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TAR 18 Ep 3: "We Had a Lot of Evil Spirits Apparently" (Japan)
Prophet:
--- Quote from: BayBay on February 28, 2011, 03:30:42 PM ---Can I just say how much I hate that in these later seasons, teams are managing to all get on the one flight. Whatever happened to getting crazy connections through random cities and then running to transfer desks to get standby tickets on earlier flights. Very disappointing :(
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In the past, the races were more flight based than task based. Therefore, they were based more on luck than skill.
Gone are the days of teams checking in hours behind other teams because they missed a risky connection or something like that. I tend to like the task-based model TPTB use lately from a viewer's standpoint, but after playing fantasy races, I like the flight-based model better!
dojima:
Big :hearts: to everyone finding out it was Shibuya. Believe it or not, I stayed at an apartment complex right around the corner in that scene.
In fact, I went to that AM/PM several times a day lol. To prove it, my friend who went with me on the trip recorded this short video of his trip into the AM/PM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8VGPqrptXE
Warning of foul language in the middle of the video if you don't like that kind of stuff. :lol: He does a good job showing around outside, and the store with the yellow banner confirms the location being the scene of the incident. Lucky for us we never got ran over by Jaime when we were there. :lol3:
Prophet:
TarJunkie999 did a great job of finding that! :bow: I was just trying to guess why they were there.
Dånooky:
--- Quote from: BayBay on February 28, 2011, 03:30:42 PM ---Can I just say how much I hate that in these later seasons, teams are managing to all get on the one flight. Whatever happened to getting crazy connections through random cities and then running to transfer desks to get standby tickets on earlier flights. Very disappointing :(
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It's called the TPTB-got-tired-of-waiting-for-teams-who-deviate-from-the-normal-route-and-end-up-checking-in-hours-behind-the-leading-team-thus-forcing-longer-Pit-Stops-or-messing-up-with-Phil's-logistics-so-they-chose-to-micromanage-flights effect
Caelestor:
A lot of locations in recent races tend to have direct flights.
I think that the flight searching only works if one plane arrives no more than 2 hours ahead of the last (because otherwise, the lagging teams would have no opportunity to catch up and that could be boring to watch).
And there are actually two flight itineraries for this leg, which is better than I expected.
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