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best penalty for team finished last in non-elimination legs

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toanglobal:
in Era of begging money (US season 5 to 9, Asia season 1) most team who faced penalty survived, conversely these are very few teams could survive MFE penalty

Best Loser:
I like the lack of one personally. I'm fine with a "Woah, I lucked out there. I probably won't be that lucky next time." scare.

Marked for Elimination is also one I like. The thing is, the leg needs to be designed with that in mind. Almost every time in the US version there was a bunching right before the pitstop on those legs, so of course the person's going to be eliminated. However, in foreign versions MFE I think has been more successful in that it doesn't eliminate the teams.



Of course, the best penalty isn't even on the US version. The Norwegian version had a great penalty called the "Handicap". It changed depending on the leg. One leg someone has to go walk down a trail and grab something before they can go to the pitstop, another time a team has to make 75 dung patties rather than the 50 the others have to make, a team has to carry two things in a task rather than one.

Keepcopz:

--- Quote from: toanglobal on April 06, 2016, 10:30:10 PM ---in Era of begging money (US season 5 to 9, Asia season 1) most team who faced penalty survived, conversely these are very few teams could survive MFE penalty

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MFE
TAR10: David & Mary (India-Kuwait), David & Mary (Mauritius-Madagascar), BQ (Morocco-Spain)
TAR11: Uchenna & Joyce (Mozambique-Tanzania), Eric & Danielle (HK-Macau), Oswald & Danny (Macau-Guam)

So it's 50:50 actually, similar result to Speedbum. If they cannot come up with great Speedbum, MFE could work in some extent.

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