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The Amazing Race 14 Speculation on Spoilers
DrRox:
nvm
TARAsia Fan:
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--- Quote from: TARAsia Fan on January 28, 2009, 10:59:16 AM ---Spont,
Welcome to the forum. Thanks for the that tidbit, but as we have seen, decoy teams have had camera crews follow them especially when TAR gets to the final five or so. The eliminated teams do not go to Sequesterville and basically follow the remaining teams to the finish line. And the decoys go through the route to throw off any people (like the Detectives) from finding out the final three.
Last season, one of the remaining teams played the decoys in Portland. This we know from the Detectives' great work and from our talk with the teams during the lunch before the season finale. :tup:
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yeah, maybe. .. i'd just like to think the fact that another female team made it to the final 3. hehe... oh well
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Believe me, I would love to see it. I would love another all-female make it to give them a chance. Dustin & Kandice were so close in All-Stars.
apskip:
--- Quote from: DrRox on January 28, 2009, 11:07:04 AM ---Well we are having a bad ice storm here in the Big D, so I have nothing else to do and came up with this. You guys shoot it down all you like, it will only help.
Possible opening scenario of TAR14.
Oct 31, 2008—Leave Los Alamitos JRTB and make way to LAX for flights to Europe. Nov 1, 2008-- Possible
termination points of trans-Atlantic flights at Zurich and Milan.
Teams make their way by train to Locarno, Switzerland and arrive at
overnight sleep over point and leave the next morning at designated time.
This is not a pit stop, but a continuation leg which is common on first leg
of TAR
Nov 2, 2008—Teams make their way to the Verzasca Dam and do the bungy jump roadblock.
After the roadblock, teams are told to go to Interlaken, Switzerland by
train. Depending on arrival at train station in Locarno, there are two routes
to Interlaken, either through the Gotthard Tunnel or Simplon Tunnel.
Teams would have to determine which routing would get them to
Interlaken soonest. On arrival in Interlaken, teams encounter a detour. I
think the detour would be snow related (we had the company of the guy
that specializes in filming snowboarding). So detour is maybe
snowboarding or segway After completing detour, teams make their way
to the Pit Stop around Interlaken. It is presumed that some teams will
arrive at the Pit Stop before dark, meaning that they will leave the next
morning before sunup.
Nov 3, 2008—Leave pit stop and drive to Obermaiselstein. Along the way teams will
have to go through Lucerne. This city has similar waterfront as Interlaken
and could be site for Segway task to get clue to go to Obermaiselstein. The
cheese deal looks like a roadblock to me. All pics are of a single team
member that I can tell. So somewhere along the way, they should do the
cheese task in Switzerland to me. I mean we order Swiss cheese, not
Austrian cheese or German cheese….lol…..but that is just a guess. After
completion of roadblock, proceed to Obermaiselstein for detour,
paragliding or pie throwing. After completion of detour, drive to Schloss
Hellbrum in Salzburg for pit stop.
Nov 4, 2008--(Possible moved Pit Stop mat from night before like in Moscow) Teams
leave Salzburg Pit Stop for tasks in Salzburg then make their way to
Bucherest and Translvania arriving early morning of Nov 5th. This comes
from the fact that the lady jogged by the Schloss Hellbrum the next moring
and nothing was happening. All the cars were still parked there and nothing
where the Pit Stop mat had been the night before.
Nov 5, 2008--Teams make their way by trains to Translvania and either tasks or 36 hour
pit stop.
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Dr. Rox, I am not attempting to "shoot it down" as I respect your thinking even though I do not agree with all of it. Let's start with the biggest problem area, which is number of legs. We know from Bertram van Munster that there are 12 legs in AR14. He has been known to get things not quite right, but I believe him here. My timeline (see Timelines and Flight Information thread) calls for three total legs in Locarno, Interlaken and Salzburg. Then there is Romania, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, somewhere in India, Phuket, an unkown location (leaning toward agreemeent on Thailand but that is irrelevant for the purpose of this analysis), Guilin, Beijing and Hawaii fof a total of 9. 9+4 = 13, which is one too many. There can be only 3 legs in Switzerland, whatever parts of Italy and Germany might be traversed, and Austria or the total get too high.
Your thought that Cheese will be a ROADBLOCK is a good one. Your thought that it should be done in Switzerland (even though you have to steal a ROADBLOCK from the Interlaken are to make room there for such a ROADBLOCK) is even better. It almost for sure is going to be Switzerland, not Obermaiselstein.
I think Obermaiselstein is possible, but not probable. The company there that you have cited for a task could move its plane to either Switzerland or to Salzburg to accomplish the same result.
Your thought that teams will make their wasy to Locarno, arriving mid-afternoon after a flight and train and/or bus combinations, and then go to sleep needs improvement. I think teams will do tasks in Locarno to until there is a "pick a number" board which will be the setup for the following morning at Verzasca Dam, then they will rest. In the morning I see Verzasca Dam and then the end of leg 1 with a TBC so they can keep going and arrive in Interlaken in the early afternoon. In Interlaken teams will do the full range of tasks for leg 2(including cheese) and have a pit stop. For leg 3 the tranportation mode to Salzburg could be car (it's more efficient than I originally thought), train to the plane via Zurich, and even train all the way. I see no big favorite here, but the self-navigation is always fun to watch, so I hope that it is by car. I know that this concept puts a ROADBLOCK into leg 1 but you can't do both Verzasca Dam and cheese in leg 2.
A minor aside is that no respectable train would take the Gotthard Tunnel to go from Locarno to Interlaken. The Simplon tunnel between Domodossola and Brig is the only one that makes sense. The gotthard tunnel route is much longer and takes more time.
georgiapeach:
I LOVE that spec summary, it always helps to see things laid out.
But I think that the first episode (ie leg 1) will include Los Alamitos through Interlaken, leaving Salzburg as Leg 2.
BVM did say we would have a death defying stunt in Leg 1, I believe, which has to be the bungee.
puddin:
About the cheese its a team task ..
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