Topic: TARC 7 FINALE LIVE SHOW UPDATES and DISCUSSION THREAD!

[Maanca]

Finale night!

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[Leafsfan.]

We start with a recap of last season and D/I being eliminated.

Intro.

[Leafsfan.]

Clue:

A/J leave at 12:05 pm.

Fly to Muskoka, Ontario via Toronto. Go to executive Terminal to sign up for a float plane.

S/S leave at 1:12 pm

L/J leave a 1:22 pm

A/J realize sisters beat out D/I.

There is a signup board for flights to Port Carling.

Teams leave the airport to the Executive Terminal- first time a city gets 4 different legs with tasks/RI's in one race.

Sisters lose their clue and do not know where to go. THey search the cab's phone.

Race to the terminal between the other two teams, A/J beat them and are on the first one.

The sisters head back to the airport to loko for the clue as they don't remember.

A/J depart.

S/S depart second.

The sisters go to the infobooth at the airport to ask for help.

Commercial

[Leafsfan.]

We are back

Sisters still searching at the airport.

THey go to ask another booth and get directions. Joanne crying in the taxi

THey sign up for a third flight to Muskoka

A/J arrive in Port Carling

Clue: Memory challenge. Cottage Trivia Game. Roll big dice and collect badges for each leg of the race.

Jon meets the teams at the gameboard, that's a first!

Jon asks them their first question. How many ingredients combined in a naniamo bar? They get it.

They get leg 1 next, and its easy who were eliminated first?

S/S just arrive as A/J get a question wrong.

S/S get their first leg right (7)

L/J arrive in third and they are with the other teams.

A/J finish the RI clue!

Clue: RB: Who has got this one in the bag?

Head to Cleveland House, and do Flyboard, and maintain a min height of 15 feet. After they throw a bean bag into the target, they will get their clue. James doing the rb.

S/S just finish right behind.

[Leafsfan.]

 Sam doing the rb

L/J just finish. Lauren doing it for them.

Sam and James struggling at the rb

Lauren arrives with the other teams.  So all three at the rb.

Commercial

[Leafsfan.]

We are back, James makes his first attempt. He got it on his first chance, but he was too low so it doesn't count.

Sam makes an attempt and misses.

James on his fourth attempt and he misses both shots.

Sam on his third attempt and doesn't get it.

Lauren almost got it!

James on his 7th attempt gets it!

Clue: Make your way to Rosseau Lake College to get next clue.

[Leafsfan.]

Sam misses on his 17th attempt but gets it with second shot.

Joanne misses on her 14th attempt.

Next clue:  Build a Giant Muskoka Chair, using a small miniature version to make it.

**Correction Joanne is doing the rb***

She gets it on her 15th attempt.

S/S arrive to the Muskoka Chair. But don't know how to use a drill lol.

L/J right behind and now tied with the other two teams.

A/J get a check. THey get rejected.

Commercial.

[Leafsfan.]

We are back to Anthony and James find their error.

They get their next clue.

Clue: RB: Who is ready for a holiday? Search Santa theme park in Bracebridge,find an elf with a yellow and deliver a candy cane to a Santa Claus. Team member who did not do first rb must do this one.

The other two teams are behind by quite a bit. S/S get a check and get approved.

L/J still doing the chair task.

They get a check and are approved.

Sarah just arrives to do the rb.

Anthony gets the yellow candy cane!!

Sarah right behind him. THey are virtually in a tie.

Clue: Muskoka Lakes and Winery in Bala. Final challenge. Connect and properly assemble a cranberry irrigation system.

Commercial

[Leafsfan.]

We are back.

Johnston's Cranberry Marsh. A/J get instructions on how to set up the irrigation system.

S/S right behind them to the final task

Both working on the irrigation system. Pretty labour intensive task.

Lauren now searching the santa place for the yellow candy cane.

 The first person she asks has it!

Sisters arrive to the irrigation task.

A/J figure out one side does not fit after putting everything together nicely.

Commercial

[Leafsfan.]

We are back.

