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TAR 18 Locations/Destinations **spoilers**
DrRox:
As Peach has already pointed out.......they only let them do ESM in the early part of the race now. They got to do the ESM after Broken Hill mat.....then the train ride to Sydney allowed that too...and in Lijiang after the mat there too and the trip back to Kunming..
Caelestor:
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--- Quote from: theschnauzers on January 07, 2011, 09:08:56 PM ---It is entirely possible that the delays encountered by the one flight that diverted to Hawaii on the way could have thrown the timeline for the Oz legs off. That makes sense to me on the one hand, and I'm doubtful we'll ever know from the episode on the other.
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That's a good point. The rest of the race was so well hidden (aside from China and perhaps the Florida Keys) that we know little about what happened. To have this first leg in such a heavily traveled and public location strikes me as a last second change. Perhaps when teams got delayed (by a day?) on the way to Hawaii, a location that had been planned as the sign up area was not available and the square next to the Town Hall was the best that could be arranged on short notice. Then again, the aquarium at Manly and the public beach they used were bound to attraction attention, so maybe TAR just figured they were going to be seen and word would get out anyway, so it didn't make any difference. Did the teams spend the whole afternoon and overnight waiting period in the area next to the Town Hall or did they eventually get taken to a hotel for the night? If so, why didn't they do so as soon as they arrived to minimize the time they were in view of the public? While teams have spent the night camped out in public in the past, I don't think it's been done in a country where TAR is so widely viewed. When it was done in the past, the teams weren't All-Star teams that people would recognize. If things in Sydney were rearranged at the last minute, I suppose it's possible that TAR couldn't get 20 or 25 hotel rooms and thus the teams got to hang outdoors and wait. That whole turn of events in Sydney is puzzling. It could have hardly been set up better for us to get maximum spoilage.
This looks like it will be the season known for travel delays. We've got the plane diverted to Hawaii, the suggestion that planes into Europe were delayed due to bad weather, the possibility that trains were used in Europe rather than flying for the same reason and the delayed flight either into or out of Brazil (I forget which it was) due to pilot illness. Have we seen that many flight problemss in the past? I can't remember a season with that many issues.
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Hopefully not a repeat of All-Stars. The flight issues really caused that season major problems.
Glamazon Racer:
Maybe they were just getting our hopes up by throwing them into easilly spottable areas in the first leg, only to hide them very well for the rest of the race! :neener:
north09:
--- Quote from: racer on January 10, 2011, 12:35:11 AM ---Maybe they were just getting our hopes up by throwing them into easilly spottable areas in the first leg, only to hide them very well for the rest of the race! :neener:
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That was my thought. It got us and other sites talking, didn't it?
Prophet:
--- Quote from: north09 on January 11, 2011, 02:06:52 PM ---
--- Quote from: racer on January 10, 2011, 12:35:11 AM ---Maybe they were just getting our hopes up by throwing them into easilly spottable areas in the first leg, only to hide them very well for the rest of the race! :neener:
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That was my thought. It got us and other sites talking, didn't it?
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In eastward years, the final teams are easily spotted in Asia and Australia. The writers were wise to make TAR 18 a westward, since the teams are already recognizable.
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