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calv_10:

--- Quote from: apskip on October 23, 2008, 10:33:12 PM ---Now, when teams were sent to deliver the purchased fish, what we are seeing is a bunching point designed to almost get Ida/Tania into the game. Sam and Vince reached there soon after 6am. They stated "it will be 8 hours until this (hours of operation)" starts. Their arithmetic obviously wasn't working well with no calculator provided because those hours were 11am to 7pm.  The next 3 other teams would get there between about 710am and 740am. Ida/Tania should have been able to get there well before 11am, but they did not. Why? Does anybody know?

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that's why i put on my recap that the sam and vince left before dusk which is roughly 3 AM-ish. +8hrs would be 11AM.

I think Ida and Tania spent some time begging for money so they didn't make it before 11 AM.


--- Quote from: apskip on October 23, 2008, 10:33:12 PM ---The DETOUR was titled CHANCE or DANCE. If it were me, unless I was a poor dancer I would have taken the DANCE option because you have complete control over your own fate. CHANCE is the random luck-based option. Besides changing to costumes that took longer than changing to the Lion Dance costume, the Blackjack-playing teams would on average take 18 hands to reach 9 wins. At maybe one minute per hand, plus a 2 minute offset for the costume difference, playing Blackjack takes 20 minutes. The Lion Dance was significantly quicker for Geoff and Tisha.

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not to mention that dealer has to shuffle the cards a number of times during a game. dance is the right move here. the steps are not that complicated and people can be forgiving in such tasks.

bikermama:

--- Quote from: georgiapeach on October 23, 2008, 11:00:07 AM ---
And I just love the wonderful way I&T are running this race. They are a joy to watch.

Did teams share some $$ with them, or did they have to beg?


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At the pitstop, H&B, A&D and S&V pooled their money together and gave HK$300. Ida and Tania were a little snitty when they said that only 3 teams gave them money. But when they got to the first cluebox, they found that G&T had left even more money for them. (Methinks that G&T weren't invited to join the Ida/Tania fund.)

If I'm not mistaken, they received HK$500 from the teams and more than HK$300 from passersby in Hong Kong.

tarafanatic:

--- Quote from: apskip on October 23, 2008, 10:33:12 PM ---Thank you to all those who provided as-viewed-or-just-after reports of this episode. I want to add a few things that I haven't seen in print yet:

Pitstop release times were:

Sam/Vince 547am
Bernie/Henry 653am
Geoff/Tisha 712am
AD/Fuzzie 724am
Ida/Tania 957am

Now, when teams were sent to deliver the purchased fish, what we are seeing is a bunching point designed to almost get Ida/Tania into the game. Sam and Vince reached there soon after 6am. They stated "it will be 8 hours until this (hours of operation)" starts. Their arithmetic obviously wasn't working well with no calculator provided because those hours were 11am to 7pm.  The next 3 other teams would get there between about 710am and 740am. Ida/Tania should have been able to get there well before 11am, but they did not. Why? Does anybody know?

Vince/Sam on hearing of the yielding of Bernie/Henry talked about a team that was their big "competitor". It seems to me in that context that they were referring to Bernie/Henry, but there is a slight chance they meant Geoff/Tisha. Bernie came down from the Macau Tower calling herself Lara Croft Tower Raider; I thought that was cute. The task there was to climb up protected inside from the 61st to 77th floor, then be outside the rest of the way up. Something in the background mentioned 150 steps. Neither Fuzzie nor Tania had to do the outside part because of the deterioration of the weather and lightning. They just got their clues and missed having to do some significant climbing.

The DETOUR was titled CHANCE or DANCE. If it were me, unless I was a poor dancer I would have taken the DANCE option because you have complete control over your own fate. CHANCE is the random luck-based option. Besides changing to costumes that took longer than changing to the Lion Dance costume, the Blackjack-playing teams would on average take 18 hands to reach 9 wins. At maybe one minute per hand, plus a 2 minute offset for the costume difference, playing Blackjack takes 20 minutes. The Lion Dance was significantly quicker for Geoff and Tisha.

Based on the darkness, all the pitstop times are going to come in after 6pm and I think Ida/Tania will be in the neighborhood of 7pm. They made up a lot of time due to the hours of operation.




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do u know also what time all of the teams arrive at the pit stop??

georgiapeach:
We guess--but we don't know for sure until we see what time they leave this week...

tarafanatic:
ah ok.. so whats your guess??

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