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Do you think the American version will ever include the Double-Battle?
georgiapeach:
I hope NEVER to see this. One of my least favorite tasks ever.
BourkieBoy:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on November 01, 2017, 05:14:32 AM ---I hope NEVER to see this. One of my least favorite tasks ever.
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Why do you think this!
Maanca:
There was 2014 interview with Bertram and Elise (http://variety.com/2014/tv/awards/amazing-race-brain-trust-reveals-some-tricks-to-the-trade-1201221416/) where one question about the Intersection.
--- Quote ---VARIETY: Has there ever been something you’ve tried, that didn’t work out in terms of a challenge?
ELISE: Not that didn’t work out in a challenge, but there are certain things we did, like the “Intersection”, where you had to wait for another team to show up and then do something as a group of four. That’s something we probably won’t bring back.
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With the Double-Battle essentially being a reverse Intersection, I'd guess that's pretty much a "No".
It bottlenecks everybody (team in 1st has a significant lead. Not anymore, sit and wait...and wait), which in turn disadvantages the weak ones even further.
Marionete:
Agree, but you can work around that.
If the Intersection/Double-Battle was placed as the first task of the leg, in which teams are bunched by an HoO or a flight, then It could work nicely, helping to spread out the teams.
georgiapeach:
That's my objection. It takes the outcome out of the racers' own hands. If they arrive at different times based on their own travel, that's one thing. But to then have to sit and WAIT based on ANOTHER team's placing...sucks.
I want the racer determined by how the TEAM performs. Not by artificial means. It is the same reason I hate the U-Turn. But I get that, but this makes zero sense to me.
Plus watching racers sit around waiting...is boring.
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