Just spent about an hour on it. Tried to narrow it down to the right country, which I think I did, and then after searching a bit more gave up and clicked a random spot near water and mountains hoping to get in the middle of the pack. That round 1 bonus gives me some comfort
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Yeah, looks like Photobucket is down for maintenance. At least it is for me. Should be back up in a bit.
I know a lot of people are saying it's hard. That's the idea. The first round was clearly too easy so I have to do this to split everyone up in the standings. This will probably be the hardest round of this season.
Incredibly, two people have given virtually the same answer and another two are barely 10km apart.
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Yeah, looks like Photobucket is down for maintenance. At least it is for me. Should be back up in a bit.
I know a lot of people are saying it's hard. That's the idea. The first round was clearly too easy so I have to do this to split everyone up in the standings. This will probably be the hardest round of this season.
Incredibly, two people have given virtually the same answer and another two are barely 10km apart.
Yeah, photobucket is down for me as well
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So, a much, much harder challenge here, verging on the impossible in fact. The main clue here was the stop sign on the right, which clearly most of you either missed or thought nothing of. It says Pare, which is only used in South America and some Caribbean countries. The only other clue of note is the rugged coastline in the distance and the fact that they drive on the right (Australia?!). Here's everyone's answers:
jandal7 was the only first round participant not to enter, keeping him firmly lodged at the bottom of the table. Incredibly, jseadog1 and lakebeach, tied for the lead after Round 1, thought it was on either side of Ubatuba in Brazil. Marcovdw and Selwink were also just down the road from each other in Northern Spain. But, where was it?
Spoiler
Yep, it was that hard! Just outside Queule, Chile, just north of Valdivia. How far away was everyone?
Croatia14
1783
Bjartne
2230
lakebeach
3191
jseadog1
3217
PeterRyder
4305
trekbmc
6421
The Rider
9437
jihardy
9992
AbhishekLFC
10581
Froomedog99
10745
Miguel98
10885
Marcovdw
11169
Selwink
11182
Kiserlovski01
11218
Matt17br
12805
emre99
13355
DiCyc
13566
Luxemburger
13809
Well, Croatia14 was the only person in Chile and, despite being miles away in the north of the very long country, he wins the round by almost 500 kilometres. After a decent first round, he moves himself into a good position with 100 points. The early lead now moves to lakebeach, after beating his rival jseadog1 by just 26km. Bjartne beat them both in Porto Alegre to take second and keep himself right up in the standings, as well as taking the lead in the overall distance standings. PeterRyder and trekbmc were the only others with the right idea, the latter's gamble of Puerto Rico was not a bad idea at all.
As for the rest, the bizarre guesses of Australia were still closer than Europe, so actually don't do too badly. jihardy in 8th place despite being 10000km away proves how hard this was! The wooden spoon for this round goes to Luxemburger, with eastern Romania a staggering 13809 kilometres from the correct answer.
Here's what it means in the updated table:
#
Rounds
Wins
Kms
Points
1
lakebeach
2
1
3191
310
2
jseadog1
2
1
3217
290
3
Bjartne
2
0
2318
135
4
Croatia14
2
1
5446
115
5
The Rider
2
0
9525
75
6
trekbmc
2
0
7071
45
7
Froomedog99
2
0
12518
30
8
PeterRyder
2
0
12926
27
9
jihardy
2
0
13655
27
10
Miguel98
2
0
14831
19
11
emre99
2
0
17018
19
12
AbhishekLFC
2
0
14979
18
13
Selwink
2
0
15266
16
14
Kiserlovski01
2
0
15616
13
15
Marcovdw
2
0
15590
12
16
Matt17br
2
0
17203
12
17
Luxemburger
2
0
17893
11
18
DiCyc
2
0
17987
7
19
jandal7
1
0
12122
1
Round 3 will be a bit easier () and will begin in the next 24 hours. I may try and get it up today as hopefully most of you will be free to do it tomorrow. I'm aiming to finish the season next Sunday now.
Edited by brewers90 on 30-01-2016 18:03
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Croatia14 wrote:
This time I´ve got a pretty good feeling, let´s see if I´m over 10000 kms away
wasn´t too wrong
looking closely on how the stop sign looked like the bigger white part with the text starting near to the outside of the sign I thought about Chile and luckily I was right
Fuck me how did you guys even see there was written pare on it? I just didn't bother and assumed it was stop, rather focusing on the other signal and the shade of red of both of 2 which brought me to Wikipedia in a page showing the comparison of signals in the various Europe countries. After comparing the shade of red and the thickness of the characters in there I was so sure it was Netherlands and thus proceeded to look for a place near the sea because that was just sea. There also were Hills but they could have been anywhere again. So just looked for the closest place near the sea and to Jesley's University. It was a good hour and a half of master guessing work. I felt like God when i found out it was Netherlands and thinking about how much I was going to show off my undeniable awesomeness later on.
To then find out I was 13000 kms out of the actual location.
matt17br wrote:
Fuck me how did you guys even see there was written pare on it? I just didn't bother and assumed it was stop, rather focusing on the other signal and the shade of red of both of 2 which brought me to Wikipedia in a page showing the comparison of signals in the various Europe countries. After comparing the shade of red and the thickness of the characters in there I was so sure it was Netherlands and thus proceeded to look for a place near the sea because that was just sea. There also were Hills but they could have been anywhere again. So just looked for the closest place near the sea and to Jesley's University. It was a good hour and a half of master guessing work. I felt like God when i found out it was Netherlands and thinking about how much I was going to show off my undeniable awesomeness later on.
To then find out I was 13000 kms out of the actual location.
Haha, this post made my day.
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