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Title: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: georgiapeach on March 24, 2013, 05:46:56 PM
:conf: Happy TAR DAY!!! :conf:

IMPORTANT! Even though we are a spoiler board, we do NOT want to have the episode spoiled while it is airing.
 
This will be more important than ever this season since Canada will be airing ahead of us any week we have Sports delays>>like this one! We are anticipating about a 20-30 min delay tonight.
 
SO!! If you are watching anything but an EST US feed, it is your responsibility to be sure you are not ahead of us if you want to post/update in this thread.  Other feeds may be way ahead of us.
 
 SO PLEASE ** NO  OUTCOMES ** to be posted before the show is done airing East Coast time! 
 
Anyone breaking the rule is at risk of being banned.  :browsie:
 
And NO future spoilers either!
 
Otherwise, come watch with us for the best weekly viewing party in town!! :party:
 
 
We will have a LIVE streaming video posted every week we can find one. So if you are overseas or just on the West Coast and want to watch right away...please join us! You can follow along and PLEASE help update as the show unfolds! We hope everyone will join in the fun!! :wohoo:
 
LIVE STREAMING VIDEO links will be  HERE (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,28454.msg842980.html#msg842980) and will normally be put up about 20 minutes before show time.
 
Scheduling and delays will be posted HERE (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,28456.msg842987.html#msg842987).
 
 
And you can entertain yourself with the weekly episode threads as well while you wait! **Spoilers**
 
 
 
Have FUN everyone and :tu for joining us!
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: georgiapeach on March 24, 2013, 05:50:03 PM
Please CHECK this thread immediately after the show for a SPECIAL and IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!  :hearts:
 
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Touched by the people of Botswana, TAR 22 is giving back! LoveBotswana has a 25 yr history of working to reduce the spread of HIV, help abandoned babies, educate future leaders, and empower women and caregivers. If you can, please donate & share this message! $10 (one latte, lol?) will support full care for one child for 24 hours! The world is smaller than you think, let's all help our neighbors! #LoveBotswana
 
http://lovebotswana.org/ways-to-donate/Donate-Resources

http://lovebotswana.org/


Asking you all to FB share the above message, and tweet this one if you can! Together we can do AMAZING THINGS!
 
Touched by Botswana, TAR22 teams are giving back! #LoveBotswana has 25yr history of helping. Pls RT & donate! http://bit.ly/16aRbFz
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: NoluckBoston on March 24, 2013, 06:50:10 PM
Sounds exciting--:)
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: georgiapeach on March 24, 2013, 06:51:19 PM
Looks as though we are not starting until about 846 PM, let's not post here until about 830PM. :tup:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Declive on March 24, 2013, 07:36:49 PM
Happy TAR day everyone.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: ilhamrizki on March 24, 2013, 07:37:47 PM
Happy TAR day from Indonesia
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Theo on March 24, 2013, 07:39:34 PM
Happy TAR day!

I woke up late, and I thought I'm gonna miss it! I know I am not supposed to say this but I'm glad there's a delay.  :hides
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: theschnauzers on March 24, 2013, 07:41:12 PM
Since my alma mater (Miami) is playing their 3rd round game in the NCAA tournament tonight (starting even later than TAR by about 17 minutes) I will be recording both and switching channels back and forth.

I'll be monitoring this thread to see what is going on and will watch the episode later tonight. So please do a good job!
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Glamazon Racer on March 24, 2013, 07:44:04 PM
Happy TAR day!

I woke up late, and I thought I'm gonna miss it! I know I am not supposed to say this but I'm glad there's a delay.  :hides

You and me both! :lol:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 07:44:47 PM
Hello everyone! :hoot:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: laimis on March 24, 2013, 07:45:22 PM
Hi ^^
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: NoluckBoston on March 24, 2013, 07:47:06 PM
Was it the Communism piece or the downed B52?

Hmm?
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 07:47:50 PM
Previously on The Amazing Race...

Wow! There's an apology by Phil at the beginning about last week's broadcast in Vietnam. :ascared

8 teams raced from Bali to Hanoi. Dave & Connor decided to quit the race. :'(

With the double U-Turn, five teams came up with a plan to target the remainder 3-person alliance (roller derby + YouTube). Pam & Winnie U-Turned Joey & Meghan and won the leg. Joey & Meghan U-Turned Chuck & Wynona. Chuck & Wynona struggled with the language barrier and with each other, but survived.

7 teams remain. Who will be eliminated next?

Wynona: Mr. Know-It-All! :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: theschnauzers on March 24, 2013, 07:49:19 PM
The apology was in reference to the song sang at the roadblock.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Magnus on March 24, 2013, 07:51:57 PM
The apology was in reference to the song sang at the roadblock.

Pretty sure it was the B52 site, that was a lot more offensive because of the plaque there
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 07:53:20 PM
Pam & Winnie depart first at 10:40 PM. Teams have to figure out that they have to go to Maun, Botswana. Then they will sign up for 1 of 3 flights to the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park. Once there, they will find their next clue. Pam & Winnie hope they're going to get into a rhythm...

Max & Katie depart at 11:34 PM. Max doesn't want people to think he's carrying their team along. :lol3: "Big hair, big brain."

Mona & Beth depart at 11:37 PM. They have to figure out where Maun is. They think they're pretty strong.

Bates & Anthony depart at 11:39 PM. They think Maun is in Kenya.

Caroline & Jennifer deprat at 11:46 PM. They're excited about going to Africa! :hearts: Their ideal final 3 is them, Bates & Anthony and Max & Katie. They think it's in Kenya too.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 07:56:01 PM
Someone is standing in front of the travel agency. They have to get the country right before they can go in. Pam & Winnie figure out that everyone is going to be on the same flight as them.

