Catching more CHEATERS on Geoguessr

[@ExpedientFalcon]

Indianapolis resident here, it is possible to recognize the building in the middle of the screen in that round if you're from here, as it is our most prominent monument, although it's quite far off in the distance and not really something you'd recognize if you weren't from here. That combined with the odd zooming behavior makes me really think that one was a scripting job. If you did recognize the building, you'd zoom in for the 5k because it's extremely easy to find on the map if you recognize it.

[@neobowler]

Was gonna say the same exact thing basically....I would have 5Ked that one instantly as I live in Indianapolis as well... but most people would definitely not.

[@Im.Darius]

It's 101% a scripter. Opens the map and nearly instantly gets the 5K location. Even if you are from the city, it's impossible to make such an accurate guess while being zoomed out of the map this much.

[@neobowler]

@@Im.Darius I agree that's what I'm saying....I just like that I could have 5ked it instantly as I work 2 blocks from that spot lol

[@DarmiGames]

You can even see the script place down the marker for him when he opened the map. When he starts zooming in, you can see that it was placed for the 5k. He then moved it a bit away to not look that suspicious

[@neobowler]

@DarmiGames Yeah you definitely can, it's about as obvious as it gets.

[@benharris3285]

The Indianapolis one is textbook scripting. You had basically an identical case in your last video. Instantly space plonk on the 5k then zoom in and move it off slightly to seem less suspicious. If you were from Indianapolis and recognised it you would zoom in first and find the building, then click for the 5k.

[@olenilsen4660]

Yup, seen that in a lot of duels, people PPing before I can even look around.

[@toasty5605]

Given the mo it would not surprise me if it was the same player

[@ryanlind5239]

The Argentinian round seemed very normal to me? lol they saw "En Ar Sa" and thought maybe the Ar meant Argentina but weren't sure, looked around to try to confirm Argentina, checked the sky to see what hemisphere the sun was in, then decided to just guess the capital, and put it close to the water bc they had water to the NE, and they weren't even particularly close. It's really scary that the pros get to judge amateur players and think that the player not playing the way that a pro would is "suspicious."

[@AquilaSornoAranion]

Totally agree. Ever since this feature was introduced it has seemed very sketchy to me. I'm not cheating and have never been accused of cheating, but I'm just waiting for a message at login saying like "you have been found guilty of cheating and your account has been suspended." While playing rounds now I'm constantly moving, more than I feel necessary, to remove as much doubt as possible. Because god forbid I actually guess a 5k.

[@olenilsen4660]

Yeah, that´s a horrible decision - given the precision of the guess, the time they spent, this is more than likely just a noob, or anyone that doesn´t take the game all that seriously. But first of all, on a pinpoint game, getting just about the right country but a few hundred miles away - that report should be rejected right off the bat! Now, I have no problems with a lot of the other ones, and also being restrictive about banning someone based on one single location, but this one was blatantly obvious, not a cheat. @Zi8gzag - take notes ;) I love your plays, your channels, your politeness. But if you want to keep doing this thing, please consider calibrating your compass to match the mass of the Geoguessr players. It´s probably ages ago for you, but we´ve all been noobs at one point. And I can still remember I did these dumba$$ things, and still got a lucky guess sometimes.

[@AurinneA]

I feel like he needs a series where people send him videos and he has to guess "amateur or cheater?" to train himself. 😏

[@Remixer0000]

15:27 - I don't think they're cheating, they are probably a new player trying to look for the sun to determine which hemisphere they are in when they pan around. I do this all the time, as well as look at random useless stuff out of curiosity

[@eliasrosas2310]

was gonna comment this too. im not very good, so i always check for the sun after having an initial guess, especially if im thinking it could be multiple continents

[@D3rL30p4rd]

Also as rather experienced player I check the sun in most rounds. The movement still feels a little bit odd, and the guy zoomed into the EN AR SA a bit long, but all of it kind of makes sense otherwise. I can see it could well be cheated, but there is no good indication for it imo.

