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DeafRacer:
Some people are driving me nuts about Non-Elimination Legs!

Some of you thinks producers just throw non-elimination in order to save their "favorite team" when they come in the last place. Why do you guys think that?

mswood:
Because they are crazy Luke.  I honestly think they might have changed an non elimination point in All Stars, but its just a gut reaction.  But that certainly wasn't because who it was racing, but how far another team was behind and how the non elimination occurred later.

chill_sd:
I think it's just wishful thinking, Luke.  Like some people think the "Lasso a Steer" was put in so the cowboys would have success.  Or the "Counting Chips" was supposed to help Maria and Tiffany last season.

Maybe instead of Chinese Calligraphy they should have had an ASL challenge in your season?

We all pull for our favorite teams, and want to complain when it looks like someone gets special treatment, even when we know they don't.

(By the way, I always thought they should have let you have the opportunity to hang glide, even though the winds weren't too cooperative that day.)

Hooky:

--- Quote from: DeafRacer on March 12, 2010, 03:57:42 PM ---Some people are driving me nuts about Non-Elimination Legs!

Some of you thinks producers just throw non-elimination in order to save their "favorite team" when they come in the last place. Why do you guys think that?


--- End quote ---

Why do I think that? Because it happens more often than not. It may not be true, but it happens enough for it to look suspicious.

I honestly wonder how you can look at these "coincidences" without at least a degree of suspicion. Mostly I believe that it is coincidence, but the more often it happens, the more it becomes a possibility.

theschnauzers:
I am one of those who does not believe NELs are switched around once filming starts/  The only exception I've ever heard of what the TAR 6 leg in Hungary, and that was due to local laws that prohibited the overnight stay TPTB had planned, so they improvised the original uberleg. (Still a non-elimination, but allowed them to use the cafe as a "rest point.")

I recall when this issue first came up in TAR 3 (IIRC, Flo and Zach saved by two NELs in a row) it was conveyed that the producer execute an affidavit before filming start listing the race course and the planned tasks, as well as alternates leg in case of an emergency.

From what I've heard over the years the only leg that has ever been switched was TAR 8 that was supposed to go to Belize (one of several legs hampered by hurricanes that season that required adjustments as opposed to switching legs completely) and the filming schedule has had to be changed a few times, but nothing that would change which legs were NELs or elimination points.

I've yet to hear anything from a team or from T{TB that ever pointed to a switching of NEL legs once filming started.

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