A/J are looking for their mistake. THey have located it.

S/S are almost done. S/S get a check and literally seconds behind is A/J for a check. Both are correct.

Ri: Make your way to Camp Min-Yo-We the final pitstop for this leg of the race.

So close!!!

Anthony and James arrive first to the pitstop!!! They have won the Amazing Race Canada!! 

[Leafsfan.]

S/S right behind in second. Not sure if the editing made it seem closer than it was but not sure.

L/J arrive in third to the mat.

Both teams comment on the race.

Finish with all teams embracing.

All teams clap at the pitstop and that's it. Finishes with a in memory of Kennth of S5 who passed.

And that's it for Season 7!

[stunami]

Thanks Leaf!!!

 

The finale was okay!
Except the waterjet task, I didn't feel like there was much chance to overtake anyway (Or maybe it's just because teams were good and finished in the same order).

The game show task was okay! We didn't see all of it so it ended up being a bit random, as team left in the same order.
The other tasks were okay, nothing wow, but not bad also. I prefer big city finale (S1/S2/S4/S5) than quiet ones (S3/S6/S7)

[bottle]

Wish Saskatchewan sisters had won but Anthony and James are really awesome too so i’m happy with the finale. I honestly have enjoyed this season a lot. Wish they keep it up 

[NumfarPTB]

Starting with the positive:
I really love how TAR CAN tends to pack their final legs with a lot of challenges. 
Although imperfect, I really liked how they built that memory challenge.

Though have to agree that despite the many challenges, there was actually very little space to allow teams to shift placements, once that was set, as we saw there were no placement changes throughout the leg, as much as editors tried to show that teams were close-ish to each other.

Overall an OK season, with some interesting teams, though other than Dave and Irina (who I still not a fan of, but have to agree they are great TV), no one particularly memorable.

[BourkieBoy]

Wow! What a finale!

Congratulations to Anthony & James for winning the season!

Enjoyed the Santa's Village and the chair building was quite funny! All other tasks were quite good, expect for Jetpack one, that was boring! Also, I didn't like how there was very little space to allow teams to shift placements, as other members have said!

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this season! When the season was filming, I thought it wasn't going to be a good season at all!

Bring on TAR Canada 8 in 2020! <3 

[degenerasian]

They shouldn't do memory tasks on the finale anymore. All the teams expect it now.

[WindsorSue]

They shouldn't do memory tasks on the finale anymore. All the teams expect it now.

I really enjoyed this one. The concept of a "Cottage Trivia" game board didn't escape my notice, as game boards are a cottage staple. And Jon acting as host was amazing. I also liked that it was at the beginning of the leg. My only criticism is that maybe the questions could have been a little harder.

[maf]

Overall I really liked this season and the cast. The finale felt exciting, but I think we should give much credit to the editors here because if you scratch on the surface you find a slightly different story.

Firstly the show spent a sizable chunk of time on Lauren & Joannes lost clue in Toronto. What they did not show was that there was almost certainly an overnight rest here. That is the seaplanes took off in the morning the next day. So no matter how much time they spent looking they just ended up on the last plane and did not really loose any additional time.

On the main race day the team positions never changed. Anthony & James were on the first seaplane and they stayed in the lead the whole day. It looks like Sarah & Sam completed the task in the Santa's village just after them but we never see them in the same shot at the big man so I am pretty sure they actually were a bit behind.

At the irrigation task we only hear that the first two teams see each other, we never see them in the same shot so we can not see how far ahead Anthony & James actually are. Of course we see both teams get their next clue at the same time but this very much feels like editing. I did not get the feeling that Sarah & Sam really though they could catch up to Anthony & James in the final trip to the pit stop, which by the way was almost a hour away.

All that said I still think it was a good finale. While the tasks may not have given the racers much time to get ahead I think all of them gave racers plenty of chances to fall behind. That is you can not really complete them much faster than a certain time and the teams were close to that. There is of course potential to mess up but we did not really see that either.

So a big round of applause to the teams which managed to get here and did a good job in the finale