[@magnetmuctronic]

Same, I do this all the time

[@simonnt]

When you search for "enarsa" in Google maps you get their headquarters in Buenos Aires and that is where he clicked after staring at the text for a suspicious amount of time

[@steakiefrags1866]

Same, do that too

[@deryaisik21]

when i suspect someone from googling i google what they might be googling and can make sure whether they are sus or not. in the first case when you google the politician it does say winnipeg

[@michaelwisniewski6047]

@@cbarrentine4264what? This isn’t a game mode but helping GeoGuessr - you use anything at your disposal

[@TJ-dw7wr]

@@cbarrentine4264…what? You’re not even playing the game

[@ryanlind5239]

This can be a bit misleading bc Google will serve you different results depending on where you live but in general I agree, some of these rounds it would have been useful to see what Google returns

[@paigesss]

the bus stops and how shitty the roads look give it away pretty well though to be fair

[@talkgoodenglish7500]

Ben Carr is a national-level politician who comes from a family of politicians, was elected recently, and was in the news for the purpose of discourse even more recently. This is like saying someone clearly googled because they knew who Rashida Tlaib is.

[@alexaann803]

I will say with Cyrillic, I tend to pause on signs for a long time because I can sound it out, but not quickly, as I don't know the alphabet super intuitively. So it may look more like googling when actually it's just taking longer to read in another alphabet.

[@fredrikjosefsson3373]

Thats true. I read it like a child trying to find a word that sounds like english

[@tomfontijne8674]

Yeaa for me too, i have the same with korean and greek. Because i kinda know the alphabet but cant speak or read at all. But sounding things out is really a great way to understand a language you dont know.

[@rodsmonster4470]

Same. I normally just keep moving my mouse a bit so they know I’m not opening a new tab and searching for it.

[@matejnovosad9152]

Eactly my thoughts

[@glikoliz]

nah, i think he found the name of the university(10:38) and googled it, it would've explain why did he choose Nizhny Novgorod, cause that's where the university is. and there is kinda no info to google from the second ad

[@torry8658]

The Indianapolis guy is actually a very obvious scripter, he insta plonked the 5k without even zooming in the map and then zoomed in a moved his guess a bit to the north. :)

[@colicritter256]

100%

[@colicritter256]

Yea 100%

[@Aisers]

noticed that too

[@gormster]

Whoa good spot!

[@markberg6197]

No I knew that was Indi and obviously downtown so he plonked it down in Indi and moved it down town

[@julianspricht]

14:38 as a relatively new player, I think they were actually just trying to find the sun to see which direction it's coming from because that is definitely how I would move my camera to look for it.

[@tolga9388]

Definitely googling. If you want to understand if they googled or not, google yourself. They’re just whipping around while googling Enarsa on their phone. If you type Enarsa, Maps shows exactly where he plonked.

[@Carpaccio-tu2kt]

13:20 this guy is a scripter for sure. U can see he switches from literally the 5k

[@knutan1996]

Also the 5k plonk happening without any zoom, and then switching slightly off is typical for scripting

[@sathviklkt3549]

yea ur ryt

[@zulpi2103]

You're 100% correct

[@neonlight1214]

Dude these geoguessr pros really suck at recognizing scripting. I have no idea why. I watched other ones too and like I recognized scripters when they didn't, and I didn't even know what it actually is before geoguessr put this out.

[@maallee]

Yeah, placing your marker down without zooming in (or while the map isn't even open) is obvious scripting behaviour. If you try to plonk a city from a fully zoomed out map, there is almost no way you're gonna get it right on like this person did. Also the fact that it's a moving game. Even if you recognize the city immediately you're gonna give it at least a quick swivel. Not sure how he missed this one, it's very obvious.

[@confusedwouldwe]

The Argentina one wasn't random movement, he was hoping to see the sun for a hemisphere clue, I do exactly that all the time. Very glad I'm shit enough that nobody will ever report me because god knows what pros might assume from my panicked panning and zooming 😆

[@MidnightAsh101]

IKR i was thinking the same that my movments would look sus but I don't get close enough to be reported. I also spend ages on signs trying to guess the language lol

[@sivymrak9310]

I bet you are also not guessing Buenos Aires when you see just one street and nothing around except one facility building :) you can be bad but not that bad :D btw ENARSA has HQ in Buenos Aires

[@derbohrkopf]

I thought he might be looking for a halo in the sky to see if it's gen2 cam

[@sumner1107]

BILBAO WAS ME! 2:36 Master II in teams but played solos for the first time, this was in silver ofc. It was a couple weeks ago at least.

