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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #50 on: November 16, 2009, 09:30:39 PM »
Don't we have two episodes in Prague? The fact is that an NEL for the second one would imply a SpeedBump in the finale. That has not happened yet in any Amazing Race, but obviously it could. There is typically enough bunching in a finale to wash out the effects of a SpeedBump if WRP wants to have all 3 Final 3 teams still in contention toward the end.

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #51 on: November 16, 2009, 09:41:40 PM »
I'm thinking its just a confessional place as well Gman, the rumor was that the Castle was the pitstop and I read it elsewhere but need to find the blog. The view looks like its coming from the Charles Bridge but haven't spent a lot of time on it.

The team spotted at the Castle were two guys, one with tinted hair!  That would be Gary and Matt and we know now that they are a decoy  team.  The other team could be our poker-playing babes who acted also as decoys in Tallin.


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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #52 on: November 16, 2009, 10:58:27 PM »


Find out which teams will make it to the final three on the next episode of The Amazing Race 15.[/quote
Don't you know by now? its the CBS webmonkeys at work! Remember the "speedbump" in Estonia thatdidn't happen? or the Eliminaton Station via "Sweden" when it was really Estonia? I really wouldn't lose a lot of sleep over it.

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #53 on: November 16, 2009, 11:36:03 PM »
I highly doubt this leg is elim (it's boring to watch 3 teams race in an NEL, knowing that they'll bunch in the US).

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #54 on: November 17, 2009, 10:07:10 AM »
I think it is a mistake too, but gosh they are sloppy this season!! :groan:
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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #55 on: November 17, 2009, 12:03:52 PM »
I think there's gonna be a U-Turn this leg. U-Turn AND Speedbump on the same leg is cruel. (Assuming this leg's an NEL, (Which it should be.))

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #56 on: November 17, 2009, 12:37:55 PM »
I think there's gonna be a U-Turn this leg. U-Turn AND Speedbump on the same leg is cruel. (Assuming this leg's an NEL, (Which it should be.))

The last leg had a Speed Bump. We had an elimination as well.
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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #57 on: November 17, 2009, 02:13:16 PM »
I think there's gonna be a U-Turn this leg. U-Turn AND Speedbump on the same leg is cruel. (Assuming this leg's an NEL, (Which it should be.))

TAR 12 Mumbai had both of them in the same leg. The leg also had the first Speedbump in TAR!

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #58 on: November 17, 2009, 03:20:27 PM »
Is there positively an episode on Thanksgiving weekend?

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #59 on: November 17, 2009, 04:08:15 PM »
Yes graytex, check all the listings, the futon critic, CBS, TVGuide etc


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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #60 on: November 17, 2009, 10:40:36 PM »
Is there positively an episode on Thanksgiving weekend?
yeah, almost but since they're featuring Prague on TAR 15, the Czechs are now celebrating their 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.  It seems that the producers of TAR made a coincidence on the event. :o

Sadly to say that they'd didn't went to Berlin, Germany for the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. :(
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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #61 on: November 18, 2009, 12:51:05 AM »
I think it is a mistake too, but gosh they are sloppy this season!! :groan:

Well if you want to be really picky, like me, you could say that they've been sloppy since TAR 12. :P Remember that awful website?

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #62 on: November 18, 2009, 07:24:28 AM »
Is there positively an episode on Thanksgiving weekend?
yeah, almost but since they're featuring Prague on TAR 15, the Czechs are now celebrating their 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.  It seems that the producers of TAR made a coincidence on the event. :o

Sadly to say that they'd didn't went to Berlin, Germany for the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. :(
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The producers obviously did not want to wait for Nov. 9, 2009 to have an AR15 go to Berlin or to start AR16 early enough so it could go to Berlin.

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #63 on: November 18, 2009, 06:55:31 PM »
I found the church except it wasn't a church  :knuckles:
New Town Hall, Prague Karlovo Namesti park on Google Earth  
 .or pano
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/36307

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #64 on: November 18, 2009, 08:32:13 PM »
Nice find!  :yess:  :jam: I was looking all over for that tower. There's a Sheraton nearby, that's the only thing I can think of.

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #65 on: November 18, 2009, 08:35:00 PM »
Nice puddin!! :jumpy:

Is this the same place? From slowhatch's great link in the MAPS thread:

http://virtual.praha.eu/towers/new-town-council.html

But if we see that tower behind B/E...where are they actually standing?? Cause that must be the Pitstop, right?