Max & Katie get in. Mona & Beth get someone with a smartphone. Caroline & Jennifer guess Kenya, but it's wrong. Max & Katie tell them Botswana from inside. Mona & Beth get in. Caroline & Jennifer help Bates & Anthony get in.

Joey & Meghan depart at 12:47 AM. They still seem bitter over the U-Turn.

Chuck & Wynona depart at 3:26 AM. :o Third leg in a row that they've started in last.

Joey & Meghan get their tuckets. Chuck & Wynona arrive at the travel agency and they're just guessing countries... Chuck finally gets it right! :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Magnus on March 24, 2013, 07:56:53 PM
Republic of........ Paraguay! :lol3: :lol3: Eenie Meenie Miney Moe Chuck and Wynona gotta go :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 07:57:22 PM
Chuck & Wynona see Joey & Meghan at the airport. Joey & Meghan approach Chuck & Wynona at the airport... Wynona seems pretty upset over the U-Turn.

Joey & Meghan approach Pam & Winnie who are sitting with the other teams.
Joey: "What was the prize you stole from us?" :lol3:

All teams are on the same flight to Maun, Botswana.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 07:58:18 PM
Mad rush to the travel agency... Teams sign up at the board...

9:00 AM
Caroline & Jennifer
Bates & Anthony

9:15 AM
Max & Katie
Joey & Meghan

9:30 AM
Mona & Beth
Chuck & Wynona
Pam & Winnie :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 07:59:05 PM
Chuck wanted to get on the first flight because they're slower but now they're on the last flight... He's worried.

Commercial.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: RachelLeVega on March 24, 2013, 07:59:45 PM
Why do teams have to guess which country they are heading? :gaah: I wanted them to get on the wrong flight. :lol:

However, Chuck & Wynona guessing Bangladesh and Turkey as the "Maun" city was priceless! :luvya:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Glamazon Racer on March 24, 2013, 08:00:17 PM
OMG CHYNONA'S GUESSING GAME <3333333333

I wish I wasn't eating when that happened... :hides:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Declive on March 24, 2013, 08:00:50 PM
Wynona saying REPUBLIC OF THE... and i though : Here comes a good guess!

...Paraguay?

 :lol3: :lol3: :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:01:16 PM
Chuck & Wynona are so funny. :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:03:13 PM
And we're back!

The first teams are boarding an African safari flight. Bates & Anthony think about getting romantic with Caroline & Jennifer. GAG. GAG. GAG. GAG. SHOULD I KEEP GAGGING. Caroline & Jennifer tease Bates & Anthony about being babies.

Elephants!

Second flight departs. Joey acts really scared. Katie says they would have enjoyed the flight more with any other team. WELL TOO BAD.

Chuck: "Well this is where Lion King was made." :lol3: Mona & Beth laugh. oh golly. :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Magnus on March 24, 2013, 08:04:07 PM
Max/Katie vs Meghan/Joey on the plane is awkward :lol:

Chuck thinks this is where the Lion King was filmed
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:07:48 PM
First flight lands. Caroline & Jennifer get the first clue. Drive down Old Xhumaga Road and search for the next clue. Bates & Anthony and Caroline & Jennifer start driving.

Second flight lands. Joey & Meghan and Max & Katie start driving.

First two teams find the clue in jars. Bates: "Uh oh, I think we have too many clothes on!"

Roadblock: Who wants to make a new friend? The Kalahari bushmen will lead them to a place to search for scorpions. They will have to dig up a scorpion. Teams will then be led to a trunk to get their next clue.

The bushmen spot a lion with Caroline. Caroline: "Don't be scared!" :lol3:

Last flight touches down.

Second flight arrives at the roadblock.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:09:22 PM
Bates starts digging for his scorpion... Caroline starts digging.

Max: "These guy don't have dayjobs. They're not actors... They're the real deal." :lol3: Max just starts talking.

Joey: "I don't want to frickin' touch it!" He's jumping around. :lol3:

Bates digs up the scorpion. Bates: "I don't mind being pinched." Anthony: "By the country singers." :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:11:17 PM
Max is wearing a glove to anticipate being pinched by something nasty.

Joey: "I'm only 21... I don't want to die!"

Bates finishes the roadblock first. Keep going down Old Xhumaga Road with the bushmen in the back! :lol3:

Caroline gets her scorpion. The bushmen starts putting the scorpion in his mouth... that's disgusting. "It's taking a nap in my hand... Okay... Good night." :lol3:

Mona & Beth get to the roadblock a quite before Chuck & Wynona and Pam & Winnie. Wynona does the roadblock because she pretty much has to. :stare
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: gamerfan09 on March 24, 2013, 08:12:07 PM
I  :lol3: when Wynona did the Scorpion hunting. I guess they realized that if Chuck did this one, Wynona has to do all the rest.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:13:08 PM
Joey is digging with a stick because he's afraid. Max has a glove on.

Mona finds her scorpion and gets it in the jar. Wow they made up time!

Max digs up a scorpion and he starts freaking out! :lol3: Max is freaking out at the bushman putting the scorpion in his mouth. Max had his mouth wide open... and then he decided to shut it before the bushman put it in his mouth! :lol3: :lol3: :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:14:06 PM
Meghan comments on how the derby moms were super quick... Now she wonders where Joey is. Joey is freaking out. Diva freak out over here. :lol3: He doesn't want to touch the scorpion.

