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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #50 on: May 21, 2014, 07:46:14 AM »
Almost every leg of TAR24 beat all the 'Worst' leg in this thread... Hell, I think even the train mania in TAR22 is far more entertaining than all the crap in this All Star.

China 1-2 : Horrible. Worst premire and second leg EVER
Malaysia 1-2 : Lame. Because of horrid flight. Both RB was so boring and Detour was just above average a bit.
Sri Lanka 1-2 : Sri Lanka 1 was boring but Sri Lanka 2 was the only watchable leg this season.
Italy 1-2 : Lame. Cheap. Pointless and reduntdant task. The U-Turn drama and Dave the B**** just make it more worse.
Swiss : Okay. But the Accidental Alliance just ruin the most part of it and turn it into some Bad Girl Club gossiping.
Spain : Detour was okay. Another watchable episode although not satisfy like Sri Lanka 2.
UK : Cheap. RB rule break. Urg.
LV : LAME. STUPID FINALE EVER. WTF IS THOSE FREAKING POINTLESS TASK? FAKE MAGIC? BULB SCREWING? WORST WINNER OF THE WORST SEASON EVER.  :gaah:

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #51 on: June 09, 2014, 03:42:38 AM »
Me, just thinking about those poor greeters involved with Switzerland 22 and Chile 23.  :'(


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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #52 on: June 13, 2014, 11:15:51 PM »
TAR23's and TAR24's 1st legs.

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #53 on: July 26, 2015, 10:18:07 AM »
As the update of TAR25 and 26, I nominate Japan 1 from 26. :lol:

Like seriously, that leg was such a big mess. Super short premier with ONLY one task in Japan for 90 minutes episode. :stare  This leg made 22.08 Switzerland an amazing leg!

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #54 on: July 26, 2015, 10:24:20 AM »
Hands down for me...the starting line elimination. NEVER will get over that cruelty!
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Re: Worst TAR Leg
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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #56 on: July 26, 2015, 09:03:13 PM »
TAR 24  :  Every single leg except Spain -  Terrible season with nothing good, all the teams were mediocre and the race design suffered badly
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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #57 on: July 26, 2015, 09:18:19 PM »
24-12 was in my opinion the worst season finale. No opportunity for the order to change, a task that was just show and not really even a task, and no memory challenge (though I will give them credit, this was probably due to the rumoured scrapped legs in Philippines and Australia). Caroline & Jen said the race was already won at the last cluebox.

A lot of the tasks in that season felt cheap, especially in the second half (...shaving balloons?), and I jokingly like to think it's because TPTB blew their budget on David Copperfield  :funny:

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #58 on: July 26, 2015, 09:52:25 PM »
24-12 was in my opinion the worst season finale. No opportunity for the order to change, a task that was just show and not really even a task, and no memory challenge (though I will give them credit, this was probably due to the rumoured scrapped legs in Philippines and Australia). Caroline & Jen said the race was already won at the last cluebox.

A lot of the tasks in that season felt cheap, especially in the second half (...shaving balloons?), and I jokingly like to think it's because TPTB blew their budget on David Copperfield  :funny:

That's true. I think the most interesting task was digging for the box in the desert at night. It was both physical and luck-based, which I liked. I disliked the Copperfield task since I don't like cheap magic. The bone yard was a HUGE missed opportunity for me. They could have had a needle-in-a-haystack task that spanned the entire boneyard, not just retrieving a light bulb. Counting the light-bulbs was just disappointing as you could just recite every number to get the clue without penalty. And ending not just the episode but the season on a thrill task was really really disappointing.
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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #59 on: July 26, 2015, 10:17:32 PM »
Some of the bad leg i remember, Most of them are related to mid-leg long distance travel

TAR 16 Leg 5 (Very few amount of tasks, no way for the u-turned team to catch up)
TAR 17 Leg 5
TAR 19 Leg 5 (Ridculous pit-stop treatment)
TAR 19 Leg 9 (I don't know why they have to place the train-ride equalizer in the middle of the leg)
TAR 20 Leg 2
TAR 20 Leg 7 (totally unfair for Nary & Jamie)
TAR 21 Leg 2 (lame roadblock)
TAR 21 Leg 9 (Too easy FF)
TAR 22 Leg 3 (Not culturally related at all)
TAR 22 Leg 8 (The whole episode are train rides)
TAR 22 Leg 12 (Linear Finale)
TAR 23 Leg 12 (Luck-based finale)
TAR 24 Leg 1 (Super lame tasks)
TAR 24 Leg 3 (bad treatment for the flights)
TAR 24 Leg 12 (Silly task + Silly arrangement for the 2nd roadblock)
TAR 26 Leg 1 (90-mins episode for only one task in Tokyo?)


