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kiki:
Objectively speaking the best for us, as viewers, was TAR 2, with the teams running simulatneously to the finish line. But also good was TAR 15 because the leading team changed constantly. I also like a lot those with a difficult memory challenge like TAR 12 and 14.

DrRox:
I think that TAR1/2 really set the stage for TAR Finales....actually the first 9 were all pretty good. As a resident of the DFW metroplex....I am partial to TAR5. All F3 teams were Texans, but none from DFW. Chip/Kim had only lived in California for 4/5 years, but first 40 years they lived in Houston, Brandon/Nicole from Houston, and Colin/Christie from Corpus. Univeristy of Houston vs Texas A and M vs University of Texas. Crazy limo driver vs mini-van taxi.......airplane drama....airport drama......9/11 drama...

I had never heard of Trammel Crow park........but as soon as they "arrived" there, I knew where it was. I just never knew it had a name....lol

theschnauzers:
I believe season 5's use of the Trammel Crow property was the first to be on semi-private property, right? I knew the name Trammel Crow because it was, then, a major owner of apartment communities and commercial properties all over much of the United States (and all over Atlanta, where I was living at the time.)
While later seasons did continue to use public parklands, these have become locations that usually were more secluded than in the early seasons. (Portland is the one that comes to mind first.)

DrRox:
Trammell Crow Park is a public park in the Trinity River Bottom in West Dallas. It is in a place that not a lot of people hang out, unless they go fishing in the Trinity River. It is very close to downtown Dallas. It is named after real estate developer Trammel Crow, a Dallas native. I had driven by that park area for decades, I just didnt know it had a name till the finale of TAR5. He started the Trammell Crow Company and was one of the first big mega-real estate developers. He and his company developed property all across America. It is said that he owned more property than Donald Trump. He developed the Peachtree Center in Atlanta too.

The park is between the levees on the Trinity River built by the Corps of Engineersk for flood control. He joined forces with another Dallas developer John Stemmons to develop property along the first big super freeway in Dallas...I-35E which is named after John Stemmons. The park is next to this freeway.

I will add to clarify.......that the Trammel Crow Park is in the flood plain of the Trinity River. It is underwater several times a year, depending on the rains. The fact that TAR picked it for a finale makes perfect sense. No one really uses that park. So having the finish line mat there, was really like hiding in plain sight. To me, there is a better park in downtown Dallas to have a finale, Pioneer Park. It has some bronze longhorns that symbolize Texas better.

Prophet:

--- Quote from: Joab on January 08, 2011, 12:35:11 AM ---We need to have a finale consisting of a TAR 14/TAR 17 cast, with tasks similar to that in TAR 9/TAR 12/TAR 13/TAR 14, shuffling of positions between all 3 teams like TAR 15 and nail-biting finale till the very end like TAR 2. :lol3:

With that said, i believe i like TAR 12/TAR 7/TAR 5/TAR 3/TAR 14/TAR 17's finale because of the results. LOL!

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Well that clears things up. :lol:

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