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redskevin88:
--- Quote from: RachelLeVega on September 06, 2020, 10:55:05 PM ---Maybe something like cleaning or descending the glass ball facade of the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. It's a really breathtaking site.
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Thank you.
RachelLeVega:
--- Quote from: redskevin88 on September 07, 2020, 06:28:38 AM ---
--- Quote from: RachelLeVega on September 05, 2020, 07:29:26 PM ---I've been saving up some questions I've been meaning to ask for the past couple of weeks. All of them involve more behind the scenes stuff.
- From any post-race interviews, have any teams described in detail how they spent their time for fun at airports and at Pit Stops that weren't shown on broadcast or in CBS extras? Since the earlier seasons, we've seen teams interact with each other during their 12-hour rests, and since then, the rules of the break period have changed and teams are isolated from one another. I've wondered what they usually do besides sleep, or if that is all they are allowed or choose to do during the Pit Stops now.
- What is the average distance of Pit Stop accommodations in relation to the Pit Stop in each leg?
- After the finale, is there a post-show reunion party before they pack up and head home or do teams and production leave after their iconic group photos (ending establishing shot in each season)?
- How long does it usually take production to have taxi drivers or strangers asked by teams for directions to sign release forms before they can leave their pickup point?
- (I'm sure this has been answered, but can't find anything about it.) How far in proximity from the Pit Stop are teams allowed to drop off their bags in order to successfully check in if they are required to travel on foot?
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Sometimes you would stay at world class hotels, other times we slept in a tent, we slept at the Dhaka airport. If we were in a public place sleeping, people would watch us.
If you talk to someone, a local, during the race, you have to wait for the sound man to explain and get them to sign a release paper that gives the show the right to use that person in the show. Most people sign, but I think most have no idea what they are signing. Sometimes it takes a few seconds to do this, sometimes minutes
https://www.quora.com/What-goes-on-behind-the-scenes-of-The-Amazing-Race
Check out Gary Wojnar's Quora, it's quite informative.
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Oh wow, TAR21! This is great info! I'm still curious if there is a reunion party after their group photo though.
Blazhinho:
I see this is the topic for questions and I have a whole bunch :D. So, let's start with these:
1. Is there any official connection between the movie "Rat race" and The Amazing Race?
2. How much is Phil involved in choosing prospective competitors, and who else does that?
3. What is the contract like the teams sign with TAR? What are the conditions and their main obligations? Do they receive some kind of fee during the race?
4. Can the provided money on the start of each leg of the race can cover all the basic expenses (food, water, etc) or is it just for transport, and TAR always provides the rest to the contestants?
5. What happened with the eliminated teams from Seasons 1 to 10? Was there Elimination Station, on they just went home before getting reunited at the finish line in the final leg?
6. Speaking of the Elimination Station, did it start in Season 11, and was it abolished after Season 17? It says "The first five teams eliminated were sequestered at a villa in Acapulco, Mexico to await the finale. Subsequently, eliminated teams telephoned to inform the teams at the villa of their elimination, but continued to run the Race as decoys to throw off spoilers to the final outcome of the Race. The sequestered teams met up with the decoy teams in the final destination city, to cheer the final three teams at the Finish Line." This is from Season 13. What does this for spoilers mean? I don't understand it at all. What did those 3 teams do?
7. What about Phil's Video Diary? I only managed to find it for Season 18.
8. I will repeat Rachel's question. What about the Pit Stops? Before, Phil always used to say "teams can eat, sleep and mingle with each other", something like that, and there were some scenes of it. Later, there hasn't been anything said nor emitted. Also, I noticed many times that Pit Stops don't always last 12 hours. Sometimes more, and sometimes less. Why is it like that?
9. What about the camera guys? Does each team have 2 of them who follow their every step and record every second of their activity? How does it work?
10. How does it work for the transport of Phil, camera and sound men and other staff? Who else is there, except them? Is there a special plane for all of them, leaving the current Pit Stop country soon as the last team checks in? In the last few seasons we could have seen Phil talking in the middle of leg and one or more teams racing just behind him.
LandonM170:
--- Quote from: Blazhinho on September 19, 2020, 12:57:34 PM ---I see this is the topic for questions and I have a whole bunch :D. So, let's start with these:
1. Is there any official connection between the movie "Rat race" and The Amazing Race?
2. How much is Phil involved in choosing prospective competitors, and who else does that?
3. What is the contract like the teams sign with TAR? What are the conditions and their main obligations? Do they receive some kind of fee during the race?
4. Can the provided money on the start of each leg of the race can cover all the basic expenses (food, water, etc) or is it just for transport, and TAR always provides the rest to the contestants?
5. What happened with the eliminated teams from Seasons 1 to 10? Was there Elimination Station, on they just went home before getting reunited at the finish line in the final leg?
6. Speaking of the Elimination Station, did it start in Season 11, and was it abolished after Season 17? It says "The first five teams eliminated were sequestered at a villa in Acapulco, Mexico to await the finale. Subsequently, eliminated teams telephoned to inform the teams at the villa of their elimination, but continued to run the Race as decoys to throw off spoilers to the final outcome of the Race. The sequestered teams met up with the decoy teams in the final destination city, to cheer the final three teams at the Finish Line." This is from Season 13. What does this for spoilers mean? I don't understand it at all. What did those 3 teams do?
7. What about Phil's Video Diary? I only managed to find it for Season 18.
8. I will repeat Rachel's question. What about the Pit Stops? Before, Phil always used to say "teams can eat, sleep and mingle with each other", something like that, and there were some scenes of it. Later, there hasn't been anything said nor emitted. Also, I noticed many times that Pit Stops don't always last 12 hours. Sometimes more, and sometimes less. Why is it like that?
