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Worst TAR Leg
SamualDude:
@Rachel I was disappointed they didn't actually do anything in Christchurch regarding the earthquakes. I felt both of them and they were terrifying where I live. Should of tried to go close to the CBD and do a moment of silence.
Jimmer:
--- Quote from: WCPAMOTM on July 19, 2013, 06:04:41 PM ---The Race 22 Switzerland leg was pretty bad, structure-wise - but at least it had lovely mountain scenery to look at along the way. My nomination however is TAR8 Leg 3.
Yes, I know the Family Edition gets a lot of brickbats, but I thought its first two legs were pretty well put together. That came to a screeching halt in Leg 3. We have a detour where a risky choice did not offer any particular time advantage over the safe choice, which still didn't make a lot of difference as there was a charter bus semi-equalizer. We were treated to the scenic wonders of a Waffle House. Then at the other end, the leg placement was entirely decided by pulling a number, among teams that just got off the bus!
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YES THIS. I felt so bad for the Aiello family that they were eliminated because of pulling the last number. It was a terribly structured leg with only one thing that determined who went home.
RachelLeVega:
--- Quote from: gamerfan09 on July 20, 2013, 12:36:37 AM ---
--- Quote from: RachelLeVega on July 20, 2013, 12:21:27 AM ---she "claims" the Switchback was actually a side of a Detour. Hmmm... mistaken in words or not? ???
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I think she meant that there WAS a Detour that leg, and everyone chose the cheese so the other option was unaired.
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Two likely possibilities:
NO SWITCHBACK: it really wasn't a Switchback after all since we've seen TAR14 do the original task as a route info and Meghan mentions it as a Detour. Switchbacks must be the same clue format (Roadblock, Route Info, Fast Forward, Detour) as the mother concept to be called a TAR legal "Switchback". So maybe that is why we saw two "Switchbacks", the Switzerland leg did NOT have a switchback.
YES SWITCHBACK: If only Meghan had a slip of a tongue, then that's okay.
--- Quote from: SamualDude on July 20, 2013, 01:33:19 AM ---@Rachel I was disappointed they didn't actually do anything in Christchurch regarding the earthquakes. I felt both of them and they were terrifying where I live. Should of tried to go close to the CBD and do a moment of silence.
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I know, right. If they stayed in Christchurch, it would have been a much better leg. What did TAR22's New Zealand visit actually open about NZ culture? Nothing. TAR2 provided adventure in the bungee jump, TAR13 opened historic doors about the Maori aboriginals and the significance of the kiwi plant, the recent leg in NZ was a joke. You could do those tasks in rural Alabama and it would still be better than having them in New Zealand.
MrDeerShank:
Take it fwiw but Meghan, at one point at least, mentioned a Detour as a Roadblock in a different recap - if memory serbes correctly, it was Botswana 1
SamualDude:
--- Quote from: RachelLeVega on July 21, 2013, 12:20:12 PM ---
--- Quote from: SamualDude on July 20, 2013, 01:33:19 AM ---@Rachel I was disappointed they didn't actually do anything in Christchurch regarding the earthquakes. I felt both of them and they were terrifying where I live. Should of tried to go close to the CBD and do a moment of silence.
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I know, right. If they stayed in Christchurch, it would have been a much better leg. What did TAR22's New Zealand visit actually open about NZ culture? Nothing. TAR2 provided adventure in the bungee jump, TAR13 opened historic doors about the Maori aboriginals and the significance of the kiwi plant, the recent leg in NZ was a joke. You could do those tasks in rural Alabama and it would still be better than having them in New Zealand.
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Agreed, I liked the locations they went to being that I live about an hour and a half from there but the tasks were meh.
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