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What do you think about the Fast Forward?

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kiki:
The FF as it is now doesn't have any meaning. The first team goes for it and the rest don't even read the clue. I agree that there should be perhaps 3 FF through out the race or if this is not financially possible then it should be at a point of the race that it would give to more than one teams the opportunity to go for it, for example after a flight or hours of operation. If there are more than one FF then the first ones in the race can be used by the last teams to catch up and perhaps save a team that had some bad luck in a previous leg.


--- Quote from: ·David on December 15, 2010, 09:40:18 AM ---About the Express Pass, one for each team with no more than one team using it in the same task seems allright for me!

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Also a good idea and maybe this way the FF wouldn't be necessary.

apskip:

--- Quote from: Caelestor on December 13, 2010, 03:49:06 PM ---The FF is an amazing tool, WHEN IT APPEARS ON EVERY LEG. That hasn't been the case since Season 5 due to costs (another reason why the Speedbump may be retired soon). I really wish every team could get an Express Pass at the start of the race, it has potential to be a good replacement for the FF.

Similarly, the Yield (and other related markers) had potential when it appeared on every leg.

The intersection makes no sense to me whatsoever.

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Caelestor,

I have some shocking news for you. There has never been an Amazing Race with FAST FORWARDs on every leg. Here is the count of successful FAST FORWARDS in each one:

1- 5
2- 6
3- 6
4 -7
5- just 2, in spite of what you indicated
6- 2
7- 1 (not counting the infamous head-shaving abort for Brandon/Nicole)
8 -1
9- 2
10- 2
11- 2
12- 1 (one at Trakai was ignored by everyone)
13- 2
14-0 (in Phuket there was one unused to due to perception of little gain)
15-1
16-1
17-1

The highest count was for AR4 with 7 successful FAST FORWARDs out of 13 legs. I haven't got the time to go back and count the unused FAST FORWARDs for every Amazing Race 1 to 13 but there likely were a few.
 

Reilly Queens:
wait, weren't Brandon & Nicole in season 5??
and didnt Uchenna and Joyce use one in s7? Wasnt it the head shaving one?

Glamazon Racer:

--- Quote from: apskip on December 15, 2010, 06:19:08 PM ---The highest count was for AR4 with 7 successful FAST FORWARDs out of 13 legs. I haven't got the time to go back and count the unused FAST FORWARDs for every Amazing Race 1 to 13 but there likely were a few.

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I'm pretty sure that in TAR2-4 (I don't know about TAR1 as I haven't seen it) that there was one Fast Forward in each leg except for the last two legs.

apskip:

--- Quote from: ·David on December 13, 2010, 02:44:07 PM ---Long ago, it was once posted in the forum that the Fast Forward could be avoided so as to exchange it for other similar tasks (something like and Express Pass for all the teams and more options).

BUT; I really like this awesome clue! It makes you be very competitive through all the leg, and only if you're the first team, you may attempt for it.

Also, there is a new thing coming up... The Fast Forward blessing. Nat & Kat; Dan & Jordan; Meghan & Cheyne; Nick & Starr; Ken & Tina (2nd placers!); Nick & Don (3rd place for the żoldest contestant ever?); Uchnna & Joyce; BJ & Tyler; Tyler & James... All of them won the Fast Forward (most of the times, their race's ONLY Fast Forward) and ended up in the F3; one of them as 3rd placers; one of them as 2nd Placers, and the rest of them as WINNERS.

Is there any MAGIC involved with the Fast Forward that gives you extra powers for the rest of the entire race??

Feel free to comment your impressions, if you want to!  :cmas9

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David:


I want to improve your list rather a lot. My source is the excellent book "Circumnavigating the Globe: Amazing Race 10 -14 and Amazing Race Asia 1 - 3" which has an entire chapter devoted to "Summary of All FAST FORWARDs in All Amazing Races [through the publication date in 2009]. "  You are correct that most recent 3 Amazing Races had only one FAST FORWARD and each was won by the winner of that race. Let's take a look at the more ancient history of Amazing Races for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd places winning a FAST FORWARD:

AR1 - Rob/Brennan (1st), Frank/Margarita (2nd), Joe/Bill (3rd)
AR2 - Chris/Alex (1st), Wil/Tara (2nd), Blake/Paige (3rd)
AR3 - Flo/Zach (1st), Ken/Gerard (3rd)
AR4 - Chip/Reichen (1st), Jeff/David (3rd)
AR5 - Colin/Christie (2nd)
AR6 - Adam/Rebecca (3rd)
AR7 - Uchenna/Joyce (1st)
AR8 - none
AR9 - B.J./Tyler (1st), Eric/Jeremy (2nd)
AR10 - Tyler/James (1st), Rob/Kimberly (2nd), in an intersection and one of 4 times in Amazing Race history that the FAST FORWARD winners did not win that leg
AR11 - none
AR12 - Donald/Nicolas (3rd)
AR13 - Nick/Starr (1st), Ken/Tina (2nd)
AR14 - only one unused
AR15 - Meghan/Cheyne (1st)
AR16 - Dan/Jordan (1st)
AR17 - Nat/Kat

I have added above 14 1st, 2nd or 3 place finishers who won FAST FORWARDs to your original list of 9.


 

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