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Belle Book:
--- Quote from: puddin on December 07, 2009, 07:41:58 PM ---here you can read about it
Dunlap said on Monday that the counter who checked their work made a mistake that placed them third in the challenge and could have cost them the race.
It’s easy for us to blame her and say it was her fault, but it really was,” Dunlap said. “She was organizing her chips once we laid them on the table, and she put one of the black $500 chips in the same pile in between the blue $100 chips. We were $400 off and it was something really crazy …. When she found out that she had done that, her face was so pale. Oh gosh, she really looked like she had seen a ghost. She looked over at the producers like, ‘What do I do? They were like, ‘Count it again guys.’ I was like, ‘You’re kidding me, right?
When the show aired, the part where Dunlap and Kleinschmidt completed the last task never aired. It is important to Dunlap that people know they did. “We are finishers and we finished that race completely,” she said.
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What rotten luck!
Belle Book
Slowhatch:
It's not as if she was a bad taxi driver or a local giving bad directions; although the chip counter probably draws her paycheck from the casino, she was working under the direction of WRP for the task, so production bears some responsibility in this. In any other leg B/E might have been given a time credit, but the final leg makes that impossible. Maybe WRP will arrange the final leg of future races to minimize the chance of this sort of error.
Very bad planning from production.
alittlebird:
In response to someone's post about the chip counting & Maria & Tiffany: The locations and challenges are determined before casting is completed, and those who design such things are kept in the dark about contestants until the route/challenges are locked. Hence, the ride in Sweden that one of the globetrotters couldn't ride - I have a feeling the person who designed that wasn't anticipating a contestant too tall to ride it.
Hooky:
--- Quote from: alittlebird on December 08, 2009, 12:56:57 PM ---In response to someone's post about the chip counting & Maria & Tiffany: The locations and challenges are determined before casting is completed, and those who design such things are kept in the dark about contestants until the route/challenges are locked. Hence, the ride in Sweden that one of the globetrotters couldn't ride - I have a feeling the person who designed that wasn't anticipating a contestant too tall to ride it.
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I thought it said somewhere on the application that the race course is decided at least partially based on the things that those who apply say they will or won't do. I was under the impression that the race course was decided after contestants were chosen. Do we have any evidence that it is designed before the teams are chosen?
Chateau d If:
--- Quote from: Slowhatch on December 08, 2009, 12:10:03 PM ---It's not as if she was a bad taxi driver or a local giving bad directions; although the chip counter probably draws her paycheck from the casino, she was working under the direction of WRP for the task, so production bears some responsibility in this. In any other leg B/E might have been given a time credit, but the final leg makes that impossible. Maybe WRP will arrange the final leg of future races to minimize the chance of this sort of error.
Very bad planning from production.
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There was a similar error in Season 9 when they had to put the country's flags in the order visited. The checkers and the racers confused the Irish flag with the Italian flag. In that case the error was corrected by having Tyler & BJ return to the task to correct the mistake after they had already run to the finish mat. Even so, they were able to correct it and before Jeremy & Eric were done. Jeremy & Eric had made the same Ireland/Italy mistake as well.
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