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georgiapeach:
I'd do it by episodes. WHy complicate things? :lol:
tarflyonthewall:
A big part of the reasoning is that many of the other shows on the list are "recurring challenge, new players each week" deals, and I want to keep it consistent. I think I've got it all sorted, although there's some unfortunate bits where I've had to split a country's legs - Hamburg belongs with North-West Europe, Berlin belongs with Eastern Europe, and Munich belongs with the Alpine regions, for example. It doesn't work to keep them together.
tarflyonthewall:
Here's what I've tentatively decided on:
NORTH AMERICA - Canada and the United States
CENTRAL AMERICA - Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, and Puerto Rico
"FORESTED" SOUTH AMERICA - Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, and Venezuela
"MOUNTAINOUS" SOUTH AMERICA - Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay
NORTH-WEST EUROPE - Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom
SCANDINAVIA - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
FORMER SOVIET UNION - Azerbaijan, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine
CENTRAL EUROPE - Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Romania, and Switzerland
MEDITERRANEAN - Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, and Turkey
WEST & SOUTH-WESTERN AFRICA - Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa
EASTERN AFRICA - Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, Tanzania, and Zambia
MIDDLE EAST - Kuwait, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates
SUBCONTINENT - Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka
SOUTH-EAST ASIA - Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam
FAR-EASTERN ASIA - China, Japan, Mongolia, South Korea, and Taiwan
PACIFIC ISLANDS - Australia, Guam, New Zealand, and the Philippines
I'm really not sure how to quickly describe the two South America categories - like, I see the "forested" countries as very "green" while the "mountainous" countries are very "brown", but that may just be me. There's still a couple I'm not entirely sure about - Jamaica's not really Central America (I was going to go with Anglophone North America and Hispanophone North America, but freaking Montreal had to exist and there are parts of the US where Spanish is dominant, and I wanted to keep countries together because casual viewers are more likely to remember, like, that the cheese wheel task happened in Switzerland than they are to remember it was in TAR14) while the Philippines isn't really the same sort of location as the other Pacific Islands - but by and large I'm happy with this list. If there's any improvements anyone can make, feel free to reply.
Alenaveda:
--- Quote from: tarflyonthewall on August 14, 2012, 06:54:22 PM ---Here's what I've tentatively decided on:
NORTH AMERICA - Canada and the United States
CENTRAL AMERICA - Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, and Puerto Rico
"FORESTED" SOUTH AMERICA - Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, and Venezuela
"MOUNTAINOUS" SOUTH AMERICA - Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay
NORTH-WEST EUROPE - Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom
SCANDINAVIA - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
FORMER SOVIET UNION - Azerbaijan, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine
CENTRAL EUROPE - Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Romania, and Switzerland
MEDITERRANEAN - Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, and Turkey
WEST & SOUTH-WESTERN AFRICA - Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa
EASTERN AFRICA - Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, Tanzania, and Zambia
MIDDLE EAST - Kuwait, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates
SUBCONTINENT - Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka
SOUTH-EAST ASIA - Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam
FAR-EASTERN ASIA - China, Japan, Mongolia, South Korea, and Taiwan
PACIFIC ISLANDS - Australia, Guam, New Zealand, and the Philippines
I'm really not sure how to quickly describe the two South America categories - like, I see the "forested" countries as very "green" while the "mountainous" countries are very "brown", but that may just be me. There's still a couple I'm not entirely sure about - Jamaica's not really Central America (I was going to go with Anglophone North America and Hispanophone North America, but freaking Montreal had to exist and there are parts of the US where Spanish is dominant, and I wanted to keep countries together because casual viewers are more likely to remember, like, that the cheese wheel task happened in Switzerland than they are to remember it was in TAR14) while the Philippines isn't really the same sort of location as the other Pacific Islands - but by and large I'm happy with this list. If there's any improvements anyone can make, feel free to reply.
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I suggest you, in the South America matter, that you better use the same division we use here:
Atlantic countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela.
Pacific countries: Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Equador, Colombia.
This is because, for example, Argentina is not a "montainous country" only. In fact, you can't call the USA a "mountainous country" only because of the Apalaches or the Rocky Mountains. Argentina has the Andes Mountains along his west border - places like Bariloche (TAR5/15) or Mendoza (TAR9) are there - and some secondaries chain of mountains related to the Andes (the mountains in Salta are one of them); but it's mostly plains, forests, plateau and an extended coast over the Atlantic Sea. The same applies for Uruguay, who's not even close to the Andes (they're split South America in two) and only has very low hills known in spanish as "Cuchillas", so it becomes difficult to adjust your definition to it. By the other hand, Colombia has both mountains (the Andes) and forest, the same as Equador and Peru, so the difficult remains too.
I hope this can help you with your work. :tup:
Declive:
Uruguay , Ecuador , and Argentina shall not be considered as MOUNTAINOUS , but Colombia should.
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