Commercial.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: laimis on March 24, 2013, 08:14:28 PM
JOEY OMG IT'S JUST A SCORPION :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:15:32 PM
I would probably be freaking out if I were doing this roadblock... :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Glamazon Racer on March 24, 2013, 08:16:22 PM
Chuck & Wynona are so epic. <3 :lol3: :lol3: :lol3:

I hope Caroline & Jen can win. <3 :hoot: :hoot: :hoot: :hoot:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:19:15 PM
And we're back with Joey freaking out. The bushman tells Joey that he's cleaning the scorpion by putting it in his mouth. :lol3: Joey freaked out when the bushman put the scorpion in his hand.

Bates tried to get the bushmen to sing a song. :lol3: They can't understand him. They reach the clue box first.

Detour: Fire or Fowl

Fire: Walk with the bushmen to a local campsite and learn how to make fire with two sticks, elephant manure and tinder (not sure... missed the last one)?

Fowl: Set up a trap to catch a guinea fowl. Then they have to act like a fowl and activate the trap to get their next clue.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:20:43 PM
Teams have to imitate when the bushmen make animal noises. :lol3: Caroline & Jennifer choose fire... and then make great noises. :lol3:

Joey & Meghan are out of the detour. Chuck & Wynona and Pam & Winnie are still left.

Bates & Anthony watched a demonstration of the firemaking. Now they're trying.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:21:53 PM
Caroline & Jennifer start fire...

Katie: "It smells really good in this car right now..."

Max & Katie and Mona & Beth both pick fire. Katie: "My god, they stink. Really bushmen?" :res:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: laimis on March 24, 2013, 08:23:03 PM
It looks like an ALIEN
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:24:01 PM
Both teams find their scorpion. Wynona: "Am I going to die if this thing bites me?" Pam & Winnie leave before Chuck & Wynona.

Bates starts getting flames... They started the fire! And how the bushman's pipe works! Make your way on foot with the bushmen to the next pit stop. Pit stop: Meno A Kwena Safari Camp. Last team may be eliminated.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:25:34 PM
Caroline & Jennifer are having trouble with the detour. Mona & beth and Max & Katie arrive. Apparently Joey is pretty close friends with the bushmen. Joey: "I'll tweet you." Bushmen: "Keep going straight." :lol3:

Bates & Anthony are team #1! They've won a trip to Phuket, Thailand.

Pit stop:
1st - Bates & Anthony
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:26:58 PM
Bates: "We're getting stronger... at least our body odour is." :lol3:

Mona & Beth are struggling with the fire. Max likes having his lighter when using pipes... not a stick and poo. :lol3:

Pam & Winnie: "We're smuggling bushmen." :lol3: They're doing fowl because they know how hard it is to start a fire.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:28:53 PM
Chuck & Wynona pick fowl. Chuck has done a lot of trapping. Chuck: "This is like how I hunt deer in Alabama!"

Teams are still struggling with fire... lol @ Pam & Winnie imitating the walk and noises of the bushmen. They start making their trap. Chuck & Wynona arrive. Pam & Winnie get nervous. "Chuck probably brushes his teeth and makes a snare..." :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:30:28 PM
Caroline & Jennifer decide to switch. Joey & Meghan decide to switch. Mona & Beth decide to switch too! :ascared Max & Katie decide to stay for a little longer.

Chuck didn't have a job in high school and he set up traps and snares... Wynona didn't know that about him. :lol3: They're so amazing.

Pam & Winnie finish the detour... IN SECOND! They're off to the pit stop.

Max & Katie are struggling big time. Commercial.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: gamerfan09 on March 24, 2013, 08:31:25 PM
I think Maxie's last. :(
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Glamazon Racer on March 24, 2013, 08:31:56 PM
I'm very surprised people chose the Fire. My first instinct would be Fowl.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Declive on March 24, 2013, 08:32:13 PM
Amazing how Pam & Winnie made up time in the FOWL detour.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: laimis on March 24, 2013, 08:33:32 PM
lol, I would choose fowl too, to make a fire is very hard, I have tried it
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:33:37 PM
Chuck & Wynona could get their best placing this leg! :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: NoluckBoston on March 24, 2013, 08:35:28 PM
I'm very surprised people chose the Fire. My first instinct would be Fowl.

Agreed!
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:36:34 PM
And we're back with Max & Katie struggling with fire. They decided to switch to fowl.

All the other teams are heading to fowl. Chuck & Wynona figure out they're not last! :hearts:

Pam & Winnie arrive at the pit stop... They're team #2!

Pit stop:
1st - Bates & Anthony
2nd - Pam & Winnie
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:38:08 PM
All the other teams start doing fowl. CHUCK & WYNONA FINISH THE DETOUR IN 3RD. :hearts: :hearts: :hearts: The Kalahari bushmen are great at acting like fowls! :lol3:

Mona & Beth are struggling. Joey & Meghan's fathers are both carpenters.

Chuck & Wynona are team #3! Chuck is surprised that they beat the younger teams! :hearts: About time they stopped getting second last!

Pit stop:
1st - Bates & Anthony
2nd - Pam & Winnie
3rd - Chuck & Wynona
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:39:01 PM
Joey & Meghan finish building their trap. They're out of fowl in 4th. Caroline & Jennifer are out in 5th.

Mona & Beth and Max & Katie are left...

Joey & Meghan are team #4.

Pit stop:
1st - Bates & Anthony
2nd - Pam & Winnie
3rd - Chuck & Wynona
4th - Joey & Meghan
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:40:13 PM
Max & Katie thought they had their trap set up properly but it's not so they have to do it again.

