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Anyway not much of a surprise about the winners and I was ok with it. The best part was the team finishing 3rd not winning. I was a bit puzzled by how it played out though. Clearly Tia and Fay had a decent lead, but that all evaporated with the plane to Israel? I'm assuming they kept to some kind of gaps as they left the plane. The editing obviously showed them all at the boxes together, but were Tia and Fay just way in the lead anyway? If they didn't keep to some gaps it made all the previous part of the leg in the Philippines pointless. Tough leg for Karin but she persevered. Working out a riddle is obviously much better than just guessing the location from a choice already given to teams. Nice to see some of the other teams again, but disappointed not to see them mixing at the end.
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Tia & Fey were shown hopping into a cab ahead of the other two when leaving Ben Gurion. The show was edited to make the teams closer together than they probably actually were, but it's clear to see that T&F did have a time advantage when leaving the airport, considering they were probably around a half hour to an hour ahead after their domination of the climbing task. It's likely they did exactly what they did in season 6, recording time differences when teams picked up the clue directing them to Israel, but for some reason just didn't explain it this season. It might be because T&F were so far ahead, it would've killed the suspense if they directly brought up the time differences.
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I just perused the spoiler thread, and it was said that it took T&F about 3 hours to climb up Trump Tower. We can see in the show itself that they were almost finished by the time H&I and K&A get started on the task, so T&F had to be around 3 hours ahead when they got the clue directing them to Israel. Last season they showed the time differences on-screen, but showing T&F being 3 hours ahead would have definitely killed the drama, so they edited things to make it closer for sure