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Amazing Race Questions
RachelLeVega:
Thinking back to the instances when teams were stalled while on transportation (e.g. TAR18's emergency landing in Honolulu en route to Sydney, TAR3 and 20's Cancun and Buenos Aires bus incidents), what would production do if a flight team(s) were on had to make an emergency water landing? Will they be given time credit, other teams and Race personnel have to wait, or worst-case scenario - production is cancelled altogether?
theschnauzers:
I have not seen anything in particular other than the contract does allow the season not be ever be aired, in which case, the teams would not receive any prizes they were to have won. The bona fide external emergency situation is one that is unclear. From what few aimilar instances I have seen, the production soes not take a pause unless necessary; as in last minute substitution of a leg due to civil, military, or natural disasters (which have occurred several times, including season 27 for leg 11). The first leg you are referring to, the race proceeded, and as far as I know, no time credits were awarded, that type of situation being one of the everyday risks of air travel.
theschnauzers:
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--- Quote from: scruffs on March 15, 2016, 07:30:52 PM ---I’m just wondering, are detour options supposed to be balanced? For example, one may be longer but with the right skills can be easier, and the other one is shorter but requires luck? With this season, detour options were noticeably unbalanced, or that is the very essence of the clue, to make the better detour decision?
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There's really no rule about detours being balanced or not.
It's just that if it's unequal, it creates tension or drama, while it becomes fair if it is equal.
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There's never been a requirement that I have ever seen that both side of a Detour task be "equal" or balanced. Somethimes they're deliberately unbalanced, to force teams to do one of the two options (the greasy flagpole detour comes to mind) or the real challenge is to force teams to really consider the options and figure out which choice is easier to complete for that team.
The issue is most apparent when a leg is percieved as "linear," with few or no opportunities for movement in the placement order among teams.
georgiapeach:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on March 20, 2016, 06:46:04 PM --- or natural disasters (which have occurred several times, including season 27 for leg 11).
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Could you refresh my memory about this please?? ???
theschnauzers:
We started referencing the weather issues from the typhoons during filming in post 501 of the TAR 27 spoiler discussion thread, reply post 536, reply post 568, mention volcano in post 594, you mentioned this weather issue in post 597, a lot of discussion between July 10 and 13 on pages 22 to 27. Range in live sightings thread You mentioned the weather in the sightings thread on page 10 post 231.
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