Topic: TAR 15 spoilers, sightings & locations *summary page 1*

[Chateau d If]

It also looks like Brian is doing the double backpack routine!   

[Boingo]

I found a blog entry from a family that stumbled upon the Amazing Race filming in Talinn at
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 The quality of the picture isn't the best and there aren't any shadows, so I doubt we can get a time fix on it unless the image gurus can dig a camera time stamp out of it.

Plaidmoon

   nice one, Plaidmoon

FWIW, the Exif data for this photo is:

File: IMG_5998.JPG

Tag   Name   Value
010f   Make   Canon
0110   Model   Canon PowerShot SD750
0112   Orientation   1
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0132   DateTime   2009:08:03 00:31:55
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yada yada yada

[Boingo]

  got it!   Location of (bloggers) cluebox is in Governors Garden next to Toompea Castle.  ...which is the same cluebox we already saw in the previous Tallinn spoilers of poker players

Toompea Castle Governors Garden - 360 panorama

[Chateau d If]

I thought you already knew that!

[walkingpneumonia]

Hey - remember our cameraman who was taping Tiffany and Maria when they were decoys in Tallinin?
Looks like he gets around a bit - probably a PA?

[Chateau d If]

Nice call!  Maybe he is bringing donuts.   

[Boingo]

Captain Unitard Obvious strikes again...   

Thinking out loud about the camera Exif DateTime   2009:08:03 00:31:55.  Ignoring the hours (probably still set to bloggers home time zone), lets assume the minutes are probably accurate.

So if the ferry arrived in Tallinn at 10AM (local time), taking into account the time to clear terminal/customs/etc, finding a cab, and going to the first clue location Pikk Street door, a time of 10:32 at the castle/tower (second) cluebox is unreasonable.  So that leaves 11:32 and 12:32 and so on and so forth.  Conservatively speaking, they could have been at the castle/tower cluebox at 11:32am.     Primefun, who was following them, could narrow down the actual times.

[georgiapeach]

Nice job everybody!! Thanks for finding that Plaidmoon!! :jumpy!

[retard boi]

well if we bak in estonia again...

who are those?

[puddin]

well if we bak in estonia again...

who are those?

Ericka and Brian are "those" with crew in tow

[Slowhatch]

Too slow again...Puddin beat me to it. 

[Plaidmoon]

Here's another blog posting at http://servincambodia.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-pictures.html that mentions seeing the Amazing Race, apparently in Phnom Penh. It's not much for details unfortunately.

I was sitting in a cafe when part of next season's amazing race came through!

I tried leaving a comment asking for more details, but I got an error message each time I tried to send it.  

Plaidmoon

[primefun]

got it!   Location of (bloggers) cluebox is in Governors Garden next to Toompea Castle.  ...which is the same cluebox we already saw in the previous Tallinn spoilers of poker players

Toompea Castle Governors Garden - 360 panorama

Hi again ya'll.. yes this is the cluebox the teams ran to after Pikk street. I followed the yellow team from pikk street all the way up to this cluebox, after which i lost them due to a longer "talk" with the production. The time of the photo in the blog mentioned above must be sometime around 10:45-11:00 a.m.

[Mrs Shrek]

Translates to:

FOUR HOUSES - the kerkje van Vierhuizen thanks to tv-opnames have been boasted. The mill in the village seems the same destiny undergo. An American film plough has made Thursday prerecordings for a large game show. The game show is similar with the Dutch programme ' Beijing Express'. A camera plough follows teams and films their activities. According to the voluntary millers of four houses went everything in a typical American manner: with much poeha, expensive auto' s and it was even filmed there from a helicopter.

Confirms activities happened on Thursday July 30th

Gah!

Talk about close. I drove thru the Netherlands that day. Twas more to the south though, in the Nijmegen area, but I'm sure I could have convinced hubby and the kids to take a 'small detour' on our 8 hour drive if I had known....

[georgiapeach]

I have an update from Joab's twitter/blog find !!


