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TAR14 EP2: Your Target Is Your Partner’s Face (Germany)
Kiwi Jay:
These guys and Mel and Mike could be the 2nd plane! :yess: Christie/Jodi yes, Jaime/Cara yes, Mel/Mike yes, Mark and Mike and Kisha and Jen I can also see too!
georgiapeach:
More thinking....
We have one woman who climbed back up the mt per our Salzburg spoiler info... Could that person have ended up gliding after all? ???
Also per the Salzburg spoiler, Cara/Jaime, Brad/Victoria. and Amanda/Kris should be within the first arrivals to Hellbrun...
So why are Cara/Jaime in the second plane to Romania? Yes they get a little lost finding the actual PitStop at Hellbrunn, but not so much that they should get seriously delayed right?
Yes stretching here , lots can go wrong after a PitStop release...
But suppose that our teams either do or abort the RB?
What happens when you abort or don't do a RB?
We know from the Romber meat eating challenge that there is a 4 hour penalty.
So suppose, just suppose, that all the racers who go down that MT are technically "quitting" the RB.
They would go do the cakes or the Segways, make the drive and the dash to the MAT, only to have to do a 4 hour penalty....
If that was the case, then some of our early MAT arrivals are not necessarily going to be our actual leaders, right?
So then Amanda/Kris (spec because we can't be sure what Kris did) and Brad/Victoria ( we see Victoria walk down the MT) may not have an advantage after all, even if they do arrive in Salzburg early?
This could explain why Cara/Jaime are on a later flight to Romania, despite being one of the first teams seen at Hellbrun.
Am I nuts? Anybody a RB rule expert? :helpme
Also need to say that all the paragliding sites DO say that they fly "weather permitting", so it is equally possible that TPTB built in an alternative walk instead of glide....
georgiapeach:
--- Quote from: Kiwi Jay on February 21, 2009, 12:52:47 PM ---These guys and Mel and Mike could be the 2nd plane! :yess: Christie/Jodi yes, Jaime/Cara yes, Mel/Mike yes, Mark and Mike and Kisha and Jen I can also see too!
--- End quote ---
There is no evidence for Mel/Mike here in the Romania flight, kiwi....
mswood:
Peach, I am trying to think if there has ever been a roadblock with two options.
One glide down (being hopefully a fast option), the second being walk down considerable slower). That would allow the teams an option (and I would think the producers would be aware of the possible weather problems, but look at the season final of season 9 where BJ & Tyler choose an option that they weren't allowed to do for a detour).
If it doesn't include an out option, then yeah its a four hour penalty (and with the last time we saw it being season 7) starting when the next team arrives. And if all teams are already there a straight four hour penalty.
georgiapeach:
I suppose that if they had a marked path down already set up, then TPTB setting up an option is the most likely...but stuff like this keeps me up nights! :lol3:
Thanks mswood!
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