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TAR16 - EP 12: "Huger than Huge" FINALE!! (summary in posts 1thru 3)
slayton:
Four hours is for not completing a roadblock, like the meat-eating one from TAR7.
Twenty-Four hours is for not completing a detour, like Nancy & Emily.
The show probably has a formula for other time penalties.
Caelestor:
--- Quote from: hallai on May 08, 2010, 09:35:43 PM ---I never seen such thing before nor read it anywhere, so I don't know what is the exact penalty. But 30mins would be a 'help' for B/C, and 4 hours would be too much and it would surely ruin the finale for B/C. Forcing Caite to do it just seem to be the best option here. To be sure: Isn't the 4 hours penalty for skipped/forfeited tasks?
The crew could have changed the clue envelope after finding out that Brent was doing it....they should be prepared to everything, specially in the last leg :P
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The reason why I said 4 hours was because if you just make it 30 minutes, then it is theoretical that one team can have an imbalance throughout the race and still survive. 2 hours seems more likely though (we've seen that penalty before)
hallai:
Yes, I'm aware of the 4-hour penalty for not completing roadblocks (Flight Time and Big Easy for example). I meant I never seen or read about penalties for exceeding the roadblock count. It could be a 4-hour penalty too, or it could be forcing the team mate to do it.
I just think a big time penalty in the last leg doesn't make much sense for the show, as it would kill any viewer's (and team mates') expectations for the team to win.
theschnauzers:
It's a four hour penalty for failing to complete a roadblock. We don't know what the exact penalty is for violating the six-roadblock penalty because it hasn't happened since it was instituted for season six. (And there have been variations in seasons with 13 roadblocks, and for the Family Edition.) It's also possible there is an exception of some sort because of the two-roadblock leg.)
The other thing to note is that Cord also has to do the roadblock because Jet did his 6th roadblock last week; Dan and Jordan have 5 each because of the fast forward.
slayton:
I'm trying to figure out the order of the tasks by thinking of them as parts of an episode, with ~44 minutes minus the commercials.
The CBS twitvid looks like the first 3 minutes of tomorrow's finale. You add the credits and you're already 4 minutes done.
In TAR14 and TAR15 it took ~3-4 minutes, after the first commercial break ended, for them to arrive in End City.
The sequence of seeing Phil staring out at the Finish Line and the eliminated teams beginning to clap until the credits come up takes up ~5 minutes.
There's ~30 minutes of time left for the tasks and taxi/foot travel to fill.
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