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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #475 on: June 11, 2010, 12:58:28 AM »
Yet another facebook post from the last few minutes:

amazing race the tv show is coming through my army post monday. dannng lol. I cant wait to watch it on tv

The guy is in the US Army. Don't know if he's in South Korea or not. Seems likely though.



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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #476 on: June 11, 2010, 12:58:59 AM »
just saying...that now that we know that TARA 4 is underway...and that this event will not occur until Monday...we are back to the fact that this could be either TARA or TAR.

Based on responses to my questions from the posters, I am going to stay with TAR for now though....
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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #477 on: June 11, 2010, 02:20:00 AM »
Guys i don't know anything about it but a girl  tweet this 15 min. ago.

so we went to LUNA PARK today and saw amazing race people running the race through luna park :)

The profile of the girl says that she is from Australia, and the Melbourne's Luna Park is the oldest in existence according to wikipedia, but still there's another one in Sidney...

Don't know anything else.... It could be TAR17 or TARA or nothing at all

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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #478 on: June 11, 2010, 02:31:35 AM »
Guys i don't know anything about it but a girl  tweet this 15 min. ago.

so we went to LUNA PARK today and saw amazing race people running the race through luna park :)

The profile of the girl says that she is from Australia, and the Melbourne's Luna Park is the oldest in existence according to wikipedia, but still there's another one in Sidney...

Don't know anything else.... It could be TAR17 or TARA or nothing at all

I saw that and figured it was something local in Melbourne. We have more or less current TARA sightings in Penang and Borneo, so I doubt it's TARA. I didn't think it was TAR, but after thinking it over, if they left Bangladesh on the 9th (as the timeline suggests), it's possible they could have been in Melbourne on the 10th (or would it be the 11th already in Australia?).

Doesn't TAR end up at an amusement park at some point every season?  :fun
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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #479 on: June 11, 2010, 02:32:03 AM »
Guys i don't know anything about it but a girl  tweet this 15 min. ago.

so we went to LUNA PARK today and saw amazing race people running the race through luna park :)

The profile of the girl says that she is from Australia, and the Melbourne's Luna Park is the oldest in existence according to wikipedia, but still there's another one in Sidney...

Don't know anything else.... It could be TAR17 or TARA or nothing at all
I think it's TARA,from Malaysia to Australia.If TAR17 departed  oman and flew to Bangladesh at the night of Jun 8,then they race in Bangladesh on Jun 9.It's no time for them race in Australia on Jun 10.
« Last Edit: June 11, 2010, 02:41:48 AM by weihen »


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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #480 on: June 11, 2010, 02:38:16 AM »
Guys i don't know anything about it but a girl  tweet this 15 min. ago.

so we went to LUNA PARK today and saw amazing race people running the race through luna park :)

The profile of the girl says that she is from Australia, and the Melbourne's Luna Park is the oldest in existence according to wikipedia, but still there's another one in Sidney...

Don't know anything else.... It could be TAR17 or TARA or nothing at all

I saw that and figured it was something local in Melbourne. We have more or less current TARA sightings in Penang and Borneo, so I doubt it's TARA. I didn't think it was TAR, but after thinking it over, if they left Bangladesh on the 9th (as the timeline suggests), it's possible they could have been in Melbourne on the 10th (or would it be the 11th already in Australia?).
It's 5:35pm on the 11th in Melbourne.  :tup:

The racers would be having a miserable time if it is them, it's been cold and miserable all day.  :lol:

ETA: But I doubt it's them, the logistics of it all doesn't really add up. Bangladesh > Melbourne > Seoul just seems to far. Melbourne seems like too much of a divergence from what we know about the route.
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« Reply #481 on: June 11, 2010, 02:57:38 AM »
I don't know if it was our TAR or not, but here's another tweet from someone who saw something at Luna Park:

pretty awesome day at luna park, saw amazing race peeps ;)

She's from Sydney so the Luna Park in Sydney seems more likely, but she could have been in Melbourne. The wikipedia entry for the Luna Park in Sydney doesn't seem all that impressive, but it probably looks good in person.  :tup:
« Last Edit: June 11, 2010, 03:08:30 AM by Plaidmoon2 »

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« Reply #482 on: June 11, 2010, 03:12:18 AM »
I don't know if it was our TAR or not, but here's another tweet from someone who saw something at Luna Park:

pretty awesome day at luna park, saw amazing race peeps ;)

She's from Sydney so the Luna Park in Sydney seems more likely, but she could have been in Melbourne. The wikipedia entry for the Luna Park in Sydney doesn't seem all that impressive, but it probably looks good in person.  :tup:
Hmm.  It might be our race.  And hey, we do have yet to showcase Australia during its wintertime (though isn't it technically the tail end of autumn there?), so that'd be a nice contrast.

