Edit. I did like the trek across the bridge, that was the only actually planned aspect of the leg I enjoyed. Which Yikes. Now of course we had drama between teams, and that was cool (especially for the first 40 minutes of the episode).
But the design of the leg, yuck!!!
The trek was great, it WOULD have been better if there were two teams there cycling TO THE END. But too bad it didn't happen.
I didn't like the underwater Detour, but thought the Forklift RB was okay. What i think sucked the most was a nail-biting challenge memory task, if all 3 teams at the same location (or at least two) and we don't know who's going to leave first.
For example, this leg felt abit like TAR 15's finale leg, with no memory tasks.. but with many changes and variations in team's position. I remembered at one point of TAR 15 finale, all the F3 teams were FIRST at one point and in the end it came down to calming down and accurate counting, that was well the finale kept us off the edge of our seats. This time it just didn't work out too well. If there were to be variations between the teams, i think people will not have so much to complain about. Yup.
The problem with that is that the tasks left so little room for variation between the teams because they were so straightforward. I didn't seem like there were too many chests in the water for teams to search, and the boat task was barely harder than some of the tasks we saw on Family Edition. There was not a single task in the finale that gave a team an opportunity to step up and prove they deserved the million (Say what you want about Eric & Danielle, but they were the only ones to complete the decisive task in the finale.)
In the boat task, even Gary, who had admitted that he had worked with forklifts for a long time made up no measurable ground and stayed well behind the entire way.
Wade and find the tallest tree- Ok, we need time wasters like that to help build tension and give teams a chance to prove completely incompetent.
Search treasure chests- A luck task in the final three. Ok then.
Build trailer home- This could have been SO much better. Make the things they have to arrange stuff from prior legs, at least? A small compass or kangaroo from Australia? A teacup from India? So many ways to make the task better, and even then all this task was turned out to be simple "See picture, copy picture." The wind was the only thing that lended this task any difficulty at all, and even then it didn't create any real skill element for a team to prove they were better.
Bike ride- A chance for a team to prove they had more endurance, but it came way too late in the leg to carry any real importance. If this had come first than it might have made a difference, given a team a lead going into the remainder, and created a sense of urgency in the trailing two for the other tasks.