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TAR16 - EP 12: "Huger than Huge" FINALE!! (summary in posts 1thru 3)
georgiapeach:
:ty3: Tobinator and :bigwelcome to RFF!
:waves:
We do have that tweet that saw both Brent and Caite climbing Coit Tower so I think a redo RB is very possible!!!
DrRox:
Now that would really suck to climb that tower then be told it didnt count.
SuzuKen:
--- Quote from: DrRox on May 08, 2010, 06:44:57 AM ---Now that would really suck to climb that tower then be told it didnt count.
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But it's also very much in line with the all those blunders that Brent & Caite kept making during the first half of the season :lol3:
Glamazon Racer:
I could be way off, but this could possibly explain why Brent is doing the Road Block:
In Shanghai, when we had two Road Blocks, maybe they didn't count the second one int o the overall tally, because the person was forced to do it.
Is that possible, or do we know that the two Shanghai Leg #1 Road Blocks both count. :duno:
tobinator:
--- Quote from: SuzuKen on May 07, 2010, 11:53:26 PM ---
--- Quote from: SuzuKen on May 07, 2010, 11:14:33 PM ---oh! so that photo of the brothers is taken at Coit Tower?
confirmation of that being a roadblock would explain how brent and caite would have fallen behind. since we have eye witness reports that BOTH brent and caite were seen doing this RB, let me guess that B/C DIDN'T keep count of how many RBs each of them has done so far, and Brent gets volunteered to do the climb up (him being tall and lanky would have some advantage in doing it quickly). HOWEVER, since he has already completed 6 RBs, they are not allowed to open/retrieve the clue after his climb up and Caite has to do the RB instead..... :lol3:
though I thought that if this were to happen, aren't they supposed to be issued at penalty at the pitstop?
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anybody else have any thoughts on this?
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This looks like Brent to me.
Note the shadow of the spotter is close to parallel with the side of Coit. Perfectly parrallel would be 14 degrees off north, this looks to be 15 to 17 degrees. From http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/AltAz.php for San Francisco on 12/20/09, those angles would be between 11:00 and 11:10.
First column is time
Third is azimuth (E of N) ie 180 is due south which would be 12:08 in SF.
11:00 26.8 162.6
11:05 27.1 163.9
11:10 27.4 165.1
So if the tweets have them finishing shorthly after this time, I doubt Caite climbs it after Brent. I'm starting to think they both have to climb it and this is what costs them the 45 minutes by the time we see them on the street with the trunk.
or is there a route info we are missing? The map they are looking at looks like it is of the Presido grounds. Brent is pointing in an area near the bridge toll rather at the Letterman Digital Arts Center. Maybe they are lost getting to LDAC or maybe there is a route info up there that sends them to Coit Tower.
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