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Cheesefeet:
Just to get some discussion going what are your guys thoughts on the difficulty of the tasks.  It seems there are a lot of cream puffs tasks, this is a race for a million dollars is it too much to expect the contestants to complete a task that really stretches them either physically or mentally.  It is kinda hard because the variety of the racers but wouldn't it be interesting to see some more challenging tasks.

Thoughts?

Mug Costanza:
For me, I don't necessarily think the tasks are getting too easy (I think they ARE getting progressively easier, but not so much that it bothers me...yet). What bothers me is when we see a single season with too many repetitive tasks. I think I'm in a minority of people here at RFF who liked TAR16, but what really bothered me was that for two out of three legs (Singapore and Shanghai-2), the Roadblock was counting something. Not only that, but the numbers they were counting were 523 and 521. It was just way too repetitive for my liking. I can deal with one of those kinds of Roadblocks, but they should've done something much more challenging for Shanghai-2, especially when teams are fighting for a spot in the Final 3.

Rogue:
I watched last season and I can barely remember anything they did. I don't think this season was easy as there were some very good tasks balancing out physical, mental, and a few needle in the haystack. But there was the sunglasses task that wasn't physical or mental but it was a time waster and still pushed some teams to the back. The boxing task wasn't that hard but we saw a couple of the guys mess it up. The dog sledding task that was just there. I think this season had a good mix of tasks because some allowed certain teams to excel or shine even if they were bad at something else. This doesn't have to be a purely physical competition and it doesn't have to be a purely mental competition. But I think when they do a nice mix of challenges it makes the competition more equal.

Cheesefeet:
Going along with this topic are tasks with hours of operation and equalizers, are you guys a fan of a task that bunches teams back up by making the lead teams wait for hours for the task to open or would you prefer to let strong teams get a strong lead.  I can't recall any teams falling significantly behind since team Guido fell a day behind in season 1.

connayyy:

--- Quote from: Cheesefeet on December 16, 2010, 06:05:06 PM ---Going along with this topic are tasks with hours of operation and equalizers, are you guys a fan of a task that bunches teams back up by making the lead teams wait for hours for the task to open or would you prefer to let strong teams get a strong lead.  I can't recall any teams falling significantly behind since team Guido fell a day behind in season 1.

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I actually enjoy equalizers, they make the outcome less predictable.

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