Catching More HACKERS on Geoguessr

Today we're catching cheaters on the Geoguessr overwatch system. Let's see if we're able to catch anyone!

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[davidhurley]

The Irish round was me. I've been to portrush about 18 years ago and this reminded me of that (plus the obvious clues). Then I scanned beaches around there and got lucky.

[PingSharp]

in the oslo round, it appears that the suspect 5k'd his current position without having zoomed in. He moved to a roundabout, and the pin was exactly at his position.

My guess is that the person that reported him did so because of other suspicious rounds, and reported this round too even though this would be the least suspicious of them. It would take quite a bit of time to 5k this position tho, probably for someone living in oslo too. I find it very suspicious.

[Swaggely]

"in the previous videos people werent always happy with my decisions so ill try to be reasonable in this one" immediately says not guilty on an obvious scripter

[Alex-clmj]

Going Iceland on Malta after most likely Googling the sign is crazy 😭

[KlemTGX]

I'm glad zi8gzag gets sponsored! He didn't quit his job for nothing, super high quality videos, thanks!

[MrTardoss]

The first one is 100% scripting, not only did he plonk the street without zooming, but he guessed exactly where he moved to. So he basically toggled his script once he moved away from the location

[TeesonPeethon]

Bro didn't start off well with a space plonk 5k and called not guilty 😅

[ngare]

the rwanda round at around 9:30 was me, i wasnt moving cause the round wasn’t loading on my end cause my internet sucks, just had a black screen until the last couple seconds, then when it loaded the other player had alr guessed but it was an obvious rwanda so i just zoomed in nd guessed (i think they went nigeria iirc). i’ve been playin for four+ years nd only started playing ranked within the past two months so had to go up through the low ratings, i’m like 900 rated now nd still climbing i’d guess my real elo something around 1100. thanks for doing these though!

[ksoz]

I actually recognize that bridge in Brazil. A tv show I used to watch named River Monsters filmed an episode about a bus driving into the amazon river in 1976, and you can see that bridge in the background. All the passengers except one drowned and were feasted on by piranhas.

[SmokeMaxxx]

The Oslo round is kinda sus to me because they space plonked not the 5k, but the exact spot they were in. So even though the city was extremely obvious, that one detail feels strange to me.

[polen]

1000 rating and they guessed Iceland on Malta moving??

[thespanishinquisiton]

It's also worth remembering for some of these that people could have just been there. I'm not Swiss and barely speak any German, but I instantly recognized the Zurich round as being Zurich because I walked past that exact intersection multiple times while I was there

[Tris]

For the record, the word "strand" for "beach" is very popular on the island of Ireland (you'll see it in Cornwall as well as the odd place in England, but it's all over Ireland). This, coupled with the fact that there was no Irish on the sign, plus north facing, I would have 5K'd that one too.

[y]

Something that I think will make this system better is if you can spectate other rounds. It would make it a lot easier to see if someone is googling.

Because people who Google will commonly have horrible guesses when there is no writing, but as soon as there is writing they will guess the city.

[cykss]

100% an underrated YouTuber! I love geography and know a lot of geography! Keep this up Zigzag!

[dpanek]

That pause with the map closed at 14:31 for 5s was a bit suspicious. Could have for sure googled lockporte canada in that time since we did see they were struggling to find it and the pause does not make sense.

[Memeshollanda]

Cheating in Geoguessr is the weirdest thing to me, like how is that a hobby for you 😂

[jasmineophelia]

Love the addition of the rating, think it adds good context (i.e. the Rwanda round vs the Thailand round), as different players are expected to have different sets of skills in different ratings. Would just love the addition of maybe 1-2 more rounds.

[ScottTrolls]

Damn, been cheating on geoguessr just to get in a Zi8gzag video and still no succes

[paulo.n.a]

I would say the Lockeport guy might be googling with the way the camera stopped after doing the first check on the map, and then suddenly going straight to the right place after the pause.