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China Rush2-Show discussion!!! Ep 12-Final!!!. **WARNING--SPOILERS**

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SuperTux:
Reminds me of a similar task on China Rush S1 :)

maf:

--- Quote from: weihen on August 22, 2011, 02:29:42 AM ---One task in Leg3 not aired.

--- End quote ---

That explains a discrepancy I noticed while viewing the episode. One team read their clue loud and it said they should get off the train at such and such station where they would find their next clue. But what they did show was instead the teams rushing into taxis and traveling to the beach and then get their clues there. So it was obvious that something was missing.

maf:
There is something fish with the departure times in this race.

In leg 2 all the intervals were multiplies of 5 minutes. And given the fact that almost all teams gave up a task the interval between team #2 and #3 ought have been close to two hours. Instead it was just 5 minutes.

Leg 3 is even stranger.  Elana & Tameka arrive by taxi to the Rainbow bridge about half a minute after Mary & Cecilia (you can see the latter rush into the entrance when the former arrive). From the entrance it is about 200 meters to the pit stop. Yet they are released 12 minutes after Mary & Cecilia. In this case I must admit that we did not see them in the background when Mary & Cecilia checked in so they could have gotten lost.

But teams 3-5 arrived simultaneously to the mat. They just jumped on it one after the other. But team #4 was released 9 minutes after #3 and #5 16 minutes after #4.

It seems as if either do teams get lots of penalties or time credits, or production prefers to just make up start times.

The actual start time does not really matter that much since there have been bunching points after the start in both leg #2 and #3.

Dom:
My guess is that having only previously done one season, China Rush isn't as streamlined and efficient as the US version. So multiple production stops or holdups by camera crews or otherwise might have taken place.

SuperTux:
Once Allan Wu mentioned on Weibo.com that in one leg he waited for a team for over 15 hours without mentioning which leg it was. If he referred to Leg 1, then it's understandable that they set a certain interval between teams in lieu of using the real time intervals, because in that case even trains couldn't make up leeway.

Some fans may feel confused about Leg 3 and think "there must be something unaired." My news is that someone who's supposed to be a member of the crew posted something in Baidu Postbar after EP3 aired to let on about the inside story concerning what really happened in that leg, from the view of an onlooker. This long inside story became a bombshell then, which shocked almost every fan on Baidu.com and Weibo.com.

The Chinese post is here: http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1186880504

I'm not gonna translate it, first because it's quite voluminous, second because I'm afraid what this guy said in the post (somewhat sinister) may disappoint all of you guys. On weibo.com we had a discussion about this inside story. Some contestants expressed their support for CR, but to some extent they also acquiesced in the context of it. ICS seemed careless about this inside story, claiming "believe it or not" and they're going to "face any rumor" because "this is what a show should do in this situation." 

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