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TAR 18 Ep 6 "I Feel Like a Monkey in a Circus Parade" (Kolkata, India)
theschnauzers:
Because it's been referenced in this thread, I'm bringing over part of the post in the "live feed" thread for episode five dealing with the teams' average placements:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on March 22, 2011, 01:27:22 PM ---It's for gaps in filming spoilers like we're facing until the next to last leg that a look at teams' overall performance may offer some indication of what may happen.
When I computed and ordered the placement average rankings for this week, Kent and Vxysen are having a terrible season, with an average placement over the first 5 legs of 7.6000, and Ron and Christina aren't doing much better, averaging 6.4000.
Except for Gary and Mallory, who are averaging 3.4000 so far, the other teams are clustered between 4.0000 and 4.8000. There's some movement going on both ways among those top 6 teams, but this is just a snapshot. Based on what's happened in the past, Kent and Vxysen and Ron and Christina are most likely to be among the next two eliminations, but Zev and Justin, with two consecutive 8th place finishes, could also be among the high-danger group.
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Prophet:
--- Quote from: gator27 on March 22, 2011, 06:19:56 AM ---3940
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Could this be the Detour clumsiness that this week's press release refers to?
georgiapeach:
GIRISH Park is apparently a busy intersection:
Compare our photo to this one labelled GIRISH PARK and note the road center divider.
We know teams were seen in "Girish ParK"...so...????
georgiapeach:
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Could this be the Detour clumsiness that this week's press release refers to?
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My guess would be no...something more impressive? A task that actually requires coordination maybe?
Plaidmoon:
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--- Quote from: georgiapeach on March 22, 2011, 02:45:57 PM ---Let's look at GIRISH PARK.
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What task do you think is there? It looks like the kind of place for an inactive RI. The detour choice point?
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Just looking at that map and google earth I see a couple of girls schools within walking distance of Girish Park. One is Piyari Charan Girls School and the other was Central Calcutta Girls Academy. Both are apparently high schools. For what it's worth, I found references to a hostel at the first one. The schools would probably match up with the rickshaw carts. I also see a site mentioned as Ganesh Talkies, probably a movie theater. That could be a site for painting Ganesha statutes, but I think it would be more likely elsewhere. You could probably do that anywhere with some open space where you could set up statutes for a day or so.
Looking for pictures of Girish Park, I didn't find much. There was one photo labelled as Calcutta Rescue No. 10 School with small children in a classroom. It also provided a link for http://www.calcuttarescue.org. That website calls the school the "number one school" and says it is located "in the heart of the red light district in Nimtala, near Girish Park". That group says it provides medical help and education for the poorest and most disadvantaged people in Kolkata and has won awards. If TAR is going to do another day of helping the people of a location they visit like they did in Africa last season, this is the sort of group they might contact. There are probably dozens of similar agencies, so it's unlikely that I've stumbled on the right one. Also, now that I look at the timeline, there doesn't appear to be an extra day unaccounted for in Kolkata. There is an extra day in Varanasi though, so we might want to keep that in the back of minds when promos come out for the Varnasi leg.
Other tidbits culled from Girish Park: The Girish Park Metro Station (if they take the train) is about 11 km from the airport. It has some beautiful looking murals that we might see quickly as teams run from the station. The Latoo Chhatu Babu Bazar near Girish Park has a Bengali New Year Festival in April that has some interesting aerial acrobat activity. A tall pole is set up and the acrobats are suspended from ropes from the top of the pole. The pole is then spun rapidly and the acrobats fly out and throw goodies from bags to the crowd below. That would be interesting as a roadblock/detour but since we've seen no sign of it in the preview, I doubt it will be part of the upcoming episode.
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