[@pmfg11]

I think I've had that round and the Ceará one as well

[@FastGuy1]

Wow lucky you made it to a Zi8zag KZbin video

[@seb8483]

Well, everything said Bilbao. You are only guilty if you don't get that ;)

[@FastGuy1]

@@seb8483 hehe I would’ve guessed Victoria-Gaestriz 😅

[@nathanhardy7583]

Not sure how you were reported for that considering the basque flag and Bilbo on the sign at the start point 😂 Seemed a simple one, I play silver 1

[@Crazyclay78YT]

15:20 tbh i read that sign on the building as "english, argentina, south america" so i probably wouldve gone argentina there. he possibly just couldve been like "SA, south america? AR, argentina? where is the sun" and whipped the camera around to look for the sun.

[@olenilsen4660]

Sure, but if you´ve played GG for quite some time, you´ll learn that most of your assumptions like that will be wrong. In this case, ENARSA is Argentina´s own power company. Nothing to do with England or English, just Energy. SA is a company structure, this is very common around the world, that a company name includes sth like SA, AS, AB, LTD or whatever, based on the structure of said company. Ar was right though, but based on your comment, if you got that, it was blind luck. You might as well have ended up guessing EN like England, or SA like South Africa. It´s possible that the person reported here, already knew the company, though. That would give them the right country, but guessing a wilderness location like this, and putting the marker down in their capital? I wouldn´t do that, and it´s just another reason to free this person from any blame.

[@MTArtStuff]

@@olenilsen4660 yeah most of the time the assumptions will be wrong but still they might've assumed that ar means argentina and got it right

[@AbiSaysThings]

@olenilsen4660 I don't really think argentina from AR in a light blue logo in a semi-arid landscape is "blind luck". Those are pretty basic cues for anybody with generic geography knowledge

[@avelbezpuhcho3105]

11:53 If you google "83147 Russia" you get the exact city name, so that is probably what happened.

[@adrianbetteryou1]

Still, not enough to convict someone.

[@tojk21]

Dude literally plonked the region’s capital. Which is 831, many Russians know region codes

[@alexanderanoshkin3571]

He didn't click on that city. He clicked on the larger city nearby. The more definitive one is 52 region on the car- that's more of click

[@EsaLena1]

When I saw "Darién," I assumed it was close to the gap/national park, which has been covered quite a bit in news outlets as being incredibly treacherous to cross. Turns out there's another Darién. Interesting.

[@CinaedmacAilpin1874]

Same here, Scotland tried to establish a colony there, too in the late 17th century so I thought the place might be well known, but then it's a different Daríen to my surprise haha

[@dmixdup]

The Argentina guess - he could have been looking to see where the sun was (but it was cloudy).

[@Matte8lack]

Also ENARSA is the state petroleum/natgas company of argentina so he could as well just have been from argentina or just known it.

[@Rodrigo-xk8gb]

​@@Matte8lackno one from Argentina would guess Buenos Aires on that round. Most likely googled "en ar sa" and saw that their headquarters are in Buenos Aires

[@ShinyWasTakenTwice]

@@Rodrigo-xk8gb Or more realistically they just saw it looked like argentina and guessed the capital like 99% of lower ranked players do

[@diegodelatorre2868]

That was my first thought.

[@ThiagoRochaA1]

Yeah, probably trying to find the sun. I do the same 😅

[@janw4206]

I have seen the first Winnipeg round already in another youtube video and they also came to the same conclusion, so the system definitely does not rely on only one person's judgement - which obviously makes a lot of sense

[@D3rL30p4rd]

I did all of the investigations available to me (I was chosen for the anti cheater program due to my "high rating") and I can even say I judged every single round visible in the two zigzag videos by myself. So they're definitely collecting quite a lot of judgements for any of these rounds. I also think (and hope) that people don't get banned for a single suspicious round since it is quite imaginable that some rounds though looking suspicious can be legit. I'd expect them to check the players of rounds getting flagged as cheated by a majority a bit closer. Like looking themselves at the round how it would be cheated, checking other reported rounds by that player flagged as cheated or not enough evidence, checking unreported rounds (especially from the same games) if it's not very obvious by then etc..

