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TAR 17 New Game Play Twist

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mswood:
Well the new penalty for non elimination did actually increase production costs (as it was the first time there was a cost to any penalty for non elimination).  I would prefer the new twist to being able to skip a task.  And could we please, please get rid of the U-Turn.  I utterly hate it.  It makes me really question why I watch the show.  I mean seriously, if they are going to have racers actively working to hinder other teams, why do they have rules where you can't hinder a teams progress.  It goes against the very nature of the rules and spirit of the show.

georgiapeach:
I want it gone too! :tup:

Paron:

--- Quote from: georgiapeach on July 25, 2010, 05:17:57 PM ---I want it gone too! :tup:

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Not me.  I like it.

Competitor:

--- Quote from: mswood on July 25, 2010, 05:06:24 PM ---Well the new penalty for non elimination did actually increase production costs (as it was the first time there was a cost to any penalty for non elimination).  I would prefer the new twist to being able to skip a task.  And could we please, please get rid of the U-Turn.  I utterly hate it.  It makes me really question why I watch the show.  I mean seriously, if they are going to have racers actively working to hinder other teams, why do they have rules where you can't hinder a teams progress.  It goes against the very nature of the rules and spirit of the show.

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I understand that the producers want there to be some form of interaction as the teams go head to head. I think that is the idea behind the U-Turn. What if they did away with the U-Turn as we know it (making teams do the other detour task) but allowed teams to U-Turn a team where the other team has to perform a speed-bump sized task. Instead of a team getting bumped back by a matter of hours, they could be knocked back by 15-30 minutes.

Just a thought.

Jobby:
As i've said before, I like U-TURNs but they freaking have to be side by side each other like in Season 12 (Lorena and Jason's) U-TURN. The team will already be losing undetermined amount of time performing another task, why make them lost more time travelling? And also, the other side of the U-TURN must be something that can be done and completed.. Seriously, who knows MORSE CODE? It made me piss when Joe and Heidi got eliminated and it is not because i liked them but because it is not their own fault that they were gone.

And i think we're thinking too much into the Express Pass, like we did for the Speedbump. It's going to be like literally like what it's name suggest, that one team can choose to skip a task. But maybe getting the Express Pass might be something difficult. I don't think the producers would like to have teams constantly harping on the fact that they can skip a task.. I want to believe that the producers will not go into such an extent as to allow all the teams to have one chance to skip a task at any one point throughout the entire race...

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