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RFF TAR 19 Pick'em Game
ovalorange:
--- Quote ---12. 15 Points - What team loses the most positions in carrying the bed frames?
More then one team, Justin & Jennifer and Jeremy & Sandy each lose one spot
--- End quote ---
Okay, I've gone back and relooked at this one. I don't get it. To me, the term carrying refers to teams actually lifting and walking the beds, so I'm using the placement of teams when they reach the sign telling them that the vehicles must stop. Justin & Jennifer arrive first, Jeremy & Sandi 2nd and Bill & Cathi in 4th ( if you watch closely we see them start carrying the beds themselves before Ernie & Cindy, so that makes them start in 4th). Both Justin & Jennifer and Bill & Cathi go back to pay their truck driver. You're saying Justin & Jennifer lose one spot, which must mean you're including them having to pay their truck driver. But if you're counting Justin & Jennifer being turned back and having to pay their truck driver then wouldn't the answer be Bill and Cathi then? They lost two spots as opposed to Justin & Jennifer losing one for this.
Ultimately, I think that paying their driver shouldn't be counted as part of the task. The task was to carry the bed to the pitstop and that's exactly what those two teams did, regardless of whether they paid their driver. Thus I believe Justin & Jennifer finished in the same position and Bill & Cathi climbed one place. If this is the case, then I think by your notes that the answer should be Jeremy & Sandy, but in either case "More than one team" isn't the right answer. But jsyk, I actually think Ernie and Cindy get passed by both Laurence & Zac and Bill & Cathi, which makes them lose the most places if you include the money problems.
Okay, so in summary I think there's two ways you can look at this:
Money problems counted in task - Bill & Cathi, if you watch closely we see them start carrying the beds themselves before Ernie & Cindy, so that makes them start in 4th. They then drop to sixth because of the money, two places.
Money problems not counted in task - Ernie & Cindy, passed by Laurence & Zac and Bill & Cathi, a drop of two places.
mswood:
That's another one, there are three ways of looking at it, I did the broadest.
1. That's from them starting the task, where we do see them having to lift the frames into trucks to completion of the full task, including paying for said transport to carry the beds.
2. Counting again from the start of them moving the bed to the end end point, and not considering paying their fair.
3. Counting only the last stage of moving the beds ( the long walk) to dropping the beds off.
I am not really leaning to the third option as teams both physically and through transportation carry the beds earlier than that.
ovalorange:
I'll agree, that the task did start at the furniture shop, I was just going off the term carry and agree with you that teams did carry the beds into the trucks. But I don't think the money was part of the task, the task was to carry and transport the beds to the mat. Justin & Jennifer and Bill & Cathi did this - it's not like they completed the task incorrectly, they just failed to pay their driver which to me isn't part of carrying the beds, just a general part of the race.
Jobby:
--- Quote from: ovalorange on November 03, 2011, 12:44:35 AM ---I'll agree, that the task did start at the furniture shop, I was just going off the term carry and agree with you that teams did carry the beds into the trucks. But I don't think the money was part of the task, the task was to carry and transport the beds to the mat. Justin & Jennifer and Bill & Cathi did this - it's not like they completed the task incorrectly, they just failed to pay their driver which to me isn't part of carrying the beds, just a general part of the race.
--- End quote ---
They didn't do it correctly, so they cannot check-in. Because they did not "finish the task" correctly, they're denied to check-in... so I'm leaning more to mswood's analysis.
mswood:
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