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Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
albiegato:
--- Quote from: Lemontail on June 04, 2019, 10:01:28 AM ---
--- Quote from: Karpov617 on June 04, 2019, 01:06:23 AM ---
--- Quote ---3. Most consecutive legs in the top 3 (career)
Kristi & Jen for 11 legs (except the Partner swap leg)
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That Partner-swap leg in Season 30 is such a pain-in-the-butt for TAR statistics :dick It's up there with the inconsistent double-length legs of early seasons (are they one or two legs? does having a mat in the middle make a difference? do you count the middle point in season averages? what's counted as a middle point if there is no mat? is it counted as leg wins and last-place finishes?)
But this time for the Partner-swap: is it counted as a leg? Are the teams ranked as 1st, 1st, 3rd, 3rd, 5th, 5th, or something different? Do you count it in season averages and leg win/streak records or do you skip it? :groan:
If anyone wanna chime in on this issue, feel free the reply :tup:
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About the bolded one, just check the penultimate legs, and hear what Phil says which leg is it (e.g. the eleventh Pit Stop, the twelfth Pit Stop, etc).
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I would, but Phil's script is SOOO inconsistent :groan: Also, they celebrated the Race's 300th leg on Season 25 Leg 7, but that just doesn't make any sense whichever way you count the double-length legs *tearing my hair out*
albiegato:
--- Quote from: RaceUntilWeDie on June 04, 2019, 09:49:16 AM ---I would apply the tiebreaker rule, which is basically that the team who placed higher on the previous leg gets to check in first. I believe Brooke from S29 has stated this on Reddit and we've seen it play out when Abbie & Ryan and Josh & Brent stepped on the mat at the same time in Russia.
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Wait... I thought it was whoever placed lower in the previous leg got to check in first? For Abbie & Ryan, I just though that they were checked in first because Josh & Brent had a 4-hr penalty.
--- Quote from: RaceUntilWeDie on June 04, 2019, 09:49:16 AM ---
I would go with the 1st-1st-3rd-3rd-5th-5th method. Sorry, but as impressive as Kristi & Jen's Top 3 finishes are, they don't deserve to be placed as "3rd" (if we were to use the 1st-1st-2nd-2nd-3rd-3rd method). It's called Partner Swap, the teams ended up checking in with their original partners. They did not check in as one team of 4. Also, 4 other teams did better than them that leg, so allowing them to get 3rd just to give them a record makes no sense to me.
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Hard same. It did bother me that they were claiming a Top 3 streak when they were checked in last during the Partner swap leg. But seeing as it was a Keep Racing leg, I could see them disregarding that pit stop.
cbacbacba1:
--- Quote from: Karpov617 on June 04, 2019, 09:17:54 PM ---
--- Quote from: RaceUntilWeDie on June 04, 2019, 09:49:16 AM ---I would apply the tiebreaker rule, which is basically that the team who placed higher on the previous leg gets to check in first. I believe Brooke from S29 has stated this on Reddit and we've seen it play out when Abbie & Ryan and Josh & Brent stepped on the mat at the same time in Russia.
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Wait... I thought it was whoever placed lower in the previous leg got to check in first? For Abbie & Ryan, I just though that they were checked in first because Josh & Brent had a 4-hr penalty.
--- Quote from: RaceUntilWeDie on June 04, 2019, 09:49:16 AM ---
I would go with the 1st-1st-3rd-3rd-5th-5th method. Sorry, but as impressive as Kristi & Jen's Top 3 finishes are, they don't deserve to be placed as "3rd" (if we were to use the 1st-1st-2nd-2nd-3rd-3rd method). It's called Partner Swap, the teams ended up checking in with their original partners. They did not check in as one team of 4. Also, 4 other teams did better than them that leg, so allowing them to get 3rd just to give them a record makes no sense to me.
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Hard same. It did bother me that they were claiming a Top 3 streak when they were checked in last during the Partner swap leg. But seeing as it was a Keep Racing leg, I could see them disregarding that pit stop.
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I think they mentioned 'Together as a team, we never finish below 3rd'.
So if we ignore that partner swap leg, the claim of them never finish below 3rd is indeed true.
toanglobal:
--- Quote from: RaceUntilWeDie on May 30, 2019, 04:58:04 PM ---Out of all the three-timers, (Jet & Cord, Flight Time & Big Easy, Margie & Luke, Mallory Ervin, Rachel Reilly, Leo & Jamal), Rachel Reilly is the only three-timer who has never heard Phil say "You're still racing!"
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Conversely Jaime & Cara, Kisha & Jen heard this sentence 3 times (TAR 14 leg 10, TAR 18 leg 1&4).
G.B.:
Well, Rachel ( :groan: ) has officially taken the record for most legs run, beating out the cowboys ( :cheer: ) and the Globetrotters ( :cheer: ).
(See, I can do it too :P )
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