[@borofreak]

10:05 Don't forget: "If you are not 100% sure, select "Insufficient evidence"". So your choice here was good.

[@jojonnyjones]

Yes, but the reporting system should have some way of including suspicious observations. There could just be a list with yes/no questions to track any suspicious thing an auditor can find.

[@Crazyclay78YT]

​i think "insufficient evidence" should just be re-labeled "further investigation should be done" tbh

[@borofreak]

@@Crazyclay78YT I'm not sure in any way how the report system works outside of what this video shows, but I'm somehow assuming there's already a file of offences and you might get the axe if you receive a few insufficient evidence reports. Either way, what you're saying totally makes sense and would be a good direction if it's not already.

[@PhatInAHat]

His choice there was terrible - what is most important is that obvious cheaters get flagged as 'Guilty'. In a way the reason of the two given doesn't matter so much. That player was 100% cheating using either one of the methods, maybe even trying both, so should be flagged so they can be taken out the game. By saying 'insufficient evidence' it might let them continue.

[@Sunlit_Hollow]

@@PhatInAHat He readed La linea de la Concepcion, looked around for any more precise info, not found, and smacked in the middle of it. i dont see any cheating at all. Its just nsuficient evidence on that weird jump. La Linea is usualy in the news because gibraltar and the brexit so not as weird as maybe seems.

[@maximvazhenin3345]

11:36 As a Russian I did my own investigation. I tried to google name of the shop on the sign and the address, but they're too common to narrow the region. So most possibly the player googled the phone number and it is the area code for Nizhny Novgorod oblast (btw there's also a region code for NN oblast on the back of the truck) 13:22 this guy is definitely a scripter, he space plonked right on the 5k but moved the pin a little bit to not be suspicious 15:01 if you google the letters on the building it shows Argentina even if you haven't spell the whole name

[@Fishpizza1212]

For 15:01, it says "AR" in big blue letters. No need for googling to see that "AR" = "Argentina". It's literally like seeing a company called "Big Lorries UK".

[@2niGu]

@@Fishpizza1212 AR could mean anything and is not common shortcut for Argentinia. He was definitly a Googler. If you Google the Company it says its Head Quartier was in BA Right away.

[@TheSaineOne]

Mostly agreed with the Russian case, but 83147 code stands definetely for Arzamas, so maybe he just tried to hide his cheating

[@federicomorana2005]

@@2niGu AR is the most common shortcut for Argentina (this or ARG), and it appears in many public companies. ENARSA is an energy company.

[@2niGu]

@@federicomorana2005 i know, i googled it :)

[@anoukk_]

14:40 Maybe they were just looking for the position of the sun? Pretty common tech. And maybe they are a beginner who happened to guess the right country

[@fredrikjosefsson3373]

It didn't look super suspicious, because thats probably something I would have done too. But if you go to google maps and search for "enarsa" the first option that shows up is exactly where they clicked. So I think they were cheating

[@DawidPL94]

12:51 REALLY???? 5k without zooming map. LEGIT??????????????????????????????????????????????

[@Charles-gz7xu]

100% that Indianapolis was scripting

[@Charles-gz7xu]

Plunked the 5k instantly, moved a bit and waited.

[@Naowakk]

Props to you for listening to the comments of the first video Oscar! Not gonna lie I only watched half of the first one because it was a bit too frustrating, but this one was a lot more entertaining and made for a really good video. i would be excited to see more of this series in the future

[@CastSenpai]

That last Arg guess was definitely not guilty of anything. And even if they were, the score didn’t reflect it at all.

[@obroni]

LOL, I drove through that River Heights (Winnipeg) intersection nearly every day for 20 years.

[@maxxiong]

Yeah I can tell it's Winnipeg from the transit sign. Funny thing is I saw this round first on another channel when I was in the city lol

[@ryanlind5239]

Last time zigzag didn't notice the "insufficient evidence" button and this time he doesn't notice that it now shows him the players rating range 😂

[@birdinflight3861]

14:32 as a fellow bad player, they totally could have been looking at the sun here to try to check hemisphere.