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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #483 on: June 11, 2010, 03:13:14 AM »

Oh!  Ask if the dark-haired girl had short or long hair.  Short means it's the pink girls.  Long means it's the blue girls.

Not short hair...just tucked back.


If that was taken in the Oman airport, then that tells us everything about which one he saw.

If earlier, then . . . I still don't know.

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« Reply #484 on: June 11, 2010, 03:15:41 AM »

If that was taken in the Oman airport, then that tells us everything about which one he saw.

If earlier, then . . . I still don't know.

That picture was taken in Logan Airport, Boston, in the first leg of the race.


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« Reply #485 on: June 11, 2010, 05:56:48 AM »
Another Army FBer posted half an hour ago

coming out on the show Amazing race as a tae kwan do back up. Check it out! Ha

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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #486 on: June 11, 2010, 06:26:52 AM »
I just found this as I was searching twitter. I think it is Indonesian, but I'm have no idea what they're saying.

EDIT: I forgot to include the actual tweet! However, i found someone who could translate it, and it wasn't a spoiler.  :(
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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #487 on: June 11, 2010, 05:00:14 PM »

There are no direct flight to Dhaka on June 8, but a number of 1 stop flights with Emirates, Gulfair, Qatar, Oman and JetAirways

The flight takes a minimum of 7 to 8 hrs.
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the guy just got back to me again, he talked to chad & stephanie at roughly 5.30 pm Oman time on June 8. C & S ended up taking the JetAir flight via Mumbai, the other girl-girl team took the qatar airways flight via doha.

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« Reply #488 on: June 11, 2010, 05:44:51 PM »

There are no direct flight to Dhaka on June 8, but a number of 1 stop flights with Emirates, Gulfair, Qatar, Oman and JetAirways

The flight takes a minimum of 7 to 8 hrs.

the guy just got back to me again, he talked to chad & stephanie at roughly 5.30 pm Oman time on June 8. C & S ended up taking the JetAir flight via Mumbai, the other girl-girl team took the qatar airways flight via doha.

JetAir via Mumbai seems to be
9W 539 Dep 12:35 (jun9) Arr 04:35am (jun9) 2hr30 flight time and
9W 276 Dep 9:30am (jun9) Arr 1:30pm (jun9) 3 hr3 flight time (arrive 63 min late)

Qatar via Doha
QR 169 Dep 11:36pm (jun8) Arr 11:48pm (jun8) 1hr12 flight time

earlier Qatar flight on jun8 is at 10am which doesn't fit  and I can only find a 9pm departure the next day from Doha onwards...
QR 344 Dep 9:16pm (jun9) Arr 5:19am (jun10) 5hr04 flight time

so the F/F flight looks like a bad mistake, or wrong information at the moment.   :( Will keep looking for other flights that would fit for them.

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« Reply #489 on: June 11, 2010, 06:15:49 PM »

Qatar via Doha
QR 169 Dep 11:36pm (jun8) Arr 11:48pm (jun8) 1hr12 flight time

earlier Qatar flight on jun8 is at 10am which doesn't fit  and I can only find a 9pm departure the next day from Doha onwards...
QR 344 Dep 9:16pm (jun9) Arr 5:19am (jun10) 5hr04 flight time

so the F/F flight looks like a bad mistake, or wrong information at the moment.   :( Will keep looking for other flights that would fit for them.


Flying via Doha, it seems it may be possible to land late afternoon in Dhaka on Jun9 if there is a second stopover via Bahrain or Dubai, but that is with Gulf Air or Emirates as far as I can see. Not sure if they code share with Qatar at all, but it seems very messy and unlikely. :duno:

Unless these teams were unexpectedly running well behind the other teams for some reason, because there are better connections earlier in the day, and with flights like this, it would be almost an 100% elimination... One would assume that production would usually reserve a few seats on various flights if it was believed that there could be difficulties procuring flights... :duno:

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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #490 on: June 11, 2010, 06:23:19 PM »
Saw this on FB an hour ago:

is one of the paramedics and PA member of this upcoming famous reality TV show that will be held in Albay "___THE AMAZING RACE___"

The person that posted that is in the Philippines.  Not sure if it's TARA4 or TAR17, if anything.

