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How to win
Zack.:
--- Quote from: TARAsia Fan on January 26, 2010, 04:07:44 PM ---
--- Quote from: DeafRacer on January 26, 2010, 03:43:42 PM ---Wait a min. I'm the villain? :-p Victor, Jaime and I should be on Villains Team while my mom, Cara and Tammy should be on Heroes Team :lol:
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You know, Luke, you may be onto something there! TAR: Villains vs. Heroes! :lol: :tup:
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I can see it now: Guido, Tara/Wil, Colin/Christie, Romber, Nate/Jen, and Jaime/Cara vs. Kevin/Drew, Oswald/Danny, Linda/Karen, Kris/Jon, BJ/Tyler, and the Globetrotters. :lol:
To answer the main question: don't come in last, then come in first. The only value finishing first has is a) if the transportation game is arranged in such a way that a small advantage can be parlayed into a huge one or b) if you're a fan of product-placed prizes.
Of course there's the other race fundamentals: hang on to your possessions, learn to drive stick, read the damn clue, get comfortable reading a map, learn to deal with animals / poor people / assholes, memorize everything, and be visible enough that people spot you and post their findings on the Internet.
Hooky:
--- Quote from: DeafRacer on January 26, 2010, 04:36:05 PM ---Hmm, I don't know if I really consider Victor a villain but he (and Tammy) was a viable ally to my team early in the Race before I realized that we should've gotten rid of him and Tammy.
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Yes indeed. :(
Glamazon Racer:
Smart strategy is certainly a strong role in winning. Some examples:
TAR7 - Rob quits the meat Roadblock in Camping Suizo, Argentina and convinces Deana and Meredith to also quite and assure his and Amber's safety in the race, without even completing that awful challenge!
TAR5 - Chip & Kim Yielding Colin & Christie was a great move which nearly (twice) knocked Colin & Christie out of the race. They won anyway!
TAR14 - Luke, your U-Turn was perhaps the smartest Yield/U-Turn in TAR history, in my opinion (unlike Tammy & Victor, who U-Turned a ery inconsistent team in the vital part of the race) and although I liked Amanda & Kris, I thought you made a great decision in U-Turning them! The funny part was, they didn't even suspect it was you, so looking like you aren't a threat or cut-throat can be an advantage! :snicker:
(Oh, and I would definitely classify Tammy & Victor as Villains, although I would NOT want to see them again. I had enough of that! Jaime & Cara, Margie & Luke and Kisha & Jen were my favorites from TAR14, and that made that whole argument (Margie & Luke vs. Kisha & Jen) extremely difficult to watch!)
DeafRacer:
--- Quote from: racer on January 29, 2010, 02:04:34 AM ---Smart strategy is certainly a strong role in winning. Some examples:
TAR7 - Rob quits the meat Roadblock in Camping Suizo, Argentina and convinces Deana and Meredith to also quite and assure his and Amber's safety in the race, without even completing that awful challenge!
TAR5 - Chip & Kim Yielding Colin & Christie was a great move which nearly (twice) knocked Colin & Christie out of the race. They won anyway!
TAR14 - Luke, your U-Turn was perhaps the smartest Yield/U-Turn in TAR history, in my opinion (unlike Tammy & Victor, who U-Turned a ery inconsistent team in the vital part of the race) and although I liked Amanda & Kris, I thought you made a great decision in U-Turning them! The funny part was, they didn't even suspect it was you, so looking like you aren't a threat or cut-throat can be an advantage! :snicker:
(Oh, and I would definitely classify Tammy & Victor as Villains, although I would NOT want to see them again. I had enough of that! Jaime & Cara, Margie & Luke and Kisha & Jen were my favorites from TAR14, and that made that whole argument (Margie & Luke vs. Kisha & Jen) extremely difficult to watch!)
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Thank you, Racer!! Only one BIG reason that Amanda + Kris didn't suspect it was us because Mom + I spent all night night with Amanda + Kris at the cafe and the train station in Romania couple days before we U-Turned them. So, we were getting to know each other and enjoyed each other's company. They even said they would like to see us to go to the Final Three (that was before U-Turn fiasco!!) We nearly switched the target to Tammy +Victor! Good thing we didn't since Victor would've breezed by Kris at the roadblock!!
Only reason Tammy & Victor U-Turned Kisha + Jen because of the deal we made during the TBC leg. After the swim challenge we had to stay at some place for few hours before the shops opens to search for gnomes, that's when the deal was struck. Soon as Tammy & Victor showed up, they approached Jaime & Cara and us to make a deal that we all would protect each other and U-Turn Kisha & Jen. I think he only did that because he probably knew that Jaime & Cara and Mom & I would U-Turn Tammy & Victor in a heartbeat in case we gets there to U-Turn before they does. I thought Tammy & Victor should have U-Turned Mom and me, not Kisha & Jen. Again, I think other reason Victor didn't want to U-Turn us because there's no way that Mom and I could have pulled it off at the Chinese Waiter task. That would have been an easy way to screw us up. I'm just glad that Tammy & Victor stick with the deal!
Hooky:
--- Quote from: DeafRacer on January 29, 2010, 03:36:47 PM ---Thank you, Racer!! Only one BIG reason that Amanda + Kris didn't suspect it was us because Mom + I spent all night night with Amanda + Kris at the cafe and the train station in Romania couple days before we U-Turned them. So, we were getting to know each other and enjoyed each other's company. They even said they would like to see us to go to the Final Three (that was before U-Turn fiasco!!) We nearly switched the target to Tammy +Victor! Good thing we didn't since Victor would've breezed by Kris at the roadblock!!
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It was good strategy. I will commend that. But I still think that it would have been better strategy to U-turn Tammy & Victor. You really never know what could happen. For all we know, Tammy & Victor would have had a very tough time with the shutters task. But I think that (barring unusual events) Mark & Michael would have been eliminated had Amanda & Kris not been U-turned. Tammy & Victor probably would have finished anywhere from 5th-7th place. But later down the road, if Amanda & Kris had made it to the Final 4, they probably would have been U-turned by Tammy & Victor anyway. :(
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