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TAR 18 Ep 9 "We're Good American People" (Switzerland)
connayyy:
--- Quote from: Polaroid on April 26, 2011, 04:52:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: DrRox on April 26, 2011, 05:31:41 AM ---Slowhatch............
--- Quote from: Slowhatch on April 25, 2011, 10:33:39 PM ---Here is his tally, taken from a cap at the border crossing. I can't make any sense of it. ???
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The computation on the left is extra distance Jet had traveled when he meet Gary (6.81 km ?). The computation on the right was at the end. It has Jet's odometer reading on top ( 28.xx km) and the first computation. What Jet did, was to add, instead of subtracting. If he would have subtracted the final computation, he would have had 22 km, instead of 35 km.
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I don't see how he would have gotten the correct answer even if subtracted at the end. Assuming that the extra distance Jet traveled is 6.81 km, to get to his answer 35 km, he would have an odometer reading of 28.19 km. If he subtracted, he still wouldn't have gotten 22 km, even if he rounded... Unless he doesn't know how to round. :duno:
It's hard to make out what he wrote. When Gary met up with Jet, Gary said he had 10.75 km while Jet had 17.5 km... That would've given him 6.75 km... except I don't think I see it on the piece of paper. :nut:
Assuming that racers rounded their answers, he would have needed a number somewhere between 28.25 km to 29.24 km to be able to subtract 6.75 km to get the answer.
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Jet said in an interview that, after getting the number from Gary, he made a few more wrong turns. He did his best to guess the distance he'd gone in the wrong direction and subtract that from his odometer reading, but since he didn't know the exact distance his final answer was still pretty far off.
Polaroid:
--- Quote from: connayyy on April 26, 2011, 05:11:22 PM ---
--- Quote from: Polaroid on April 26, 2011, 04:52:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: DrRox on April 26, 2011, 05:31:41 AM ---Slowhatch............
--- Quote from: Slowhatch on April 25, 2011, 10:33:39 PM ---Here is his tally, taken from a cap at the border crossing. I can't make any sense of it. ???
--- End quote ---
The computation on the left is extra distance Jet had traveled when he meet Gary (6.81 km ?). The computation on the right was at the end. It has Jet's odometer reading on top ( 28.xx km) and the first computation. What Jet did, was to add, instead of subtracting. If he would have subtracted the final computation, he would have had 22 km, instead of 35 km.
--- End quote ---
I don't see how he would have gotten the correct answer even if subtracted at the end. Assuming that the extra distance Jet traveled is 6.81 km, to get to his answer 35 km, he would have an odometer reading of 28.19 km. If he subtracted, he still wouldn't have gotten 22 km, even if he rounded... Unless he doesn't know how to round. :duno:
It's hard to make out what he wrote. When Gary met up with Jet, Gary said he had 10.75 km while Jet had 17.5 km... That would've given him 6.75 km... except I don't think I see it on the piece of paper. :nut:
Assuming that racers rounded their answers, he would have needed a number somewhere between 28.25 km to 29.24 km to be able to subtract 6.75 km to get the answer.
--- End quote ---
Jet said in an interview that, after getting the number from Gary, he made a few more wrong turns. He did his best to guess the distance he'd gone in the wrong direction and subtract that from his odometer reading, but since he didn't know the exact distance his final answer was still pretty far off.
--- End quote ---
That makes much more sense. I don't think he would've gotten the answer even if he did his math correctly.
chill_sd:
The numbers on that paper look like this to me:
Left side: 17.37-10.76=6.61
Right side: 28.52+6.61=35.13
If he subtracted the 6.61 he would have gotten 28.52-6.61=21.91
So if that paper is Jet's calculation, maybe he did add instead of subtract.
Slowhatch:
It looks like production is 0-for-2 in the castles category. :js:
lovetherace:
Has anybody linked to this interview from Reality TV World? Don't recall seeing it, though it could be back upthread.
http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/exclusive-jet-mccoy-and-cord-mccoy-talk-about-the-amazing-race-12226.php
Jet and Cord really seem to think they were just minutes behind the GTs before the U-turn, and I wonder...I suppose based on the trains, there is info about when they were most likely to have arrived in town for the Detour, and so how far behind they were. Initially, I thought they were totally out of it, mostly finishing alone, but I wasn't paying close attention.
On rewatching, I was surprised to see they actually ran into other teams while delivering the luggage (at least Gary/Mallory, plus someone else, or G/M twice). The article says J/C saw 4 or 6 backpacks (so 2 or 3 teams) when they arrived at the luggage detour, which also surprised me. The other teams were walking through the detour, but every time we saw J/C, they were running. As per Jen and Kisha, some of the hotels were further away and took longer; also, weren't there maps available showing where the hotels were? Gary interviews in the taxi that the GTs and J/C were battling it out...
So if J/C picked closer hotels, going fast, and given the GTs had to redo two more suitcases, plus got lost looking for the U-Turn location - I wonder if they really were closer to the GTs finishing time for the luggage task than the 15-30 minutes that's been speculated.
I was also surprised to hear Jet say when he got to Marco at the RB, he knew there were at least three teams behind him. I wondered why he didn't look all that upset when he knew he had to redo it.
In any case, this article, and the other interviews on that site, give some additional interesting info. For example, it explains more why in the other episode J/C made the choice to take the later flight with fewer connections. Also, Christina and Ron said in their interview that they didn't complain when they got to the mat about the GTs taking their Amazing Purse, they were friendly with the GTs and were going to just talk to them after. She says they were told by production there was going to be a penalty and were asked to go back to the mat to talk about the experience. Finally, it seems the reason teams were so pissed about Kent & Vyksin only getting a 30 minute penalty over the mandatory flight issue was because if you missed the first mandatory flight, you were supposed to wait for the same flight 24 hours later. Apparently, there was an earlier flight than the mandatory flight, and if the other teams knew the penalty was only 30 minutes, they would have taken that...
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