So maybe the Castle rumor...was a rumor?? ???
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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #66 on: November 18, 2009, 10:50:24 PM »
Nice find!  :yess:  :jam: I was looking all over for that tower. There's a Sheraton nearby, that's the only thing I can think of.
I figured someone else would find exactly where they were standing Slowhatch  :hearts:, 2 frigging days in a row I spent looking for this place, I'm about looney right now :lol:.

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« Reply #67 on: November 19, 2009, 10:05:32 AM »
There was a new commercial in between Lets Make Deal and Price today.  Nothing too new, but there is a shot of the trotters and Meghan and Cheney climbing down the scaffolding screaming that that "THEY" are trying to slow us down.

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #68 on: November 19, 2009, 01:37:10 PM »
Nice puddin!! :jumpy:

Is this the same place? From slowhatch's great link in the MAPS thread:

http://virtual.praha.eu/towers/new-town-council.html

But if we see that tower behind B/E...where are they actually standing?? Cause that must be the Pitstop, right?

So maybe the Castle rumor...was a rumor?? ???
The team that was "spotted" at the Prague Castle was two men one with "tinted" hair.  This would be Gary and Matt and we know that they were philiminated in Estonia.  So they probably are running around Prague as decoy teams.  So I would say the claim that the Prague Castle was a pitstop is for the birds.

Brian and Erika are standing on the roof of some building which would have to be some distance from the New Town Tower (the other small tower probably would be that of the Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodius. Between the two lies Karlovo Namesti or Charles Square which could be the pitstop.    +

If you draw lines through the two towers toward St. Vitus Cathedral which is part of the Prague Castle, you could back up to the Dvorak Museum. One of the most enchanting of the Prague Baroque style and is a wonderful tribute to the Czech Republics most famous composers.  Which indeed could be an interesting pit stop.

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #69 on: November 19, 2009, 04:24:24 PM »
There was a new commercial in between Lets Make Deal and Price today.  Nothing too new, but there is a shot of the trotters and Meghan and Cheney climbing down the scaffolding screaming that that "THEY" are trying to slow us down.
I heard "hes slowing us down on purpose!" but I guess it might be Cheynes voice? , its a voice over.

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #70 on: November 19, 2009, 09:14:14 PM »
Hmm... Sam and Dan are with the two frontrunners at the theatre, but Brian and Ericka, who were right with Sam and Dan, are not present. Could they have been U-Turned by Sam and Dan?

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #71 on: November 19, 2009, 09:39:38 PM »
^^ Sam and Dan took their cab, Ericka looks pissed! Brian looks hurt like he can't believe it. I have no idea how hard it is to get a new taxi in the area of the detours?

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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #72 on: November 20, 2009, 08:43:52 AM »
Looks like Cheyne and Meghan take public transit to the kayaking centre - I thought we had seen taxis there though.
Street view has a good image of this location as well. No 14 and 17 trains go to the stop they are at.
Looks like it could be awkward to figure out which direction to go to get to the kayaks...
Now I get it - since their cab was stolen too, Cheyne and Meghan are looking for a cab to get away from the kayaking site - they are standing at the closest main intersection - where they could potentially also get a streetcar into downtown Prague.
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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #73 on: November 20, 2009, 12:26:58 PM »
Thanks WP!!

From the Troja site:

White Water Center is not situated far from the centre of the town in the holiday area Troja on the right  riverside Vltava (river Moldau) see.Maps.White Water Center is lying near Troja´s castle,ZOO,The Botanic Gardens and  large park Stromovka on  the second riverside.
How to get there:
By car
•on the bridge called Barikadnik in Prague 7 turn to the right towards local part Troja, Zoo
•pass local part called Troja as far as Troja´s  castle which is surrounded  by high white wall on the left side
•before Troja´s castle turn left toward the river
•go on upstream river approximately 700 m on the way ,which is signed like blind 
•we  advise to park on parking lot before the boathouse
By public transportation•by underground unto station called Holešovice railway station on  way "C"
•carry on by tram No. 17,5,14 unto station called Trojská ( tram is passing the river )
•after output we turning as far as the river 250 m
•then follow the downstream way near the river as far as the boathouse

Maps and stuff:

Troja WhiteWater Centre, a training facility for world class kayakers.

Photos and Map Link

Google Earth coordinates from Boingo: 50° 6'45.90"N    14°25'30.53"E

and Boingo's Troja Panoramio

And (map here, pano here) from Slowhatch
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Re: TAR15 EP10: "We’re Not Working With Anybody, Ever, Anymore!"
« Reply #74 on: November 20, 2009, 12:46:47 PM »
Whats this yellow strip of something that we see the racers carrying - its there at the kayak centre and the theater?

Looks like Chinese characters or maybe Viking runes?
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