[@sivymrak9310]

one street with nothing around. definitely Buenos Aires

[@ohyou_6599]

10:00 you get that kind of movement when you have tight alleys and you try to click off in the distance.

[@UnshavenStatue]

id say good use of insufficient overall, g/ng calls have to be clear indeed, and you're totally correct that a single round isnt much to go on

[@moorgrove7999]

Whats up man hope youre doing good. I love youre videos and I realy enyoy watchibg them. Keep it up ❤

[@zi8gzag]

thanks homie :)

[@REGULAR_4]

360 views lol

[@nefertitimontoya]

Same

[@RandomNon-interestingguy]

As a relatively bad player who sometimes plays on trackpad but enjoys watching geoguessr content - the last round (argentina) looked like something I'd possibly do on that seed. I zoom on every text cuz I'm good at recognizing languages and bad at landacapes, looking at the sky to look for the sun (mexi vs south america if it's Spanish), and since there's no info I'd probably go Arg cuz of the AR in the business name - it's not a strong clue but it would be all I get from the round. Glad u went with insufficient evidence on that haha Great vids too, love your channel as well as the second one

[@Fishpizza1212]

Exactly. I think it's strange Zig didn't see "AR" = "Argentina" in the business name. It looks like a new player staring at the sign, trying to think which country "AR" is.

[@Fishpizza1212]

15:27 - I don't think this one is cheating either. Zig thinks it's suspicious that they got Argentina. I think it's suspicious Zig didn't see the company name literally have "AR" is giant blue letters. I agree that they are a new player, but that makes it even more likely they would stop and think about what country "AR" would stand for while staring at the sign. It's literally like seeing a company called "Big Lorries UK" and thinking they are googling that.

[@NathanLipetz]

Exactly. Looks like Argentinia and says AR. I would have sent south (cause it’s obviously south to me) but guessing capital at low level makes sense too

[@VenatrixOoriana]

I won't lie, as an actual Geographer by trade and academically... I never would have thought "AR means Argentina" when looking at that company name. xD

[@AbiSaysThings]

@VenatrixOoriana maybe not AR on its own but the combination of that + the pale blue logo + the general environment makes a whole lot of sense

[@qazxswedcxzaqws]

Definitely agree that you should be able to see more than one round per suspect, they can technically also show you when the tab window is focused or not and even show the mouse cursor movement which would help a ton for info, especially if they do just stop moving around. Would love more videos on this! Especially if they continue to update it.

[@Zarosian_Ice]

being able to look at all 5 rounds would be better (having the ability to pick rounds to watch for more info) also, adding the region they're from and ranking would be good info too.

[@guganyasha]

10:38 on the back of the car you can see the region code of nizhny oblast - 52, if he knew that immediately I would say legit, but then it looked like googling the phone number

[@iamCHM]

One of these rounds was mine haha, thanks for finding me not guilty goat !!!

[@NathanLipetz]

Which round?

[@ground.jordan]

unproblematic king

[@Lellela]

Other reasons people pause in the middle of their round: - Incoming txt msg - Your kid comes up to you and wants to show you something - The missus is yelling a question to you from the other room, and you don't want to sleep on the couch tonight - Taking a bite of a snack and trying to rack your memory Like honestly, you pros have amazing memories, so fast, but a lot of us are older and take a bit to get the old brain box to cooperate.

[@Cyclone1024]

I am loving this series. Glad I subscribed!

[@Plutarkthefirst]

I feel like this guy doesn't have kid or he would understand the random stop in a middle of a game, you got to give them the benefit of the doubt, how many times did I get interrupted mid game by my kids which to you would look like I'm googling it, I'm already playing the game with an extra handicap!

[@leg3954]

Hoping this becomes a series, been watching a couple of the new "Overwatch" content of others and it seems like the devs are working hard on this so will be great to see your insight as more info is given per case.

[@firechimp1]

I'm not that great at Geoguesser but I grew up in Winnipeg and knew the first one was Winnipeg because of the bus stop signage and partly due to the bench and yellow bumped pad on the sidewalk end. If the first guy was from Winnipeg he would have known instantly as I knew within 5 seconds.