Caroline & Jennifer are team #5. Phil asks the bushmen if they think Caroline & Jennifer are pretty... Looks like Caroline & Jennifer have found some boyfriends!

Pit stop:
1st - Bates & Anthony
2nd - Pam & Winnie
3rd - Chuck & Wynona
4th - Joey & Meghan
5th - Caroline & Jennifer
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:41:18 PM
Mona & Beth finish the detour... They start going down the path... But they're worried it's wrong. They think they have to DRIVE? They start going back to check if there are cars. :groan:

Max & Katie finish the detour...

Race between them to the pit stop...

Mona & Beth get to the pit stop in 6th!

Pit stop:
1st - Bates & Anthony
2nd - Pam & Winnie
3rd - Chuck & Wynona
4th - Joey & Meghan
5th - Caroline & Jennifer
6th - Mona & Beth
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: laimis on March 24, 2013, 08:42:21 PM
LUCKY BASTARDS
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:42:27 PM
Max & Katie are the last team to arrive... Max: "This is sickening." It's a non-elimination leg and they're still in the race. They will encounter a speedbump on the next leg. Max: "Today we made a stupid mistake... Tomorrow someone else will make a stupid mistake."

Pit stop:
1st - Bates & Anthony
2nd - Pam & Winnie
3rd - Chuck & Wynona
4th - Joey & Meghan
5th - Caroline & Jennifer
6th - Mona & Beth
7th - Max & Katie (NEL)
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Magnus on March 24, 2013, 08:43:27 PM
Max and Katie are saved! :hearts:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Declive on March 24, 2013, 08:44:12 PM
End of show! Let's all wait our special announcement!  :hearts:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Polaroid on March 24, 2013, 08:46:02 PM
Next week on TAR..

Chuck & Wynona are in a canoe-type thing... Wynona is trying to paddle but she's struggling... Chuck can't help her.

Phil: "It all comes down to donkeys." OMG DONKEY CHALLENGE? Looks like a race between Joey & Meghan and Max & Katie...
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: RachelLeVega on March 24, 2013, 08:46:16 PM
I really think this episode has to be the best one this season. :hearts: Loved the Detour, was entertained with the Roadblock! My new favorite teams: THR BUSHMEN TRIO! :iok :iok :iok
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Declive on March 24, 2013, 08:46:29 PM
DONKEYS AGAIN!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Air on March 24, 2013, 08:47:51 PM
Donkeys <3333333

Who said the title quote?
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: RaceUntilWeDie on March 24, 2013, 08:48:08 PM
Pretty boring episode.

Very shocked at Max & Katie getting last (not surprised at the NEL, though)

Props to C/W getting into the Top 3! :hearts:

Other than those I don't really have much else to say ..
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: laimis on March 24, 2013, 08:48:26 PM
Donkeys <3333333

Who said the title quote?

Joey
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: RachelLeVega on March 24, 2013, 08:48:36 PM
Next week on TAR..

Chuck & Wynona are in a canoe-type thing... Wynona is trying to paddle but she's struggling... Chuck can't help her.

Phil: "It all comes down to donkeys." OMG DONKEY CHALLENGE? Looks like a race between Joey & Meghan and Max & Katie...

Heather & Eve, Ari & Staella, and Nathan & Jennifer drama! :hearts: :hearts: :hearts:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: RaceUntilWeDie on March 24, 2013, 08:48:48 PM
Donkeys <3333333

Who said the title quote?

I believe Joey did, not sure.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: NoluckBoston on March 24, 2013, 08:49:05 PM
Man that Donkey/ Joey will be Ari from Season 12 all over again.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: kevin2012 on March 24, 2013, 08:49:38 PM
Donkeys <3333333

Who said the title quote?

I believe Joey did, not sure.

It was Joey
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Glamazon Racer on March 24, 2013, 08:50:06 PM
Next week on TAR..

Chuck & Wynona are in a canoe-type thing... Wynona is trying to paddle but she's struggling... Chuck can't help her.

Phil: "It all comes down to donkeys." OMG DONKEY CHALLENGE? Looks like a race between Joey & Meghan and Max & Katie...

Heather & Eve, Ari & Staella, and Nathan & Jennifer drama! :hearts: :hearts: :hearts:

And don't forget Jonathan & Victoria! :lol3:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Theo on March 24, 2013, 08:50:23 PM
Chuck & Wynona 3rd place <3333
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: georgiapeach on March 24, 2013, 08:56:25 PM
I am very proud to be teaming up with the TAR 22 racers!

Touched by the people of Botswana, TAR 22 is giving back! LoveBotswana has a 25 yr history of working to reduce the spread of HIV, help abandoned babies, educate future leaders, and empower women and caregivers. If you can, please donate & share this message! $10 (one latte, lol?) will support full care for one child for 24 hours! The world is smaller than you think, let's all help our neighbors! #LoveBotswana
http://lovebotswana.org/ways-to-donate/Donate-Resources
http://lovebotswana.org/


Asking ALL Of you to please FB post this and TWEET the one below...

Together we can all make an AMAZING difference!

Message to Tweet:

Touched by Botswana, TAR22 teams are giving back! #LoveBotswana has 25yr history of helping. Pls RT & donate! http://bit.ly/16aRbFz (http://bit.ly/16aRbFz)
 
 
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Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Bwils927 on March 24, 2013, 09:03:11 PM
I think the canoe thing could be a roadblock similar to the S1E10 RB where you had to row partner to the clue.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: NoluckBoston on March 24, 2013, 09:12:28 PM
He had a little goat in the canoe.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: RachelLeVega on March 24, 2013, 11:20:20 PM
I am very proud to be teaming up with the TAR 22 racers!

