Topic: The Amazing Race 20 » Timeline & Spoiler Summary

[Dom]

	The Amazing Race 20
	Five continents, 22 cities and nearly 40,000 miles... (CBS)
	Leg 1 (Santa Ynez, USA → Santa Barbara, Argentina )
Filmed	November 26-28
Broadcast	February 19
START LINE	Bridlewood Winery, Santa Barbara, California (caper / Slowhatch)
TASK	Search through 100 race coloured balloons (Zouly)
FLIGHTS	LAX (Twitter) > Miami on AA276 (Twitter )
	Miami > Buenos Aires (Twitter) on Unknown
ROADBLOCK	Skydiving above Salta (Neobie)
ROUTE INFO	Make 120 empanadas (CBS)
PIT STOP	Patios de Cafayate Winery (CBS)
	Leg 2 (Salta, Argentina → Buenos Aires, Argentina )
Filmed	November 30
Broadcast	February 26
TRANSPORT	Teams take an 18 hour bus ride from Salta to Buenos Aires (BLOG via Plaidmoon )
ROUTE INFO	Plaza San Martín (4square via paridy)
DETOUR: DONKEYS	The donkey run is at Quebrada de Cafayate (also called Quebrada de las conchas) north of town on the road to Salta. (Slowhatch)
	something with a donkey  (CBS promo)
DETOUR: SOLAR PANELS	"a lone clay hut in the middle of the mountains," somewhere between Cafayate and Km88. (Slowhatch)
	Construct a Solar cooker and bring a teakettle to a whistling boil (CBS promo)
ROADBLOCK	Liniers cattle market (Slowhatch)
TASK	Counting (?) cattle (CBS press)
PIT STOP	Recoleta, Buenos Aires (Twitter )
	(additional source: BLOG via Plaidmoon )
	near the CARLOS DE ALVEAR STATUE, Recoleta (source: CBS promo ID'd by Zouly)
	OR possibly the Church of Nuestra Señora del Pilar
	Other: Twins have taxi trouble in Buenos Aires
	(Intro cap, ID'd by Leafsfan   )
AT RISK	David and Cherie (not sighted after this leg)
SAFE	everyone else (future sightings)
	Leg 3 (Buenos Aires, Argentina → Asunción, Paraguay )
	This leg dedicated to DOCOL for his excellent home turf spoiling!!
Filmed	December 1
Broadcast	March 4
TITLE	"Bust Me Right In The Head With It" - Bopper to Mark?? [/font]
	Buenos Aires taxi delay for the Twins?  (Addendum: Not seen)
FLIGHTS	Buenos Aires (Twitter) > Asunción
ACTIVE ROUTE INFO	Metalurgica Punta de Rieles (credit to docol)
DETOUR: STRING IT	Restring a harp AT Saloon Auditorium of Asuncion's National University, located in the campus of the city of San Lorenzo (credit to docol)
	Drama!
DETOUR: STACK IT	Unload enough watermelons to construct a pyramid AT MERCADO DE ABASTO (credit to docol)
ROADBLOCK	Perform 'Bottle Dance' (Twitter) AT Plaza de la Democracia, Asunción ([/color]Foursquare )
PIT STOP	Escalinata Antequera, Asunción (Twitter / BlueRabbit, docol)
AT RISK	Elliot and Andrew (not seen after this episode)
SAFE	Everyone else (future episode sightings)

[Dom]

For the official cast list, click here. For the contestant spoilers uncovered prior to this, refer to the below list.


Brendon Villegas (M) & Rachel Reilly (F) (LAX Photos) (georgiapeach)

Misa Tanaka (F) & Maiya Tanaka (F) (LAX Photos , Macaroons)

Mark Jackson (M) & Bopper Minton (M) (Baidu / weihen , walkingpneumonia)

Jamie Graetz (F) & Nareman Ebeid (F) (indietravel , Macaroons)

Vanessa Macias (F) & Ralph Kelley (M) (milanissimo )

Joey Lasalla (M) & Danny H (M) (eddieshi1)

Stacy Bowers (F) & Kerri Paul (F) (Macaroons)

Andrew Weber (M) & Elliott Weber (M) (eddieshi1)

David Brown (M) & Rachel Brown (F) (eddieshi1, Chateau d If) (north09) (Blog )

Unknown (M) & Unknown (M) (LAX Photos )

Unknown (M) & Unknown (F)

[Dom]

saved

[Prophet]

pic #2 on the first link is F\F team, color orange

[Dom]

pic #2 on the first link is F\F team, color orange

So are the team colours determined by the tassles on their bag? Never been sure on this one!

[Prophet]

Well, the tassles are orange, and in the next pic, one of them has an orange headband.

But they should have colored bandannas somewhere...

[Dom]

Well, the tassles are orange, and in the next pic, one of them has an orange headband.

But they should have colored bandannas somewhere...

Ah so its the bandanas? Now that you mention it, I can see a red one poking out of 'Joe's' backpack 

[Kiwi Jay]

Brendon Villegas, Dom El. Just to notify you, otherwise great job so far, it will be an exciting spoiler "season" I am sure!

[Dom]

Brendon Villegas, Dom El. Just to notify you, otherwise great job so far, it will be an exciting spoiler "season" I am sure!

Oops, thanks Kiwi!! I hope so too

[Baboo199]

my friend says that the race was going to come to fiji,is that true?

[Plaidmoon]

my friend says that the race was going to come to fiji,is that true?

We don't know if they are going to Fiji or not. If they are going to Fiji, the only ones that would know are the TAR production people, the people in Fiji that are working with TAR to arrange it and the people hired in Fiji to work on the tasks. Somebody might have talked and let the secret out, but usually it doesn't happen.

