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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #450 on: November 24, 2010, 04:47:43 PM »
And it is Japan...where staring and pointing is very rude. We have a very poor track record of spotting them there.

An hour to clear customs with complicated camera equiptment would be fast, so they may just be on transport now...
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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #451 on: November 24, 2010, 04:51:28 PM »
Well the Japanese are reserved people and don't really "tweet" or use facebook to post what they see or do.


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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #452 on: November 24, 2010, 04:53:01 PM »
I know, and if anywhere knows the Race it is Japan. The QF21 teams have been on the ground for almost an hour, surely they have already left the airport.
Possibly have left the city and to the subrubs maybe? Rural Japan!

There is no possible way that they have not been seen by at least one person with a twitter account. Probably even a cameraphone.

It was in the morning. So its possible.

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If i didn't remember wrongly, our Japan legs have usually the minimum spoilers because firstly, the people there don't speak much english and secondly, Japanese is one of the hardest language to master in the world.. hence even if random Japanese do post about twitter/facebook statuses (don't even know if they use them) of "random Americans rushing around me in the morning, so rude..." or what in Japanese, we need to be lucky and know the exact keywords to type in the search engines. I don't think many Japanese knows about TAR. Maybe TARA?

But yes, it's the morning now and hopefully we have a a few lucky fans (any nationality, just has to be in Japan) to spot them in action and share with us the good news. I'm praying hard.

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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #453 on: November 24, 2010, 05:49:58 PM »
Well it's morning there now so hopefully we will start to see some action !

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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #455 on: November 24, 2010, 06:44:35 PM »
Wiki is not the place to look for spoilers, anyone can put anything. This page has nothing to see!
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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #456 on: November 24, 2010, 06:47:54 PM »
Hi, I'm long time active reader only in this forum.. :) Really amazed with your forum make me hooked!! :)

 just wanna help to translate the sentence from the twitter.. It's in Bahasa Indonesia.. (And from the name, I bet He's also Indonesian :p)
The sentence meant: "This is so dumb.. The racer of Amazing Race said  " Tokyo is a Country in Europe" Hahaha.. So Dumb!! :p

So can confirm that they're racing in Tokyo.. 

hey guys!  I'd found this tweet from twitter by the name of hilmansiwabessy and this is related to TAR 18!  And yes, they're racing in Tokyo, Japan already after Australia and I also need a translation on what she'd said and I think she speak Malay or Indonesian, and this is what she'd said:

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Ini tolol banget deh peserta Amazing Race, masa dibilang 'Tokyo is a country in europe' hahaha tolski.

hey, who'll do you think gonna said that?  I think that will be the title episode of TAR 18 for the Tokyo leg! :lol:
I kinda don't believe the user posting the tweet seen the teams, because he tweeted the following tweet, 2 hours after the TAR one:

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Mengantar tim tennis ugm ke stasiun tugu untuk mengikuti kejurnas tennis se-indonesia di malang. Dan aku gak ikut -_-" gara2 ada uts.

that could be translated as:
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UGM tennis team goes to Tugu Station to attend the Tennis National Championship in Malang. And I'm not with them -_-" because I have midterm tests.
Considering UGM's in Jogjakarta, Indonesia, he couldn't possible see teams from Australia to Tokyo.

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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #457 on: November 24, 2010, 06:49:17 PM »
Short lifetime for that Wikipedie link.....its already gone poof
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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #458 on: November 24, 2010, 07:31:20 PM »
Apprently the teams are stuck on a time lapse delay in the subway credit:peach

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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #459 on: November 24, 2010, 08:34:29 PM »
According to one twitter post, mom/son, son/son and cheerleader's flight is delayed by 70 minutes.


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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #460 on: November 24, 2010, 08:39:35 PM »
There were 6 teams on that flight, trying to find out who are on the flights that is delayed....

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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #461 on: November 24, 2010, 08:40:54 PM »
I thought: Flight Time/Big Easy, Margie/Luke, Mel/Mike, Jaime/Cara
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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #462 on: November 25, 2010, 12:47:52 AM »
My guess is a double leg in Japan. for thr past few seasons with the excpetion of season 14 either the first or second country visited has a double leg.

season 13: brazil
season15: vietnam
season 16: Chile
season 17: Ghana

I say no because Japan is an expensive country. Maybe the next?

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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #463 on: November 25, 2010, 01:11:51 AM »
CX 534 arr Tokyo 92 min late!
Scheduled:    6:00 AM - Thu Nov 25, 2010 
Actual:    7:32 AM - Thu Nov 25, 2010 
     Arrived at gate 92 min later than scheduled 
Terminal:    2 

where as

QF 21 arr scheduled 6:15 AM  actual 6:13 AM  T-2 
Landed On-time 

So teams on the later departing direct flight arr 79 min before the other teams...that is a HUGE difference.
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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #464 on: November 25, 2010, 01:19:37 AM »
My guess is a double leg in Japan. for thr past few seasons with the excpetion of season 14 either the first or second country visited has a double leg.

season 13: brazil
season15: vietnam
season 16: Chile
season 17: Ghana

But we already had a TBC in Australia? And as Caelestor said, Japan is fairly expensive, especially to house 18-20 people +crew.

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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #465 on: November 25, 2010, 01:37:15 AM »
I don't think that housing the teams and crew in Japan is a problem financially when teams sometimes spend upwards of $10k on last minute flights...

On a different note: has anyone considered that production might not give the teams any Rest (Pitt) Stops and they will always either camp somewhere or be on the move (flight) during a Pitt Stop... That would make for some cranky people and drama...


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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #466 on: November 25, 2010, 01:50:26 AM »
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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #467 on: November 25, 2010, 03:49:25 AM »
Does anyone know if the Cowboys are still in the race?

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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #468 on: November 25, 2010, 04:40:24 AM »
Does anyone know if the Cowboys are still in the race?

yes they are :hearts:

Most of the spoilers coming from people who were there state that Jet&Cord started this leg third,just after Zev&Justin and the Globetrotters.

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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #469 on: November 25, 2010, 05:16:29 AM »
I'm a little lost due to "barriers" from me and my computer. What just happened? Are the racers in Japan or just stopping by there? Sorry for asking, the timeline is not updated so I could not keep up  :'(
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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #470 on: November 25, 2010, 05:22:53 AM »
Yes they flew from Sydney to Tokyo.
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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #471 on: November 25, 2010, 05:30:14 AM »
Cool! Tokyo again!! :))

Once again the Japanese people will have a glimpse of "Godzilla" again xD
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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #472 on: November 25, 2010, 05:33:39 AM »
Once again the Japanese people will have a glimpse of "Godzilla" again xD

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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #473 on: November 25, 2010, 05:48:23 AM »
man, they're racing in Japan and they're already in Asia.  I wish they could go to my country again in the Philippines since they'd visited here on season 5 and forget about the tragic event on the Manila bus hostage incident last Aug. 23. :tup:

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Re: TAR 18 Speculation and Discussion *contains Spoilers*
« Reply #474 on: November 25, 2010, 05:49:59 AM »
There are lots of tweets! (Currently looking a tweets too) It's amazing how you find it...
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