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Ep 2 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **please read post 1&2!!!**
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Quote from: Detoured on February 27, 2012, 01:52:04 AM
Quote from: Declive on February 26, 2012, 08:37:17 PM
Art and JJ
They did very very well, or the detour was easy?
Bingo! These two doofuses took forever to even find their detour task, but luckily for them it was much quicker than boiling water (which everyone else chose) , so their dumb luck trumped their stupidity.
I wasn't there so I can't really say, but my gut tells me that some DETOUR options are designed with a longer transportation option to offset a relatively short task. I think that is what happened here. That means that criticism of Art/JJ for difficulty finding the task site is unwarranted.
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--- Quote from: Declive on March 01, 2012, 01:10:52 PM ---
--- Quote from: Joab on March 01, 2012, 11:19:22 AM ---Or TAR producers didn't think a team could actually get stuck in a Roadblock like this. :groan:
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Or they think,how can somebody forgot how to divide? :lol3:
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That's not the only math skill required for this ROADBLOCK. The selected individual must be able to:
1. Count up to the number of bulls in a pen, maybe about 20 from what I could see
2. Insert that result into the denominator
3. As the numerator, use the total weight from the auctioneer
4. Do the division and report the results (what you said, declive)
There is no advanced math here. It would maybe rate as 4th grade math but the pressure of the situation caused many errors.
Declive:
Yeah,i know that, but i'm only saying what Dave says...he might have been struggled on the other things of the task,but he also forgot how to divide...this slow him down.
Jimmer:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 01, 2012, 02:29:52 PM ---
--- Quote from: Declive on March 01, 2012, 01:10:52 PM ---
--- Quote from: Joab on March 01, 2012, 11:19:22 AM ---Or TAR producers didn't think a team could actually get stuck in a Roadblock like this. :groan:
--- End quote ---
Or they think,how can somebody forgot how to divide? :lol3:
--- End quote ---
That's not the only math skill required for this ROADBLOCK. The selected individual must be able to:
1. Count up to the number of bulls in a pen, maybe about 20 from what I could see
2. Insert that result into the denominator
3. As the numerator, use the total weight from the auctioneer
4. Do the division and report the results (what you said, declive)
There is no advanced math here. It would maybe rate as 4th grade math but the pressure of the situation caused many errors.
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You also need to throw in rounding your answer to the nearest whole kilo.
Detoured:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 01, 2012, 02:11:50 PM ---
--- Quote from: Detoured on February 27, 2012, 01:52:04 AM ---
--- Quote from: Declive on February 26, 2012, 08:37:17 PM ---
Art and JJ
They did very very well, or the detour was easy?
--- End quote ---
Bingo! These two doofuses took forever to even find their detour task, but luckily for them it was much quicker than boiling water (which everyone else chose) , so their dumb luck trumped their stupidity.
--- End quote ---
I wasn't these so I can really say, but my gut tells me that some DETOUR options are designed with a longer transportation option to offset a relativle short task. I think that is what happened here. That means that criticism of Art/JJ for difficulty finding the task site is unwarranted.
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The narrative of the episode made it very clear that they were having difficulty finding the task. I saw nothing to suggest otherwise or that criticism of them floundering is unwarranted. The best you could do to give them the benefit of the doubt is say that maybe the edit that they got was a completely made up scenario.
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