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TAR12 speculation on spoilers & teams etc ..
banredbeans:
I was thinking this time out they might actually want more publicity so people would "talk up" the show. :dancer:
Thanks swimmer :jumpy:
michael:
Alright, more from TwOP:
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According to my coworker, the contestants and camera crews were initially coy about what program they were working on, but eventually some of the contestants said it was TAR.
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This is the same user who was posting the Burkina Faso spoiler.
apskip:
It's time to get started on flight speculation, so here goes:
Perhaps the first destination of AR12 is Burkina Faso. There are 24 airports in the country, but I am going to speculate that an Amazing Race would take the quickest and simplest into the country and that is arriving in the capital city of Ougadougou. There are nonstop flights to OUA from Paris - Charles de Gaulle (CDG). The question of which U.S. city was the start point is important but I am not going to get hung up on it since almost every major U.S. city in the eastern half of the country has non-stop flights to Paris. Just for the purpose of example, I am choosing Washington - Dulles(IAD) as the starting airport. The flights from CDG to OUA are only on Saturdays and Wednesdays and the sighting was apparently quite recent, so I am going to pinpoint the departure date from the U.S. as the afternoon/evening of Friday July 13. From IAD that means AF27 departing 2020 arriving CDG 1150. There is an earlier flight, but why bother? The connecting flight on Saturday July 14 (Bastille Day in France) was AF730 leaving at 1610 and arriving OAU 1940. That's all I can say right now. I am going to think about where the Race could logically go next. I see probably a minimum of 2 more legs in Africa and none in South America, then a route up to Europe and across Asia.
apskip:
am ready for some fearless predictions again. Last time Zanzibar was one of 10 that I predicted would be an African stop. This time it will be more difficult because starting from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso limits where you can reasonably get to. Here is a list of the major airports in Africa:
Algeria Algiers, Hassi Messaoud, Tamanrasset
Angola Luanda
Benin Cotonou
Botswana Gaborone, Maun
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
Cameroon Douala, Garoua, Yaounde
Chad Ndjamena
Congo Kinshasa
Ivory Coast Abidjan
Djibouti Djibouti
Egypt Cairo, Hurghada, Luxor, Mt. Sinai, Nuwiba, Sharm-el-Sheik
Equitorial Guinea Malabo
Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Jijiga
Gambia Banjul
Ghana Accra Kumasi
Guinea Bissau Bissau
Kenya Kisumu, Malinda, Mombasa, Nairobi
Liberia Monrovia
Libya Benghazi, Tripoli
Mali Bamako, Timbuktu
Mauritiania Nouakchott
Morocco Agadir, Casablanca, Marrakech, Rabat
Mozampbique Maputo
Namibia Windhoek
Niger Niamey
Nigeria Abuja, Kano, Lagos, Port Harcourt
Senegal Dakar
Sierra Leone Freetown
Somalia hargeisa
South Africa CapeTown, Durban, Johannesburg, South African Game Parks
Sudan Khartoum
Tanzania Arusha, DarEsSalaam
Togo Lome
Tunisia Monashir, Sfax, Tunis
Uganda Entebbe
Zambia Lusaka
Zimbabwe Harare
So, now you can make your own guesses on where the Amazing Race is headed. From Ougadougou there is no water transportation and going by land to the next place is not very likely. Teams will almost ceratinly have to fly somewhere. Where will it be?
My top 7 picks are:
Yaounde, Cameroon
Douala, Cameroon
Kigali, Rwanda
Kampala, Uganda
Lusaka, Zambia
Arusha, Tanzania
Nairobi, Kenya
I took a look at going to Timbucktu or to Kinsangani, Zaire, but both of them involved long, difficult trips with many connections. I like the first 5 places as countries where the Amazing Race has never been or has only been tangentially (Zambia in AR1). I like Arusha to utilize all the planning from the lost AR11 pitstop. I like Nairobi for its access to white water rafting and several gorgeous national parks. Please nominate where in Africa you think the Amazing Race will go and why.
mswood:
--- Quote from: banredbeans on July 17, 2007, 06:43:54 AM --- :hearts: :hearts: :hearts: :hearts: :hearts: :hearts: :hearts: :hearts: :hearts: :hearts: :hearts: :hearts:
--- Quote ---To think, in the first 5 minutes I of the first episode, I didn't think I would like this team. Boy was I ever the hell wrong.
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That is so nice of you to say mswood
I didn't like our edit at all in the beginning either. After I watched the videos from press day I called Bill up at work and told him how I didn't like our team :groan:
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Seriously it was hate at first sight (kidding) but I didn't like the opening. But by the time you guys had made it to the sporting goods store, I was loving your team.
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