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Finale Legs
Mug Costanza:
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--- Quote from: Mug Costanza on December 09, 2013, 11:51:26 PM ---The only I disagree with in this thread so far is racer calling the flour drop task in the TAR23 finale a luck task. It was lucky that Amy got it so quickly, but after doing it for so long, teams should have gotten a feel for it. It shouldn't have taken Nicole 21 tries (or however many it was) to get it right.
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I think it was essentially a luck of the draw thing. It didn't require any skill and everything from the speed of the plane, its altitude at the time and to the wind speed at the time would have a huge effect on the descent of the flour which teams have no control over.
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I'll give you wind speed. That's a good point. But I would have to believe that the pilots were instructed to be consistent in their speed and altitude, right? They must have had a few practice runs before the teams got there. I would hope that as meticulous as WRP is, they wouldn't let the pilots get away with being inconsistent. :duno:
albiegato:
:cmas11 Exactly what specific tasks that have happened are finale leg worthy?
I think that the tasks for the finales look like they are either skill tasks that doesn't change the order of the teams because they are relatively "easy", and skill tasks that turn into "luck" tasks because they become a wee bit difficult for the teams, like the Hello/Goodbye task in TAR21 (which I loved). Also, there are only three teams and only so much shuffling could happen, especially if all teams have their paces set at "fast".
P.S. I honestly thought that Jet & Cord (not a fan) had a chance of winning since they did catch up with Dan & Jordan. The cowboys were just literally blocked from progressing through the game simulation task by the brothers. :mas25
maf:
--- Quote from: Mug Costanza on December 10, 2013, 12:09:50 AM ---I'll give you wind speed. That's a good point. But I would have to believe that the pilots were instructed to be consistent in their speed and altitude, right? They must have had a few practice runs before the teams got there. I would hope that as meticulous as WRP is, they wouldn't let the pilots get away with being inconsistent. :duno:
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Didn't you all notice the big wind sock by the target. So teams could use that to see the wind. I therefore disagree with the notion that this was a pure luck-based task.
But I very much agree that luck-based tasks have no place in the finale.
David:
I really liked this finale.
The first RB, could have been better, and the glacier thing was really linear (no time win or loss between teams). The Lucky Ice Clues was not that bad. It has to do with luck, but also in how hard you work it to read more or less clues in a specified period of time.
The rowing, OK, would have liked to see some team struggle, but OK.
The final challenge was <3 something none of hs never thought about, and which is really a coordination task, as well as a memory challenge.
Glamazon Racer:
--- Quote from: maf on December 10, 2013, 01:13:40 AM ---
--- Quote from: Mug Costanza on December 10, 2013, 12:09:50 AM ---I'll give you wind speed. That's a good point. But I would have to believe that the pilots were instructed to be consistent in their speed and altitude, right? They must have had a few practice runs before the teams got there. I would hope that as meticulous as WRP is, they wouldn't let the pilots get away with being inconsistent. :duno:
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Didn't you all notice the big wind sock by the target. So teams could use that to see the wind. I therefore disagree with the notion that this was a pure luck-based task.
But I very much agree that luck-based tasks have no place in the finale.
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While that's true, I highly doubt any team would be able to learn how to interpret that without several attempts, unless they were wind-reading experts...
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