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Your favorite/least favorite Routes

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Sam‽:

--- Quote from: choroneko on July 25, 2012, 06:16:01 PM ---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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I agree, but I'd say both of the detours in France were imbalanced. The champagne tower task was brilliant, but it shouldn't have been paired with the other task, the tower was much harder and time-consuming, whether they finished it or not. The champagne tower as a Roadblock would've been fantastic.

Magnus:
Tar 9 and 20 are the best routes for me. Season 15  has great locations but not much variety

TheWarrior:
TAR 11 and 20 has above average routes. But I hated the Indian legs of TAR 20. Cochin is one of the less chaotic places, very western influenced, almost everyone speaks English, and they chose to stay there for 2 consecutive legs, and its not that big anyway.

AmazingRace:
TAR10 is my favourite!  :ghug:

Caelestor:
Considering only routes and not other factors such as tasks or casts:

TAR 1: Unique start in South Africa and a detour to Tunisia while in Europe.
TAR 2: The Southern hemisphere route is a classic. If the race had spent three legs in S. America as was originally planned, there wouldn't be so much route fatigue after Australia.
TAR 3: A lot of Europe after TAR 2, but the unique destinations (Mexico, Scotland, Portugal, Morocco, Switzerland) make this a surprisingly fresh route.
TAR 4: No Africa, but I liked how the route detoured a lot (French countryside - even though the leg was poorly designed, Kerala, Borneo, the jump to S. Korea and then down to Australia).
TAR 5: The classic six-continent, long-distance flight route. Good choice of locales. The only thing that really sticks out is the huge New Zealand detour.
TAR 6: Very similar to TAR 3. I still maintain that TAR 6 has the best destinations out of all the races so far (Iceland, Norway, Senegal, Corsica, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Xi'an).
TAR 7: Too much time spent in S. America. The destinations after that were pretty good though. I think the great circle route really throws off a lot of people.
TAR 8: No comment
TAR 9: This route was really good, a la TAR 5, but the transition from Asia to Australia to Thailand was done much better.
TAR 10: My most favorite 4-continent/westward route for the sheer diversity of countries: Mongolia, coastal Vietnam, Kuwait, the Indian Ocean countries, Finland, Kiev, Morocco, Spain.
TAR 11: Suffers from too much time spent in S. America and an awkward detour into Europe.
TAR 12: Another route similar to TAR 3/6 with some great destinations: Ireland, Burkina Faso, Dubrovnik, Italy countryside, Taiwan.
TAR 13: The Bolivia to New Zealand to Cambodia jumps are genius, but the route suffers by spending 4 legs in Delhi and Moscow. Had they moved two more legs to Western Europe or Africa, the jump to Portland wouldn't be so daunting.
TAR 14: Not a huge fan of 3-continent routes, even though Siberia was a nice detour.
TAR 15: Again, not a huge fan of 3-continent routes.
TAR 16: The zig-zag route itself is good. Even with French winecountry, Seychelles, Penang, & Singapore, it didn't live up to its potential, though.
TAR 17: Another route similar to TAR 12, with amazing destinations: English countryside, Ghana, Swedish Lapland, summertime St. Petersburg, Bangladesh, S. Korea. And the tasks/cast was great too.
TAR 18: I liked the Australia start and the big jumps in the route. Though most of the countries had been used before, the route explored newer unseen areas: Australian outback, rural Japan, inner China, Varanasi, the Matterhorn, summertime Rio de Janeiro. S. America at the end of the race nicely contrasts snowy Europe.
TAR 19: Very good route. Taiwan, Indonesia, Lake Malawi, Denmark, Belgium, Panama were all highlights.
TAR 20: Paraguay, Azerbaijan, and Hiroshima were nice detours. It really dragged in the second half though with the double legs in Tanzania and India though.

In general, the 4-continent Africa/Asia/Europe routes are my favorites because it feels that the race explores each continent quite in-depth. I do like how the producers have gotten more creative with their 5-continent routes lately, though, in the order of continents visited. Three-continent routes are really boring, in my opinion.

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