NWulff86]

at 13:40 the yellow numberplates are our VAT exempt plates for vehicles used by commercial entities. So the big company name on the hood of the car makes the yellow plates probable to be danish.

[@MattMlcc]

these duels videos are quality. would love to see them keep coming

[@davedaws]

this is an electrifying new format, PLEASE keep em coming! love it

[@GoodEnoughVenson_sigueacristo]

‘I’m so bad at this, so out of practice, I’m going to loose right here, I don’t know what I’m doing...’ *all while completely destroying the competition*

[@johnb4396]

Great, your confidence is interesting to me. When you are doing a challenge with a picture you are so optimistic, every river is correct, every hill is probably the one, but as soon as there is competition you second guess everything.

[@Gabrielm624]

Nothing better than binging a sesh of GeoGuessr and then seeing that Tom has uploaded a GeoGuessr video just after you finish, getting me through Covid isolation!

[@Jan-qe8cy]

Just a lil tip Tom, it's all about speed in this gamemode. The moment you know it's Francistown it doesn't matter how accurate you are. You could win way more points by being quick and him not seeing the sign than gaining 20 points by being more accurate but giving him the time to figure it out. You know the city? Guess! You know the obscure country or region? Guess!

[@VIRTUEL]

11:22 man is that kitty okay?

[@danielfreer3226]

Great to see you dig deep here under pressure and pull answers from instinct. All those hours of playing and knowledge never truly go away.

[@d0x2f]

When you're full health on the healing round you should make a guess anywhere as quick as you can to give your opponent as little time as possible to get a good heal.

[@ZhangK71]

Lol I thought I was the only one petty enough to do it. It’s not the most big-brain strat ever, but it’s pretty petty

[@sebastianlauber6052]

This is by far my most fav format on youtube! Man I am so fast at clicking on these.

[@alexrostad]

Do more of these, please!👏🏻👏🏻

[@anismihrshahi9186]

idk why but i completely died when you said 'i think if you''re both good players..... OH LOOK A HORSE'

[@Cornincarnate]

I’m sure you’ve given it some thought already, but I think you could grow a big audience of live viewers either on KZbin live or twitch. Some of the biggest twitch streamers in the world play quite a bit of Geoguessr and it is loved by their communities.

[@SyncJr]

Your normal games are fun to watch, but these are AWESOME to watch. I haven’t felt this entertained by a KZbin video in a while

[@micro224]

Yeah that second guy was definitely cheating. There’s no way you can get 4.9k consistently and then guess colombia for brazil like that just doesn’t happen. It also makes sense for him to go out on russia because he could not find latin script to use to look up where he was.

[@JohnnyStambino]

They need to implement a anti-cheat where if you leave the window you just auto lose

[@micro224]

@@JohnnyStambino they really should that would make the game so much more enjoyable I’d rather not go against google you know

[@monttanaro5363]

@@JohnnyStambino But they still can use another device, like a cell phone etc.

[@Andrew-zm1zb]

One of your best geoguessr videos to date! Love this and the play along videos!

[@wifflwaffl1130]

Unfortunetly in some of these matches people cheat. So if you wonder why they get so close sometimes they just google a sign and get really close.

[@Alex-tk1ss]

I little tip for duels I use. On the healing round if you're full health or very near, just instantly guess somewhere on the map so your opponent can't heal.

[@DragonBank]

Tom's ability to guess a country: level 99 Tom's ability to say the country out loud that he is thinking of: 83 xp until level 2 Funny to have back to back videos where he says the name of a country and I'm like "oh fuck Tom that's not it". But then he gets to the map and chooses the correct one. Said Philippines here but went Indonesia(as he should have) and did the same thing last video.

[@Alexmaystudio]

That was the tensest half hour I’ve ever watched. Spectacular!