She was lucky enough to see teams in Phnom Penh and Phil as well.

Her original post  said:

They were filming in the market I was shopping at and one pair's camera guy actually stopped and took a 5 second shot of me, winked and ran off after the couple he was attached to. I was filmed by a crew of "The Amazing Race"!! Also, I passed by multiple pairs and their camera and sound guy so hopefully I will appear in one or another shot. Yea. My claim to fame will be a background, blink-and-you'll-miss-it part in "The Amazing Race"!

All in all, I bumped into 5 pairs. The first was a male-male partnership, second was a couple who looked really miserable, third was another couple wearing matching dark blue tees and the guy was wearing a bandanna - rambo-style (this is when I got filmed), fourth was another male-male pair I think - one of em had a combo of neon green with some pink hair and lastly was a girl-girl pair - an asian chick with a white girl. The only definite film capture that I know of is when I bumped into the third pair. And that's even if he wasn't just pointing the cam in my face and pretending to take a shot ...

In response to some questions she has replied:

It was on a Saturday, July 25. You guessed right, I was at the Russian Market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It was in the afternoon at about 2:30 p.m. I didn't manage to get any photos because it was a complete and total suprise and I wasn't carrying my camera or my phone with me. If you do send me the pictures, I can possibly identify the pairings I saw. I am interested to know more about the "miserable"-looking couple I saw. To be fair, the market is hot, confusing and full of people and I can understand if they felt overwhelmed by everything. A number of pairs went around and around the market quite a few times. The first one out of the market was the first male-male pair I saw.

Also, about the Independance Monument being the next point after Russian Market, there's no way any team in their right mind would walk all the way there from Russian Market. It's too far, you'd waste a lot of time. And I saw some team, I can't recall which, take the tuk-tuk (motorcycles attached with a carriage-like cab) after coming out of the market.

I linked her to our contestant photos and she was able to identify 4 of the 5 as well as elaborate on the task:

Hi again!
 
Ok, had a look at the teams and well, they are pretty cleaned up in the pictures () but the one's I can definitely identify are:
Cannan Smith and Mike Combs (Rambo guy)
Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle
Gary and Matt Tomljenovich
Meghan Rickey and Cheyne Whitney (miserable couple)
The ones I'm iffy about are the male-male pair. I'm pretty sure one of the guys wasn't that tall. I'm 5'4" and he didn't look that much taller than me when he passed by. Either that or I actually saw a girl and thought it was a guy for some reason.
 
I'm not sure if they were there for a detour or a road block as the market is big and the teams I saw did have to go round and round a number of times. It might have been they had to find a stall and get their next clue from there. It could be the shop was selling either motorcycle parts or household items or from the wet market as I had canvassed (albeit not diligently) the other half of the market and found no red and yellow flag in the handicraft, fabric and clothing section. This is also because I saw most of the pairs going through the half of the market I was in looking dejected and irritated and then gravitate towards the spare parts, household items and wet market area. There are a few goldsmiths on that side as well. There's also a well hidden, I wanna say apothecary type place, but I don't particularly know what goes on behind those doors so can't say for sure if that could be a possible TAR thing. I can say with some degree of certainty that it wasn't an eating challenge because at the point I saw the father-son pair and poker girls, I was sitting in the food arcade area (and I use the term loosely) and was having drinks when they went through. Didn't seem to see any flags there either.
 
The first team I saw was the male-male pair (which I'm suspect now since I can''t recall them from any of the pics) and they were also the first team to leave. The second team I saw leave was the blue t-shirt team and the last pair in the market as I left was the asian girl-caucasian girl pair. I can't tell if the other pairs I had seen had left at that point but the girls were the straggling TAR team. They were at most one hour behind the first pair. But I'm guessing from the pics on the forum the poker girls managed to get on to the next leg.

Miss Z!! We SO appreciate your help!!

[Chateau d If]

The ones I'm iffy about are the male-male pair. I'm pretty sure one of the guys wasn't that tall. I'm 5'4" and he didn't look that much taller than me when he passed by. Either that or I actually saw a girl and thought it was a guy for some reason.