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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, Can Anyone Check the Camarines Sur Wakeboarding site, TAR maybe there!

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It's probably way too late, but I found the Camarines Sur Wakeboarding site at http://www.cwcwake.com/. I didn't see anything to suggest TAR 17 or TARA 4 was there, but they don't seem to have a webcam or anything like that.

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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #491 on: June 11, 2010, 09:24:32 PM »
I just feel the Albay leg can be surely speculated! I have something to share you, but I'll disclose it first to Peach and wait for some news on my report. :hearts: :hearts: :wohoo:
Have you yet?  Because I'm interested already.

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« Reply #492 on: June 11, 2010, 09:51:51 PM »

Have you yet?  Because I'm interested already.

I'll just bet you are. :groan:
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« Reply #493 on: June 12, 2010, 02:02:07 AM »
I'm not quite sure if this is anything or not, but since I have two sources that say the same thing I decided to post it here.

Found a facebook post in Chinese from 10 minutes or so ago:

Amazing Race@HKG Airport~ 好在參賽者一出閘就衝左去巴士站, 無走上黎info搵我問路o者~~

which google translates to

Amazing Race @ HKG Airport ~ Fortunately participants a red gate on the left to the bus stop, no info onto Lebanon who want me to ask for o ~ ~

then I found 2 twitter messages in English from about the same time:

Reached HK! :D

And I see amazing race groups here! :D haha

I don't get the Lebanon reference - could be a mistranslation? As for TAR or TARA being at Hong Kong airport, could they be making a stop there to catch a flight to the next destination?

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« Reply #494 on: June 12, 2010, 02:11:19 AM »
I'm not quite sure if this is anything or not, but since I have two sources that say the same thing I decided to post it here.

Found a facebook post in Chinese from 10 minutes or so ago:

Amazing Race@HKG Airport~ 好在參賽者一出閘就衝左去巴士站, 無走上黎info搵我問路o者~~

which google translates to

Amazing Race @ HKG Airport ~ Fortunately participants a red gate on the left to the bus stop, no info onto Lebanon who want me to ask for o ~ ~

then I found 2 twitter messages in English from about the same time:

Reached HK! :D

And I see amazing race groups here! :D haha

I don't get the Lebanon reference - could be a mistranslation? As for TAR or TARA being at Hong Kong airport, could they be making a stop there to catch a flight to the next destination?
Amazing Race@HKG Airport~ 好在參賽者一出閘就衝左去巴士站, 無走上黎info搵我問路o者~~
This is Cantonese dialect .
Translation: Participants run to  bus stop when they pass the custom inspection
, no one comes to me to ask for help.

They run out to the bus stop...look like they will have a leg in Hong Kong...or take boat to Macau...
But I doubt why they took bus instead of taxi,maybe they should travel to some place far away?
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Re: Amazing Race 17 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go here please! *read post 1*
« Reply #495 on: June 12, 2010, 02:17:49 AM »
Hong Kong?!? :wohoo:
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« Reply #496 on: June 12, 2010, 05:07:43 AM »
HK Sighting Again
TARA? TAR?
From Hong Kong Discuss
http://www.discuss.com.hk/viewthread.php?tid=12405728&extra=page%3D1

今日見到The Amazing Race Teams到香港!!
[按此打開] [隱藏]
大約下午14:45左右見到最少兩team人係機場B出口, 加兩個cam man跟住, 一隊跑左去機鐵站, 另一隊應該跑左去中間出口.
正! 終於再黎香港玩!


Translation:
Saw 2 teams with 2 camera men respectively in HKG Airport at 14:45 (12-6-2010)
One team dashed to the Railway and one team went to the exit B
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« Reply #497 on: June 12, 2010, 05:24:38 AM »
If y'all need help with anything about Hong Kong, I'm willing! =) Except translations (I'm not Chinese, btw), going out to search for them in HK (unless it's near my area).
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« Reply #498 on: June 12, 2010, 06:46:43 AM »
Good job everyone!! :hearts:
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« Reply #499 on: June 12, 2010, 08:11:19 AM »
New Reply: 我開緊工, 做緊野, 仲有佢地動作好快, 問完路即撇, 好似打仗咁, 見到佢地都冇五六秒就唔見影lu, 不過好佩服個cam man可以跟得咁貼

Translation: I was working at the moment so i did not take any photographs
                      They have asked somebody for directions
                       and they were running rapidly.  After few seconds they left the airport
                     

What a pity he did not take any photos  :'(