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Speculation on TAR16 *no wish-lists please*
mjriches2005:
I am really thinking that Shanghai will not be revisited this season since Season6. Film crew at Nanjing Road sounds very weird. Nanjing Road is a busy shopping area in Shanghai they could just be using decoys there and sent the real final 4 to a different location. About the SFO airport, United is the only airline that flies to/from Shanghai. Other carriers that fly out of Boarding area G are:
-Air China, Air New Zealand, All Nippon, Emirates, EVA Air, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, and United (from Beijing, Cancun, Frankfurt, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, London-Heathrow, Mexico City, Osaka, Puerto Vallerta, San Jose del Cabo, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo) My point is that to my guess and speculation Shanghai is a decoy leg since there is very little evidence other than crew spotted at Nanjing Road and the teams arriving at the United Int'l Gate area of SFO Airport.
Plaidmoon:
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--- Quote from: georgiapeach on December 29, 2009, 08:21:09 PM ---It is the aggressive film crew that is stumping me...by that time they are usually telling their team to slow down, lol....
Love the spec Detour though!! :tup:
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Yeah, the aggressive film crew (and he referred to them as they) doesn't fit with a decoy team given what has been done in past seasons. That confuses me too. Last season it was easy to spot because they just had one cameraman and no sound guy and they weren't very intense about what they were doing. Perhaps they are trying to make the decoys look more real this time.
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Newbie sleuth question: why is it assumed that this is a decoy team and not the real thing? How do you tell the difference other than crew behavior? I assume there's something to do with finish line timing. Has that been tied into what this team was doing?
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If you look on Pages 15 and 16 of the Destinations/Locations thread, Chateau d If was at the San Francisco airport when the Amazing Race production team arrived from China and he took pictures of their arrival. A couple of them are just a few messages up on this page. Anyway, as it turned out, he got a picture or two of Mike and Louie arriving with the production people and they were in no hurry to leave the airport and get on with the race. The assumption is that they were eliminated on one of the last legs and were kept on as a decoy team. Therefore, since we think they were eliminated in Singapore or Shanghai, if they were racing in San Francisco, they must be decoys. The problem around here is if you aren't keeping up with all the threads, people will use previously disclosed information without explanation and you won't know why something is assumed to be true (like Mike and Louie being decoys).
As for the crew activity, I'm still rather a newbie at this too, but last season, the decoy teams had only a camera guy following them. The camera used had a microphone mounted on it. The real teams had (and always have) both a camera guy (with no microphone on the camera) and a sound guy with a boom mic. Also, we had pictures of Tiffany and Maria racing with big wide grins in Talinn and it just didn't look right. The pictures of Flight Time and Big Easy in Las Vegas showed airline baggage check tags on their backpacks. Racing teams don't check their backpacks in, they take them on board so they can leave more quickly. It's little clues like that. The decoys are usually always running at a different time from the real teams, but usually we don't have the times pinned down carefully enough to check for that.
Plaidmoon
Plaidmoon
georgiapeach:
Thanks for the explanation, Plaidmoon!
For the new members, page one of each of the spoiler threads and the Timeline are constantly updated, and are the best place to check for a summary of what is known to date.
georgiapeach:
We believe that teams arrived directly from Shanghai though.
Paron:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on January 01, 2010, 02:11:00 AM ---We believe that teams arrived directly from Shanghai though.
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Then Shanghai must either be the F7 leg, where the last sequester team goes out, or the F6 leg, where, I'm fearing, Carol & Brandy go out.
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