Touched by the people of Botswana, TAR 22 is giving back! LoveBotswana has a 25 yr history of working to reduce the spread of HIV, help abandoned babies, educate future leaders, and empower women and caregivers. If you can, please donate & share this message! $10 (one latte, lol?) will support full care for one child for 24 hours! The world is smaller than you think, let's all help our neighbors! #LoveBotswana
http://lovebotswana.org/ways-to-donate/Donate-Resources
http://lovebotswana.org/


Asking ALL Of you to please FB post this and TWEET the one below...

Together we can all make an AMAZING difference!

Message to Tweet:

Touched by Botswana, TAR22 teams are giving back! #LoveBotswana has 25yr history of helping. Pls RT & donate! http://bit.ly/16aRbFz (http://bit.ly/16aRbFz)
 
 
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I would love to make an amazing donation to help Botswana out! One of the most beautiful countries in the southern portion of Africa.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: georgiapeach on March 24, 2013, 11:55:06 PM
Please do!! :tu
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Jobby on March 25, 2013, 03:49:15 AM
Last time on The Amazing Race... 8 teams race on to Hanoi, Vietnam!

Father and son made the decision to quit the race and say goodbye.

5 teams set their minds to U-TURN Joey and Meghan and Mona and Beth.

Joey and Meghan and Chuck and Wynona survived the raceeeeee!

7 teams remain, who will be eliminated next.

Wynona: MR KNOW IT ALL. THIS SHOULD BE THE EPISODE QUOTE RIGHT? LOL
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: jostor on March 25, 2013, 05:00:17 AM
I guess it wasn't too hard to call that it was a non-elimation, but that's more or less the only thing I got right in my prediction about placements.... Looking forward to the next leg.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: starrynight on March 25, 2013, 06:04:50 AM
They didn't have to do much in the scorpion task.  The fire making was the main highlight as far as the race tension.  A weakness of wilderness area legs is that they rarely seem to have any navigation.  Though I remember in classic earlier seasons they still had them driving to find route markers in the desert.  It always felt like a non-elimination, and that combined with the shortness of the leg in Africa made it an average kind of episode.  The leg seemed more about getting responses for the camera (in reaction to the scorpion, getting caught in the trap) than anything else.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Jobby on March 25, 2013, 06:28:01 AM
This is Vietnam... this National History Museum is the start of the 6th leg of the race.

Pam and Winnie will depart first at 1040pm.

Teams must fly 6000 miles to MAUN, BOTSWANA!

Teams must sign up for one of three flights!

Max and Katie: 11.34pm, WHAT? Pam and Winnie owned the last leg!

Katie: I am smart and I have a DR.

Mona and Beth: 11.37pm. (why such a big difference?)

Mona and Beth: We are great at everything~

Bates and Anthony: 11.39pm.

Bates or Anthony: I think we are going to KENYA. ;LOL.

Country Singers: 1146PM. WE REALLY REALLY WANT TO GO TO AFRICA. They think it's KENYA too.

Pamela and Winnie: GOING TO BOTSWANA (Leaving at 1045AM!!!)

Max and Katie at the TRAVEL AGENT. Same thing as Pamela and Winnie.

Mona and Beth, don't know where they are. Caroline and Jennifer: OMG, MAX AND KATIE TOLD THEM. SO NICE OF THEM. SHOCKER!

Bates and Anthony tell the boys is BOTSWANA. LOL.

Joey and Meghan (12.47AM): WE ARE THE MOST POPULAR PEOPLE. -_-

Chuck and Wynona: 3.26AM. (Oh gosh, they took at least 3 hours???)
This is the 3rd leg in a row we have left in last place.

THEY ARE ALL GOING THE SAME FLIGHT. MAUN: Australia, Turkey, Bangladesh... Republic of Paraguay...

CHUCK: BOTSWANA. OMG. WHERE DID THAT COME FROM LOL.

Wynona: We found out Joey and Meghan U-TURNed us...

Pamela and Winnie: Consider a compliment that we U-TURNed you.

Chuck and Wynona: WE CAN'T AFFORD TO BE ON THE THIRD FLIGHT.

They are getting to Maun through a connection in HONG KONG and JHB.

Caroline and Jennifer and Bates and Anthony 9AM FLIGHT.
MAX AND KATIE 9.15AM. JOEY AND MEGHAN 9.15AM.
MONA AND BETH, CHUCK AND WYNONA AND PAMELA AND WINNIE ON THE LAST FLIGHT... WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

Chuck and Wynona always on the last flight. They feel that they are getting in trouble again.

CAROLINE AND JENNIFER in first place on first flight is SHOCKER. LOL.

The girls and Bates and Anthony hitting it up. -_- *rolleyes*

Omg the flight is so cool! All the animals in the safari and everything.

Joey and Meghan and Max and Katie on the same plane. Max and Katie hates Joey and Meghan LOL.

Chuck and Wynona, this is where the lion king was made. SO CUTE. <3

Caroline and Jennifer: CURRENTLY IN 1ST PLACE AGAIN. OMG -_-

Boys and Country girls working together!

2nd flight gets in!
Joey and Meghan 3rd, Max and Katie 4th.

Katie: There should be a marked path.

FIRST AT ROADBLOCK: BATES AND ANTHONY.

ROADBLOCK: SEARCH FOR SCORPION. OMG. DIG FOR SCORPION.

There is a lion over there. OMG. And Caroline/Jennifer doesn't care. Pamela and Winnie with first CURRENTLY IN LAST PLACE.

