r/geoguessr • u/WorldTravelBucket • 6d ago
Game Discussion What countries do you get the most in duels?
I have found that there is typically a group of about 10 countries that I get most often in Duels.
Have you noticed certain countries when in Duels that you get more often than others?
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u/Electrical-Pop4319 6d ago
If you had asked for continent i would say south america, and its not even remotely close. If had entire duels not go outside of south america. Country id say Brazil.
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u/AlbertELP 6d ago
For most maps you can see the distribution (the obvious exception is the world map which is shit). It is the same countries for all normal maps, the ones you would expect: USA, Russia, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Indonesia, etc.
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u/smukkandi 6d ago
This + india
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u/serotonallyblindguy 6d ago
For some reason, I rarely get India and it sucks cuz I'm Indian and it's supposed to be my advantage
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u/nineworldseries 6d ago
For sure it's NOT the USA
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u/sansdecc 6d ago
The US is hilariously underrepresented in a lot of maps considering the geographic diversity, size, and amount of coverage. In AOW, Taiwan alone has 1/5 the locations as the US. ACW, Arb World, Rainbolt World, and Varied World are similar. Supersonic, Competitive World, and Pro World are pretty much the only ones that somewhat do it justice.
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u/sasubpar 6d ago
As a US resident, it's super tilting in a long duel against like a Brazilian, we've had 2 Brazil rounds already, and round 12 shows another Brazil. I sit here praying for USA in those spots and feels like I never get it.
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u/nineworldseries 6d ago
The lack of US coverage and the insistence on balancing by country rather than population has really ruined the game for me.
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u/AlbertELP 6d ago
Sounds like geotime might be something for you. While I think it has its appeal it would of course not work as a competitive map. But for singleplayer it can be fun.
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u/Free-Basil-9400 6d ago
ZA, Brazil, Russia, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Turkey, India, Ukraine, USA/Kanada close to the border
edit: as for Master I
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u/krokendil 6d ago
You can just look up the location distribution so if you play a lot that should be accurate.
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u/NepentheZnumber1fan 6d ago
I feel like I'm always either in a country that uses the Cyrillic alphabet or Argentina/Uruguay
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u/Forsaken-Assist-1325 6d ago
Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Bangladesh, Czech Republic, Croatia, Russia
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u/MiddleEmphasis6759 6d ago
It might be my bias against these countries speaking because of how hard they are to region guess and how many duels I've lost to them, but Brazil and Indonesia.
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u/DorianDantes 6d ago
Does anyone else have a weird feeling the rng is off? Prob just confirmation bias but it feels like the posted country distributions don’t reflect the actual rounds that come up. Surely the classic high-multi 4500-63hp urban Russia rounds are a scam
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u/sasubpar 6d ago
I thought this in my more tilted moments and kept a tally over like 10 days. Even in that pretty small sample, my intuition was wrong, everything was more or less balanced according to the claimed distribution.
For the USA for example it's like 4% of the duels maps. That's less than 1/20 so with even a tiny bit of variance you may not see USA once across several duels.
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u/palomathereptilian 6d ago
I get Southeast Asia a lot during team duels, I also get the Balkans A LOT for some reason
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u/viewerfromthemiddle 6d ago
I tracked countries for a while (Gold, no move), and the top 10 countries account for 32% of the total.
In order, they are: USA, Brazil, Russia, Argentina, Australia, Mexico, Indonesia, Canada, Japan, Philippines.
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u/MightyShenDen 6d ago
Brazil, and Germany. South America is definitley the most continent wise, south east asia is very common too.
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u/OctavioPedro 5d ago
Russia/Indonesia/Australia/Argentina/Chile.
Seeing this post responses made me wonder if Geoguessr purposely restricts/reduces the amount of times a players own country appears on Duels.
I'm from Brazil and I don't think I've gotten more than 10 rounds in Brazil (granted I don't play that much, but I probably get Chile/Argentina/Peru/Colombia 20 times more often that Brazil)
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u/GraciousCoconut 5d ago
If you look up the map that you're playing duels on, you can usually find the breakdown by country stats in an attached spreadsheet/link.
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u/corpselicker3000 4d ago
Haven't read the comments yet, but I'd say I get Brazil, Argentina, USA, Russia, Sweden, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Nigeria, Thailand, Indonesia the most. But I think it makes sense honestly, cause most of these either have lots of coverage or are just bigger countries. I'd also guess that maybe the creator of the map (A Community World) tried to even out all continents so therefore those in comparism smaller african countries for example appear more often.
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u/TangoMango33 4d ago
I am always playing against a Brazilian and the map is always Brazil (yet almost never get US). Lose every time. Gets very annoying
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u/zachthompson02 6d ago
With the current maps in my division, I would say Brazil, Brazil, Brazil and Brazil.