Somewhere in County Cork, Ireland lives a young man who can see a random image from Google Street view in Russia and often tell you where you are within a few kilometers. His name is Finbarr, and he's one of the phenomena of the GeoGuessr world. 

In today's episode of The 5k GeoGuessr podcast I talk with Finbarr about his journey to the 2024 World Cup in Sweden. We also talk about Russia, other countries he's grinding, and which Taylor Swift songs he likes. 

Thank you, Finbarr, for coming on the show. 

Hope you all enjoy!

Challenge link for Blind GeoGuessr: 

https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/khWJ8X5eMJ3C7763

Russia document: 

The Complete Guide to Russian Car and Seasonal Metas

Finbarr's YouTube channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeHttJXQ7YM

My duel vs Finbarr: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsUrq4SWNAg

Special thanks to Dan Mattison for the intro music: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-mattison-955879826/caught-in-a-moment?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

When 0xGG set out to create the map Pain and Suffering, he had no idea it would be featured in the videos of some of the highest profile GeoGuessrs around, names like zi8zag, GeoWizard and ChicagoGeographer. But is the map really that hard? And was making it the "hardest" map even really his intention? Today we learn more about the person behind the map and more about his thoughts on a wide variety of GeoGuessr topics, ranging from toxicity in competitive GeoGuessr to "circumstantial meta" to niche concepts like midpointability. 

Links: 

0xGG's maps:

A Well-Covered World: https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/64d8c5ec3a31de27be286d6c Masterpieces Of The Earth: https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/64c9d1fea046340237ac216d

Pain and Suffering: https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/64c9ec177034900d1c258dd2

The Sea Claims Too: https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/64c9e1e9635b1627f1ef8fbc JŵɳʹРմ٨ݥ ţɡͭѥղ١ܠfšɩͬѵղ٥: https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/65542f7ac159623fbc27851f 5 Technically Pinpointable Rounds: https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/65531649320b4374b44c112f My

0xGG's YouTube channel:

Videos page: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoLambdaPlusBlack/videos US area codes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NOcJyZlWK0 US zip codes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbyKUn_8xEg

Other GeoGuessr players' videos playing Pain and Suffering:

GeoWizard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74GwruVpDd4

zi8gzag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziiu2Isr1dY

Chicago Geographer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_xbqPe5Fic trulybuzzy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hFs_NGxXKc

Special thanks to Dan Mattison for the intro music: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-mattison-955879826/caught-in-a-moment?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

How do you catch a cheater? What do the maps we create say about our values? In this episode Toro and I talk about about map distribution and cheaters, and the time he got beers with WolfTrekker in Paris. 

Links: 

AI Populated World: https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/61f1cafb52502d0001a9a5b6

Toro's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/toro3317

Special thanks to Dan Mattison for the intro music: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-mattison-955879826/caught-in-a-moment?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Known for his chilled attitude and cracked guesses, trulybuzzy has become a fixture of the GeoGuessr world. In today's episode we talk about a wide range of topics: from training to getting tilted to his amazing guess in Turkey in the 2023 World Cup Pre-qualifiers. 

A conversation with Feneb, one of Australia's premiere up-and-coming GeoGuessrs. In this episode we talk about his strategies for duels: how to find information, when to send and how to adjust your strategy based on opponent. We also talk about training for the 2024 World Cup Qualifiers and what he likes to do in his free time. 

Enjoy!

In May of 2013 Rory and his friends discovered the newly created game of GeoGuessr while in the university library preparing for exams. He got hooked and would go on to become one of the pillars of the GeoGuessr community and create the successful YouTube channel Geography Challenges. There he's hosted some of the biggest players in the GeoGuessr world, people like Fungus, Radu, GeoWizard and Chicago Geographer. 

In my conversation with Rory we talk about how he got into GeoGuessr, how the game has changed, his YouTube channel, the competitive side, and life outside of GeoGuessr. 

Special thanks to Dan Mattison for the intro music. Listen to more of his stuff here: Intro music: https://soundcloud.com/daniel-mattison-955879826/caught-in-a-moment?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Also special thanks to the many people who have supported me in my GeoGuessr, YouTube and podcast endeavors. I said in this episode I have no friends who are into GeoGuessr, but that's actually not true. Moreover I have many friends who support my interest in it and I'm very grateful to them. 

In Episode 2 we cover: the latest GeoGuessr YouTube content, the first week of the Hiking Season, and why No Move is the best mode.

This podcast is available on Spotify and Google Podcasts (and hopefully Apple Podcasts soon).

For the show note links, please visit the YouTube version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYbRihlJ-fc

The first episode on The 5K GeoGuessr Podcast! In today's episode we talk about what this podcast is, who I am, and the latest NM and NMPZ updates that have just dropped in the GeoGuessr world.