Joey and Meghan to reach ROADBLOCK THIRD. Max and Katie FOURTH.

Max and Katie: These guys were actors, they were the real deals.

Joey: I don't want to touch it. I don't want to touch it.

Bates and Anthony: I don't being pinch by the country singers.

Caroline/Jen not finding a scorpion.

Mona and Beth 5th to reach RB. Chuck and Wynona 6TH, Pamela and Winnie, 7TH. Wynona is finally doing THE ROADBLOCK.

Mona and Beth's bush man are good. They found IT even before Max! Max is shocked. LOL.

Joey completely freaking out. LOL. "I have to touch that thing?"
Bushman: He's our friend so we are cleaning it.

Bates and Anthony singing to the bush man. Currently still in first place at the DETOUR.

DETOUR: FIRE OR FOWL
Fire: Walk to nearby campside, AKA SURVIVOR TASK.
Fowl: Hunting with bushman to catch a fowl. Okay, I think Fowl is easier. Building a fire is not easy! LOL

Caroline and Jennifer enjoying their time with the bushman too! They are doing fire too!

ROADBLOCK FINISH POSITION:
Bates and Anthony
Caroline/Jennifer (STRONG GIRLS)
Mona and Beth
Max and Katie
Pamela and Winnie
Chuck and Wynona (LAST PLACE)

Joey says the quote this episode.

Max and Katie 3rd to Detour, Moms in 4th at Detour.
Katie: My God, They Stink. Bad KATIE BAD KATIE.

Bates and Anthony are done with Detour in 1ST PLACE.

Teams must make their way to the pitstop, Meno A Kwena Safari Camp!

Mona and Beth and Max and Katie are both at FIRE.

Joey and Meghan are FIRING TOO.

Bates and Anthony obviously in first place. If all of you didn't expect it, you all must see more screenshots!

Bates and Anthony: Our body odour is getting stronger.

Joey: JUMP ROPE. I wished that was a challenge, I'll do so good at it.

Mona and Beth struggling with Detour too. I THINK THIS MIGHT BE A FOOT RACE? ANYONE?

Pam and Winnie: We are smuggling bush man.

Pamela and Winnie: We watch alot of TV and we are very prepared. Fowl too!

Chuck and Wynona: FOWL?? FOWL?? OMG. This might be exciting to watch. So many teams all at once!

Caroline and Jennifer: Switching Detour?
Chuck and Wynona: Tie and barely behind Pamela and Winnie.

Caroline and Jennifer SWITCHING!!! Joey and Meghan and Mona and Beth SWITCHING! WHATTTTTTTTTTTT?

Chuck is OWNING THE DETOUR!

OMG. THE DETOUR IS OBVIOUSLY EASIER. PAMELA AND WINNIE IN 2ND WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.

Max and Katie are in trouble, they can't get fire... WHAT?

Max and Katie switching too. WHAT?

CHUCK AND WYNONA MIGHT NOT BE IN LAST PLACE WHATTTTTTTTT?

PAMELA AND WINNIE, TEAM NUMBER 2. LOL.

Max and Katie are in last placeeeee!

Chuck and Wynona are in THIRD PLACE. WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

Caroline and Jennifer VS Mona and Beth VS Max and Katie VS Joey and Meghan

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

CHUCK AND WYNONA, 3RD WHATTTTTTTTTTT? <3333333333

JOEY AND MEGHAN ARE NOT IN LAST WHATTTTTTTTTTT?

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

CAROLINE AND JENNIFER ARE 5TH AND NOT LAST... WHAT??????????????????

MONA AND BETH VS MAX AND KATIE.

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

Joey and Meghan and team #4.

MAX AND KATIE GOT IT WRONG? OMG. WHATTTTTTTTTTTT?

MONA AND BETH STRUGGLING.

CAROLINE AND JENNIFER TEAM #5.

The bushman like CAROLINE AND JENNIFER. LOL.

MONA AND BETH GOT IT. WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

MONA AND BETH ARE 6TH.

MAX AND KATIE ARE DEAD LAST. WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

MONA AND BETH ARE GOING TO DRIVE... WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

MONA AND BETH??????????????????

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

MONA AND BETH VS MAX AND KATIE WHAT?

Mona and Beth is Team #6.

MAX AND KATIE ARE THE LAST TEAM TO ARRIVE. IT'S A NEL. OMG.

THEY ARE GOING TO FACE A SPEEDBUMP. OMG.

THIS IS NEL <33333333333333333333

Katie: Honey-mooning continuing in AFRICA.

Next week on TAR: Chuck and Wynona fight with one another. It comes down to DONKEYS. JOEY AND MEGHAN VS MAX AND KATIE. WHATTTTTTTTTTTT?
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Jobby on March 25, 2013, 06:31:00 AM
BEST EPISODE THIS SEASON
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Air on March 25, 2013, 06:32:13 AM
Joab loves his WHATTTTTTs apparently. :lol:
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Jobby on March 25, 2013, 06:47:59 AM
Joab loves his WHATTTTTTs apparently. :lol:

I was just shocked. LAST 15 MINUTES OF THE SHOW = WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?

Out of no where the last 2 teams checked in 2nd and 3rd and the 4 teams all swopped Detour, out of no where Max and Katie and Mona and Beth who completed RB in 3rd and 4th were in last place.

AND AS IF IT'S NOT ENOUGH... The editor tries to throw us off by showing those comments about Mona and Beth wanting to drive to the pitstop.

AND THEN MAX AND KATIE COMPLETED THEIR DETOUR.

AND THEN FOOT RACE.

AND THEN PIT-STOP.

