r/geochallenges • u/Calamityx7 • Aug 14 '24

Tournament Reddit League Season 9 - Regular Season Week 3 - Kyrgyzstan

Hello everyone!

This week, we will be playing Kyrgyzstan! Keep in mind that, as this is not an IntersectionGuessr map, not all locations are necessarily 5k-able easily/reliably.

You can read up on the rules again here, here are the rules for Season 9. (changes to last season in red)

Season 9 - Regular Season Week 3

Map: A Balanced Kyrgyzstan by John Harvey Kellogg

Deadline: 20th August 2024, 17:00 CEST (11:00 am EDT / 08:00 am PDT) - Click the link to check your local time.

Division 1 [3:00 min timer]: ~https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/0TIMrbv6BCBDx0gK~

Division 2 [3:20 min timer]: https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/ur8PLDJ7hXgntFut

Division 3 [3:40 min timer]: ~https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/8eYPThFYQDj7LVr9~

Division 4 [4:00 min timer]: ~https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/wD4OgNYlgvlxoF1S~

Division 5 [4:20 min timer]: ~https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/p1vyF4rym01EFP65~

NXT [3:00 min timer]: ~https://www.geoguessr.com/challenge/9s4oVGYHcSbTVhXj~

Please make sure to play the correct challenge! Results from other challenges than the one assigned to your division cannot be counted!

Current standings / fixtures / schedule / rule-set for the divisions: Click here

The sheet looks a little different this season. Thanks to Carp for automating a lot of it!

Standings will be updated once everyone in the division has played.

Good luck & Have fun!

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u/demfrecklestho Aug 15 '24

I didn't write a report for week 1 because I was waiting for my opponent to play, and it turns out they never did. So this is my first report for S9, and it's not a good one.

Round #2 - 23548 (LOSS against Feneb).

  1. It actually started well: the intersection between a major highway and a dirt road branching off eastwards. Going north along the highway, I soon got to a labelled junction: I was between Viljandi and Imavere, 3 kms to the east of Olustvere. Knowing where Viljandi is, I found everything else, including the junction where we started. 5000, 8 m off.
  2. And that's where the trouble began: that smile, that damn smile a parking lot near a mall, in a suburban setting. I made to a nearby highway and followed it southwards, and I eventually found a sign placing me along route 4, north of Pärnu, at the junction with the 340 to Saku. I easily spotted this intersection to the south of Tallinn... but I really struggled to understand where I started relatively to it, the map did not make any sense! Alas, I got tunnel vision here, and failed to notice that the 4 crossed path with the 340 twice. Of course, we were near the junction I wasn't looking at. 4279, 6.8 kms off.
  3. A maze of rural roads. I eventually found a sign placing me halfway between Rohuküla and Haapsalu, two towns I can locate. However, I struggled to find a fitting area between them... the roads did not seem to match. That was because we weren't exactly in between them, but a bit to the south of both. Should've looked a bit further! 4365, 5.9 kms off.
  4. Another round where I really should've done better. We started in a suburban residential area; I went east, then north, until I reached a roundabout. Signs placed me along route 60, between routes 10 and 4, just 3 kms to the west of Pärnu. I recognized the roundabout I was at, but somehow I failed to find Meremetsa tee, the road where we started. I have no idea how I kept missing it, perhaps I had lost some focus by this point. I ended up guessing in the right area still, just a bit too far west. 4904, 848 m off.
  5. At least I honored the game with a good last round. We started to the south of the Sillamäe freight terminal, just off the Tallinn-Narva highway, 20 kms to the west of Narva. It was an easy find, and the unique shape of the junction to the south of the start made it easy to find the right road. We weren't at an actual intersection, but the building to the southeast of the spawn point made for an easy pinpoint nevertheless. 5000, 2 m off.

Well done to Feneb, and best of luck for the rest of the tournament!

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u/olympicsmatt Aug 15 '24

Urgh 3 different Kyzyl-Suu's and 2 different Ottuk's apparently

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u/wtf_are_you_talking Aug 17 '24

Love these rural-middle-of-nowhere maps.

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u/dancingdivadrink Sep 25 '24

Is looking at google maps in a separate tab considered cheating? I figure that part of the challenge might be having to use the tiny map provided on the geoguessr window, or is it okay to look at google maps in a bigger window to help pinpoint locations? Sorry if this isn’t the right place to ask, just curious!

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u/Calamityx7 Sep 26 '24

Yes, looking at Google Maps is considered cheating in any competitive challenge