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Jobby:

--- Quote from: mswood on October 12, 2010, 01:24:20 PM ---Ruth

Katie & Rachel have had bitchy comments about teams so far in all three episodes.

Just because their are male teams doesn't mean they are alpha males.  It usually refers to athletic young males that dominate the race or male teams that dominate the race. 

Really production has moved away from that type of casting.

But seriously most of the athletic male teams would have never made some of the major stupid errors that so many of these teams have made.

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The only alpha-male team i really like will always be Derek and Drew. :lol:

Jet and Cord came close, but that season suck after Steve and Allie got eliminated. I kinda wish Steve and Allie made it to Singapore to enjoy our city, but of course they might have serve as decoys. (offtopic)

But i haven't caught this episode except the last 14 minutes. I had no idea how Nat and Kat was practically last in a task and next moment they're side by side with teams who finished the leg in 2nd, 3rd or 5th...

AND, not to mention.. FINALLY... the TAR PRODUCERS heard me. They finally put a NEL at the FINAL 9. F-I-N-A-L-L-Y. I like the placement of the NEL, on a second Ghana leg which if a team indeed got too far behind due to the previous leg and couldn't catch up.. nobody would say it's unfair....  :tup:

Okay, off to finish up the episode!

apskip:
Joab,

Maybe I was watching a different episode than you, but Nat and Kat started 7th 4 minutes ahead of the last team, never got out of the back end of the pack and finished 8th. The tasks themselves tell you that only the DETOUR was time-consuming as they had reasonable taxi drivers:
1. taxi ride to Jamestown - Nat/kat lost some time when learning that boxing ROADBLOCK was behind them on what appeared to be a one way street
2. they appeared to finish quickly at the bicycle academy
3. their taxi ride to the Asebi D/A Primary School was uneventful
4. moving the construction supplies to the school took about the same amount of time for every team
5. they probably did reasonably well on the Ghana placement on the map of Africa, although this was not shown
6. they were as stumped as anyone on the Language Arts DETOUR before switching to the BICYCLE PARTS  DETOUR. Kat had trouble rolling the hoop, which cost them some time

 We will know definitely when the release times for leg 4 are given at the beginning of this upcoming episode, but my guess is that they finished behind the 7th place team by about 15 minutes.

mswood:
Personally  I have never had a problem with strong fit athletic male teams racing.  Just as I don't have a problem with fit young athletic couples racing, or fit young athletic women racing.

Strength is usually not a huge part of the race, endurance is and strength and endurance don't necessarily go together.

While the show usually focuses on task for most of the race's history being able to navigate (be in on foot, in a car, or other forms of transport) has been the easiest way to improve your position.

Most of the time physical strength isn't key to success.  Usually its navigation, following the clue, luck, endurance and basic problem solving skills, and the ability to learn how to do a task.  Physical strength is so not key to the race, not for most legs.

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