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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #25 on: April 27, 2017, 09:49:53 PM »
This cast is BRINGING IT which is great because the leg design is kinda awful?

RB - overnight bunch - pre-Detour U-Turn - wildly imbalanced Detour - Pit Stop and the boats are a better form of transportation than taxis so the main factor was how quickly you realized you wanted to rock climb :(
Lovely location, but a poor choice of tasks and U-Turn timing despite wanting to do the same things they are doing right now.
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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #26 on: April 27, 2017, 09:51:30 PM »
And Becca & Floyd pass Matt & Redmond in the saddest foot race ever to claim 1st!!! As the winners of tuisbleg of the race, Team Fun wins a trip from Travelocity to Argentina!
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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #27 on: April 27, 2017, 09:53:16 PM »
Brooke having a complete meltdown halfway up the rock face and Mike & Liz overtake them.
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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #28 on: April 27, 2017, 09:54:09 PM »
Brooke having a complete meltdown halfway up the rock face and Mike & Liz overtake them.
She seems to be in her zone when she is screaming at the top of her lungs? ???
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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #29 on: April 27, 2017, 09:55:44 PM »
And Tara & Joey come in 3rd while Liz & Mike and Brooke & Scott follow in 4th and 5th unorthodoxly by just waving at Phil from the boat. wow.
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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #30 on: April 27, 2017, 09:57:36 PM »
London & Logan follow in 6th while Vanck & Ashton have a slow montage of them completing the plaster task and arrow last at the Pit Stop in last. Unfortunately, they have been eliminated from the race. :torch:

"The fact that we did as well as we did, I'm proud to have worked through that."
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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #31 on: April 27, 2017, 09:59:27 PM »
Next time, teams travel to Venice where teams carry a tune and a grudge.
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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #32 on: April 27, 2017, 10:00:00 PM »
Honestly they had a good sendoff :)
I was expecting Bergen & Kurt style messiness.

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #33 on: April 27, 2017, 10:01:45 PM »
Honestly they had a good sendoff :)
I was expecting Bergen & Kurt style messiness.
That happened to Shamir & Sara though.

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #34 on: April 27, 2017, 10:04:53 PM »
Horrible leg design carried by this cast.

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #35 on: April 27, 2017, 10:05:12 PM »
i thought this leg was terrible expect the roadblock

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #36 on: April 27, 2017, 10:06:57 PM »
I definitely think this episode is amazing, as always!  :conf: The night roadblock was great. Plus points to it being a searching task at night. The W-turn before the detour was better this leg because it was right after a task (roadblock). It's definitely better than the W-turn before the Pit Stop which we often saw in the past. Although, it would not have mattered much this leg since everybody was targeting Ashton & Vanck, and they finished the 1st detour in 6th. The detour may have been imbalanced in a way, but more analysis on that later. I like both sides, but I find the ghost task cooler.

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #37 on: April 27, 2017, 10:08:36 PM »
A bit unrelated, but I think the W-turn (if placed after the detour) on Leg 4 would be so cruel! }:> I would've loved seeing that.

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #38 on: April 27, 2017, 10:12:25 PM »
Vanck & Ashton doing well in a leg they were eliminated in. :torche At least it wasn't a bitter departure for both racers.

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #39 on: April 27, 2017, 10:23:37 PM »
why are you posting three times in a row?  :groan:

Nothing wrong with that. They were unrelated thoughts with some time between each.

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #40 on: April 27, 2017, 10:36:46 PM »
Vanck & Ashton  :haha
Killed by a poorly designed leg
Honesty this is the worst leg for this season until now

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #41 on: April 27, 2017, 11:14:30 PM »
Vanck & Ashton doing well in a leg they were eliminated in. :torche At least it wasn't a bitter departure for both racers.

Not sure about that. Had they not been U-Turned they would have finished 6th out of 7, assuming they were still last to the board.

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #42 on: April 27, 2017, 11:18:36 PM »
Vanck & Ashton doing well in a leg they were eliminated in. :torche At least it wasn't a bitter departure for both racers.