[@katerynaLyzohubova]

The guy who was guessing Russia probably didn't cheat. The rightmost billboard says Nizhny Novgorod University. So they scanned through a few more posters to get more info, and when they didn't get it, they just went for the NN guess. Would have done the same :)

[@talkgoodenglish7500]

Expertise is much MUCH more asymmetrical than normal esports and this compromises the entire player review system IMO. I'm barely hanging onto Gold 3, but I can read cyrillic. I once saw Zigzag look for a towns called "Tsentr" and "Raion" that he saw on a sign. He's infinitely better than me, but that doesn't mean that he knows the Russian word for "region" and it doesn't mean that I'm cheating if I do.

[@DarmiGames]

12:50 definitely scripting. As soon as he opened the map, the marker got placed on the 5k. When he zooms in, you can see him move it a bit away from the 5k.

[@jasmineophelia]

Agree that more than one round would be nice, also have seen some people suggest throwing their rating in as well as low level and high level players play differently

[@DoiInthanon1897]

On the Indianapolis round…I recognized the location from the tall building on the right but there’s no way the player opens the map, zooms in slightly and perfectly plonks on the city’s downtown. Clear scripting case.

[@tritongeeves9371]

I would've behaved more or less exactly the same as the first guy in Winnipeg. The tree-lined streets are a good tell, and Ben Carr (Liberal MP from Winnipeg) would be much more useful for me than a blurry license plate. Insane that there was a presumption of guilt due to him focusing on campaign signs rather than, to me (and presumably others) less useful information.

[@talkgoodenglish7500]

we are entering an era of geoguessr where it is cheating to know where the guess who are from

[@InTheWheels]

This has actually made me more apprehensive of playing because I’m so mercurial sometimes and have stunning guesses or spot something minor that’s meaningful to me that gets it but others might not realise. Like the last round, if I see “en ar sa” I’m tempted to go arg because AR is a common abbreviation- or what if I’m playing and someone delivers something to my house- then I leave and the game seems to linger and appear that I’m doing something I’m not

[@justasleepysnowflake]

As someone who has lived in Winnipeg for a few months, i think the first person could’ve just recognised the bus stop sign and the street sign format they’ve zoomed in on at the start of the round, as these both are very typical for Winnipeg - i still think they might’ve stopped to google something, but on the other hand i can still see how someone could get this without zooming in on the license plates.

[@Akronstudent]

Recordings from moving games often glitch and it looks like image gets frozen. My guess is that the player in Spain was moving, maybe really fast and the recording did not capture it. Possibly not a cheater

[@mentaldavethefirst]

7:58 Interesting to see when the same round is suggested to a different detective. I've seen someone doing this format and they had no suspicions on that - the town was on the initial sign on the wall.

[@shai914]

9:15 in my opinion we need to know where people are playing because I am british and i thought gibraltar because he looks like a "hardman"

[@larshaefner2183]

Anybody who crossed the border to Gibraltar once or who has seen the TV show about border controls is familiar with that name "La Linie de Concépcion". But I'm sure the player was using Google because he didn't remember exactly.

[@Adoffka]

The Russian one you can recognize the region by phone code. Then it's logical to click on the region capital

[@mork6668]

Maybe the guy was looking to see if he could find where the sun was located!!

[@johnwu5908]

They should provide more information for us to make more sophisticated judgement. Elo, nationality, other rounds, past record..

[@mahockey3]

The thing I hate is even I have occasional instances that look like how that Nova Scotia round was. I see a sign that has some town names and start racking my brain for if and where I remember those names from. Sometimes it can take a minute. If I do end up remembering where they're from, it looks sus even though it's not :/

[@talkgoodenglish7500]

I have started playing different because of these videos. I don't stay zoomed in on anything with words for too long.

[@NotYou21-rb9zj]

Tip for the first winnipeg guess, that bus sign with the orange t is unique to winnipeg and they can usually be found every few blocks. But that guy clearly googled the politicians name.

[@benderiq8094]

10:38 it says X435ET52 on the back of the truck and 52 stands for Nizhniy Novgorod oblast

[@Hotlap4fun]

8:40 (don’t know for sure) but sometimes clicking forward in smaller streets just take you somwhere completely else (like through houses and so to the next street)

[@XanderGaming]

They've recently added the skill rating of the player reported which is good!

