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Roadblock Count 6 or 7?
slayton:
--- Quote from: The Prophet on December 16, 2010, 07:20:26 PM ---
--- Quote from: slayton on December 16, 2010, 06:43:11 PM ---One of the biggest problems that I have with TAR and other reality shows is the lack of transparency.
The National Football League publishes and sells their updated rulebooks for every single season for about $10, and even though the officials still botch calls all the time, at least it's possible to look up the rules whenever someone wants to.
I think it's insulting to those of us who've followed the show from the beginning to see Nick & Vicki only get a 6-hour penalty for not completing a detour, while Nancy & Emily got penalized 24-hours for not completing a detour. I feel the same way about the roadblock count.
It just gives the impression that they're making it up as they go along, and that's a bad thing. I don't understand why they don't just post or publish their rulebook. They probably consider their rulebook to be a trade secret, and I don't agree with that assessment.
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Is this lack of transparency making you stop watching the show altogether?
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I still watch, but I don't treat it as seriously competition-wise as I used to do.
Prophet:
--- Quote from: slayton on December 16, 2010, 07:45:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: The Prophet on December 16, 2010, 07:20:26 PM ---
--- Quote from: slayton on December 16, 2010, 06:43:11 PM ---One of the biggest problems that I have with TAR and other reality shows is the lack of transparency.
The National Football League publishes and sells their updated rulebooks for every single season for about $10, and even though the officials still botch calls all the time, at least it's possible to look up the rules whenever someone wants to.
I think it's insulting to those of us who've followed the show from the beginning to see Nick & Vicki only get a 6-hour penalty for not completing a detour, while Nancy & Emily got penalized 24-hours for not completing a detour. I feel the same way about the roadblock count.
It just gives the impression that they're making it up as they go along, and that's a bad thing. I don't understand why they don't just post or publish their rulebook. They probably consider their rulebook to be a trade secret, and I don't agree with that assessment.
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Is this lack of transparency making you stop watching the show altogether?
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I still watch, but I don't treat it as seriously competition-wise as I used to do.
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Well, anything on TV is going to be at least half-scripted. Think what TAR would be like if there was no order! :lol:
apskip:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on December 16, 2010, 08:39:10 AM ---The rule IS 7-5.
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NO, it isn't. According to the RFF Radio show interviews it is equality +- 1. In a 12 leg race that works out to 7-5 but if you had 11 legs it would be 6-5 or if you had 13 legs it would be 7-6, except for teams that won a FAST FORWARD and missed that leg's ROADBLOCK.
Prophet:
--- Quote from: apskip on December 21, 2010, 05:13:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on December 16, 2010, 08:39:10 AM ---The rule IS 7-5.
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NO, it isn't. According to the RFF Radio show interviews it is equality +- 1. In a 12 leg race that works out to 7-5 but if you had 11 legs it would be 6-5 or if you had 13 legs it would be 7-6, except for teams that won a FAST FORWARD and missed that leg's ROADBLOCK.
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This all goes into a theory of mine: a team that had one member do seven RB's has never won since they changed the rule. Coincidence?
Mug Costanza:
I remember reading in one of Brent & Caite's post-race interviews after TAR16 that the producers told them that the rule was 6-6 or 7-5. (And also, for TAR16, there was a double Roadblock, but Leg 5 in France did NOT have a Roadblock, keeping the total at 12.)
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