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Changes Viewers Would Like To See *Are you reading, CBS?*

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albiegato:
I was bored and compiled most of everything said in this thread. So here you go:

TASKS & ROUTE MARKERS
- a good, difficult, confusing finale memory challenge
- increase number of U-Turns, and/or bring back Yield, Intersection, Hazard, and single U-Turns
- a difficult starting line task
- increase the number of night legs
- increase self-navigation and self-driving
- bring back the departure time slots for the next day of the earlier seasons
- odd eliminations (e.g. at Keep Racing legs, double-elimination at Leg 11)
- remove Keep Racing legs if it's not going to be a double-length leg with a bunching transportation in between.
- choose another starting line city
- visit new countries and one-time visited countries more
- no linear tasks, get tasks that are confusing and would take timeand change placements (and not 5-minute tasks where teams finish in the order they went in. IIRC, they used to cut those out of the episode, and now...)
- increase difficulty of all tasks, especially Fast Forwards
- present Fast Forward as a strategic option rather than an auto-first place button. And never just have ONE Fast Forward per season (e.g. 4 to 6)
- try a season of not visiting Asia
- allow teams the more freedom of choice for transportation

EDITING
- more than one-hour premieres (1.5 or 2 hours long) that features only the first leg, making it a difficult one.
- return the suspenseful and grandeur feeling of the music of the pre-S18 seasons.
- DO NOT encourage team theme songs
- add effects akin to TAR Canada and TAR Australia
- don't skip any teams' arrival and finishes in tasks and clue boxes, I mean c'mon.
- don't cut the intro's team montage
- equal airtime for teams

OTHERS
- the location signpost at each pit stop.
- return of the Elimination Station.
- Behind the Scenes type of program for TAR
- make clues so teams actually have to decipher them.
- allow teams to find a Fern (a local tag-along helping a team)
- allow teams to interact with each other during downtime and show some of it
- add a fresh twist per season
- cut teams evenly (e.g. for production-provided flights) but never too far apart

CASTING
- change of mechanics of casting the teams
- increase everyday people teams and decrease used-to-camera teams or pro-athlete teams
- return of teams from the very early seasons for an All Star season (S1-S13, S19)
- increase number of all-female teams per season (constant number 4 MM teams, and a record 8 MF teams in S6)

RachelLeVega:
I agree with generally everything Karpov617 addressed. Though... the signed twists could be refreshed. It has been since TAR12 we have last seen a different power that can be used to slow down other teams (TAR17 is just an additional U-Turn, not a brand new signage).

After TAR24, there's no way I'm paying attention to any more returning teams especially those who don't even deserve it (John & Jess, Caroline & Jennifer, three-timers). Also, I don't know why, but ever since TAR18, I've started to grow apart from rooting for F/F teams. It's not because TAR17 & 18 had F/F winners in a row, it's simply because they show minimal or tiring personalities. I want to see F/F teams who have racing spirit, and actually have a sister-like bond with each other. Not some Ally & Ashley "get this over with" attitude (no offense).

Also, let's see a new non-elimination consequence instead of the Speed Bump. I actually enjoyed "marked for elimination" and being stripped of almost all belongings more since Speed Bumps have gotten more and more restrained/budgeted. The first ever one dealing with yoga rocked since Kynt & Vyxsin had to travel to another place and challenge themselves physically to quickly finish it before going back to where they left off. Now take the previous episode's for example, add one color to 15 t-shirts in the same factory as the Roadblock to continue racing. That's basic comprehension, not very challenging.

Platrium:
Speedbumps are usually easy, but after seeing the last one, I think TAR should change the non-elimination penalty. (I'm getting bored with it being unchanged.) MFE was one of the best I could remember.

Platrium:
More of a wish, but it's also something I wanna see: Have a NEL with 10 teams.

Jobby:
For me, I just hope TAR doesn't follow such a typical type of route again.

LEG 1-2: China
3-4: Malaysia
5-6: Sri Lanka
7-8: Italy

I think the most we should have is 2 legs in the same country twice in a season. (Always China/India) (TAR Allstars had 2 legs in the same country thrice... but Australia is HUGE, same with China and I can really pardon that) As compared to Malaysia and Sri Lanka which is really small (as comparable) and I really think they should have just moved on to another country. Even then, Malaysia showed 2 sides of the country (the developed and the rural side).. but Sri Lanka did nothing for me.

But I really feel that considering the budget and how close each country is to each other, they could have easily done another country in the following leg. For example, go down to Singapore if they had to add to the country list (I don't care if S'pore has nothing to offer)... because if they can go to Indonesia four times in five seasons, they can go to Singapore for the third time.

They could have easily went to India after Sri Lanka as well, or Swiss and Slovenia after Italy... Such a route like what we had for this Allstars is really boring, especially when there's NO new countries and NO new teams...

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