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The 6th place curse
retard boi:
--- Quote from: Dånooky ✟ on April 05, 2010, 04:54:33 PM ---On another note, have you ever noticed that teams with potential to win are sometimes eliminated in 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th as well? :lol:
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:lol:
I think that 6th places teams are usually more colorfull and controversial but not nessesarly better, just more memrable.
I think that there is a "6h place" curse, but it's for elimination of intresting teams but not strong ones.
redskevin88:
--- Quote ---TAR13: Kelly and Christy (were 2nd the previous leg and doing pretty well for the first half of the race)
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:lol:
Please. Kelly & Christy were lucky to still be in the race at that point. They failed to read the clue many a times, only did well in the previous leg because of the "laundry detour". They were last in Bolivia, and only because Mark & Bill got a penalty. In the previous leg, they spent valuable time digging for a non-existent clue, and in their last leg, managed to somehow screw up the roadblock....and handed out a get-out-of-jail free card to Andrew & Dan.
Coutzy:
--- Quote from: redskooky on April 06, 2010, 12:42:27 AM ---
--- Quote ---TAR13: Kelly and Christy (were 2nd the previous leg and doing pretty well for the first half of the race)
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:lol:
Please. Kelly & Christy were lucky to still be in the race at that point. They failed to read the clue many a times, only did well in the previous leg because of the "laundry detour". They were last in Bolivia, and only because Mark & Bill got a penalty. In the previous leg, they spent valuable time digging for a non-existent clue, and in their last leg, managed to somehow screw up the roadblock....and handed out a get-out-of-jail free card to Andrew & Dan.
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The get out of jail free card was handed to Dandrew by Ken and Tina because they chose to help them with the number spotting Detour over the girls.
And had Mark and Bill walked to their Detour like they wree supposed to, Kelly and Christy may have finished in front of them.
Also, if you are going to say that they only did well because of the laundry detour, you might as well say that Jet & Cord only did well because of the lasso RB, or that Joe and Bill only did well because of their ability to speak french.
everbloom:
--- Quote from: redskooky on April 06, 2010, 12:42:27 AM ---
--- Quote ---TAR13: Kelly and Christy (were 2nd the previous leg and doing pretty well for the first half of the race)
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:lol:
Please. Kelly & Christy were lucky to still be in the race at that point. They failed to read the clue many a times, only did well in the previous leg because of the "laundry detour". They were last in Bolivia, and only because Mark & Bill got a penalty. In the previous leg, they spent valuable time digging for a non-existent clue, and in their last leg, managed to somehow screw up the roadblock....and handed out a get-out-of-jail free card to Andrew & Dan.
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They weren't doing that bad. If it weren't for how they practically died on the number-spotting detour, I think they could've gone very far.
apskip:
One unusual measure that I apply in this type of situation is how I feel about a team which is eliminated. Did they have potential to eliminate teams that I liked much better or not? I felt that Kelly/Christy definitely were potential competition for Nick/Starr, Tony/Dallas and Ken/Tina, my favorite teams in AR13. That translates into being a team that could have gone further if they were not so prone to the mistakes cited in earlier posts.
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