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Your favorite/least favorite Routes
TheWarrior:
Thank you Sam.
Yes, I agree. 14 has routes which were pretty similar to the very first season. The Thailand legs were boring for me. Unfortunately, season 19 has to reiterate that.
In my personal opinion, I don't really like the idea of the race having back to back European legs. Europe and Australia to me is like a comfort zone for the racers, as there is very little culture shock factor, the locals resembles the racers (or at least most of them), they can travel around without getting stared at (of course somehow they will, with camera and soundman following them and if they behave badly).
I would rather see more legs of Asia and Africa.
The reason why 17 was on my list is because even though they travelled to many known countries (England, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Korea), most of the places they went were pretty off the beaten path. They visit places which were only known by locals, did activites which were rather unusual (rock climbing in Oman, travelling on sampans in the midst of metropolitan Hong Kong, going into a U.S. army camp in South Korea).
Yeah. And season 10 rocks. They visited every part of Asia!
If I were to rank:
Best - 17, 10, 6, 12
Above Average - 4 (probably the best Indian legs ever on TAR, and the culture shock factor of South Korea), 5 (for Egypt, Philippines and a terrific Indian leg), 9, 11.
Average - 2 (best Thailand leg featuring Chiang Mai, nice African legs too), 19 (first time visit to Indonesia and I pretty much learned lots of stuff about that country!)
Below Average - 3 (too many European legs), 14, 15 (slightly better than 14, but 3 continent race lacks cultural variety)
Worst - 7, 8, 13 (these 3 seasons lack creativity in destination planning)
JordanJones123:
It gets hate, but 16 is my fave... why?
Best showcasing of South America, Cool european places and the seychelles were awesome. this route is far better than most. the only one that comes near is 18, but for an all star edition that should be expected
Declive:
I like Season 10's route.
Sam‽:
--- Quote from: JordanJones123 on July 24, 2012, 05:04:59 AM ---It gets hate, but 16 is my fave... why?
Best showcasing of South America, Cool european places and the seychelles were awesome. this route is far better than most. the only one that comes near is 18, but for an all star edition that should be expected
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I think 16's route was pretty good, just quite a few legs didn't have very good tasks, or tasks that were a bit too easy, and that's what people have a problem with. And it's probably also because there was no places that were really new, apart from the Seychelles.
choroneko:
The France legs in season 16 were great IMO.
The detour in the first France leg tho was kinda imbalanced. That morse code was kinda impossible to finish. Regardless of what, that champagne tower task was awesome.
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