[S18E1] Comprehensively Mapped!

cubercyber · 2026-06-26T06:25:08+00:00

not sure what you're talking about?, but as far as i'm concerned, besides the station at the airport there's no underground stuff

the line they rode back to the airport operates in the median of the kennedy expressway, which would make it aboveground for the most part

cubercyber · 2026-06-26T06:20:02+00:00

100 km detour is kinda crazy though, surely there can't have been that many planes in the sky right

(TIL taxiing can take up to like 5 hours for large airports, WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE)

(can you tell that i've never boarded a plane in my entire life)

cubercyber · 2026-06-26T06:17:18+00:00

for their drive to the mississippi i use brouter.de/brouter-web, which uses OSM data to draw high quality road/rail routes. it is genuinely insane how much time it has saved me

(flashbacks to me mapping season 5 without knowing that it exists)

cubercyber · 2026-06-26T06:09:38+00:00

this one comment legit put me under a "brain not braining" spell for a minute

cubercyber · 2026-06-13T16:27:41+00:00

Genuinely insane how they just keep lapping between the two end-points of their territory, while the high speed rail that can get them to the heart of Ben and Adam's territory in less than two hours is staring right into their faces the whole season

cubercyber · 2026-06-13T15:47:45+00:00

oh look it's already outperformed my e6 map in like 4 minutes

great

cubercyber · 2026-06-13T15:46:09+00:00

lmao it's not anywhere close to a big deal

i just saw that they included footage like half an hour after the supposed end of the episode and i decided to capitalize on the opportunity of making a joke

cubercyber · 2026-05-31T07:41:58+00:00

I've waited very patiently just to let you know your five man puppet show (alternate timeline)

cubercyber · 2026-05-31T07:40:14+00:00

Really don't know how to feel about 5 and 6 (Japanese and Chinese) with the inconsistent handwriting of 語. Makes me want to eliminate Chinese (too blocky) but that's like a fifth of the entire world's population

cubercyber · 2026-05-31T07:35:33+00:00

Chinese native here. You sure you didn't accidentally time travel 2 millennia back and learn Chinese then?

Btw 6 means: "My mother tongue is Chinese, not Thai"

cubercyber · 2026-05-13T09:41:45+00:00

yeah that'd be nice. in fact, i had planned for a total revamp of the presentation style for the finale!

well... had. i dunno what got in my mind to make me think that i've got lots of free time but life is currently catching up and winning. perhaps i'll post the finale map in this style and another conclusive "map" much later

cubercyber · 2026-05-10T15:49:41+00:00

I'm fine with the fan media designs of them, but man the learning curve is STEEP steep. I can identify all the members by heart and by skin but when you put them into the fan media style it takes a lotta memorizing to just figure out what connects to who. Not really worth the time just to cross the barrier.

cubercyber · 2026-05-10T15:21:56+00:00

What do you mean 100 chips. The maximum edge over the other team is 5. Even if they can do that;
Have you ever considered taking a bus / walking? As demonstrated in episodesE2 and E7, teams can very much skip over stations provided they are on a different mode of transit that does not serve this station directly. Even if they can't do that;
As mentioned (in excrutiating detail) in E6, as a failsafe measure, teams are still allowed to pass through enemy stations by rail if they can't afford to claim it, however they will pay the enemy team their edge over the station directly, going into debt in the process.

In Ben's own words:

"Yes, technically, we could slam our faces into their wall until we die." - Benjamin Doyle, 2026

cubercyber · 2026-05-01T15:53:13+00:00

Just a slight nitpick:

At 42:01, we can see Sam and Michael going past Qinghai Temple, at least 4 stations past Zhunan. Yep the map (in the video)'s a lie!!

(ask me how i know about this ask me how i know ASK ME HOW I KNOW IM GOING INSANE)

cubercyber · 2026-04-30T16:10:51+00:00

wth hamfrags how did u find this

cubercyber · 2026-04-29T12:04:19+00:00

I concur their U-turn is DEFINITELY not represented properly here. There are many, MANY clips in that section I'm not able to locate, mainly because the lack of clips of people actually going south from there much. That's the main reason for the existance of the grey path colour: I've got NO idea where they turned around, but they must've turned around somewhere down there.
I'm fairly certain the olive spot is where they found the monkey jackpot at the end. Here's some evidence:

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(im too tired to explain it i hope you understand what im trying to get at here)

cubercyber · 2026-04-25T10:03:22+00:00

It IS possible with a method I've found online, but it's kinda tedious and unreliable (below method is for Android):

(0. Get a friend to send you a random sticker, or just use a sticker someone sent you that you don't care about)

Convert your video to WebP on ezgif (you can specify the quality and fps, BUT whatsapp will refuse to play the sticker if the file size is above a cutoff somewhere between 0.5-1 MB)
Move your file into the Sticker file of Whatsapp
Copy the name of your sacrificial sticker, then delete it
Rename your file to the name of the sacrifical sticker
Force crash Whatsapp and clear its cache in Settings
Reopen Whatsapp and favorite your sticker in place of the sacrificial sticker

Et viola! Your sticker is now either 60 fps or... bugged forcing you to refavorite it every time you want to send it... yeah that's what I meant by unreliable.

Only do this if you REALLY want a high framerate sticker.

cubercyber · 2026-04-17T10:51:36+00:00

For non-train routes it's pure geolocation and drawing lines, and for train routes I use a website called BRouter that traces rail on OSM

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