Ask your friend how he knows and you'll have an idea about how reliable the information is.

I hope they are going to Fiji. It would be a great location!

[Declive]

I'm his friend 

In the night that the teams got off to Miami,there was a flight to Nadi,his city. That's why.

[theschnauzers]

I'd discount the possibility based on Miami, then. It would make little sense for teams to fly from LAX to Miami to get to Fiji; there are more direct flights and connections than using Miami in that situation.

[Declive]

Don't worry guys... i already know that they have not headed to fiji...i explain to baboo this morning

[Neobie]

Phil seen on 30 Nov in Buenos Aires and teams racing in Asuncion on 1 Dec doesn't make too much sense if we follow the traditional production schedule... A traditional timetable would look like this:

26 Nov: Start in Los Angeles, USA
27 Nov: Travel to somewhere in Argentina via Buenos Aires
28 Nov: Leg 1 - Somewhere in Argentina
29 Nov: Leg 2 - Somewhere else in Argentina
30 Nov: Non-race day
1 Dec: Leg 3 - Asuncion, Paraguay

Would Phil filming in Buenos Aires on 30 Nov fit into this schedule? Perhaps doing an after-the-fact stand-up? Something to start off Leg Three before teams leave for Paraguay? The alternative option where Leg 2 takes place on 30 Nov puts a "short leg" between Buenos Aires and Asuncion, which hasn't been the modus operandi for travel between two different countries outside of Europe in a normal timetable:

26 Nov: Start in Los Angeles, USA
27 Nov: Travel to somewhere in Argentina via Buenos Aires
28 Nov: Leg 1 - Somewhere in Argentina
29 Nov: Non-race day
30 Nov: Leg 2 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
1 Dec: Leg 3 - Asuncion, Paraguay

Perhaps confirming when Phil was seen in Buenos Aires would help clear matters up.

[Dom]

That's a useful summary, thanks Neobie. I'm more inclined to believe the first one, for the reasons you've specified. The shorter Pit Stop is much more likely to be the one within the same country, and probably doesn't include air travel. Flying the day after a Pit Stop would require Phil to likely be either only hours ahead or on the same flights as the teams.

[georgiapeach]

I moved the Canadian discussion over to TARaus for now...it has more chance there than anywhere!

http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,26380.105.html

[Neobie]

Edit: My timetables are off-kilter this season.

We have Phil doing a stand-up in Buenos Aires on 30 Nov, but teams racing in Asuncion the next day, 1 Dec. We also have teams presumably arriving in Europe on the morning of 3 Dec, but racing in Turin the next day, 4 Dec.

Usually there's a day of "rest" in between legs of such distances apart, but apparently there isn't for these two pairs of legs. This season has been running on a compact schedule, I think we're going to have to abandon the assumptions that have worked pretty well for us thus far. Are they trying to rush filming before Christmas, or is this going to be a permanent change?

[theschnauzers]

The other possibility to me is that they've got a country off the beaten path on the route this time that is going to burn a couple of days because of the flight schedules. This would be like what we've seen with the Seychelles in TAR 16, Malawi for TAR 19, Burka Faso, so what candidates are there for such a leg or two? This is where Nepal might be possible, or Israel (where the flights almost have to connect through Europe, or some other countries in Afria, and your guess is as good as mine since northern Africa (except possibly for Morocco is still not safe yet) and there are a lot of African nations the show hasn't gotten to.

And I agree that while production's flight gives hints, we cannot assume that the teams travel the same path; in fact, I'm sure production is trying to get and stay ahead of the Racers as much as possible. I think we need to think of rest periods being whatever production needs to move itself ahead of the Racers, and the Racer may not get 26 hours of rest except during transportation.

[apskip]

theschnauzers,

What you are saying about a hidden leg is plausible except for this reason:

Teams reportedly flew from GRU (Sao Paulo) to Germany (either FRA or MUC). You would not double back to northern Africa or Cape Verde Islands or the Azores to get to Torino from Frankfurt or Munich. There wasn't time to do so with our official TIMELINE (at the beginning of this thread) showing Dec. 2-3 in Asuncion and Dec. 4 in Torino.

[theschnauzers]

apskip, I am not saying there's already been a hidden leg; I am saying that if the actual timeline this time turns out to be compressed compared to average, it may indicate that a  later leg may be planned for a destination that is off the beaten path. I do not take as established that there have been legs definitely anywhere except Paraguay and Italy. There may be legs in Argentina and Germany, but I don't think we can say either has been firmly established. Possible, but not established.

[Squall16]

http://sfurfaro.blogspot.com/2011/12/amazing-race-recap-racing-to-finish.html

"Spoiler for Season 20:

One location is Vancouver, B.C.

One team is Big Brother's Brendan and Rachel.

You heard it here first."

When do you think teams go to the Vancouver?
Possible USA --> Vancouver --> Argentina? Are our dates correct?!

[LoveRocked]

http://sfurfaro.blogspot.com/2011/12/amazing-race-recap-racing-to-finish.html

"Spoiler for Season 20:

One location is Vancouver, B.C.

One team is Big Brother's Brendan and Rachel.

You heard it here first."

When do you think teams go to the Vancouver?
Possible USA --> Vancouver --> Argentina? Are our dates correct?!

No way. That's kinda impossible fly to Vancouver because TAR Aus contestant already here before USA arriving her in Canada? No way, It's impossible.
TAR US in Somewhere at Argentina.   

[Aussie]

Pretty sure Vancouver is TAR Aus.

[Prophet]

Dom, don't you think Torino must be directly after Paraguay because of the dates? Dec. 3 in one and Dec. 4 in the other. Then we must have missed at least three legs between there and the possible Nepal.