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RachelLeVega:

--- Quote from: G.B. on August 09, 2018, 06:00:48 PM ---Well well, very interesting thoughts here. I'm not sure I can agree, honestly.

*The U-Turn I'm very split about. I like the idea and sometimes it really works well, but sometimes it really DOESN'T work well. Honestly, I think the U-Turn can stay but there has to be one major change. The U-Turn should only be applied to two tasks that don't take very long to complete. Quick Detour tasks. Otherwise a team will have to complete two 30-minute tasks, spending an hour at the Detour, then they have no hope of surviving. I think it's fine, but it does need brain power behind it.

*The Yield should NOT come back. I'm sorry but I hate the Yield. It's boring, it's not fun to watch, and all we get from it is 10 minutes of a team standing around bitching at the team that targeted them. The Israeli version of the Race overuses the Yield to the point of nausea, and I'm totally sick of it.

*Mixing the Yield and U-Turn also doesn't work in my opinion, because one is so much stronger than the other.

*I like the Speed Bump and I hope it never goes away. Sorry, but I really do like it. Admittedly, I wouldn't mind if the Speed Bump took on some elements of the Handicap. Maybe not on every single Speed Bump, but here and there it would be neat for a team's Speed Bump to just be the normal task but harder (IE, Tanner & Josh's Speed Bump, but not so insanely overpowered)

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I definitely do agree that the U-Turns are hit or miss. Sometimes it does bring its surprises (Twinnies' blockade method, Joe & Heidi's beautiful downfall), but for me, I feel like it is overly used to the point it got tiring for me after 10 years of seeing it still being promoted as a "twist" when it's become a race resident. I just wish to see a fresh breath of air into the route structure especially now that we're stuck in a new age of this stunt casting trend.

As for the Speed Bump, I think the problems I had for some of them were teams being led into a different area to do something so minuscule and irrelevant to the culture of the region. Maybe if they were more integrated to their current tasks, then perhaps that change might be something worth taking.

G.B.:
A breath of fresh air is exactly what turned the U-Turn from something good into something bad. That's where the U-Turn-before-the-Detour nonsense came from. I would love a season that went back to just having two single U-Turns in the race.

nrh2110:

--- Quote from: Ray! on January 16, 2009, 10:01:25 PM ---New Countries:
Algeria
Belize
East Timor
Fiji
Gabon
Guatemala
Latvia
Micronesia
Nepal
Seychelles
Tajikistan

New Cities, Old Countries:
Canberra, Australia
Brasilia/Recife, Brazil
Chongqing, China
Nice/Cannes, France
Varanasi, India
Sapporo, Japan
Nairobi, Kenya (for a leg, not a stopover)
Acapulco, Mexico
Cebu, Philippines

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Varanasi - TAR 18 (a really great leg, too!)
Nice - TAR 26

Declive:
They can explore Brazil in so many different ways. I wish they could do that.

BourkieBoy:
Don't these beaches on the Gold Coast, look inviting for TAR32 to visit!  :funny:



The Gold Coast, is THE BEST city in Australia!

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