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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #50 on: June 03, 2012, 11:57:40 PM »
I AM STEAMING! I AM FURIOUS! I came to Shanghai 3 months after the filming of season 16 and I thought I was so close. Now this season came to Shanghai... I still live in Shanghai...

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but I WAS ON HOLIDAY!

yep during the first leg filming of season 21, I was in Thailand. Lady luck hates me

Oops..That's too bad...
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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #51 on: June 04, 2012, 08:50:15 AM »
I AM STEAMING! I AM FURIOUS! I came to Shanghai 3 months after the filming of season 16 and I thought I was so close. Now this season came to Shanghai... I still live in Shanghai...

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but I WAS ON HOLIDAY!

yep during the first leg filming of season 21, I was in Thailand. Lady luck hates me

Well, I live and work in Buenos Aires; I usually goes to the Bus Terminal for sending or retrieving packages for the company I am part of a couple days a week; and I didn't see the teams the day they arrived from Salta.  And that gives me a 3 of 3 in not crossing my path with TAR, including previous legs in Bs. As.; so lady luck hates me too. :groan:

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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #52 on: June 06, 2012, 08:25:37 AM »
Bangladesh!!!

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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #53 on: June 06, 2012, 01:12:24 PM »
No new countries (that we know of) yet... :groan:

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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #54 on: June 06, 2012, 10:35:07 PM »
New PLACES are what matters to me. I don't care if they are new countries. The world is a very big place. :hearts:
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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #55 on: June 06, 2012, 11:17:28 PM »
It's a good thing Bangladesh became independent of Pakistan after the civil war there in the 1970s, or else it might not be off the safe place to travel list (unless Pakistan itself).
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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #56 on: June 07, 2012, 02:23:51 PM »
I"m not going to expect much in Shanghai being the first leg. Usually first legs are underwhelming and short.
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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #57 on: June 07, 2012, 04:36:07 PM »
I agree. First legs used to be much more exciting.

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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #58 on: June 11, 2012, 02:55:00 PM »
Sri Lankan sisters survived to Amsterdam yay!  :hearts: :<3 :hrt:

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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #59 on: June 11, 2012, 02:58:29 PM »
Sri Lankan sisters survived to Amsterdam yay!  :hearts: :<3 :hrt:

that means we will get to see a lot of them this season :hearts:


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« Reply #60 on: June 11, 2012, 03:02:43 PM »
Sri Lankan sisters survived to Amsterdam yay!  :hearts: :<3 :hrt:

that means we will get to see a lot of them this season :hearts:
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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #61 on: June 11, 2012, 03:10:57 PM »
Sri Lankan sisters survived to Amsterdam yay!  :hearts: :<3 :hrt:

that means we will get to see a lot of them this season :hearts:
True that!  :tup:

it seems like we are very far into the race, and we havent seen a new FF team go far since TAR17 :hearts: (Kisha and Jen won TAR18 but that was their 2nd race)

we havent seen the blonde FF team for a while, Im just glad the Sri Lankan sisters are still running :luvya:

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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #62 on: June 15, 2012, 10:29:41 AM »
AMSTERDAM CENTRAL?? I WAS JUST THERE LIKE... BARELY 20 DAYS AGO BEFORE FILMING. I AM PISSED. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #63 on: June 15, 2012, 12:27:47 PM »
 :gaah: I'm not feeling this route.

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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #64 on: June 15, 2012, 01:21:38 PM »
Sri Lankan sisters survived to Amsterdam yay!  :hearts: :<3 :hrt:

that means we will get to see a lot of them this season :hearts:
True that!  :tup:

it seems like we are very far into the race, and we havent seen a new FF team go far since TAR17 :hearts: (Kisha and Jen won TAR18 but that was their 2nd race)

we havent seen the blonde FF team for a while, Im just glad the Sri Lankan sisters are still running :luvya:

I believe it is also speculated that Nadine & Natalie won the Express Pass on leg 2. It would look like we have a new alpha F/F team. I'm loving them.

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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #65 on: June 15, 2012, 03:38:00 PM »
So it's a 3 continent race. I would have preferred more but I am loving some of these new places we are going to. I speculate Leg 8 is somewhere new in Europe. Riga, Latvia? Sofia, Bulgaria?

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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #66 on: June 16, 2012, 09:02:54 AM »
No new countries?! :( I thought we had Gibraltar, lol

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« Reply #67 on: June 16, 2012, 09:38:38 AM »
I really hope we'll see at least one new country :(
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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #68 on: June 16, 2012, 04:01:03 PM »
No new countries?! :( I thought we had Gibraltar, lol

We were close through Ibiza!

