#google santa tracker

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I love the little Live Feed there on Google Santa tracker because it tells us nothing. Zero relevance to the places where Santa actually is, and also it's still images.

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WATCH LIVE: NORAD is tracking Santa as he delivers gifts around the world

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Happy Holidays from me dealing with my emotions by messing around with the google Santa Tracker

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Apologies for the lack of updates, I'll be honest I am barely staying awake. Let's do a quick stat check!

Currently in 1st place, NORAD Santa has passed 750 million gifts delivered already!

Google Santa, meanwhile, has delivered 180 million. But we all know they'll catch up later.

Fusible Santa Tracker, as to be expected, is trailing behind in gifts given, coming in at about 14.5 million

Santa Update, from what we can tell, is only concerned with the route. Who knows how many deliveries he might make?

The Santa Tracker does not give, only takes. He has eaten over 26 million cookies, across 63 million homes.

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Arcade Advent Extravaganza Day 1!

Starting us off is NORAD, with Santa Dash! A strong first impression, if I do say so myself. In addition to the fairly standard platformer moveset of walking, jumping, and wall jumps, you have a dash that sends you a set distance forward in whatever direction you're holding on the arrow keys. This dash can carry you through walls, but not through obstacles. It's a respectable 25 levels long and, to my surprise, continued to introduce new gameplay elements as late as level 22, though some were certainly underutilized. It even has an extreme mode if you want, sending you back to level 1 if you ever die.

To get more negative, timing the dash can also be somewhat awkward, as you can't aim it up or down while also moving left or right. There's one late level which practically requires you to be able to do so though, which is why I am not trying extreme mode. Most of what I could say beyond that feels more like nitpicking though, I can safely say I've played worse platformers in my life.

Next up, Elf Maker from Google! I am going to say this now. I do not like the corporate art style used on the Google Santa Tracker. And every activity on the site is in this style. A character customizer feels like a good a time as any to complain about that. There's more options than I expected going in, but still not a lot. I dunno what you want me to say here, it's a bad picrew.

And to close us out today we have Santa Run from The Santa Tracker, and what a start it is. It's a single button endless runner. You have to click the button to swap to the underside of the platform and back, trying to grab as many presents as you can while avoiding yetis and snowmen. Or, to let the game explain it,

For some reason the presents are tracked between runs. I can't figure out any reason why they would be. The music loop is extremely short, and I think I will end up regretting my decision to play all of these games unmuted by the end of the month. Though if I did mute it, I wouldn't be able to hear Santa's screams when he takes damage, which are hilarious to me.

Above all else, this one's just weird, which I expect to be a trend going forwards. There's a back button on the main menu which seems to do nothing. The snowmen are very clearly resprited from the yetis in a way where I don't see why there need to be 2 different enemy sprites in the first place. There's a typo on the score screen. There's basically nothing to this game but I feel like there's still quirks to it I haven't thought to mention here.

To the surprise of no one, NORAD definitely had the best game today.

TOTALE SCORES:

NORAD Santa Tracker: 1

Google Santa Tracker: 0

The Santa Tracker: 0

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All Santas have been in the air for at least 12 hours. Halftime status update!

Google Santa's lead is steadily shrinking, but it's still there with 4.8 billion gifts delivered! As I type this, he is heading to Nuremberg, Germany.

As I mentioned, NORAD Santa is catching up, now at 4.2 billion! He is currently heading to Kiffa, Mauritania

Our favorite(?) Santa, The Santa Tracker, is already visiting the UK, currently going to Scotland. I suspect he did not do a great job covering Africa, but it's harder to track past locations with him. Of the roughly 230 million houses he's visited, at most only 183 million have left him anything to consume (97 million cookies, 85 million milk). I think he deserves this.

Fusible Santa, sure enough, has passed the 1 billion presents mark! And only 27,000 cookies eaten. Currently in Belgium, and his route during this phase baffles me, why does he put off so much of Africa for so long?

Santa Update: last seen over Tunisia. And as always, I feel we should call out his lack of sightings in Africa. If he can stop almost 20 times in Australia, he can spare more than at most one per country here.

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Time for another check-in!

Google Santa still holds the lead at 4.3 billion, nearly a billion more than 2nd place! He's currently on his way to Alexandria, Egypt. When I checked in I saw the live feed picture of him being pulled over, ACAB.

NORAD Santa maintains 2nd at 3.5 billion! I mean we already know one of these two is winning, but still hard to say which! At time of writing, he is on his way to Abuja, Nigeria.

Also in Nigeria, The Santa Tracker Santa is approaching 200 million homes visited! He has also eaten nearly 84 million cookies and drank 73 million glasses of milk.

Currently in Basra, Iraq, Fusible Santa has just reached 845 million gifts delivered! Will they pass 1 billion by next check-in? One way to find out!

Santa Update was last seen off the coast of Somalia, still no stats to record. I noticed they have a way to inform Santa if you have traditions that have you stay up late, should I send one about this?

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FINAL TOTALS

All of our Santa Trackers have confirmed he is back in the North Pole, which means it's time we look at everyone.

5. Santa Update never gave us any numerical marker of his progress. Perhaps the elves like to keep an air of mystery around the true Santa. Maybe they're covering up incompetence. Whatever the case, he is our lowest scorer.

4. The Santa Tracker comes from nothing, and to nothing he returns. When he returned to the North Pole, all data was wiped. I have no way of knowing the final total.

3. Fusible Santa has returned to his cozy village I had so rudely joked about before, having delivered a final total of 3,146,949,802 presents, and eaten 410,319 cookies along the way.

2. Google Santa, in his voyage over 342,837 kilometers, delivered a grand total of 7.7 billion gifts exactly.

Our reigning champion, NORAD Santa, holds his title, delivering a final total of 8,186,671,107 presents.

Merry Christmas, one and all!