The Amazing Race > The Amazing Race Discussion
Are tasks too easy
Rogue:
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--- 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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I do too. I think it's cool to be ahead every now and then but when you're racing, every once in a while it would be cool to see the people you're racing against. It also puts some fairness back into the game.
Prophet:
I believe that the TAR writers do a very good job balancing out difficulty levels of the tasks, unless it's a Family Edition.
As for equalizers, I believe that they are absolutely nessecary.
Also I would like to hear from some of the racers because none of us realize the mental and physical wear and tear of being on the Race. I bet none of them think the tasks are getting too easy. You must factor in sleep or lack of, temperature and other environment factors, and how it feels to actually do all of those things instead of just look at them.
It's a fair concern but all the pieces need to be taken into consideration.
(I liked TAR16 Mug and I think counting 523 things is quite hard but it was silly to repeat it.)
slayton:
I don't know if tasks are easier, but many are too similar to tasks from previous seasons.
TAR17 gave me a sense of déjà vu a number of times. Whether it was moving specially designed coffins across Ghana that reminded me of the TAR15 teams moving animal statues across Vietnam, or the fact that TAR17 had a task involving west African schoolchildren, in Ghana, just like how TAR12 had tasks involving west African schoolchildren, in Burkina Faso which is located right above Ghana.
I will say that the task of installing a TV antenna wasn't particularly difficult on TAR17, because I've watched my neighbors install bigger antennas on the pitched roofs of their 2.5 story houses. If my neighbors fell off their roofs, they'd likely be going to the hospital. The TAR17 houses might have required ladders, but they didn't look dangerously high to me.
The one thing I don't like, and don't get, is when the show decides to go to another country just to visit a US military base. I live about a 30-minute drive from a base, and it's just something that doesn't interest me.
Prophet:
Perhaps whenever DeafRacer returns to posting we can tell him how easy the tasks are getting! :cmaslol
AmazingRace:
I believe that they are getting SLIGHTLY easier in the recent seasons. But it's still not completely easy. :reindeer
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