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Caelestor:
I'm sorry, but consider the legal ramifications if they did such a thing. We'd hear a LOT more about it.

The only possible exceptions I know of are the middle episodes of TAR 11 and TAR 15's Netherlands leg. The random sauna bus speedbump in Estonia makes me suspicious. (Again, this is just my speculation.) I really thought that leg was set up as an NEL, but M/T's inability to even finish this leg complicated things for the producers. Quitting a roadblock puts you at a significant disadvantage, quitting a detour is a one way ticket to elimination.

redskevin88:
Safety reasons chill. Luke needed to be able to hear cues from the instructors, which was why he was not allowed (he's deaf remember?)

Hooky:

--- Quote from: mswood on March 12, 2010, 09:43:34 PM ---I think one the huge time difference in that leg due to the complete collapse of the flight plan (for the show, I think the largest the show's ever had) just really makes that instance seem highly suspect.  While I love that teams had to scramble for flights (and not be spoon feed them) this and the air problems of the next episode really hurt that season as a whole.

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I actually thought that made that season a lot more entertaining. Those legs would have bored me if not for the insane flight problems. :lol:

DeafRacer:

--- Quote from: chill_sd on March 12, 2010, 04:22:07 PM ---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.)

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For an ASL challenge, I actually told racers about gorilla's primary language is Sign Language then they all freaked out and thought there might be an ASL challenge related with gorilla telling clue in sign language (when we got a picture of gorilla statue in Phuket). It was hilarious to see them scrambling and try to learn few signs while we were traveling from India to Thailand. But yeah I was hoping there might be an ASL challenge or something like that while we were in Europe. There's a lots of famous deaf school and deaf history in Europe. Oh well.

For paraglide, I wish that I volunteered for roadblock immediately instead of reading whole clue then I would've been forced to run down the hill immediately then I would have been able to catch up with Tammy down the trail instead of having my mom hang around and wait for wind to die down (we were on the mountains for nearly two hours before we decided that Mom should run down the mountains). But, I can't fly down anyway, I have to be able to hear the instructor's cues.

Mike (White) and I actually had a talk about non-elimination legs. Originally, we thought producers do throw non-elimination legs in to save their favorite teams for most of times so we thought the producers probably would save Mike & his dad or me and my mom if one of us comes in the last place at one point since we both were producers' favorite teams. We actually wanted to test it to see if they actually do that but we didn't want to come in the last place on purpose. I remember sitting in the ambulance in Phuket while mom's recovering, the pit stop was only like 20 feet away from us so when I see that Mike & Mel came in the last place. I was pretty sure it was non-elimination leg to save them. Then few minutes later, Mike came over and gave me a hug and said good bye. I was completely surprised then realized producers doesn't do that to save their favorite teams, non-elimination legs were actually planned way before the race started.

Some favorite teams doesn't get saved. Some favorite teams get saved. All it matters is to be in right time and right place. Pure Luck.

mswood:
Yeah, for the most part what I think are "favorite" or "unique" teams haven't been saved that often in the race.  The team that did manage to catch both that I thought was certainly popular with people and the Producers was BJ & Tyler, but breaking down the seasons the legs were very much typical placement for where non elimination legs would be.

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