I was running about 30 minutes behind to start, and using fast forward made it down to 15 by the end. So some comments:
first, since no one mentioned it, The Jet d'Eau made its second appearance on TAR as a route marker clue location (first appearance, also at night in leg 10 of TAR 3. That time, the location was the first point of the leg, and teams had to figure out what country the flag was of as the teams next destination.(Malaysia, btw.)
Having the presence of a flag task in the middle of a leg in the middle of the Race was quite a surprise. Have to admire Cole's comment that he quickly got six of the ten because he plays FIFA '16. At least he learned which flags were which country.
I can remember the earlier mass footrace to the finish mat, actually there were a couple over the years, one for first place, the other to avoid last place, but I am having trouble figuring out which TAR all-star season Phil was referring to. There has been 2 actual all-stars 11 and 24, and the Unfinished Business, 18. IIRC, the race to avoid last place I think was season 9.
I thought the detour tasks were equally difficult but that the Swiss Army Knife task required a lot of precise attention to detail, and was easier to mess up. The problem for Racers with the bench detour was the width measurement necessary to arrive at the 190 to 197 range. That seemed to give some teams a lot of problems. The agreement Brodie made with some of the other teams was to work together and if a team got the number right to let the other teams in that group know. Nothing illegal under the rules about that the time consuming part of the process for most of the teams.
And thank you Phil for pointing out the connection of Chamoix to the Winter Olympics. As a slight spoiler based on the preview at the end of the episode"
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The paraglider task in the mountains is a repeat task from an earlier season in the Alps (Bavaria IIRC).
