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TAR 18 Ep. 4: This is the Most Stupid Day Ever (Lijiang, China)
Slowhatch:
If it helps any, when K/V were lost they were driving through the streets of Shinjuku; the first cap is the Nowa building next to Shinjuku station and the second cap is the Green Peas pachinko parlor nearby.
Dånooky:
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--- Quote from: theschnauzers on March 14, 2011, 01:43:38 PM ---We still don't know for sure if there's any NEL penalty this season. I think the odds are that K/V will get the 30 minute penalty for not being on the required flight, they won't have any "time saved" added to that penalty since they didn't save any time.
I suspect they will be hit with a NEL penalty of some sort; if not that means WRP has abandoned the NEL penalty this season.
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Well this is a TBC leg, just like Sydney. Jet and Cord were not penalized for checking in at the Sydney faux pit stop last, so I'm inclined think that this one works the same way and Kent and Vyxsin will not be penalized either. I think they might have just replaced NELs with TBC legs for this season to make it harder.
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As was discussed during the first two episodes, these really cannot be called TBC legs; there have been instances in the past where TPTB had teams complete a leg, then within the same episode had teams start the next leg. The use of "TBC" now can't be used as a determinant of whether there is a leg, or an uberleg. The mandatory rest periods no longer have a standard length, and now, we can see that the length can be zero. With that, we have to look at the teams' arrival at the mat. If there is a greeter with Phil, then there is a leg; if there isn't and Phil tells a team to keep racing, then we've got a an uberleg.
(Some people call what I call an uberleg, a TBC leg. With the developments in this edition of the no rest period pit stop, I think I got it right in TAR 6 when I coined the "uberleg" as I've never adopted the "TBC" leg terminology.)
As to the NEL terminology, there were no NEL penalties the first four seasons, so I don't see a need to change the terminology. The only difference from those early seasons NELs is the no rest period pit stops.
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However, Phil has not said "This is a pre-determined Non-Elimination Leg" therefore, these shouldn't be called NELs.
I suggest we define NELs as legs where Phil explicitly tells teams they have been spared and that we retire the term überleg and replace it for KRLs (Keep Racing Legs)
georgiapeach:
I have been calling them YASR's in my mind. (You are still racing!)
Or in my neighborhood, Y'all Are Still Racing! :lol:
KoRL's work too! :tup:
I like the idea of a new name for a new variation on a theme...then we all know what we mean. Uberleg has worked for a long time...but now when I write NEL/TBC/uberleg...I always feel as though I need to explain what I mean.
But we have not seen the end of the traditional NEL either... :angel
BayBay:
They had to go to a travel agent to get the tickets!! Which according to Kent was 'impossible to find'
Source: Kent posted on my wall :hearts:
georgiapeach:
What have I been saying for three days?? :lol:
Glad it came out from somewhere!
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