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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #450 on: January 25, 2015, 12:21:28 PM »
U.S. FACT
If your name starts with a G, H, I, L, O, P, W, X, or Y,  your team will NOT win the Race.

Kisha's real name is LaKisha

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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #451 on: January 25, 2015, 03:12:50 PM »
U.S. FACT
If your name starts with a G, H, I, L, O, P, W, X, or Y,  your team will NOT win the Race.
Technically, Linz is still a team name. :snics:
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #452 on: January 25, 2015, 03:17:28 PM »
U.S. FACT
If your name starts with a G, H, I, L, O, P, W, X, or Y,  your team will NOT win the Race.
Technically, Linz is still a team name. :snics:
It's the last name of the team members. That would mean I would have to go back and look at the last names of each winner, which is really unnecessary.

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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #453 on: January 25, 2015, 03:25:37 PM »
If you come in last on a non-elimination leg with 11, 9, or 8 teams remaining, your team will not win the Race.

A F/F team came in last on Leg 9 in TAR 22 (Mona & Beth), 23 (Ally & Ashley), 24 (Caroline & Jennifer), and 25 (Kym & Alli :'( ). Obviously, this can't occur in TAR 26 because there are no F/F teams  :groan:

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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #454 on: February 07, 2015, 03:45:43 PM »
Graphical representation of genders across all versions of TAR:



BLUE: Male/Male
PURPLE: Male/Female
PINK: Female/Female

Note, does not include the in-progress 4th season of TAR Israel
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #455 on: February 08, 2015, 09:23:36 AM »
I thought Saida & Jervi (Philippines 1) was an MF team? ???
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #456 on: February 08, 2015, 09:29:21 AM »
I thought Saida & Jervi (Philippines 1) was an MF team? ???
No, they were FF.
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #457 on: February 08, 2015, 10:49:39 AM »
I thought Saida & Jervi (Philippines 1) was an MF team? ???
No, they were FF.

??? ... Okay. In my defense, transgender is a tricky thing to classify in a male/female dichotomy, even in technical sense. I just assumed she's male because of the tuxedo she got from the casino task on the first leg.
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #458 on: February 11, 2015, 02:11:34 AM »
Trang Tran & Hieu Nguyen (of TARVN 3) is one of the very few teams who never checked-in at pitstop or finish line at either first or last place

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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #459 on: February 12, 2015, 02:44:15 AM »
Did you know out of the 25 regular seasons (excluding TAR8 and including TAR26), 4 seasons only visited 3 continents, 10 seasons visited 4 continents, 9 seasons visited 5 continents and only 2 visited 6 continents,
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #460 on: February 12, 2015, 06:54:40 AM »
Graphical representation of genders across all versions of TAR:

Oh, I knew this, but the placements of M/M teams on TARLA is kind of ridiculous. I don't know if that is just poor casting on F/F and F/M teams or the extremely physical tasks. As expected TARLA1 looks the most balanced.

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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #461 on: February 18, 2015, 09:31:23 PM »
Graph showing the number of Fast Forwards in different seasons:

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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #462 on: February 18, 2015, 09:44:35 PM »
TAR13 had 3 FFs? ???

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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #463 on: February 18, 2015, 09:48:23 PM »
TAR13 had 3 FFs? ???

Astana's one was unaired.
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #464 on: February 18, 2015, 09:50:31 PM »
TAR13 had 3 FFs? ???
1. New Zealand
2. Kazakhstan
3. ???
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #465 on: February 18, 2015, 10:15:38 PM »
1. Auckland (Leg 4)- climb the needle of the Auckland Sky Tower (Won by Ken & Tina)
2. Almaty (Leg 8 )- eat a traditional Kazakh dish with meat from unsatisfactory locations on a sheep (won by Nick & Starr)
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #466 on: February 19, 2015, 08:13:27 AM »
Number of Fast Forwards per country (TAR: US only):

India 6
Thailand 6
Italy 5 (Vatican City 1)
People’s Republic of China 4
France 3
Hong Kong 3
New Zealand 3
Australia 2
Austria 2
Brazil 2
Germany 2
Malaysia 2
Mexico 2
Netherlands 2
Portugal 2
Singapore 2
South Africa 2
Tunisia 2
Azerbaijan 1
Zambia  2
Bangladesh 1
Botswana 1
Costa Rica 1
Egypt 1
Greece 1
Hungary 1
Kazakhstan 1
Kuwait 1
Lithuania 1
Madagascar 1
Morocco 1
Namibia 1
Norway 1
Panama 1
Poland 1
South Korea 1
Switzerland 1
UAE 1
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #467 on: February 19, 2015, 10:52:48 AM »
South Korea only had 1, but good job otherwise!
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #468 on: February 23, 2015, 01:53:25 PM »
Just because you do good on Leg 1 doesn't mean you'll have success in the rest of the race. The team that got first's overall placing:
S1: 1st
S2: 2nd
S3: 3rd
S4: 11th/9th/5th (3 way tie)
S5: 10th
S6: 4th
S7: 9th
S8: 4th
S9: 2nd
S10: 1st
S11: 8th
S12: 6th
S13: 1st
S14: 3rd
S15: 1st
S16: 7th
S17: 3rd
S18: 3rd
S19: 1st
S20: 1st
S21: 5th
S22: 9th
S23: 2nd
S24: 5th
S25: 2nd

Average: 4.37
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #469 on: February 23, 2015, 02:45:51 PM »
If the average is 4.37, wouldn't that mean that the team who won leg 1 usually ends up in the final four? Is that not good?


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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #470 on: February 23, 2015, 02:49:26 PM »
If the average is 4.37, wouldn't that mean that the team who won leg 1 usually ends up in the final four? Is that not good?
Yeah, but getting first on leg 1 ≠ having success for the entire race. Just ask Alison & Donny :lol:
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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #471 on: February 26, 2015, 01:20:34 PM »
Mike & Rochelle and Jeff & Lyda are the first two teams to ever use a U-Turn on the first leg of the Race, if that counts for something.

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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #472 on: February 26, 2015, 01:42:02 PM »
Mike & Rochelle and Jeff & Lyda are the first two teams to ever use a U-Turn on the first leg of the Race, if that counts for something.

*In the American version

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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #473 on: February 26, 2015, 02:43:44 PM »
Mike & Rochelle and Jeff & Lyda are the first two teams to ever use a U-Turn on the first leg of the Race, if that counts for something.

*In the American version

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I'm curious now as to what international version had the Leg 1 U-Turn

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Re: Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
« Reply #474 on: February 26, 2015, 06:16:00 PM »
HaMerotz LaMillion
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