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RFF TAR 17 pick-em game
Coutzy:
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--- Quote ---5 Points – Does this leg have a general task (not counting travelling)?
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:lol3: exactly 7 seconds after I posted what I felt was the obvious answer, Coutzy posts the opposite and is equally convinced. Now I understand why your job is so hard, mswood :lol3:
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Teams were instructed to search for their next location. In season 1 it was enough to constitute a Roadblock, so by that precedent it must be a task.
Coutzy:
--- Quote ---10 Points – Which team is next to last to start the “circus” task?
I say free points to everyone. Chad & Stephanie are the 2nd to last team shown making a choice, but we only see a few actually make their choice and since they already have noses on (part of the task), we have no real idea. Free Points to anyone who convinces me not to give everyone points.
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See: http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23386.msg572072.html#msg572072 in which I explain why I believe Gary and Mallory to be 2nd last to the Detour, in front of only Nick and Vicki.
mswood:
--- Quote from: Coutzy on November 10, 2010, 11:33:17 PM ---
--- Quote ---10 Points – Which team is next to last to start the “circus” task?
I say free points to everyone. Chad & Stephanie are the 2nd to last team shown making a choice, but we only see a few actually make their choice and since they already have noses on (part of the task), we have no real idea. Free Points to anyone who convinces me not to give everyone points.
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See: http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23386.msg572072.html#msg572072 in which I explain why I believe Gary and Mallory to be 2nd last to the Detour, in front of only Nick and Vicki.
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But you are forgetting a very serious aspect. Getting a clue doesn't equal starting a task. Teams have to get the clue, we can have a reasoned guess about this order, but that doesn't even mean that those teams read the clue in the same speed, or made their choice of task in the same order as getting their clue. Or even getting their noses, as this appeared to be the actual start point of the tasks at the circus because everyone had their noses before getting to either side of the detour.
Those are the primary reasons that I think I have to give free points. THe best we can do is guess about getting the clue, not the task itself.
Coutzy:
--- Quote from: mswood on November 11, 2010, 12:16:07 AM ---
--- Quote from: Coutzy on November 10, 2010, 11:33:17 PM ---
--- Quote ---10 Points – Which team is next to last to start the “circus” task?
I say free points to everyone. Chad & Stephanie are the 2nd to last team shown making a choice, but we only see a few actually make their choice and since they already have noses on (part of the task), we have no real idea. Free Points to anyone who convinces me not to give everyone points.
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See: http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23386.msg572072.html#msg572072 in which I explain why I believe Gary and Mallory to be 2nd last to the Detour, in front of only Nick and Vicki.
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But you are forgetting a very serious aspect. Getting a clue doesn't equal starting a task. Teams have to get the clue, we can have a reasoned guess about this order, but that doesn't even mean that those teams read the clue in the same speed, or made their choice of task in the same order as getting their clue. Or even getting their noses, as this appeared to be the actual start point of the tasks at the circus because everyone had their noses before getting to either side of the detour.
Those are the primary reasons that I think I have to give free points. THe best we can do is guess about getting the clue, not the task itself.
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That may be, but in similar situations, they would include the "Currently in..." subtitles, which I think would be used as the point of reference in this case, if they were included.
Also, if we cast our mind back to TAR 15, where a different problem cropped up, but I am using it to get the 10 damn points that I desperately need to claw back towards the top 10 as precedent.
--- Quote ---10 Points - Which team loses the most placings completing the Detour?
Sam & Dan (Used From start of Detour and using the same Criteria of last week of when they get to a point where they need to don equipment or change for a task), fairest I could be. Sam & Dan drop one position due to the sudden loss of blood from their brains to their downstair brains.
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Since the circus was literally meters away, wouldn't the Detour start point be the moment they reached the cluebox? The fact that they had to wear red noses could also constitue "donning equipment" for a task. Given that they were supposed to put the noses on immediately, I would consider the moment they open the clue to be the Detour start point.
Jobby:
I think climbing up to the tower and looking for the next location (with a tricky miniature building at the back which they have to figure out is the figurine which is their clue to the next location) is considered as a general task. Just my two cents worth.
And i definitely believe Nick and Vicki gained the most positions. They're last at the Detour and finished third. If you're watching the episode, you'll be extremely shocked at how fast they're at the Detour.
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