The Amazing Race > Racers Corner
Season 30 Racer's Insights
claude_24hrs:
Hey Jen, on your first destination in Iceland you took Delta or Icelandair on the day of the race.
--- Quote ---Delta (DL) 446, JFK-KEF, 2055 (10/1) - 0624 (10/2) (scheduled 2108-0645)
Icelandair (FI) 614, 2114 (10/1) - 0614 (10/2) (scheduled 2040-0615)
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Coincidentally, the day that tragically happened in America where 59 people died on a mass shooting in Las Vegas that same day. Were you stunned?
Did you take the flight to Morocco was Royal Air Maroc from Amsterdam to Tangier?
http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,33367.msg1207188.html#msg1207188
My last question for you is that you released the departure times on Morocco on day 7. I checked on Flightaware there are no direct flights between Tangier and Casablanca in the evening.
Did you take the flight to Nice and arrived there in the afternoon?
--- Quote ---Royal Air Maroc (AT) 471, TNG-CMN, 0450 (10/8) - 0600 (10/8)
Air France (AF) 1497, CMN-CDG, 0742 (10/8) - 1153 (10/8) (scheduled 0740-1140)
Air France (AF) 7714, CDG-NCE, 1246 (10/8) - 1406 (10/8) (scheduled 1245-1415)
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redskevin88:
--- Quote from: Jen #TeamExtreme on February 12, 2018, 02:34:30 PM ---
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on February 12, 2018, 12:01:25 PM ---I was wondering how much actual Tent time sleep you all got before Phil so rudely awakened you? Hard to tell by the light... :0328:
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We got a good night's rest despite the early wake-up call. I'd say most of us were in bed by 9 or 10. Once the sun goes down, there's no light out there. We ate a giant bbq dinner - they had the most amazing chicken and coleslaw, but my tummy was telling my I overdid it on the coleslaw by the next day. Lol.
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It's a third-world country, you should watch the coleslaw, or anything with milk or eggs! :funny:
Just curious because I made the joke, are there anything on the race that are prohibited for safety reasons? Like not to eat certain things or use certain modes of transportation, those kind of stuff.
Jen #TeamExtreme:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on February 12, 2018, 10:04:23 PM ---Meanwhile, I have a placement question regarding Leg 7. In checking teams in and receiving the KOR clue, were each pair of teams actually tied, or was there a distinction made between 1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th, and 5th and 6th. It sounded in the episode as if Phil said something about 6th place team on the mat, andthat either you or Kristii made a comment about being the 6th place team afterwards on your way after the pit stop; and the chyron and the closed captioning for the episode wasn’t helpful after a couple of rewatches. Any guidance on that?
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They never said a number and nothing was shown on screen in the episode. They referred to us as the "last teams," but didn't distinguish if we were considered tied for 3rd or tied for 5th. However, I'm choosing to not count it toward Kristi and my team average since we didn't run the leg together. The whole point of Amazing Race is to compete WITH your teammate, so this zinger is definitely confusing things... in my eyes, we still have all top 3 finishes :)
theschnauzers:
--- Quote from: Jen #TeamExtreme on February 13, 2018, 10:10:41 AM ---
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on February 12, 2018, 10:04:23 PM ---Meanwhile, I have a placement question regarding Leg 7. In checking teams in and receiving the KOR clue, were each pair of teams actually tied, or was there a distinction made between 1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th, and 5th and 6th. It sounded in the episode as if Phil said something about 6th place team on the mat, andthat either you or Kristii made a comment about being the 6th place team afterwards on your way after the pit stop; and the chyron and the closed captioning for the episode wasn’t helpful after a couple of rewatches. Any guidance on that?
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They never said a number and nothing was shown on screen in the episode. They referred to us as the "last teams," but didn't distinguish if we were considered tied for 3rd or tied for 5th. However, I'm choosing to not count it toward Kristi and my team average since we didn't run the leg together. The whole point of Amazing Race is to compete WITH your teammate, so this zinger is definitely confusing things... in my eyes, we still have all top 3 finishes :)
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Thank you for your input. I had stated in the one ranking the teams thread (I’m sure you’ve seen that here) before the broadcast that I might use the average placement of each Racer of each team as the leg average; it sounds as if I may have to do just that. It will make the average placements for these six teams unique in their final averages. Phil did tell y’all that the order of arrival for each swapped pair, but not the actual check-in KOR.
This was the obverse situation of those seasons when double length legs were first introduced; since the order of arrival at the midpoints of those legs were known, so I treated those as two legs; others, notably Wikipedia eventually came around to that thinking. (I’m trying to keep things equal between seasons, but I will add a note to the Master all-seasons list about this.)
Jen #TeamExtreme:
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on February 13, 2018, 11:00:41 AM ---
--- Quote from: Jen #TeamExtreme on February 13, 2018, 10:10:41 AM ---
--- Quote from: theschnauzers on February 12, 2018, 10:04:23 PM ---Meanwhile, I have a placement question regarding Leg 7. In checking teams in and receiving the KOR clue, were each pair of teams actually tied, or was there a distinction made between 1st and 2nd, 3rd and 4th, and 5th and 6th. It sounded in the episode as if Phil said something about 6th place team on the mat, andthat either you or Kristii made a comment about being the 6th place team afterwards on your way after the pit stop; and the chyron and the closed captioning for the episode wasn’t helpful after a couple of rewatches. Any guidance on that?
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They never said a number and nothing was shown on screen in the episode. They referred to us as the "last teams," but didn't distinguish if we were considered tied for 3rd or tied for 5th. However, I'm choosing to not count it toward Kristi and my team average since we didn't run the leg together. The whole point of Amazing Race is to compete WITH your teammate, so this zinger is definitely confusing things... in my eyes, we still have all top 3 finishes :)
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Thank you for your input. I had stated in the one ranking the teams thread (I’m sure you’ve seen that here) before the broadcast that I might use the average placement of each Racer of each team as the leg average; it sounds as if I may have to do just that. It will make the average placements for these six teams unique in their final averages. Phil did tell y’all that the order of arrival for each swapped pair, but not the actual check-in KOR.
This was the obverse situation of those seasons when double length legs were first introduced; since the order of arrival at the midpoints of those legs were known, so I treated those as two legs; others, notably Wikipedia eventually came around to that thinking. (I’m trying to keep things equal between seasons, but I will add a note to the Master all-seasons list about this.)
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I like your idea of "averaging" better than any of the other scenarios that I've seen thrown out there. We still end up slight below 3rd place, but I do feel it's more reflective our collective teams' performance in Leg 7. I will truly be annoyed if my average at the end of this thing has a 5th place tainting it...
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