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EP13: "Low to the Ground, That's My Technique."
Chateau d If:
Hey Hey Strat, good to see you here! :jumpy:
So my original suspicion that there was an unshown task was right. I started thinking is was a call'em back/retake on the Mint task due to the locations seen from the taxis. But doing Haight Ashbury gets you going down the same streets (Fell, Oak).
So now we have taxi karma to pin the win on. E&D's driver had all the good stuff for a winning ride. Both the BQs and C&M had such frustrations with their drives that they had to dump them. That eats time.
I wonder if there has been a rule set up that forbids racers from doing what Colin did with the driver "Earl" where they called ahead for a capable and willing driver. That is an advantage worth doing something about.
Kogs:
--- Quote from: Chateau d If on May 15, 2007, 12:51:39 AM ---Hey Hey Strat, good to see you here! :jumpy:
So my original suspicion that there was an unshown task was right. I started thinking is was a call'em back/retake on the Mint task due to the locations seen from the taxis. But doing Haight Ashbury gets you going down the same streets (Fell, Oak).
So now we have taxi karma to pin the win on. E&D's driver had all the good stuff for a winning ride. Both the BQs and C&M had such frustrations with their drives that they had to dump them. That eats time.
I wonder if there has been a rule set up that forbids racers from doing what Colin did with the driver "Earl" where they called ahead for a capable and willing driver. That is an advantage worth doing something about.
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chateau rememeber colin had to give them a credit card number and he game them a fake one, i dont think any racer since has been smart enough to come up with the stuff colin did.
strategery:
--- Quote ---So my original suspicion that there was an unshown task was right.
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And an awesome find, by the way, on them taking Oak St. east. And thanks also for getting Mirna to answer the question that (mostly) cleared everything up. (I'm still dubious that Mirna and the BQs changed cabs at the exact same place on the way to the finish line -- seems like an improbable coincidence -- but whatever.)
I just asked Mirna (anonymously) several more questions about edited-out tasks on other legs (e.g., fish-drying in Macau) -- we'll see whether it turns up anything.
Chateau d If:
Oak street only goes east :lol: but I know what you mean. I was spending hours hunting down views headed to the marina and into downtown (Bush st has a close contender but other buildings would have been in the view too). The anomaly that started my curiosity was that side by side taxi passing along Fell street while the BQs had the wrong taxi they were supposed to be in. I haven't said it yet but that shot was made at around 8:00 am so I would guess they were not taking the best way to the Dead House. Especially the BQs who continued along Fell St. past Masonic.
I think the show missed an opportunity to present a cute sequence of mapped Pink and Yellow lines twisting their way through the Streets of San Francisco trying to get to the epicenter of the Hippie culture. Just think of the music that they could use and the shots of Mirna getting slammed into the ceiling of her cab. :rotf:
About the cab changing, I think the BQs cab parked on 5th pointing toward Market while they did the Mint task (as did D&E's cab). They probably got started along 5th, crossed Market and decided to try for another cab as they saw the Renaissance Park 55 Hotel. It now looks like Charla & Mirna's cab made a left from Jessie onto 5th and crossed Market. And it looks like they had the same idea to try for a new taxi at the Hotel. That would become their 3rd cab in San Francisco. I don't know where they dumped the first one. It had to be sometime after the airport and before arriving at the mint.
red_sox:
Michael its definetely Mirna :tup: I can check IP Adresses, and all posts under the name Mirna are from the same computor- also, she is sending me her wedding photos for the site.. so i htink its her :hearts:
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