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The Amazing Race 14 Speculation on Spoilers
Belle Book:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 19, 2009, 08:02:19 PM ---Belle Book,
Frank took a long time discussing his route with the Newark Airport taxi driver. If he hadn't done that before getting in the taxi and chose to do it en route, Frank/Margarita would probably have gotten on the same subway run as Rob/Brennan.
Wil spent time trying to cut the taxi line at Oakland International Airport. If Wil/Tara had just gotten into that line when they arrived, nobody could have caught them and the slower speed of Tara would have been irrelevant.
The factors you cite for Colin/Christie at Calgary and in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area are true. Here are two more factors that influenced the outcome. Once the fog came in after Colin/Christie and Brandon/Nicole had started to rest in the Calgary airport hotel, Chip/Kim were incredibly lucky to be in the right place at the right time. They caught a small window of available flight reservations for the Denver to Dallas flight that closed and could not be attained by the other two teams. That still would not have mattered if the American Airlines agent had not recommended that both teams check their excess luggage on the American flight. That did not matter for the Calgary to Denver flight but airport officials in Denver applied strict guidelines and prevented them from going standby on the United Denver to Dallas flight, the one Chip/Kim were on. The American flight from Dallas to Denver got them in just over 10 minutes behind.
So these things are complex and you can't say that any team lost as a result of hometown knowledge.
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That's what I was trying to say, even if some of the details weren't quite accurate -- the curse of the hometown team doesn't really exist because other factors came into play.
Belle Book
Snooky:
--- Quote from: Belle Book on March 20, 2009, 05:48:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: apskip on March 19, 2009, 08:02:19 PM ---Belle Book,
Frank took a long time discussing his route with the Newark Airport taxi driver. If he hadn't done that before getting in the taxi and chose to do it en route, Frank/Margarita would probably have gotten on the same subway run as Rob/Brennan.
Wil spent time trying to cut the taxi line at Oakland International Airport. If Wil/Tara had just gotten into that line when they arrived, nobody could have caught them and the slower speed of Tara would have been irrelevant.
The factors you cite for Colin/Christie at Calgary and in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area are true. Here are two more factors that influenced the outcome. Once the fog came in after Colin/Christie and Brandon/Nicole had started to rest in the Calgary airport hotel, Chip/Kim were incredibly lucky to be in the right place at the right time. They caught a small window of available flight reservations for the Denver to Dallas flight that closed and could not be attained by the other two teams. That still would not have mattered if the American Airlines agent had not recommended that both teams check their excess luggage on the American flight. That did not matter for the Calgary to Denver flight but airport officials in Denver applied strict guidelines and prevented them from going standby on the United Denver to Dallas flight, the one Chip/Kim were on. The American flight from Dallas to Denver got them in just over 10 minutes behind.
So these things are complex and you can't say that any team lost as a result of hometown knowledge.
--- End quote ---
That's what I was trying to say, even if some of the details weren't quite accurate -- the curse of the hometown team doesn't really exist because other factors came into play.
Belle Book
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Are we even sure that Victor and Tammy are that familiar with Asia? They're from America not Asia.
apskip:
Here's an answer on that one, the original statement in the official CBS website for AR14 and copied into the first entry for Victory and Tammy JIh's RFF thread:
they recently traveled with friends to China and Victor mapped out the entire trip down to the minute.
So they are very knowledgeable about China, where there will be 3 AR14 episodes.
georgiapeach:
I believe they were there for the Olympics? And Mandarin will be a huge help.
Hooky:
*Praying Tammy & Victor won't be another reincarnation of "Team Domination"*
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