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TAR 16 - EP 10 "I Feel Like I’m in, Like, Sicily" (Shanghai 1)
Caelestor:
--- Quote from: apskip on April 13, 2010, 09:31:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: Caelestor on April 13, 2010, 03:01:24 AM ---OTOH, TAR has been good at revisiting some countries, while managing to create distinct legs that focus on different aspects of the nation's culture. The best example is definitely France, which has hosted 7 legs to date. However, Paris has only been visited twice, while the other legs took place in other areas and were unique in their own ways. Other good examples are Italy, Australia, and Brazil.
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I would agree with Caelestor that a good country to use as an example of better variety by World Race Productions in Amazing Races is France. My statistics, however, indicate that France has only been visited in 5 Amazing Race seasons and a total of 9 major places (not 7 as Caelestor indicated). "I'm from Missouri." Where are the visits beyond these:
AR1 - Paris, Marseilles
AR4 - Paris, Marseilles
AR6 - Ajaccio (Corsica)
AR10 - Paris (plus Caen if you are counting small cities)
AR16 - Verdun, Reims/Epernay
However, here are 3 better choices for diversity of the major places visited (meaning not Paris 3 out of 5 visits to France):
India - AR1 (Delhi, Agra, Jaipur), AR4 (Cochin, Mumbai, Alleppey), AR5 (Lucknow, Jodhpur), AR 10 (Chennai), AR12 (Mumbai), AR13 (Delhi), AR14 (Jaipur)
Germany - AR3 (Munich, Fussen), AR6 (Berlin), AR9 (Stuttgart, Bavaria/Munich), AR14 Bavaria, AR16 (Hamburg)
Italy - AR1 (Rome, Modena), AR4 (Venice, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Milan), AR9 (Palermo, Segesta, Catania, Syracuse), AR12 (Ancona, Empoli, Florence)
Note - not counting transportation mode transfers in Frankfurt or Munich or Milan or flight connections in Delhi or Chennai or Mumbai.
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You get my point :groan: However, I'd like to ad that Paris in TARs 4 and 10 served a role analogous to Bangkok. Also apskip, your India list incorrectly listed Lucknow and Jodhpur as TAR 5. These two cities were featured in TAR 7, while TAR 5 featured Kolkata.
P.S. Right now, the only reason why we aren't seeing India so often is due to terrorist activity warnings.
redskevin88:
Hey guys... the episode next week is a TBC...
The preview says.... "in two weeks" So that's how the two roadblocks makes sense
Strange, in Season 14, two previews were given, this season only one...
everbloom:
--- Quote from: apskip on April 13, 2010, 04:17:33 PM ---
As Pete Seeger sings it, "The answer, my friends, is blown in the wind." in the form of plane flights. China is almost always either the west-to-east first leg (AR10) or the west-to-east penultimate leg into the U.S. (AR1, AR6, AR14, AR16 and almost AR11 which had Guam in between). It is not good logistics to have very tired teams coming off long Trans-Pacific flights and have to travel any reasonable distance. Similarly, it is not good logistics to have teams not jumping off for non-stop flights from Asia to the U.S. I haven't counted but there are a huge number of those from Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong/Macau and to a lesser extent Xian or Guilin. Here are come statistics on major cities (1 million population or more in the city, not the entire Metropolitan Area) in China:
6 above 6 MM (Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Chongqing, Wuhan, Tianjin)
3 between 3 and 6 MM (Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shonyang)
32 others between 1 MM and 3MM
For comparison purposes, the U.S. has only 1 over 8 MM (New York City), 1 between 3 and 6 MM (Los Angeles) and 7 between 1 MM and 3 MM (Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Dallas, San Diego).
I think that Amazing Races should be visiting Tianjin, Wuhan, Chongqing, Guangzhou (CAN for prior name Canton) and Shenzhen. I have done a check on direct flights from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle to each of those 7 cities at any time on a specific weekday and out of that I found only one hit (LAX to CAN and return). So, it is logistical barriers which have motivated World Race Productions to take the easier route of using Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong/Macau as the primary international connecting points for all the other cities in the top 41 (including Xian and Guilin).
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Oh my gosh apskip. Anything but Shenzhen. My sister lives there and I visit her three times a year and it's so frickin' boring there. It's a business/industrial city so there's not much sights or interesting cultures to see. I want them to visit Harbin, Hangzhou, and Huangshan, or Lhasa (it's Tibet). Those have awesome sights and cultures are real diverse there. Plus, more self-driving!!
jerseydude:
--- Quote from: everbloom on April 14, 2010, 02:32:41 AM ---
--- Quote from: apskip on April 13, 2010, 04:17:33 PM ---
As Pete Seeger sings it, "The answer, my friends, is blown in the wind." in the form of plane flights. China is almost always either the west-to-east first leg (AR10) or the west-to-east penultimate leg into the U.S. (AR1, AR6, AR14, AR16 and almost AR11 which had Guam in between). It is not good logistics to have very tired teams coming off long Trans-Pacific flights and have to travel any reasonable distance. Similarly, it is not good logistics to have teams not jumping off for non-stop flights from Asia to the U.S. I haven't counted but there are a huge number of those from Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong/Macau and to a lesser extent Xian or Guilin. Here are come statistics on major cities (1 million population or more in the city, not the entire Metropolitan Area) in China:
6 above 6 MM (Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Chongqing, Wuhan, Tianjin)
3 between 3 and 6 MM (Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shonyang)
32 others between 1 MM and 3MM
For comparison purposes, the U.S. has only 1 over 8 MM (New York City), 1 between 3 and 6 MM (Los Angeles) and 7 between 1 MM and 3 MM (Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Dallas, San Diego).
I think that Amazing Races should be visiting Tianjin, Wuhan, Chongqing, Guangzhou (CAN for prior name Canton) and Shenzhen. I have done a check on direct flights from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle to each of those 7 cities at any time on a specific weekday and out of that I found only one hit (LAX to CAN and return). So, it is logistical barriers which have motivated World Race Productions to take the easier route of using Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong/Macau as the primary international connecting points for all the other cities in the top 41 (including Xian and Guilin).
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Oh my gosh apskip. Anything but Shenzhen. My sister lives there and I visit her three times a year and it's so frickin' boring there. It's a business/industrial city so there's not much sights or interesting cultures to see. I want them to visit Harbin, Hangzhou, and Huangshan, or Lhasa (it's Tibet). Those have awesome sights and cultures are real diverse there. Plus, more self-driving!!
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Shenzhen is an excellent place and there still are a lot of places to visit. It would be one of my number 1 choices but still there are a lot of attractions there such as the Window of the World and other gardens.
BUT Remember that this is a thread on Leg 10 in Shanghai and this conversation is irrelevant.
realshowfan:
--- Quote from: redskooky on April 14, 2010, 01:48:16 AM ---Hey guys... the episode next week is a TBC...
The preview says.... "in two weeks" So that's how the two roadblocks makes sense
Strange, in Season 14, two previews were given, this season only one...
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Doesn't that mean there won't be TAR next week, instead the next episode will be featured the week after that? *is a bit confused* ???
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