We were eventually bound to have a season where no new countries were to be featured.

However, we have underutilized countries: Spain (No full leg ever), Turkey (1 leg), Bangladesh (1 leg), Indonesia (1 season).

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Where did you get your data on "no full leg ever" for Spain? Of course this depends on how you count it, but AR10 ep. 12 teams had a ROADBLOCK in Casablanca then flew to Barcelona for an exciting episode ending at Montjuic. The finale, ep. 13 started with finding Gaudi's unfinished church before flying to Paris. The way I count it that makes a full leg in Barcelona. 

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« Reply #69 on: June 16, 2012, 04:59:35 PM »
I look at legs as pit stop to pit stop (basically), and by that measure, we had not had a full leg in Spain, apparently, until now. Half legs, yes. But not a full leg.
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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #70 on: June 18, 2012, 07:44:57 AM »
Every season has that one team that I go... "Are you kidding me" in good ways. Like, never expected that kind of team, and really interested in that said team.

And then there's the beauty queen thing. I don't get the obsession with them.
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« Reply #71 on: June 20, 2012, 01:35:16 PM »
Every season has that one team that I go... "Are you kidding me" in good ways. Like, never expected that kind of team, and really interested in that said team.

And then there's the beauty queen thing. I don't get the obsession with them.

I think you will get a big dose of this with Brittany & Caitlin   ;)

Just my speculation.  It will depend on the editing.   :lol:
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Re: TAR 21: Bitch, Moan, and Squeal Thread **Spoilers Inside!**
« Reply #72 on: August 19, 2012, 01:22:56 PM »
25,000 mile is pretty WTF.

TAR 5 = 72,000 mile.

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« Reply #73 on: August 19, 2012, 04:40:29 PM »
I know. No big jigs or jags into Africa, Austalia, or ....Antarctica!!  :gaah:
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« Reply #74 on: August 19, 2012, 07:47:46 PM »
25,000 mile is pretty WTF.

TAR 5 = 72,000 mile.

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Joab, your estimate is not the remotest bit close to the real mileage for AR5. It appears that you are using either a World Race Productions source (notorious for overestimating the mileage of Amazing Races) or some other invalid source. Here are the statistics for each of the legs, using www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/howfar.htm. I am going to approach this by separating out the air miles, which I will show as statute miles at the conversion factor of 1.15 statute miles/air mile, from the fairly small ground transportation segments, which will be in statue miles to start with. One approximation which will tend to understate the air miles is that real trips involve connections at airports not on the line between the origination and destination point. I have used connecting points in only a few instances where I know them.

Here are those segments:                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                         Air Miles   Statute Miles   
1. Los Angeles to Montevideo                                                                                                                                    6182
   Montevideo to Punta del Este                                                                                                                                                   90
2. Punta del Este to Montevideo                                                                                                                                                  90
   Montevideo to Buenos Aires                                                                                                                                                   150
3. Buenos Aires to San Carlos de Bariloche                                                                                                                    857
4. San Carlos de Bariloche to Buenos Aires                                                                                                                                  947
5. Buenos Aires to St. Petersburg                                                                                                                                8171
6. St. Petersburg to Cairo                                                                                                                                           2073
7. Cairo to Nairobi                                                                                                                                                     2173
    Nairobi to Kilimanjaro airport                                                                                                                                    100
    Kilimanjaro to Mto Wa Mbu                                                                                                                                      100
8. Mto Wa Mbu to Kilimanjaro                                                                                                                                       100 
    Kilimanjaro to Nairobi                                                                                                                                              100
    Nairobi to Dubai                                                                                                                                                    2181
9. Dubai to Calcutta                                                                                                                                                  2100
10. Calcutta to Auckland                                                                                                                                            5907
11Auckland                                                                                                                                                              4922
12. Manila to El Nido Island                                                                                                                                         231
13. El Nido Island to Manila                                                                                                                                          231
     Manila to Calgary                                                                                                                                                 6862
     Calgary to Banff                                                                                                                                                                  80
     Banff to Calgary                                                                                                                                                                  80
     Calgary to Denver                                                                                                                                                  939 
     Denver to Dallas/Ft. Worth                                                                                                                                      658
     DFW to Ft. Worth                                                                                                                                                                 25

That gives me a total of 43225 air miles, which is equivalent to 49709 statute miles. Direct statute miles from ground segments total 1924. The total in statute mile equivalents is 51633, more than 20,000 miles short of 72K.
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