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georgiapeach:
--- Quote ---So, "throwing off spoilers" is valid only for people living in the final destination city during the filming and others who know it at the time? You can't see the other 3 teams in the show
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Not sure what this means??
Spoilers depend on US...production can discourage onlookers and make it very difficult.
But the actual spoiler info comes from from people along the way who volunteer to help us or who or are just purely lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.
There is no spoiler info being released by production along the way if that is what you mean??
georgiapeach:
Not sure what this means?
--- Quote ---That 11th and All Star season I remembered very well because of that whole flight thing. It think it is a big failure of the organization and their manipulation of teams. There was clear they actually decide when the teams will arrive and do tasks - "hours of operation" of various institutions.
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Flights used to 100% up to the racers. NOW (for security) there are airlines teams cannot fly. Fully specified at the start.
There are also times that flights are arranged and the time the racers arrive determines the time of the flight they can leave on.
I expect if they go out again anytime soon with COVID concerns that ALL flights will be predetermined and possibly even all charters. BUT the flight the teams get has previously been up to them to find, and the order is determined by their flight skills and the time they get to the airport.
georgiapeach:
--- Quote ---That 11th and All Star season I remembered very well because of that whole flight thing. It think it is a big failure of the organization and their manipulation of teams. There was clear they actually decide when the teams will arrive and do tasks - "hours of operation" of various institutions.
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Let's be VERY clear here.
There is no manipulation of teams. Production has sometimes been VERY surprised when teams scored a different flight, esp in the early seasons.
ALL Hours of Operation are predetermined. SIGN-UP boards times are predetermined...ALL of these decisions are spelled out way before the RACE is ever run. Nothing is last minute or decided on site.
What flights teams get is either up to them to find...or occasionally based on order of arrival. Which depends on the arrival position of teams themselves. When there is a flight delay due to mechanical events or weather... that's real time. They don't get a time credit.
georgiapeach:
--- 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.
- 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?
**Having done this a few times, its pretty quick. A minute or two. If you wanted to read all the small print could conceivably take considerably longer. If you refuse to sign, they cannot use that footage**
- (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?
**Once they are within direct eyesight of Phil**
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chill_sd:
Interesting side note on casting: Jason Guy, who was on Big Brother 3, and is currently doing “The Secret Alliance” podcast, worked in casting for TAR in 2005-2006.
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