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: paradoxinee on March 25, 2013, 09:46:45 AM
To Joab: Chucky got Botswana from the mobile he borrowed the taxi driver.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: starrynight on March 25, 2013, 12:42:33 PM
I don't get why such a big deal was made out of them finding what country it was in the editing, all they had to do was ask a few people.

Overall I think this was one of the weaker in this season.  African legs are often very short now, didn't use to be like that.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Jobby on March 25, 2013, 01:05:43 PM
Because it's funny how people don't know Maun is in Botswana? And that this shows how the racers are actually learning stuff while on the race, life experiences and this is not just a competition?
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: starrynight on March 25, 2013, 01:16:38 PM
Most people in the world won't know where Maun is, but all you do is go on the internet or ask a travel agency and you will find out.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: DrRox on March 25, 2013, 01:19:54 PM
Joey & Meghan get their tuckets. Chuck & Wynona arrive at the travel agency and they're just guessing countries... Chuck finally gets it right! :lol3:


I just thought that Chuck was naming countries from the visas in their passports. The answers were just so random and he really appeared to be reading from some kind of list.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: starrynight on March 25, 2013, 01:35:17 PM
I thought Chuck was on the phone to somebody, Wynona was just reading out a list while he was waiting on someone it looked like.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: apskip on March 25, 2013, 01:39:36 PM
I could not figure out how Chuck was selecting countries, but using the voluminous list of visas they started AR22 with is a very logical, but not obvious, prediction. I believe kudos are due to Dr. Rox. Note that Chuck only got it right after using someone's (presumably his taxi driver's) cellphone.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Dånooky on March 25, 2013, 01:46:15 PM
I could not figure out how Chuck was selecting countries, but using the voluminous list of visas they started AR22 with is a very logical, but not obvious, prediction. I believe kudos are due to Dr. Rox. Note that Chuck only got it right after using someone's (presumably his taxi driver's) cellphone.
Well, if you pay attention you will notice that Wynona has her passport out in that scene, probably flipping through their visas.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: apskip on March 25, 2013, 01:50:58 PM
Because it's funny how people don't know Maun is in Botswana? And that this shows how the racers are actually learning stuff while on the race, life experiences and this is not just a competition?
Any historian of Amazing Races knows that those potential water towers cited in one of the threads (maybe it's even earlier in this one) were the water tower or grain elevator (not too likely as why would there be any in an area not known for grain production) shown in Maun in Amazing Race 7 episode 6. The end of that episode was a pit stop in the same Makgadikgali Pans, cited by Phil as the largest salt pans in the world.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Chateau d If on March 25, 2013, 01:53:13 PM
I could not figure out how Chuck was selecting countries, but using the voluminous list of visas they started AR22 with is a very logical, but not obvious, prediction. I believe kudos are due to Dr. Rox. Note that Chuck only got it right after using someone's (presumably his taxi driver's) cellphone.
Well, if you pay attention you will notice that Wynona has her passport out in that scene, probably flipping through their visas.

Wynona's approach, although brilliant, would not have yielded the answer.  No visa is required by US passport holders:

Embassy of the Republic of Botswana (http://www.botswanaembassy.org/countries-that-do-not-require-visa/)

Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Chateau d If on March 25, 2013, 01:59:15 PM
Because it's funny how people don't know Maun is in Botswana? And that this shows how the racers are actually learning stuff while on the race, life experiences and this is not just a competition?
Any historian of Amazing Races knows that those potential water towers cited in one of the threads (maybe it's even earlier in this one) were the water tower or grain elevator (not too likely as why would there be any in an area not known for grain production) shown in Maun in Amazing Race 7 episode 6. The end of that episode was a pit stop in the same Makgadikgali Pans, cited by Phil as the largest salt pans in the world.

I saw that the daylight conditions were altered for the clip that had the clouds in question.  Now I need to see if this clip is from Season 7. 

I really do want to find the elusive wabbit water tank  :)
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: apskip on March 25, 2013, 02:17:12 PM
I could not figure out how Chuck was selecting countries, but using the voluminous list of visas they started AR22 with is a very logical, but not obvious, prediction. I believe kudos are due to Dr. Rox. Note that Chuck only got it right after using someone's (presumably his taxi driver's) cellphone.
Well, if you pay attention you will notice that Wynona has her passport out in that scene, probably flipping through their visas.

Wynona's approach, although brilliant, would not have yielded the answer.  No visa is required by US passport holders:

Embassy of the Republic of Botswana (http://www.botswanaembassy.org/countries-that-do-not-require-visa/)


I could not figure out how Chuck was selecting countries, but using the voluminous list of visas they started AR22 with is a very logical, but not obvious, prediction. I believe kudos are due to Dr. Rox. Note that Chuck only got it right after using someone's (presumably his taxi driver's) cellphone.
Well, if you pay attention you will notice that Wynona has her passport out in that scene, probably flipping through their visas.

Wynona's approach, although brilliant, would not have yielded the answer.  No visa is required by US passport holders:

Embassy of the Republic of Botswana (http://www.botswanaembassy.org/countries-that-do-not-require-visa/)


Chateau,
I could not figure out how Chuck was selecting countries, but using the voluminous list of visas they started AR22 with is a very logical, but not obvious, prediction. I believe kudos are due to Dr. Rox. Note that Chuck only got it right after using someone's (presumably his taxi driver's) cellphone.
Well, if you pay attention you will notice that Wynona has her passport out in that scene, probably flipping through their visas.