[@theAkornTree]

I'm pretty sure I recognise the first round you looked at from another channel that was reviewing potential cheating. It's good to know that multiple pros are reviewing each incidence, rather than relying on just one. While it can be super obvious if a player is scripting, it seems like googling can be harder to determine, and I only expect it to get even harder as cheaters react to this new review system and start trying to obscure the fact that they're googling. A few commenters have been saying that it would be good to be able to see the player's ranking, but given that this system is new, I thought that might obscure some cheating, since some cheaters may have been doing it so long that they have reached a high ranking. I think it would be better to show the ranking of the player who reported it, as this could help highlight instances of a newbie reporting an experienced player because they just don't understand how someone could find the right part of the world when there's no signs or flags around, for example.

[@StahliCell]

Love these cheat watch videos!! Hope to see more, gives a lot of insight and you still give good info for noobs like me like poles, writings etc!

[@QuantumOrange416]

As far as I'm aware your internet is not actually to blame for the black screens in the moving replay, I think it is just a replay thing where the moving between panos at such speed is not picked up by the feature itself.

[@psy_laris]

I'm gonna be honest, if not for the weird jump and pause after it I totally would've believed the la Línea de la Concepción round could be legit. The town's proximity to Gibraltar makes it one of those tidbits of geography knowledge that you really don't need specific Geoguessr knowledge for, and I know if I had gotten it I'd be zooming in almost immediately...

[@objective_psychology]

Some of the ones that look like they shouldn't have gotten reported are either sore losers who got salty after a few rounds of bad guesses or they meant to report an earlier round as cheating but did it too late.

[@YumekuiNeru]

10:35 I think the map is open because it is pinned with one of those three buttons on the top left of the map but might be wrong

[@NathanLipetz]

Yup. I do that too

[@graysongilmore371]

They should let you see a persons whole round and with their rank. It’s hard to build a case on someone based on one instance.

[@goatloops]

Seeing one of the neighborhoods i used to live in at the start of the video freaked me out 😂 i always knew it could happen, but still freaked me out

[@insideoutghost]

bit of an unrelated comment but it is funny to me as a nova scotian that double yellow is a bit of a meta for here because when i was first getting into geoguessr and heard "double yellow more common in usa, single yellow in canada" i was like wtf no all our highways are double yellow here lol

[@eloise2303]

i wonder how many rounds of me giggling over goats and street dogs have gotten flagged

[@potenziellerkunde43]

The OH NO at the start remembered me of the Mafia city ads (nostalgia)

[@MrElhombredenegro300]

You can actually read the town name at 8:19. Almost every no-parking sign in spain should have the town/city name on it

[@PaleShelter123]

Love this series. I hope you do it with a guest next time so you can do it like it's a court case or something, lmao

[@RandomDogLola1969]

Definitely want more! Keep up with cleaning up GeoGuessr!

[@andrelini]

please please please oscar turn this into a series!!

[@galad_0]

I remember vividly this game at 2:50, I'm almost sure that was one of my games, tried to find it under my recent games and couldn't find any Bilbao guesses, but I definitely remember playing a game just like that, and checking the bus and seeing Bilbao

[@andrewwilson268]

First one in winnipeg, I live on that street about 3 blocks down. I definitely would have been called out for cheating on that one 😂 I recognized it instantly

[@wicktorinox6942]

Most people, like me, would even struggle to find a famous building in their own city. But, I would definitely zoom in as much as possible, instead of clicking somewhere in the city center. At least, I would try to find an intersection. But he did the opposite. Initial guess was spot on, but he manually moved away. If that is not cheating, not sure what is.

