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TAR 18 Ep 9 "We're Good American People" (Switzerland)
lovetherace:
Thanks for the welcome, and the perspective! I stand in awe of all of you.
Actually, according to the interviews, the racers kind of agreed with apskip - there were other, and earlier, flights, and if they'd known the penalty was only 30 minutes for not taking the mandatory flight, they might all have taken an earlier flight; depending on how fast they got to the airport, they probably sat there for hours until the mandatory flight left. Sounds like they were led to believe the penalty for not taking that flight would be much worse.
And that's probably enough about that...
DrRox:
Welcome lovetherace...........
Production has found, that for some countries, that it is easier to enter and exit at the same place. What with all the equipemnt they carry around. China now have made that list and that could explain why teams along with their cameramen/soundmen were required to take the flight they did. There is nothing concete on this again, just some thoughts.
There were some fights with tight connections, that some teams might have actually reached Lijiang in the late afternoon, early eveing.......but I still think the choke point would have been that charter bus they all were supposed to catch the next morning...so if any teams had arrived that early......they would probably had to just wait till the morning anyway.
But I agree with you, the other teams sure did seem to have a burr under their saddles about how that all transpired.
Shelact:
I'm going to put my two cents in on this since no one, I believe, mentioned my thoughts on the 30 minute penalty the Goths received for not taking the mandatory flight.
I think the penalty is in line with teams who received penalites over the seasons for taking a cab instead of walking or any other clue where they tell you to travel by a specific mode of transportation including your feet and you do something else. It would have been more controversial, and out of line with past practice, if the penalty would have been more than 30 minutes in my opinion .
georgiapeach:
I totally agree Shelact, that is the standard transportation penalty!
And :welcome: to RFF!
connayyy:
Maybe Jet did add instead of subtract? That's what it looks like here.
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