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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #60 on: July 27, 2015, 06:15:46 AM »
Hands down for me...the starting line elimination. NEVER will get over that cruelty!

Yeah, I still feel sad for them. Unfair, cruel... They should come again for an All Stars/Unfinished Business and give them a second chance.

TAR 24 finale. Worst winners, awful tasks, no memory challenge, almost impossible to change positions...

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #62 on: July 30, 2015, 10:53:11 PM »
The 21-9 FF wasn't easy at all. The Twinnies had to try three times to get it done.
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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #64 on: August 01, 2015, 12:49:31 PM »
26-1 definitely has the worst design in regards to broadcasting. 90 minutes to show a Detour - and it's straight-up finding a sake bottle vs. repetitive dancing? :groan: Unfortunately, watching the challenges was more of a task than the Detour.

Though I felt bad for them, Libby & CJ's transportation fiasco saved that leg.
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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #65 on: August 01, 2015, 12:59:24 PM »
26-1 definitely has the worst design in regards to broadcasting. 90 minutes to show a Detour - and it's straight-up finding a sake bottle vs. repetitive dancing? :groan: Unfortunately, watching the challenges was more of a task than the Detour.

Though I felt bad for them, Libby & CJ's transportation fiasco saved that leg.

Agreed, the whole leg was basically Starting Line task, Detour, find the Pit Stop. Not worth 90 minutes.

That was just so they could piggyback some extra viewers off the season premiere of the more popular Survivor.

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #66 on: December 24, 2015, 05:45:31 AM »
TAR27: :cmaslol
Leg 9: Lazy Speedbump design.
Leg 11: An almost-Andy-&-Tommy moment. My bad generalizing.
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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #67 on: December 24, 2015, 10:43:05 AM »
Leg 11 was an amazing leg and probably the best in that season?!

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #68 on: December 24, 2015, 10:55:16 AM »
I must've generalized the whole leg from the result. :cmaslol My bad.  :cmas31: What I said in the report card thread was more accurate.

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #69 on: December 24, 2015, 11:30:13 AM »
27-4

Lol croquet in Zimbabwe? Although it related to its former colonialist, but hell Zimbabwe should have offered more than just DOING CROQUET IN ZIMBABWE.....

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #70 on: December 25, 2015, 04:38:17 AM »
26-1 definitely has the worst design in regards to broadcasting. 90 minutes to show a Detour - and it's straight-up finding a sake bottle vs. repetitive dancing? :groan: Unfortunately, watching the challenges was more of a task than the Detour.

Though I felt bad for them, Libby & CJ's transportation fiasco saved that leg.

Agreed, the whole leg was basically Starting Line task, Detour, find the Pit Stop. Not worth 90 minutes.

That was just so they could piggyback some extra viewers off the season premiere of the more popular Survivor.
TAR AU 1, TAR AU 2 90 minutes premiere were far better, with some route info tasks in Indonesia and Philippines

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #71 on: December 25, 2015, 05:59:38 AM »
TAR27's 1st leg was focused on Justin & Diana's fast forward fiasco. The editing itself made the episode the worst of the season.

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #72 on: December 25, 2015, 01:23:34 PM »
TAR19's Phuket leg.
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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #73 on: December 29, 2015, 11:02:53 PM »
After re-watching, i found these legs quite bad in terms of leg structure

TAR 21 Leg 5
TAR 22 Leg 8
TAR 26 Leg 11
TAR 27 Leg 10

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Re: Worst TAR Leg
« Reply #74 on: January 08, 2016, 11:50:37 AM »
I always found TAR 11 - Leg 1 was a very poor Leg.  Thankfully it was the only bad Leg that entire Season, and we got it out of the way as early as possible.  :conf:
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