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Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
G.B.:
Oh, there was never any issue with determining placements at the midpoint of KOR legs. Wikipedia does it, and so does our Wiki. The question is whether production considered these instances one or two legs. If you want to consider each KOR instance as two legs for the purposes of even statistics or what have you, that's just fine. But the question RaceUntilWeDie asked was "How many legs does TAR14 have?", which is a question that can also be applied to TARs 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. (And Asia 4, Australia 1, Philippines 1, etc...). Wikipedia and our wiki follow a system, but a lot of people still quibble over this system to this day.
Lemontail:
--- Quote from: G.B. on June 25, 2019, 02:28:52 AM ---Oh, there was never any issue with determining placements at the midpoint of KOR legs. Wikipedia does it, and so does our Wiki. The question is whether production considered these instances one or two legs. If you want to consider each KOR instance as two legs for the purposes of even statistics or what have you, that's just fine. But the question RaceUntilWeDie asked was "How many legs does TAR14 have?", which is a question that can also be applied to TARs 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. (And Asia 4, Australia 1, Philippines 1, etc...). Wikipedia and our wiki follow a system, but a lot of people still quibble over this system to this day.
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Do we count Moran, Montreal, and Moscow as Pit Stops? Since Phil's narrations seem to imply that.
Genius:
I was wondering whether Colin's broken ox moment was the most referenced throughout the TAR franchise. (Oddly enough, the title of that episode was not about the broken ox, but Christie's "It's Okay, Run Them Over!")
1. Switchback in TAR25 - montage of Colin was shown
2. TAR31 - montage shown twice (a reference was also made in an extra clip where Colin and Christie were wandering around in Laos)
And I believe other franchises also have similar tasks, like TAR Australia Season 1.
G.B.:
--- Quote from: Lemontail on June 25, 2019, 03:05:27 AM ---Do we count Moran, Montreal, and Moscow as Pit Stops? Since Phil's narrations seem to imply that.
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That's the thing, though. One cannot definitively say that every Pit Stop represents the end of a leg.
albiegato:
--- Quote from: G.B. on June 24, 2019, 02:37:56 AM ---Additionally, a lot of this came into question when Phil announced that the Sicily Leg in TAR25 was the "300th" leg, which made no sense under any of our pre-established systems. Wikipedia ignored it entirely and just kept doing what it had been doing.
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I'm actually pretty sure that the producers (or who ever counted the legs), if they gave a damn, just averaged the three probably ways of counting legs.
All Double-Length legs are 1 leg: 297th
All DL legs are 2 legs: 304th
Only DL legs with pit-stop midpoint are 2 legs: 301st
Average: 300.67
So either the Sicily leg or the Malta leg was 300th, then they chose one and stuck to it.
OR they they were using the third counting method, but miscounted. After they showed Joey & Meghan was from Season 18, anything is possible.
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