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TAR 17 Speculation
Plaidmoon:
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--- Quote from: redskooky on November 21, 2010, 06:18:41 PM ---According to an ex-girlfriend of a friend of a friend's cousin, they ended in Santa Barbara, California.
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I copied this over from the TAR 17 speculation thread though I'm not sure it qualifies as a real live sighting. Peach, move it if you think it needs to be elsewhere.
I found this intriguing little message on Suite101.com from last July at http://www.suite101.com/content/amazing-race-17-gets-started-in-gloucester-boston-massachusetts-a241709.
does any one know if TAR 18 is filming?
I saw some people running in Santa Barbara Califonia and clearly saw one gilr holding the TAR clue.
then I follow them to a alice keck park in Santa Barbara and there was huge bolling pins and so I'm just wondering
Unfortunately, the person is listed as "guest" so we won't be able to follow up on it. Steven Fife at the Suite101.com web site politely said it was probably a local race. He is quite possibly right since July is not when TAR 17 (or 18) was run, however if the guest was mentioning something that was seen a month earlier in June, then this report gets much more interesting. Given that 5 of the last 6 participants are "gilrs" that is in the report's favor.
Here are a couple of links to Alice Keck park:
http://www.santabarbara.com/activities/parks/alicekeck/
http://www.rth.org/sb/
It does look like a place that could be used for a detour/roadblock. Lots of trees and trails for a small city block sized park that might briefly make it hard to find the detour/roadblock. Huge bowling pins might be unlikely for a local TAR knock off race. You can reserve the park of events/weddings at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/eRecreation/Facilities/FacilitiesDetail.asp?FacilityId=16. It has a calendar but doesn't allow you to go back into the past.
I'd rate this as a low probability of being the real TAR, but thus far, it's the only possible indication of the finish line location I've seen.
Plaidmoon
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By fudging around with the URL I was able to look at bookings for Alice Keck park back in June.
The park was available on June 15 - but was booked on June 16th from 2pm to 5:30pm - which may be a day too late. But strangely - that's the only day the park was officially booked in all of June and July.
Could we be off by a day?
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If the teams flew into LAX and were then flown somewhere by helicopter, I suppose that production could easily have imposed a 24 hour rest stop that will never get mentioned. The final 3 would all be bunched together (I think they were without looking through all the sightings), so production could start the last leg any time they want to. I'm not sure why they would delay it like that, but they could do it.
That's good work digging up the schedule! I have to think that TAR would reserve the park for more than 4 hours. Probably they would want it all day. That would allow plenty of time to set up whatever they were doing there and also for any delayed team to show up a few hours behind. Perhaps if it was just used for a route info box that wouldn't need much set up time, but otherwise I think it would take a few hours for set up. So I think the 4 hour reservation block weighs somewhat against it being TAR 17.
I'm still having some issues believing that they could have run a final leg in Santa Barbara without someone seeing it and mentioning it somewhere that we could find it. I did try for an hour or so to look at a few mansions and landmarks in the Santa Barbara area in Google Earth to see if I could find the trees/stone walk combination that are around Nat and Kat, but I couldn't find it. :duno:
georgiapeach:
Santa Barbara has some corporate Amazing Race companies, I think we have to be sure that was not one of those first. I am doubtful of this, but have no evidence.
Prophet:
--- Quote ---Something else that may or may not be significant:
If you look at Nat's right wrist in the confessional she is wearing a purple bracelet. In ep 10 she is wearing it on her left wrist and in the preview for ep.11 you can see she is still wearing it on her left wrist.
At some point she changes it to her right wrist. After ep. 11?
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At some point, Kat unbraids her hair. Perhaps at the end?
Prophet:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on December 02, 2010, 10:07:50 PM ---Santa Barbara has some corporate Amazing Race companies, I think we have to be sure that was not one of those first. I am doubtful of this, but have no evidence.
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Based on the date difference and the amount of time reserved, I think this park is only a rabbit trail.
georgiapeach:
--- Quote from: Plaidmoon2 on December 01, 2010, 08:00:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: pramararama on December 01, 2010, 04:41:35 PM ---Speculation: Did anyone notice this?
It has been showed twice (episode 8 and 10) and only Nat-Kat showed being interview with that 'background'. This interview could be happened in the final pitstop....
Can anyone recognize the place? :lol:
Again, it was just my spec :)
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Interesting observation! I think you may be onto something. If they used it after episode 10 then it had to be taken at either Hong Kong, South Korea or after the race. My initial reaction is that the stone walk and tall thin trees aren't in keeping with Hong Kong or South Korea, so it may have been taken at the end of the race. After brightening the picture, the background on the left appears to be more of the tall thin trees seen in the background on the right. There's no buildings in the image as far as I can tell.
The trees, stone walk and low stone wall in the background look like they could be somewhere in Southern California (or even Santa Barbara which I found an extremely weak indication of as the final destination and posted to the Tar 17 Tweets thread lately). It's probably not in the mountains or desert of Southern California. It could also be about 10,000 other places, so who knows?
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This cap is from the ep 11 PROMO...
Clothes match?
Even though this is from the ep 11 PROMO...the clothes in this cap do NOT match the clothes we see the racers wearing during the Seoul leg...not for ANY of the racers.
So where is this shot of Nat and Kat and when is it taken? Could this be the start of the finale leg? ???
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