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TAR15 EP11: "It Starts With an “F”, That’s All I’m Saying" (Czech Republic)

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Jobby:

--- Quote from: puddin on November 23, 2009, 10:03:09 PM ---Ericka Goddess boobage worship  :lol:  :yess:
Good job on the locations Dan and Chateau

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<3 :funny:

Coutzy:

--- Quote from: apskip on November 24, 2009, 11:18:51 AM ---I want to follow a timeline approach to see where it leads to on departure time for flights Prague to the U.S. We start with the approximately 0915am (since the customs clearance should have been minimal) departure from Prague airport, which is about 6 miles west of downtown Prague.

I am going to guesstimate that it took 30 minutes for teams other than Brian/Ericka to get by taxi to Old Town Square during rush hour traffic. From there it took maybe 15 minutes to take a taxi to Troja. Completing the traverse of the wires would have been about 30 minutes for the slowest member of each team. Getting a taxi back to the Estates Theater would have been maybe 20 minutes. The ROADBLOCK could have taken maybe 60 minutes for the first team, 80 minutes for the second team and 120 minutes for the third team although we saw that Sam/Dan and Nate/Herb were very close in the time that they finished, so maybe 100 minutes for each one. Then it is 10 minutes on foot to Prague Castle and 5 minutes to find the pit stop. That would mean the pit stop arrival time of the first 3 teams is approximately:

Cheyne/Meghan 1135am
Sam/Dan 1215pm
Nate/Herb 1216pm

If we can assume a 12 hours pit stop teams with be released just before or after midnight starting Wed. Aug. 5. Depending on how long ep. 11 tasks are, they could finish by 2am and start a 36 hour extended pitstop. That would release them around 2pm the afternoon of Thursday Aug. 6. They could reach Prague Ruzyne airport before 3pm.


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I see only one flaw in that logic... the assumed 12 hour Pit Stop.

apskip:
Coutzy,

It does not matter which order pit stops are if one is 12 hours and the other 36 hours. You get 2 full days of pit stops no matter how they are ordered. The question is whether there was a non-standard pit stop. That is possible if WRP wants to give racers more time to get to Las Vegas. I believe that WRP does not want them to have more time. They are trying to force the Final 3 into their mold to travel together. There are various ways to accomplish that, but giving more pit stop time with a fixed arrival time in mind means a higher probability of identical travel plans.

chill_sd:

--- Quote from: apskip on November 24, 2009, 11:18:51 AM ---Cheyne/Meghan 1135am
Sam/Dan 1215pm
Nate/Herb 1216pm
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You seem to have made some good assumptions, Skip, since your times match those calculated by Chateau d'If yesterday.  You are probably a little early on Meghan and Cheyne, though.

You also seem to have missed that the teams took a taxi from the theatre to the palace.

gingerman28:
No way could a team walk from Estates Theatre to Prague Castle in 10 minutes.  Roughly it is a distance of 5 miles and I don't think even the Globetrotters could walk that distance in 10 minutes. Even by taxi it might take longer than 10 minutes considering mid-day traffic and fact that a taxi could not take the shortest route across the Charles Bridge since the bridge is for pedestrians only.

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