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TAR18: Impossible Detour?

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Tallguy700:
Back when TAR 25 had the Flag Detour, I remembered a bunch of detours in Unfinished Business that were extremely hard, some harder than "Flag". In leg 8, a detour involved teams splitting a gigantic meal of Austrian fried food and dessert in 15 minutes. Even if you ate quickly enough, there was still a high chance of failing, and doing it a second time, or multiple times meant almost definitely getting sick. But I think they really pushed the difficulty scale too high when it came to a detour in Brazil, which involved trying to sell swimsuits at a public beach. Was this detour even possible? That beach was HUGE, and like one of the girls said to Zev & Justin: Who's going to buy swimsuits at the beach when everybody already has one?

I missed have the seasons of Amazing Race so personally these seemed like the hardest ever to me. Has there been any instances of harder detours I've missed that you know of? ???

Keepcopz:
Ski Detour in Thailand 1 from TAR26. If the professional athletics cannot get it done, you know it's a bit too hard.

I agree with the eating detour in Austria, it was TOO hard. And you only have one chance to get it done. But since if they can get it done it'll be MORE quicker than the bed moving detour. I think it's a fair gamble. But the selling task in Rio could work though had other team do it. Like Mallory or someone with great social skill. Two men trying to sell swimming suit for girls and convince them to try it on RIGHT AWAY is not really a great idea. :lol:

Also, all the tasks from TAR18 are very hard in general IMO. :lol:

Tallguy700:
I agree, that detour choice this past season was a landslide from insanely easy to almost impossible to complete, but because balance was a key factor in the chair skiing task, I think that could have been done with a team with great ice skating ability and great balance in both members. I'm pretty sure at the Austrian food task they all had the option to do it again, rather they chose to switch instead. Mallory did suggest she throw up and then redo the task, which Gary decided against.  ???

(Unfinished Business kinda separated hard detours from nearly impossible though.)

Marionete:
I think you're mixing up the chair skating detour with the water ski detour.

Tallguy700:
Well yeah, the concept is making sure each team member can guide the other by moving the chair, but you really need balance for it I believe. It's one think trying to move the chair, but if your legs move back too far and you can't balance yourself, you both fail.  :(

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