9. What about the camera guys? Does each team have 2 of them who follow their every step and record every second of their activity? How does it work?
10. How does it work for the transport of Phil, camera and sound men and other staff? Who else is there, except them? Is there a special plane for all of them, leaving the current Pit Stop country soon as the last team checks in? In the last few seasons we could have seen Phil talking in the middle of leg and one or more teams racing just behind him.
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Well, I can answer #4 which is yes teams can buy anything they want with that money. Funny story Joey & Meghan from S22 and S24, on Leg 1 of S22 they were hungry and so the got Burger King and then they saw no one else getting food. It then click with them that they need that money for taxis or anything else like that. So, they said the food made them sick and they got their $20 back.
RachelLeVega:
--- Quote from: Blazhinho on September 19, 2020, 12:57:34 PM ---I see this is the topic for questions and I have a whole bunch :D. So, let's start with these:
1. Is there any official connection between the movie "Rat race" and The Amazing Race?
2. How much is Phil involved in choosing prospective competitors, and who else does that?
3. What is the contract like the teams sign with TAR? What are the conditions and their main obligations? Do they receive some kind of fee during the race?
4. Can the provided money on the start of each leg of the race can cover all the basic expenses (food, water, etc) or is it just for transport, and TAR always provides the rest to the contestants?
5. What happened with the eliminated teams from Seasons 1 to 10? Was there Elimination Station, on they just went home before getting reunited at the finish line in the final leg?
6. Speaking of the Elimination Station, did it start in Season 11, and was it abolished after Season 17? It says "The first five teams eliminated were sequestered at a villa in Acapulco, Mexico to await the finale. Subsequently, eliminated teams telephoned to inform the teams at the villa of their elimination, but continued to run the Race as decoys to throw off spoilers to the final outcome of the Race. The sequestered teams met up with the decoy teams in the final destination city, to cheer the final three teams at the Finish Line." This is from Season 13. What does this for spoilers mean? I don't understand it at all. What did those 3 teams do?
7. What about Phil's Video Diary? I only managed to find it for Season 18.
8. I will repeat Rachel's question. What about the Pit Stops? Before, Phil always used to say "teams can eat, sleep and mingle with each other", something like that, and there were some scenes of it. Later, there hasn't been anything said nor emitted. Also, I noticed many times that Pit Stops don't always last 12 hours. Sometimes more, and sometimes less. Why is it like that?
9. What about the camera guys? Does each team have 2 of them who follow their every step and record every second of their activity? How does it work?
10. How does it work for the transport of Phil, camera and sound men and other staff? Who else is there, except them? Is there a special plane for all of them, leaving the current Pit Stop country soon as the last team checks in? In the last few seasons we could have seen Phil talking in the middle of leg and one or more teams racing just behind him.
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I can answer a few.
For 1) Apparently Wikipedia said Rat Race was sold off to Jerry Bruckheimer, the main producer and creator of The Amazing Race. (I'd take this with a grain of salt.) I remember going into Wayback Machine, an internet archive, a couple years ago and finding an artifact of the original premise of TAR asking for people to audition in a "global adventure series" with 8 teams instead of 11 in around 2000. He may as well have been inspired by the movie to make the series.
For 3) Here is a link to what the audition and release-waivers were like when they were searching for teams for TAR14: http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wwj/amazingraceapplication.pdf. It's since been completed all through The Amazing Race Casting's website now. Teams receive a stipend after their elimination episode airs depending on how many legs they run, accumulating I think between $1,500 and $2,500 for each leg they finish. And second placers and third placers get a substantial amount as well. I believe $25,000 and $10,000.
For 5) Yes, there were Elimination Stations that were called Sequestervilles. Just not filmed or put on CBS extras. In order of seasons: Paris, France (1); Cancun, Mexico (2); Lisbon, Portugal (3 & 4); Thailand (5); Cancun, Mexico (6 & 7); Gamboa, Panama (8 ); Lisbon, Portugal (9); Porto, Portugal (10)
For 6) The final 6's last three eliminated teams were basically pseudo-test dummies for tasks in the final leg and to attempt to throw off spoilers (aka us). I remember being here when TAR21 was filming and seeing pictures of the Twinnies and Abbie & Ryan running around NYC with pizza boxes in spoilers. They then reunite with the first five eliminated teams at the Finish Line once production gets word of the actual final three's plane arriving or whichever team gets into the city first. It truly doesn't work. lol
For 7) Phil's Video Diary was replacement content for Elimination Station. Season 13 also had this, but this and 18 were the only seasons that offered it on CBS' website. Might be because ES was either too boring to put out there or the footage was lost.
For 8 ) Sometimes flight frequencies out of the country is the reason why Pit Stops are shorter and time is money. I'm still curious what those teams can choose to do besides sleep during the Pit Stops though regardless of time. Can they go out and spend leftover leg money now (I remember seeing a clip of Dandrew heading out overnight to go convenient store shopping, but not sure about the current climate of this aspect.)
For 10) Gary & Wil's Quora interview below confirms that they have a security guy keeping tabs of the teams and film/audio crew. Phil usually arrives in the next leg's destination after the final team checks in. Sometimes teams just end up catching up to him and he has no choice but to ESPN-style it. Charla & Mirna actually arrived at the Maputo Pit Stop in All-Stars before the crew was finished setting up so they had to refilm them running to the mat.
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