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TAR 17: Chad Waltrip and Stephanie Smith --Newly Dating>Engaged>Married>PARENTS!

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Prophet:

--- Quote from: Belle Book on November 27, 2010, 05:35:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: MugCostanza on November 23, 2010, 03:11:06 PM ---Now THAT'S how you handle being U-Turned! Thank you, Stephanie, for being so classy about it. :)

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Indeed.  I can sure understand being mad right after being U-Turned, but once the leg is over, you should just move on and not let your anger get the best of you, like Carol & Brandy did.  Of course, those two hated Brent & Caitie, and I don't think Chad & Stephanie really hated Nat & Kat.  They saw the doctors as a threat (with good reason), but personally hating them?  I didn't see that.

Belle Book


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Chad wanted to U-Turn the doctors, but I don't think he had a personal issue with them.

TexasLady:
The two teams were really close so it would have been a no-brainer to use the U-turn which ever one got there first.

DrRox:

--- Quote from: the-pr0phet on November 27, 2010, 02:09:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: Joab on November 27, 2010, 04:19:27 AM ---
--- Quote from: MugCostanza on November 23, 2010, 03:11:06 PM ---Now THAT'S how you handle being U-Turned! Thank you, Stephanie, for being so classy about it. :)

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I wonder if Carol and Brandy are reading this. :lol:

I didn't know i'll actually turn out to like Chad and Stephanie so much. Did anybody try to ask Chad and Stephanie whether they have been invited back for allstars, but had to decline because Stephanie was pregnant? :tup:

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Surely they were invited, since these 2 have a very nteresting storyline...

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These two ladies are not a "pair" anymore......and have not been for almost a year.......not long after TAR 16 finished filming.

slayton:
I can understand why Chad & Stephanie wouldn't hold a grudge over the U-Turn; it wasn't a personal thing.

From their post-show interviews, the major issue that the U-Turned teams in TAR16 had was that they were U-Turned for personal reasons and not strategic reasons.

Luke disliked the reasoning behind the TAR16 U-Turn choices so much that he started the Season 16 = Dumbest Cast Ever...? thread after Carol & Brandy got U-Turned.

Kisha & Jen's post-show interviews reinforce the difference in mindsets between teams from TAR14 and teams from TAR16:

--- Quote ---Reality TV World: They also said that you guys would have definitely U-Turned someone else if you'd had the opportunity.  Was that the case, had you discussed that and who would you have done?

Jennifer: Um, it's all about strategy.  Like when we were in the race and we'd seen Margie and Luke and Cara and Jaime we'd figured that we could assume Tammy and Victor were before us.

So, thinking at a strategic point -- because my sister and I, we don't hold grudges, we always think about what's at stake -- so [in that] instance, we'd been roaming around [for a while].  So if an hour or a half hour had passed and we didn't see Margie and Luke well then we assumed they were up ahead of us so the only team behind us was Cara and Jaime.

You see what I'm saying?  It's not like 'Oh, if we get there first these are the people that we're going to U-Turn to be malicious.'  No, it was all part of a strategic standpoint and that's why we understand why Victor and Tammy did it.

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--- Quote ---TVGuide.com: Not even for Margie and Luke?
Kisha: Well, I wasn't thinking about that! [Laughs] We ran a very classy race. We wouldn't U-Turn someone because they didn't like us. That wasn't part of our strategy. If we were going to U-Turn someone, it would've been to put us in a better position or to gain us some time.

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Prophet:

--- Quote from: TexasLady on November 27, 2010, 09:12:56 PM ---The two teams were really close so it would have been a no-brainer to use the U-turn which ever one got there first.

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Very true!

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