[@talkgoodenglish7500]

As a low rated player who can read cyrillic and lives in Kentucky, I'm just waiting to get bopped by someone who thinks I shouldn't be able to tell where Nizhny Novgorod is when there's a sign for the university at the spawn point

[@delyurka767]

I know it's a late comment, but if someone's watching and wondering about Russia case. As a russian citizen, I can say, that if the person is from Russia, they made the most reasonable choice, even without taking post-codes into account. There is an '-nn ru' part of a SPAR ad domain, it's a common practice to mark larger cities into domain (such as MSK for Moscow, SPB for Saint Petersburg, NSK for Novosibirsk, etc.), an NN stands for Nizhny Novgorod 99% of time (as a Russia, I can't even think of another city it can stand for). And ALSO there is an ad to the right with "ННГУ -- УНИВЕРСИТЕТ С КОТОРЫМ СТРОИШЬ ЖИЗНЬ" on the right. It's an ad for ННГУ (Nizhny Novgorod State University), one of the most well-known universities in the country and one of a few national research universities. They have pointed exactly into Nizhny Novgorod after seeing two obvious hints into it, and not Arzamas.

[@mellamoignacio]

Also now im scared of doing an accidental very nice plonk and look sus

[@jorritkort5480]

Yo! The Bilbao guess was me!

[@unblockabl]

I wasn't googling - I binged

[@апоЖ]

Arzamas - The truck in front of ad signs have 52rus on plates, that's code of the Nizhny Novgorod region, i think thats why he guessed Nizhny Novgorod

[@shmooveyea]

Always wondered how cheating cases are done. I've got my home city probably 2 dozen times and 5k most them pretty quickly, wonder if Ive been reported

[@simons9264]

that indianapolis guy was 100% scripting lmao

[@NathanLipetz]

So obviously

[@mellamoignacio]

As Spaniard, everyone knows where la Linea de la concepción is (borders Gibraltar) so I immediately knew, however that move was weird

[@stevenwagner983]

what you said about local knowledge so true, I probably got reported yesterday got the 5k in 5 seconds, I got really lucky round just so happened to be in the city that I've lived in 30+ years, so proapbly looked like cheating

[@lynden9771]

in the Russia round it's possible they got the correct oblast from the back of the parked box van, which had the licence plate printed out on the rear doors

[@thefoldings1852]

13:37 Script 100%

[@gd3lectron]

Make this a regular series

[@AlexanderKrell]

10:35 Whenever I click the guess button and leave my mouse there my map opens as soon as the round loads, it's very annoying but I keep forgetting

[@jockepett1]

The last Arg round could have been me. I recognize the large factory building with EN AR SA on it. If it was me, then the "irratic" camera movement was me trying to find the sun's location. Argentina was a hint i got from ENARSA and I wanted to confirm south of the equator by trying to find the sun. Buenos Aires was the natural place to go once I had decied on Argentina. Being a pro and veteran, I think you overestimate the general knowledge among leisure players. I had no knowledge on Arg having double yellow lines at that point in time.Coming so far as region guessing is nothing I manage to do or perhaps once in 20 rounds or so. I'm never Google in competative games, only in the Daily challenge and when playing solo. Mostly to learn more.

[@flynn.21]

14:46 I tested this by searching up the company and it says the location is Buenos Aires. He would have seen this and placed it on the map.

[@DaBannyGaming]

2:45 lmao i somehow recognized that one immediately having been on a bus there once

[@mloxard]

I'm pretty sure the Russian one wasn't googling

[@LucasTrikas]

I'm sure u've noticed it already but they added the rating of the players recently when judging the suspect.

[@sts7958]

11:10 as someone who can read russian, but not well, i often take some times to try to read russian, maybe in the same case!

[@Gwydda]

Li Línea de la Concepción doesn't require Geoguessr knowledge. If you speak Spanish (or some other Romance language) you can actually read it. You still don't remember that people have also world knowledge and they speak different languages :D

[@TehOnlyAnd1-pw8ci]

Still doesn't really sound like a town name even if you know Spanish well.

[@Gwydda]

​@@TehOnlyAnd1-pw8ci it says "Ayuntamiento de la Línea de la Concepción"

[@adamopinheiro]

If staring at a sign means Googling I'm toasted! As someone having a lot of fun trying to learn new languages and reading Cyrillic like a 3 year old, i feel most of my guesses would be considered cheating.

[@travisallan4637]

So something you should know when looking for scripters is that they put their marker on the 5k immediately and then click off, if you see where their marker was originally you can tell that it was directly where the location actually ended up being so that is guilty in my books.

[@BAVy11037]

It's so weird to hear someone refer to the ability to read cyrillic as "cyrillic skills" lmao