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Some interesting (and some not so interesting) facts and records!
SuperTux:
Also it is interesting to notice that usually the American version can hardly break curses, while other versions can easily make it.
Think of China Rush. Both 2 seasons of CR have broken many curses and have created many records. :js:
theschnauzers:
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--- Quote from: theschnauzers on November 28, 2011, 01:03:17 PM ---At some point, I plan to also publish my compilation of each season's leg-by-leg finish order (including the uber-leg midpoints) that I use in computing the final placement averages for all the teams in all seasons list. (Wikipedia has never kept midpoint arrival order for the uberlegs.)
I'm well aware of some of those odd facts in the performance of teams.
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All uber-leg midpoints are seen already at Wikipedia now, though. I believe I started seeing Wikipedia adding race positions during midpoints at the time of Season 18 (maybe to settle the technicalities for the special TBC of Season 18, they added all race placements)
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Coaco, I checked Wiki when I updated the list to post here early last year, and the uberleg midpoints from the early seasons were not used on Wiki once those double legs were completed.
I'm confident of my contemporaneous notes since I started keeping them during TAR 3, and that was at a time when the official leaderboard was still being used by CBS on the official site.
I can't speak to the various international versions because I haven't watched any of them and my connection wasn't fast enough; now I can barely avoid hitting the real data limits and download the episodes from I-Tunes. So it may be a long time, if ever, before I do get to watch any of the international versions of the show. A second reason for the variances about "curses" and such is that the international versions do not copy all of the rules used in a particular season of the mothership, they seem to have blended rules from some seasons, and introduced other rules to fit their particular versions of the show.
Jobby:
From what I've observed... the uber-leg midpoints are already updated on the various seasons of TAR on Wiki too...
Cocoa:
All placements (both on pitstops and faux-pitstops) are in the wiki now for all seasons and all versions of the race. :tup:
But still, I'd love to see the trend (rising, falling, slowly rising) of each team! :hearts:
Best Loser:
I've actually made a list of the average placement of every team from every version. I don't count the midway points in the averages, so several averages are different from the list theschnauzers made. I don't include all the rising and falling data, and I'm far too lazy to make a list of that or one showing all the leg placements, so it's probably not what you guys are looking for. I don't rank the teams or split them up into 10's because the list changes so often, and I don't know if I can easily add spaces in MS Word to where a line will automatically jump down.
It's so much fun comparing international to US.
Marc & Rovilson (3rd) have the highest average of 1.42 vs. Eric & Jeremy's (2nd) 1.75
Highest average without a leg won- Sean & Amy's (6th) 2.83 vs. Terrence & Sarah's (5th) 3.25
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