Not sure about that. Had they not been U-Turned they would have finished 6th out of 7, assuming they were still last to the board.

Oh, I meant between Vanck & Ashton. At least both weren't bitter with each other at this point. Although now that I think of it, they might've been bitter with the other teams. ??? Not sure though.

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #43 on: April 28, 2017, 12:34:03 AM »
What a great location! Bye bye Vantack and Ashton!!!

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #44 on: April 28, 2017, 02:07:12 AM »
The Milan section was amazing. Lake Como not so much. The teams carry this race though.  :conf:


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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #45 on: April 28, 2017, 07:48:21 AM »
The Milan section was amazing. Lake Como not so much. The teams carry this race though.  :conf:

i agree i feel like they should done full leg in miian

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #46 on: April 28, 2017, 09:27:08 AM »
I really hate episodes that are entirely focused on the dang u-turn, an element I've always disliked. I miss when teams simply had to race, instead of getting involved in high school level drama.

I also despise that the u-turn board is now before the detour itself. Before, if you wanted to u-turn a team, you had to at least beat them in part of the race and earn the right. Now it's basically whoever has the best cab can luck into being able to use it.

Shame, because the rest of the episodes, including the scenery and tasks, were lovely

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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #47 on: April 28, 2017, 10:17:35 AM »
I think the Double UTurn is really unfair when placed next to the pitstop. I feel bad for V&A. There's clearly no way they could have caught up.

And I am now starting to get annoyed with Brooke. Will there be an episode where she will not complain?

Good decision for Joey and Tara to not use the UTURN. But poor detour choice.
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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #48 on: April 28, 2017, 12:13:06 PM »
Brooke and Flo for next all stars pls
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Re: TAR 29 Ep 6 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary! 4/27/17 *read Post 1*
« Reply #49 on: April 28, 2017, 12:14:44 PM »
Had to rewatch the episode to clarify some things I might've missed. :bump It was also laggy for me during the live earlier.

I'll start with the roadblock. I already said it earlier how cool it was to have a searching task at night. Quite sad Logan couldn't get on the same tram with the 4 racers. The good thing with Mike and Tara working together is that they each had an extra pair of eyes to verify their findings. I'm glad the 4 didn't help each other, but even if they did, none of them found LaGo, so it didn't matter. :lol: What coincidence! LoLo could've sped up to 3rd from there. It was so close! I saw Logan's extra word the 2nd time I watched the episode, and it sucks that he can't try again without going for a 2nd round. One does not simply guess an Italian word out of nowhere, so it's just too bad for Logan that he had to wait and go around once more. Scott's reactions were so funny, and it just keeps popping out of nowhere from time to time. :funny: The roadblock delivered. I think it's the first official night task this season.

The W-turn position was fine being sandwiched between the roadblock and the detour, but I just think it would've been better had teams not been 5 minutes apart of each other. It was too tight for the U-turned team/s to even catch up. Anybody U-turned this leg would surely be out, unless 2 teams are doing it. There's no way to avoid the 5 minutes apart departure though, unless they reformat the leg itself. At first, the W-turn looks fine. However, after taking the morning departure into consideration, I say the W-turn is placed on the wrong leg.

The detour this leg didn't have any sense of balance to me. ??? So the rock climbing task required one person to hold the other, but it had a lot of running and distance just going to the location. I would've said it was a boring but fast task, but Becca and Matt would disagree on the boring part. But wait, the ghost task wasn't fun too. It was boring but cool, but also time consuming. That's part of the reason Joey & Tara only landed a 3rd this leg. Maybe the distance is shorter going from the ghost task to the pit stop, but I don't really seem to find any balance in this leg's detour. The rock climbing does not even look culture related in any way. They probably could've replaced the rock climbing detour with something better, but being surrounded by water not for diving, they have limited choices for tasks. I gotta agree that a leg purely in Milan would've been better. Big bonus points if it would've been a full night leg in Milan. The Lake Como part wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that good too.

Overall, it was a good leg. :) Team analyses coming up. I'm separating it this time becuase I'm not typing from the laptop, which would've been more convenient for me to type reviews and analyses.