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TAR15 EP11: "It Starts With an “F”, That’s All I’m Saying" (Czech Republic)
apskip:
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Adding that at about 9:35 into the ep 11 show, you can hear BE ask FT "you want to do the last one, right...so I got this one", so I think we can safely say the 6 limit RB rule remains in place.
Boy, I'll bet they regret that decision... :groan:
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OK, Peach and Abby, how do you explain the result in AR10, where the ROADBLOCK split was "Lyn 5, Karlyn 7"?
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As I said before, Karlyn was allowed to do 7 Roadblocks on Season 10 because the cap was lifted due to it having 13 roadblocks. Most probably, Lyn performed an unaired Roadblock. Eric in All-Stars confirmed the cap was set back to 6 after he stated in an episode that he had maxed out.
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Dan,
I think the cap of 6 was not lifted because it does not exist. Here are the ROADBLOCKs and who took them in AR10:
1 Gold House Restaurant eat fish eyes Karlyn
2 Mongolia House flaming arrow Lyn
3 Hanoi bicycle flower sales Karlyn (note - thanks to Raymond this has been corrected)
4 Hon Yun Nga rock climb Karlyn
5 Karthik Driving Sschool Lyn
6 Kuwait Tower climb Karlyn
7 Grand Baie not aired so doesn't count
8 Stamp Vendors Lyn (thanks to Raymond this has been corrected)
9 Tytyrin Limestone Mine Karlyn
10 or 9b Oster Tank School Lyn
11 or 10 Atlas Studio Charioteer Karlyn
12 or 11 Camel Meat in Casablanca Lyn
13 0r 12 Parachute over Normandy Karlyn
There are either 13 or 12 episodes, depending on how you count the TBC that starts in leg 9. There is one unaired ROADBLOCK. The count is unequivocal Lyn 5 Karlyn 7. WRP listed this as 12 episodes, not 13 and there are clearly 12 legs which contain ROADBLOCKS. How would an unaired ROADBLOCK impact ROADBLOCK balancing requirements imposed by WRP? None of us knows. Until we do, the fact is that a 12 episode show did not have a cap at 6 ROADBLOCKs.
By the way, thanks for the data to the AR10 leg racing reports issued by mswood in 2006. They were clear and it was relatively easy to find the ROADBLOCK information. I made one interpretation error and one transcription error in placing the information above, but Raymond corrected them. Those corrections had no impact on my conclusions.
georgiapeach:
--- Quote from: apskip on December 02, 2009, 08:24:40 AM ---
There are either 13 or 12 episodes, depending on how you count the TBC that starts in leg 9. There is one unaired ROADBLOCK. The count is unequivocal Lyn 5 Karlyn 7. WRP listed this as 12 episodes, not 13 and there are clearly 12 legs which contain ROADBLOCKS. How would an unaired ROADBLOCK impact ROADBLOCK balancing requirements imposed by WRP? None of us knows. Until we do, the fact is that a 12 episode show did not have a cap at 6 ROADBLOCKs.
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apskip, you are of course welcome to your opinion. However, in this case we DO know the answer.
Again, 12 episodes...13 Roadblocks.
Teams knew the entire race that they must maintain an even split. Once the TBC was revealed, that count then increased from 6/6. Of course the total had to increase from 12, since there were now 13 RB's, and teams thought there might be yet another.
Why would unaired or not matter? During the race, teams certainly wouldn't know it might not be aired, nor would production. Of course the unaired RB counts in the balance...no one knew then it wouldn't air. It was certainly run.
And Lyn absolutely knows the answer to this, and I discussed this with her last night for well over an hour. The FACT is that teams were VERY much aware of the RB rules at the time. The RB limit was indisputably in place, whether that limit turned out to be 6 or 7 doesn't matter.
Karlyn actually took the skydiving RB (which Lyn VERY much wanted to do), because they were still anticipating some sort of puzzle/memory/race history challenge at the finale, and Lyn had kept a eecord and studied all of the flags/tasks/etc along the way, and was the one best prepared for that kind of task.
Sorry guys, I know this might seem off-topic, but it is important to be clear that since season 5, the "Bowling Moms' rule" has stood, and teams know at the outset that they are expected to maintain an even split. An "even" split of 13 would of course be 6/7.
Chateau d If:
Hey Peach, you may be the best to answer this. And now is the best time to answer it since you have just had a talk with a racer-to-the-end (Lyn).
The question is does the Roadblock count have to be even to the extent possible at every point along the race? For example this would be a case of even all the time:
Roadblock racer A racer B
1 1 0
2 1 1
3 1 2
4 2 2
5 2 3
6 3 3
7 3 4
8 4 4
9 5 4
10 5 5
11 6 5
12 6 6
13 7 6
And this would be a case of of not even all the time
Roadblock racer A racer B
1 1 0
2 2 0
3 3 0
4 4 0
5 5 0
6 6 0
7 7 0
8 7 1
9 7 2
10 7 3
11 7 4
12 7 5
13 7 6
But both ways end up with an even split to the extent possible.
I'm just curious if the even count rule has to be maintained or just attained. :duno:
Zack.:
I'm not peach, but I can say that the split just had to be attained, mainly because we see people forced to do Roadblocks (Amber, Danielle and Hayden all had to do the last two Roadblocks, Yolanda had to do the last 3). I suspect Maria/Tiffany would've been crusing along this path also; at their elimination Tiffany was up 5-2 (and of course, they would still have the haybales to contend with).
On topic, I think the check in times are about:
Meghan/Cheyne 200 am
Sam/Dan 320 am (I'd say the golem task added time to them)
Brian/Ericka 600 am
I think the start of the leg to the end of Kafka hell took an hour and a half (unless you're Herb/Nate :groan:). Golems took another two hours (unless you're Sam/Dan and argue for an hour :res:). Glass carrying probably took around the same time as bickering + golem handling. Add another half hour for travel, and another penalty for Brian/Ericka writing the letters down, and here we are.
Of course, watch them get an 18 hour pit stop or something.
georgiapeach:
Pretty sure it is up to the racers to see that it is attained at the end.
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