Wynona's approach, although brilliant, would not have yielded the answer.  No visa is required by US passport holders:

Embassy of the Republic of Botswana (http://www.botswanaembassy.org/countries-that-do-not-require-visa/)


Nobody said that Wynona would have found a Botswana visa in her passport. Chuck and Wynona did not find one there for the reason you cited, Chateau: U.S. citizens are permitted stays up to 90 days total within a 12-month periodwithout a visa.

However, what I did say is that chuck's cellphone was the eventual conduit for the needed information on where Maun is to get into the travel agency.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: kiki on March 25, 2013, 11:57:04 PM
From this episode we can deduce one thing: None of the racers, except Pam and Winnie, has ever watched Survivor!
All of us reality tv junkies know how difficult is to light a fire.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Jobby on March 25, 2013, 11:59:37 PM
Dan, I got what you were trying to say, it's okay.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Chateau d If on March 26, 2013, 01:00:00 AM
From this episode we can deduce one thing: None of the racers, except Pam and Winnie, has ever watched Survivor!
All of us reality tv junkies know how difficult is to light a fire.

And they certainly have not applied for Survivor either!  Every Survivor contestant I have ever talked to learned how to make a fire with sticks before going.  I think the technique used in the detour is tough to do.  Blisters-a-plenty that way.  The split bamboo technique, shown on Survivor, looks much easier.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: DrRox on March 26, 2013, 01:10:29 AM
Wynona's approach, although brilliant, would not have yielded the answer.  No visa is required by US passport holders:
Embassy of the Republic of Botswana (http://www.botswanaembassy.org/countries-that-do-not-require-visa/)

Chateau, personally I think you are completely wrong in your assumption that Wynona did not have a visa for Botswana in her passport. From your link, it is true that US passport holders do not need a visa to enter Botswana, if they enter Botswana as tourists or visitors.

So the question is, do TAR racers enter foreign countries as tourists/visitors? I think not. For many reasons (legal,liability,etc), I suspect they are listed on the books as employees of WRP. It only makes sense.

So now we get to the question of WRP. Does it enter a county as a "tourist organization," such as a tour operator? No, it is a commerical/business operation/venture. As such, the rules governing entering a country are much different than the rules for tourists/visitors. From the main webpage that you listed, commerical filming in Botswana requires a filming permit. One of the questions on that permit is a list of all employees.

Also from that website, for a foreign national to work in Botswana, a "work permit" is required. Guess what??....to get a "work permit" to work in Botswana, you have to fill out a Visa application.

From my own experience as an ex-pat living and working abroad, I know it was always much more complicated for me to get my "papers in order" than for normal tourists. So I will reiterate that it is/was perfectly possible for Wynona to come up with Botswana from her passport. So there is a good question to ask the racers at either TARcon or any other watching party.....did/do they have visas for every country they visit.

One question I have always had about TAR is this. Do they outsource the visa aquisition process to a visa service or do they have an inhouse department that does this. What I mean, does WRP actually have an employee(s) that actually walk the passports to the different consulates or do they pay another company to walk the passports around. Many, but not all, countries will let you mail your passport to their consulate/embassy to get a Visa, but I would think that WRP would actually walk them to the consulate, since they have to get visa for so many people, racers, crew,management. I just can't see an operation that is as big as WRP trusting the mail system.

I certainly could be wrong. 
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: georgiapeach on March 26, 2013, 01:20:41 AM
It is my understanding that they do NOT have visas for all countries, that they receive tourist visas, that some visas are purchased (when allowed) on site with some of the allocated funds.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: Chateau d If on March 26, 2013, 01:27:46 AM
Okay, we can ask but they can't tell!

However, I bet they get to travel as if they are tourists.   ;)

Would a travel blogger have to get a visa just because they are going to make a living by their writing?

Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: maf on March 26, 2013, 02:04:53 AM
Also from that website, for a foreign national to work in Botswana, a "work permit" is required. Guess what??....to get a "work permit" to work in Botswana, you have to fill out a Visa application.

As long as you stay a limited time and your work is not paid for by a local company you generally can get by on a tourist visa. Of course exceptions apply, like a foreign journalist who wishes to report from the USA must get a special visa.

But I would expect that in almost all cases the racers as well as WRP can get by on tourist visas.

    /MaF
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: apskip on March 26, 2013, 08:07:06 AM
Wynona's approach, although brilliant, would not have yielded the answer.  No visa is required by US passport holders:
Embassy of the Republic of Botswana (http://www.botswanaembassy.org/countries-that-do-not-require-visa/)

...did/do they have visas for every country they visit? 

Dr. Rox,

From past discussion related to prior Amazing Race seasons, and I don't remember precisely when it was (although Peach might), the standard procedure for every Amazing Race is for World Race Productions to place a large number of visas into each racer's passport before their race begins. A minority of them are countries they will actually be visiting but there will also be a majority of irrelevant ones to disguise where they will be really going.
Title: Re: TAR 22 Ep 6 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **Please read the rules**
Post by: theschnauzers on March 27, 2013, 12:10:27 AM
Actually you have to take the process one step further. In the early seasons (at a minimum) teams had to sign or otherwise fill out visa applications for some of the countries (the producers were able to do this for other countries) and this would be done before the final selection of teams during the final interviews.

The teams would see visas for countries in their passports some of which were not going to be visited. Another thing to keep in mind is that the producers would have to have visas for backup or alternate legs as well as the primary destinations that TPTB plan to go to for that season.

So the presence of additional visas isn't just to obscure the actual countries the teams may visit, it's also to have the paperwork done for countries that may have to be used at the last minute.

Might be a good question to ask some of the recent season racers, especially since the question keeps coming up.