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TAR 15 Speculation on Spoilers
Zack.:
So...speculation time! Inspired by Neobie's excellent analysis on 13.4, here are my thoughts on the missing leg (version 2):
Leg 2 presumably starts in the morning of Tuesday, 7/21 (teams arrive in Japan in the afternoon of the 19th, staggered departures set up for the 20th, leg ends in late morning/early afternoon of the 20th, and a 12 hour pit stop puts them leaving early on 7/21 - extended pitstops are not out of the question given what happened last season).
The teams need to be in HCMC on Thursday 7/23 for the sighting to work. Within this time, there needs to be a 12 hour pit stop. Because of this, I doubt that there is another leg in Tokyo - from what I can tell, a leg within a city can be finished in a short amount of time (Delhi 2 took a couple of hours, as did Budapest; Moscow 2 took a long time for certain teams but they were bunched partially and had a more difficult than average leg; Beijing took a while also, but not two days worth of time, even with a pit stop), and so they would either have to make difficult tasks for 11, have a lot of bunching, or extended pit stop(s) - none of which I would do.
A leg in Japan but not Tokyo might be a suitable option. There could easily be bunching in Tokyo before the teams have to travel out. Timing of course depends on the location and the method of transit; the bullet train is a short amount of time while buses are longer. A second leg in Japan could then "start" in the afternoon of 7/21 and finish in the afternoon evening of 7/21, which, of course, has the problem of an extra day. An interesting option would be the use of an overnight bus/train; TPTB could have a roadblock or Detour, then a bus ride or bus rides out to location X that night (location X being somewhere like Hiroshima or Nagasaki or Sapporo, somewhere far away) - teams would arrive on the morning of 7/22 to complete the leg, have a pit stop, and depart from the pit stop the evening of 7/22, just in time to fly out to HCMC the morning of the 23rd.
Overall, while I feel that an overnight bus ride is a good option, the best option is traveling to another country, and I'll figure out *what* country that could be next.
retard boi:
I guess a leg in Israel is not really an option... :duno:
we are one of the few countrys that actually bought the format and made our own race
we deserve at list one leg!!!!
north09:
When it's safer I'm sure they would consider Isreal. Of course, I don't see why they wouldn't consider it with enough security when Israel has it's own version going on as you mentioned.
redskevin88:
--- Quote from: north09 on July 27, 2009, 02:48:42 PM ---When it's safer I'm sure they would consider Isreal. Of course, I don't see why they wouldn't consider it with enough security when Israel has it's own version going on as you mentioned.
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yes, but do you realize that in the israeli format only ben gurion was visited?
Dånooky:
--- Quote from: redskevin88 on July 27, 2009, 08:42:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: north09 on July 27, 2009, 02:48:42 PM ---When it's safer I'm sure they would consider Isreal. Of course, I don't see why they wouldn't consider it with enough security when Israel has it's own version going on as you mentioned.
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yes, but do you realize that in the israeli format only ben gurion was visited?
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and also, going to Israel will forcibly ban the racers from going to some Middle East countries and vice versa
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