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Tonights Challenges for the Cowboys!
mswood:
--- Quote from: uycocoa on March 07, 2010, 11:22:01 PM ---How about Tammy and Victor in their Chinese Breeze? The task in Guilin (esp the stamp one), in Beijing (resto), and speaking the language themselves. That's kinda RIGGED BUT I still do believe it's all coincidences :)
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The only thing odd about that, is its very typical for racers to know Spanish (for example), but its rare that a team is fluent in a language late in the race. But it does happen, and unlike at the early stages, when its down to four or five teams it really helps. But as you say I don't think they cast for that reason. I think they cast based on who would make more interesting racers.
redskevin88:
The cowboys could have screwed up badly with the buses at the start of Leg 2, for all we know, it was a bad flight connection that prevented Brad & Vic from eliminating Tammy & Victor in Romania, Ronald & Christina were only spared elimination in Amsterdam because the lesbian ministers were so slow and they managed to get on the flight to Paris and I cannot say about the earlier seasons because I didn't watch them...
apskip:
--- Quote from: DavidJunior on March 08, 2010, 03:45:09 AM ---This leg was biased to Carol/Brandy!
The TPTB just knew that Brandy just loved loved loved sauerkraut, so they tailored this leg entirely for her!
I call shenanigans on this whole race!
:res:
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Let's take a minute to look at this task logically. First of all, apparently all teams except Jeff/Jordan finished this task without requiring the polka to be replayed. Most polka music is just over 2 minutes. The most famous Sauerkraut Polka is by Gus Backus, but my musical ear tells me that that is not the one that was used.
My point is that it made no difference who this task was biased toward as long as all teams completed eating sauerkraut within the time limit of the song. If so, then they could lose a maximum of 2 minutes but more likely 1 or 0 minutes relative to whichever team did it fastest. This is another one of the tasks that World Race Productions uses that do not differentiate between teams and therefore are pretty useless.
DavidJunior:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 10, 2010, 06:56:14 AM ---
--- Quote from: DavidJunior on March 08, 2010, 03:45:09 AM ---This leg was biased to Carol/Brandy!
The TPTB just knew that Brandy just loved loved loved sauerkraut, so they tailored this leg entirely for her!
I call shenanigans on this whole race!
:res:
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Let's take a minute to look at this task logically. First of all, apparently all teams except Jeff/Jordan finished this task without requiring the polka to be replayed. Most polka music is just over 2 minutes. The most famous Sauerkraut Polka is by Gus Backus, but my musical ear tells me that that is not the one that was used.
My point is that it made no difference who this task was biased toward as long as all teams completed eating sauerkraut within the time limit of the song. If so, then they could lose a maximum of 2 minutes but more likely 1 or 0 minutes relative to whichever team did it fastest. This is another one of the tasks that World Race Productions uses that do not differentiate between teams and therefore are pretty useless.
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I was just teasing the people that think the entire last leg (leg 3) was biased towards the cowboys.
i would've said biased for Caite since she "played soccer since she was 5", but we all saw how that worked out... :lol:
Caelestor:
So in conclusion, every leg will have something that suits a different racer. This is a GOOD thing, since it allows teams to demonstrate their strengths and weaknesses.
End of discussion? ;)
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