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Alenaveda:
--- Quote from: selkie on April 25, 2012, 10:38:08 PM ---Also, the original To Be Continued was created on the fly because the producers hadn't done their research and scheduled a NEL during a 'take all your money as a penalty' season in a country where it was illegal for the last Racers to turn around and beg in the streets for cab money to get to the airport.
They can't adjust the Book in order to favor a team they think will be popular. But they've got a lot more leeway in terms of adjusting on the fly than a show filmed on a nice controlled sound stage because Stuff Happens, and they've got a history of adjusting things if a Racer is impacted by an error caused by Production, even if they don't announce time credits like they used to. They also omitted a Speed Bump that Vicki & Nick should have faced a few seasons ago because of some sort of snafu during what seemed to be an impossibly hard music task in, IIRC, Russia.
http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/the-amazing-race-leg-omitted-speed-bump-due-production-issues-11697.php
(There's some speculation that the production issue as bad enough that Vicki & Nick's non-elimination was unplanned, but production claimed it was a scheduled NEL.)
And I'm sure that production has also regularly thrown up hours of operation signs on the fly in order to prevent teams from ending up spread over three different continents. Again with the TARAS where Charla and Mirna got a day ahead of everyone in Africa because of the Great School Holidays and Hadj mess, went to take their boat to the next task, and instead came across a sign saying the boat couldn't operate that day due to high seas that looked a good 3-5 inches of fierce waves.
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The explanation was that the guy outside the 3 rooms tell Nick and Vicki they had the wrong scores when, in fact, they had the right ones.
SuperTux:
Why were Cindy & Ernie from S19 not penalized for losing tickets?
AmazingRace:
--- Quote from: SuperTux on April 26, 2012, 02:21:15 AM ---Why were Cindy & Ernie from S19 not penalized for losing tickets?
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I wonder why too. I think it's because they paid for their tickets anyways, so they didn't bother.
redskevin88:
--- Quote from: Jimmer25 on April 25, 2012, 06:11:59 PM ---Here is a quote from theschnauzers about how production cannot manipulate the game.
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on April 12, 2012, 11:23:11 AM ---Just a quick comment in all of the speculation. Tasks are not changed at the last moment to favor teams; the elimination points are not changed, i.e., a non-elimination leg remains a non-elimination leg. I don't know if it is still being done, but in the early seasons, it was mentioned that production actually prepared a sworn affidavit, prior to the start of filming,of the tasks that would be used and at what point so as to avoid claims that tasks were changed on the spot to favor any team.
The affidavit, as I understood what was mentioned at the time, also included the backup tasks or legs in case of problems at any point in the race. There's absolutely no way a last minute change in location or tasks can be made without some advance preparation (local production crew and extras) so it can be executed and keep filming on track.
It irritates me to no end when there's a suggestion such as changing a task or an elimination point to favor keeping a particular team in the race. Among other things, since TAR is legally considered under US law to be a game show, it is required to comply with federal law that prohibits manipulation of the game elements to favor or not favor particular teams.
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The first non-elimination in S16 is fishy, it spared the producers favorite Jeff & Jordan. Also the Blind U-turn in the next leg which kept them in the race.
Zack.:
Not to me. I mean, they've had NELs on leg 4 before (TAR6) and they've had NELs in the first continent change before (TAR6, 7, 8 if you replace 'continent' with 'country', 9, 11) and they've had production favorites go early (Romber in TARAS).
Plus, the linear nature of the following leg suggests the Blind U-Turn was put in there to help whoever was spared to survive, because otherwise they would surely be last and out. Even if it was placed in to help J/J, it wouldn't have prevented Joe from making the comments he did on the bus or Louie/Michael to react negatively to them.
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