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Goldeneye:
apskip, I think the train left Lijiang East at 1905 for Kunming, since Margie and Luke stated 7:05pm in the episode.

apskip:
goldeneye,
Thanks for your eagle eyes. I missed that typo. You are correct that the departure was at 1905 (705pm).

apskip:
I want to take up the question of the penalty that Kent and Vyxsin received for missing the "required" flight from Tokyo Narita to Kunming. All the grousing by other teams that they should have been penalized more heavily is ridiculous in my opinion. Kent and Vyxsin suffered by taking a flight almost 6 hours after the other teams and arriving in Kunming about 7 hours after the other teams. They then had to wait 6 hours for the 7am flight to Lijiang. The thing that "saved" them was the Hours of Operation waiting for the Shuttle bus in Lijiang, which caused the other teams to wait until 8am before going up to the yak ROADBLOCK. Kent and Vyxsin narrowed their deficit to about 30 minutes and probably finished that leg about 30 minutes behind. The next leg started with a Bunching delay since there was only one logical flight nonstop to Kolkata.

Hours of Operation and Bunching delays are designed by World Race Productions to equalize all the teams. Kent and Vyxsin still had to face a unique 30 minute penalty, which if the dinosaur ROADBLOCK had been easier could have caused their elimination.

I do not want to hear from other teams about how Kent and Vyxsin should have gotten a 24 hour penalty. There was nothing special about the flight combination that the other 8 teams took. It was one of several combinations which could have gotten teams to Kunming or even to Lijiang. It just happened to be the one, probably for capacity reasons having at least 36 available seats on both flights, for which World Race Productions made the reservations for the teams plus cameramen and soundmen. 

Prophet:
Other teams wanted a stiffer penalty for them because that 6 to 7 hour deficit was wiped out when every team got on the same train back to Kunming. The fact that Kynt and Vyxsin survived was luck on their part. Very similar to the situation with the cowboys in leg one except that they did not do anything worth being penalized for.

Perhaps if the goths had been penalized more heavily they would have been eliminated at the PitStop in Kunming, where the penalty was assessed. If you put yourself in the place of other teams you could understand why they feel that it is unfair that Kynt and Vyxsin wandered all over central Japan for hours and are still on equal footing with the other remaining teams.

georgiapeach:
That's not their fault though, that was the way the leg was designed, they let the bunching be too long. And the 30 minute penalty for taking a different flight was standard.

And remember that we have an edited out task here...a required travel agent stop to get the info for the flight. If that task had not been completed I expect we would have seen an additional penalty as well, but since everyone must have done it, it didn't matter, so we didn't get to see it.

If I were another team, yes, I might have been disappointed too. But it was how the leg was designed and not the Goths that was the problem.

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