It’s the same as Survivor. The promos spoil everything. Even back in the original promos for this season of TAR they showed one of the nurse guys bungy jumping or doing something similar extreme in Africa… So I have known all along that until that happens they wouldn’t be going anywhere.
The promos for tomorrow say it’s a CHEATING SCANDAL! I didn’t know that not reading a clue properly or doing something wrong was a cheating scandal… but this cast isn’t that exciting so they are desperate to make this team the villains.
Yeah, it was the best part of the show. I remember watching early seasons, the teams trying to book the quickest and/or available flights took up 1/3rd of an episode.
If production are booking all the flights in advance, then it kills a big part of the show.
I’ve never looked into it, but surely production would be booking everything, unless they’re risking the teams getting stuck in an airport for god knows how long because all the flights are booked. It’s a pretty complex production and they can’t leave much to chance.
Easy enough to still get drama by only allowing X number of teams on the earliest flight and having one or two having to take a lager option, or allowing teams to book risky alternatives if they find them and think it’ll give them an advantage.
In earlier seasons the teams themselves booked flights once they got to the airport. It has happened before that a team has been a full day behind due to the earlier flights being full.
I agree - the first 4 seasons, the Amazing Race game was very travel centric and even up until TARUS 11 All-Stars, the travel aspect of the game was still very prominent.
Since, then the travel part of the game (searching flights, ect) has been gradually minimised. On recent American seasons, the teams would be on the same flights between locations 95% of the time (the Croatia leg on the recent American “Reality Showdown” season is one of the few exceptions in recent years).
Jesus these fucking ads just summarize the whole episode tonight. Surely these Instagram idiots won’t get eliminated if they’ve revealed so much of tonight’s episode and even the reason why they have the penalty. Ten are so fucking stupid with these bloody promos.
I felt like I was right behind the team who came second last, pushing them to finish, especially because they thought it was over. One of the best finishes I’ve seen for a long time.
Great result and such a close finish; all the teams, bar the couple that did the Fast Forward, completed the entire set of challenges for that leg of the race within 1 hour of each other.
I really don’t understand why teams had to do one more task right up to the pitstop mat. It would have been unfair to Viv and Joey if they were eliminated because Viv struggled to hold her bucket during the long walk to the village.
That’s the 2nd time now the team who came last in the non elimination round then got last and went home the next ep. It wouldn’t surprise me if they are told they are eliminated but we need to make an entertaining show so in your contract you have to create drama and be eliminated next ep.
Then there would be no point to the non elimination legs. There have been times where teams in the US version survived a speed bump and did not get eliminated straight away.
It’s the first time this season that I’ve actually found myself really cheering for a race to the finish line. It was frustrating watching every time Viv and Joey stopped because they would have had no idea that every second in that scenario counted and knowing they were last it would have been so easy to just give up.
Why would it have been unfair? Every team had to do the same task. Some tasks are more suited to some teams then others… that’s how the race goes. I’ve mentioned before that I train with Joey (at F45) and I know he’s super fit and more capable than most of the people on this race to carry something heavy over his head for an extended period of time despite his height. His sister just was not. I am very relieved they survived though!
Actually I would say more often then not that happens in the US that the last team make a comeback. I find with this version there seems to be less opportunity for teams to catch up for some reason. However I guess in last nights episode Sid & Ash did make a big comeback making up over an hour of time on the other teams, it’s just they broke a rule so that penalty sent them home.
I really wish though that they would do more than 1 location a week. The second episode just seems like an extension of the first leg. It’s like they plan tasks in one spot and just spread it over 2 episodes with a pit stop in between. If they are staying in the same location at least do a bit more variety and maybe do one leg in the dessert/country then one leg in the city . We’ve pretty much been in the dessert (in Mongolia and Africa) for 4 episodes in a row.
Last night’s episode was the second time a speed bump involving both members from a team doing the same roadblock. In this case it didn’t cost Sid and Ash much time. I would rather have them completing a totally different task before Sid rode the gorge swing.
