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jetishidae:
if a team quits before the leg even started, does that leg become a NEL? pretty sure it's happen when Dave & Connor decided to quit. i remember because i was like so confuse what's the point of double u-turn when nobody is eliminated in the end
and what would happen if a team quit (like in Maria & Tiffany situation) in a NEL leg?
oh one last question, i wonder how Zev & Justin realize that Zev lost his passport?
theschnauzers:
--- Quote from: jetishidae on December 12, 2013, 10:22:04 AM ---if a team quits before the leg even started, does that leg become a NEL? pretty sure it's happen when Dave & Connor decided to quit. i remember because i was like so confuse what's the point of double u-turn when nobody is eliminated in the end
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In Dave and Conner's case, they had decided to quit before being released for the leg, but traveled to the new country and went directly to see Phil at the Pit Stop and were eliminated. For placement purposes. that leg was an elimination leg, so they were considered to have finished 8th IIRC in the Race.
--- Quote ---and what would happen if a team quit (like in Maria & Tiffany situation) in a NEL leg?
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Maria and Tiffany quit the detour on an elimination leg, but because all the other teams had checked in, Phil went to the detour location and eliminated them without formally assessing the penalty for quitting the detour.
--- Quote ---oh one last question, i wonder how Zev & Justin realize that Zev lost his passport?
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I'd have to go back to the episode recording to be sure, but they had realized they did not have both passports with them when they reached the Pit Stop, and Phil sent them back out to find the passport and they had until all the other teams had checked in in order to proceed to the next leg. It was an elimination leg.
This was the leg that established that a team that misplaces or loses their passport have until the teams are departing to the next county to find or replace the passport; they must have the passport to proceed (i.e., buying airline tickets, or train or ferry tickets).
toanglobal:
--- Quote from: Marionete on July 21, 2012, 01:37:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: Ikurriņa on July 20, 2012, 03:58:57 PM ---In season 17 Connor perform the first 4 roadblocks and then they were eliminated. :tup:
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Hmm, that's interesting, because by leg 7, Michael had done 2 RBs and Kevin had done 4. However, before the leg's RB, Kevin says something like 'I've done 4 RBs and my dad's only done 2, so he had to do this one'.
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That question still remains a mystery, I guess.
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In S19 among first seven RBs Jeremy performed 5 and Sandy only 2 but they went to the F3 because 3 consecutive RBs in leg 7, 8 and 9 didn't requrie physical and Sandy completed all of it as well as RB in leg 11 and leg 12 (I thought Jeremy/Sandy was the first M/F team had a RBs devident 6/7
toanglobal:
--- Quote from: Ikurriņa on July 20, 2012, 03:58:57 PM ---In season 17 Connor perform the first 4 roadblocks and then they were eliminated. :tup:
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In season 22 Connor performed 4 RBs and Dave only one before they withdrew because of his tendon achilles if Dave didnt injury I though Dave performed RBs in leg 4, 6 and 7
redskevin88:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on December 10, 2013, 02:30:54 PM ---A 24 hour penalty would be assessed on their departure time for the following leg; it probably would lead to an eiimination, depending on what is planned (a long plane trip with an HOO could well reduce the gap significantly.)
In the early seasons we did see teams fall behind by 24 hours on an NEL, and they continued Racing. In TAR 1, Margarita and Frank had a 24 hour lead headed to India, and by the end of the next leg the other teams had caught up in India; In TAR 11, one team was a day ahead in arriving in Tanzania, due to flight scheduling issues in an heavy travel period in Africa, but an HOO allowed other teams to catch up; and in TAR 1 beginning in Thailand, two teams fell 24 hours behind the lead teams, and the last team was eliminated in Beijing, and the other team never caught up before the end of the Race, they had just started the final leg when the winning team reached the finish line.
One thing is clear the show does not switch NELs around because a team fell far behind, or quit the Race, or anything else. Its a governmental rule dealing with contests on television that prevents it, and the producers literally have to have put the plans (including alternative legs and so forth) in an sealed affidivit before filming starts. (That may have changed at some point, but it was clearly the case during the early seasons.)
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Here's a good question. What if a team Dave & Connor were unable to continue in Leg 2, or decided to quit? Will the NELs be changed since the next leg was a KRL? Can a team possibly sue CBS?
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