Congratulations to Robert the Great, who managed to outscore me by actually placing a marker on that bugged 5th round, instead of just staring in confusion like I did. Well played!
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Stop by tomorrow evening for our first Funday Monday challenge (I suggest you brush up on your GTA street names!).
__________________ “The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.” –William H. Whyte
“Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.” –Lewis Mumford
Welcome to our first Funday Monday challenge! Today I have two challenges for you on the same map.
The map we'll be playing on is Greater Toronto Area (High Population Density). Having tested things out I can confirm that "High Population Density" in this case means you're unlikely to start on a rural road with nothing around, which is something that happens quite frequently on a lot of other GTA GeoGuessr maps. So expect to get dropped in a developed area of Toronto or the 905.
The first challenge doesn't have any time or movement restrictions - play at your own pace and move around as much as you want to pinpoint your starting locations. Link: https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/CJn7zJ6LfTLTIBIh
The second challenge has no time limit but you're not allowed to move from your starting location - this one should produce some interesting results! Link: https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/uRkjqzTtI9C3eaNh
Oh, one more thing. We had a few people in the first challenge who played but didn't have their scores show up on the scoreboard. After you submit your guess on Round 5, make sure you click "View Summary" to conclude your session before closing out of the window. This should ensure that your final score is properly submitted.
Good luck everyone!
__________________ “The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.” –William H. Whyte
“Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.” –Lewis Mumford
Welcome to our first Funday Monday challenge! Today I have two challenges for you on the same map.
The map we'll be playing on is Greater Toronto Area (High Population Density). Having tested things out I can confirm that "High Population Density" in this case means you're unlikely to start on a rural road with nothing around, which is something that happens quite frequently on a lot of other GTA GeoGuessr maps. So expect to get dropped in a developed area of Toronto or the 905.
The first challenge doesn't have any time or movement restrictions - play at your own pace and move around as much as you want to pinpoint your starting locations. Link: https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/CJn7zJ6LfTLTIBIh
The second challenge has no time limit but you're not allowed to move from your starting location - this one should produce some interesting results! Link: https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/uRkjqzTtI9C3eaNh
Oh, one more thing. We had a few people in the first challenge who played but didn't have their scores show up on the scoreboard. After you submit your guess on Round 5, make sure you click "View Summary" to conclude your session before closing out of the window. This should ensure that your final score is properly submitted.
Good luck everyone!
24435 points on the first one. Molson will love the fact that one of them is near a Smart Centre
6362 on the second one where you can't move around.
I understand the idea of having themes, but an all-GTA round sounds a bit unfair to me since the whole thing is being sold as a contest. People living in or around Toronto will have a clear advantage here compared to occasional visitors, or worse, people who have never visited the city. I am pretty sure I am going to do pretty badly if I were to try this. I will probably still give it a shot.
You definitely have to have some knowledge of Toronto. Just knowing the approximate age and built form of each of the cities of the GTA helped me a ton and allowed me to make some surprisingly close guesses. Let's do one with some local landmark-ish spots from across Canada. Nothing too obvious of course....
I understand the idea of having themes, but an all-GTA round sounds a bit unfair to me since the whole thing is being sold as a contest. People living in or around Toronto will have a clear advantage here compared to occasional visitors, or worse, people who have never visited the city.
You're right that locals are going to have an advantage on city/region specific maps. Keep in mind though that these Monday challenges aren't going to be included in the league leaderboard - which IMO gives us the leeway to try maps like these. You'll notice that the maps I've selected for the competitive pool are not tied to a particular region:
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Originally Posted by Fischbob
I've picked the following map pool, which I hope will provide a good variety of Canadian content:
1. Canada (Updated coverage)
2. 100 largest cities of Canada
3. Every Tim Hortons
4. An Urban Canada
5. National Parks of Canada
6. A Balanced Canada
7. A More Urban Canada
8. Where's That McDonalds? (Canada Edition)
9. Cities of Canada
10. Canadian Hockey League Arenas
11. Canada (GeoGuessr Official)
My main reason for picking this map today wasn't actually to feature the GTA or give Torontonians a leg up - it was fulfilling somebody's request for a no-move suburban challenge, and unfortunately I couldn't find any Canada-wide suburban maps to use. I'm sorry if this takes the fun out of it for some. I remain open to requests for future Monday challenges.
__________________ “The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.” –William H. Whyte
“Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.” –Lewis Mumford
P.S: Did someone mention Smart Centres? Here's a bonus late night challenge on the map Every SmartCentre in Canada, which I put together this evening based on this list of locations. Some of these may not look like your typical Smart Centre (most, however, do), but all of them are owned and managed by our good friends at SmartREIT.
You're right that locals are going to have an advantage on city/region specific maps. Keep in mind though that these Monday challenges aren't going to be included in the league leaderboard - which IMO gives us the leeway to try maps like these. You'll notice that the maps I've selected for the competitive pool are not tied to a particular region:
Ok I didn’t realize that. In this case I’ve got no issue .
P.S: Did someone mention Smart Centres? Here's a bonus late night challenge on the map Every SmartCentre in Canada, which I put together this evening based on this list of locations. Some of these may not look like your typical Smart Centre (most, however, do), but all of them are owned and managed by our good friends at SmartREIT.
Our first Mid-Week Friendly us upon us! This is a chance to preview and practice the map we'll be playing on for the ranked league competition this weekend.
This week's map is Canada (Updated coverage), created by Mapper, who also made A Diverse World, arguably the most popular map on GeoGuessr. From the description: "2400 hand-picked locations evenly spread across all the country with landmark around for pinpointing (doesn't mean all locations are easy and fast to get!)"
The Wednesday challenges have no restrictions on movement or time limit, and results do not count toward the league leaderboard.
Congratulations to everyone who played, but especially the two of you who managed to get more than 10k on the no move round! I was pretty satisfied with my Round 1 guess just to properly read that I was near a ravine - then I was nowhere close on all the other rounds.
The Smart Centre bonus challenge will keep running all week, so that more of you can get in on the suffering.
__________________ “The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.” –William H. Whyte
“Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.” –Lewis Mumford
Couldn't post this weekend's challenge last night because of the forum maintenance, so I'll extend the deadline for entry to the start of Funday Monday.
This is our first ranked competition of the season! It's on the same map as the previous challenge - Canada (Updated coverage).
Remember that there is a 5 minute time limit per location for this challenge. A good habit to get into is to place your marker in the general area you think you are early on in the round, and then work on pinpointing. That way you'll have something approximate placed in case time runs out. This is important because you don't get any points if you run out of time without placing a marker.
I made a fatal mistake on Round 3. Cape Breton didn't even cross my mind and I spent the round wondering why I couldn't find the places on the sign in Newfoundland.
The furthest I had was 161km and that was only because Newfoundland doesn't have regular highway signage. I only managed to figure it out once I found what is clearly a salt water bay and a fishing boat with St. John's as it's homeport.
That round seems unfair lol. Two were obviously (to a local) here - what are the odds of that? Lol another one I’ve had before. And the suburban Ontario one, I was moving around and kept hitting dead ends and got pissed off at suburbia so I just clicked in what I assume is the 905 belt and hoped it wasn’t BC lol
__________________ Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
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