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Prophet:
I agree, it's not their fault that they were not eliminated. It's just a part of the crazy twists this year. The other teams do have an understandable reason to be frustrated, but at the way the game works not Kynt and Vyxsin. (Unless they like Ron are getting irritated at them for their repetitive lying.)

walkingpneumonia:

--- Quote from: apskip on April 01, 2011, 07:33:23 AM ---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. 

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I agree that in this particular case the punishment fits the crime - mostly because K&V did not obtain any advantage by taking an unauthorized flight.

I do worry about the precedence it set though. Lets say that you are one of the other teams that arrived at the airport hours before the assigned flight left. If I knew that I would only receive a 30 minute penalty for taking an unauthorized flight, I would definitely try to get on an earlier flight if it gave me an advantage greater than 30 minutes.
Maybe, in future, the Route Info clues that designate that a specific flight must be used should say something to the effect of "If you miss the designated flight, you may take a later, less advantageous flight and incur a 30 minute penalty.".

2old4tech:
Isn't the standard penalty Time Gained plus 30 minutes?

apskip:
It is and that's what was applied, because Kent and Vyxsin certainly had no advantage from taking any later flights. They only had a serious deficit. I think the remarks of the other teams, particularly Jaime and Cara and Margie and Luke who were their chief supporters, should be disregarded as sour grapes.

2old4tech:
I concur.

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