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TAR 17: Michael Wu and Kevin Wu -- Father/Son
furybaby:
Favorite Team not just because of he's kevjumba, I love his dad in episode 3 <3
who the heck wouldn't?! I saw some rude youtube commented by a guy called
beekeeper11 and he said papa jumba was weak and bad >:(
Team Jumba ~! <3 :hearts:
apskip:
Micheal and Kevin benefitted from the lamest SpeedBump in Amazing Race history. It took 10 minutes at the same location (Ice Hotel warehouse) for them to sit on ice and continue on the race. They were still probably 2 hours ahead of the the second group of teams, so it would not have mattered. I think the placement of the SpeedBump at that particular point in the race totally neutered it, so why bother even having it at all. World Race Productions would have known in advance of this leg either the real the airline capacity restrictions or the ones WRP was going to impose to spread out the teams arrival in Kiruna.
Other almost as lame SpeedBumps in Amazing Race history were Maria/Tiffany (serve pho to the dockmaster in Cai Be, Vietnam), TK/Rachel (travel to fire training course, change clothes, get safety briefing, run the course, get doused with water, change clothes back in JiJi, Taiwan) and the Saunuabuss in Tallinn, Estonia (find the bus, change clothes, 10 minutes in sauna, change clothes back and find the museum again).
redskevin88:
http://www.youtube.com/kevjumba#p/u/1/U54pWtHggYg
He's quite funny...
apskip:
redskooky, that's a charming video, mostly AR17 clips for leg 3 from the perspective of Michael/Kevin with Kevin narrating. Here are prior legs done the same way:
leg 1 http://www.youtube.com/kevjumba#p/u/3/39PsU7RSQ_Q
leg 2 http://www.youtube.com/kevjumba#p/u/2/CrqqaBIQ6x4 At the end of this Kevin stalks about going above the Arctic Circle the next leg. However, they have already been well above it starting from landing at Kiruna.
leg 4 http://www.youtube.com/kevjumba#p/u/0/1sT9rJ0wKO4
I have subscribed to KEVIN's CHANNEL on YouTube. Thanks!
Jobby:
--- Quote from: apskip on October 18, 2010, 12:28:08 PM ---Micheal and Kevin benefitted from the lamest SpeedBump in Amazing Race history. It took 10 minutes at the same location (Ice Hotel warehouse) for them to sit on ice and continue on the race. They were still probably 2 hours ahead of the the second group of teams, so it would not have mattered. I think the placement of the SpeedBump at that particular point in the race totally neutered it, so why bother even having it at all. World Race Productions would have known in advance of this leg either the real the airline capacity restrictions or the ones WRP was going to impose to spread out the teams arrival in Kiruna.
Other almost as lame SpeedBumps in Amazing Race history were Maria/Tiffany (serve pho to the dockmaster in Cai Be, Vietnam), TK/Rachel (travel to fire training course, change clothes, get safety briefing, run the course, get doused with water, change clothes back in JiJi, Taiwan) and the Saunuabuss in Tallinn, Estonia (find the bus, change clothes, 10 minutes in sauna, change clothes back and find the museum again).
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Take a look at another perspective. What if Kevin and Michael had been on the second flight? It would have made the race more exciting right? They would probably be last to get the clue after the Speedbump, then go on to complete the Roadblock maybe in last.. but as they'll definitely go for the same detour option, which will make them at least ahead of Chad and Stephanie, Katie and Rachel and Connor and Jonathan. That could have been exciting to watch.
I thought that was a pretty fair Speedbump. But rather than 10 minutes, maybe for a longer period of 15 minutes? I think a penalty must be at least 15 minutes long enough to be justifiable as a "penalty". A Speedbump is always fair IMO because no matter what the last place team on the previous NEL leg do, it is a task that only they have to perform.. it is not out to kill and destroy their chances to stay on the race (which will make the NEL pointless), but rather a penalty to slow them down.. and be fair to the other teams that they're being slowed down by an additional task that they do not have to do.
If they caught up and for example in TAR 16 (Jet and Cord's case), then good for them because they ran a good leg to finish and end the Speedbump even before other teams catch up to them. :tup:
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