I'll speculate that this is the Red Team:  Sam & Dan McMillen- Brothers

because the only other possibilities would be Harlem and the Orange Team, and I can say that both of those Teams are taller than 5'4".   

[Jobby]

 

Yay, thanks peach for following up! She's actually girlclumsy!

[woden]

The ones I'm iffy about are the male-male pair. I'm pretty sure one of the guys wasn't that tall. I'm 5'4" and he didn't look that much taller than me when he passed by. Either that or I actually saw a girl and thought it was a guy for some reason.

I'll speculate that this is the Red Team:  Sam & Dan McMillen- Brothers

because the only other possibilities would be Harlem and the Orange Team, and I can say that both of those Teams are taller than 5'4".   

My only problem with this is that we're starting to have too many teams survive the first three episodes. If it's Sam & Dan, the only possible eliminees for the first three legs are:
The vegans in black eliminated at the starting line (assuming there is an elimination at the pit stop too)
Ron/Marcy
Jessica/Garrett

So that means by the time we get to Cambodia, we need four eliminated couples, yeah? Assuming there are no TBCs/NELs in the first three legs. And I think every other team besides Sam/Dan is accounted for in and after Cambodia, unless I'm missing something.

[georgiapeach]

The brothers in red were already spotted in Cambodia, we have photo evidence of them at the temple. (pretty sure it is them)


And if Tokyo is really two legs, then maybe there would be a NEL/TBC? All spec...

[woden]

I suppose Keri/Lance are another possibility for early elim -- I think the only thing keeping them in the mix is the "old but not too old" speculation in Dubai.

NVM - they were spotted leaving Vietnam, so they're solid through the first 3 legs.

[puddin]

I suppose Keri/Lance are another possibility for early elim -- I think the only thing keeping them in the mix is the "old but not too old" speculation in Dubai.

NVM - they were spotted leaving Vietnam, so they're solid through the first 3 legs.

Remember the source wasn't sure about Keri and Lance, he thinks it might have been them so not really solid evidence imo woden and what an outstanding job on the Timeline updates woden 

And thank you so much girlclumsy, I follow your blogging because your such a riot and someone I would love to hang out with in real life

[apskip]

However, the logic of Woden's statement that there should be 4 eliminated teams by the fourth leg is true under two major conditions:
1. There was an elimination in Los Angeles.
2. There were no NELs in the first 3 legs. Historically, I cannot every remember a NEL in the first 3 legs of any Amazing Race, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. There were many people telling me that a prediction of AR12 finishing in Alaska was crazy because there was no precedent for a finish outside the lower 48 states. We all know where that finish was. There could have been a precedent-setting NEL in one of the first 3 legs, but I would rate its probability in the 10% range.

[Jobby]

The brothers in red were already spotted in Cambodia, we have photo evidence of them at the temple. (pretty sure it is them)


And if Tokyo is really two legs, then maybe there would be a NEL/TBC? All spec...

All speculation too.

But it's a 2 hour season premiere.. so it could really just be a mega leg for Leg 1 in Japan. Doesn't have to be TBC/NEL or what?

[puddin]

If the 12th team Vegans are eliminated at the start it could be that a team is spared leg like you all said above, a superleg and back to back TAR's, whats not to love?

[Jobby]

If the 12th team Vegans are eliminated at the start it could be that a team is spared leg like you all said above, a superleg and back to back TAR's, whats not to love?

I just secretly hope that the 12th team has been spared from elimination from 5 minutes into the race. Maybe they have been forced to take a third flight that departs latest? Just hoping.. because it's really saddening to go into the race and be eliminated 5mins later.. as if Bilal and Sa'eed's elimination wasn't sad enough.. but at least they FLEW to China!

Imagine being in the cast for like a whole month and being talked about before TAR 15 started.. and letting the whole world know and see you getting eliminated ASAP the race started.