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EP4:10/19 "I Wonder If They Like Blondes in New Zealand?"
michael:
but we know that Marisa and Brooke are not in final 6, and stacey (the source) saw two BLONDES running around downtown....how do you explain that?
apskip:
Chateau, you have overlooked an important piece of evidence. That is my reporting of information collected from first-hand sources at Auckland International Airport stating:
Phil Keoghan flew out in the early hours of the next day (possibly 3rd of May) - 5am ish.
So if we believe that and obviously I do, it sure does point to your "timestamp" applying to May 1 at 405pm to 455pm(since the adjustment between May 2 and May 1 in your system is very small).
If Phil went through SantaCruz on April 29 (which is what the evidence indicates), he would have to get on either:
LAN967 1035 1625 to Santiago for LAN801 (SCL AKL 2245 0355+2) OR
5L210 1015 1500 to Buenos Aires for AR2801 (EZE AKL 2355 0500+2)
If he did not get to Santa Cruz in time to get on one of those, then there are no other options that I am aware of.
apskip:
--- Quote from: apskip on October 17, 2008, 05:05:10 PM ---
--- Quote from: puddin on October 17, 2008, 02:48:10 PM ---Phil on Boonie Hunt said that after 10 hours of waiting at the pitstop that his dad wanted to put a jacket on etc, so with that we know it was a very long wait for Phil and dad for teams or a team.
I just walked in the door so will let you all know what other goodies Phil had to say later.
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This piece is information helps determine what didn't happen. Flights in to Auckland from Santiago or Buenos Aires arrive only in the early morning(between about 4am and 5am). A wide pitstop time range that is less than 24 hours means that all teams must have reached Auckland on the morning of Saturday May 2. Once there, it is clear that something bad happens to at least one team so that they finish well after the others. The total gap from first to last was not necessarily 10 hours(Phil and his dad could have had to start from the nearby Coromandel Peninsula where Phil lives once there were reports of teams nearing the Tauranga area but they would err on the side of being early to arrive for the piststop festivities), but it must have been pretty large.
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Chateau, as to your contention that teams could have all finished up by 4pm, I have several comments:
1. See the Bonnie Hunt Show information, source Phil Keoghan about how he and his dad were at the pitstop for more than 10 hours.
2. The first teams could not have gotten to the pitstop before 11am in my analysis of the different tasks in New Zealand.
3. Phil and his dad might have gotten there an hour or two early, so let's say possibly as early as 9am.
4. Add 10 hours at a minimum and you get 7pm.
5. If the last team finished by anytime after 4pm near Te Puke, it still take 2 hours or more to return to Auckland. If this case were real (it isn't for the reasons cited above), Phil could not get that burger before 6pm.
georgiapeach:
Whew! I go to work and come back and find you all have been busy with some great speculation! :hearts:
I just want to clarify a few things:
As DrAW said above, It is Nick/Starr in the Moscow video, not Terence/Sarah.
Ken and Tina were also seen in Moscow arr at the Pitstop.
The final #4 and #5 teams have usually run with production acting as decoys. (And frequently are allowed to do all the tasks if they want!) Team eliminated #6 has sometimes been run as a decoy, but has sometimes been brought from a second sequester location to do so. That team has also not always run decoy in the same city as the finale.
BUT!! I am not at liberty to say a lot about this, but we all need to remember that Portland was a VERY different Finale city than any we have ever had. It was the first time in the history of the race that we had the actual finale location BEFORE the finale took place. RFF chose to not share that info at the time in an effort to protect the ending of the race from a frenzy at the mat.
So use your creative thinking here. ;) I can tell you that TPTB may well have chosen to run decoys this time VERY differently than they have ever been run before. Including running ANY of the teams in Portland (not just the final 4-5), and also running a group of teams actually AFTER the final mat had occured. Which could explain why we see some teams wandering Portland late in the day.
As far as NZ goes, here is exactly what we had from our source:
--- Quote ---The word I heard from my source was that a team 'missed the bus' and didn't arrive somewhere (I got the impression it was a cluebox) until the morning after other teams (although no word on what time of day the other teams got there the previous day).
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and:
--- Quote ---A race spoiler I got was that at least one team missed a bus or similar and arrived at a challenge a day behind other teams (well, the following morning anyhow) - I hear this because the local crew hired to do the POV pickup shots had to revisit the location that morning to get matched lighting conditions.
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Could this team maybe even have a Guido edit?? ???
And FWIW, I don't this is a NEL.... :angel:
georgiapeach:
And :welcome: to RFF, DrAw!!
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