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Why the cut in Roadblocks?

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Snausages:
Why'd they drop the number of roadblocks from the usual 12-14 to 10?

Conspiracy theorist in me would assume it would be so CBS' power couple could win and not break the unofficial 4-6 max by leg's 9 and 10 since there's no denying that Jessica got carried hard.

theschnauzers:
Made no sense to have roadblocks in the switch partners leg, and there were a couple of legs with no detours or roadblocks, just ARIs. And no Express Pass (yay!) and no FF (boo!)

They certainly mixed up the task pattern this season. I don't think the Cody/Jessica casting had anything to do with the task selection. Back in he day, Detours always preceeded roadblocks, and the Fast Forward was made available in each leg until there were no teams left who hadn't gotten it. The pattern has changed a lot over the years. This finally, makes the tasks more unpredictable, and that is one think TPTB had long tried to repeat after season one -- the unpredictability. This season has it in droves!

BourkieBoy:
The reason is because of the partner swap and because of Leg 9, which didn't HAVE a Roadblock...  :furious:

cbacbacba1:
Leg structure are not strictly RB+Detour+Pitstop nowadays. That's why we have varied RB rule in recent seasons.

Season 25 is the first ever time we have more than 1 legs without a roadblock though

ianthebalance:
A similar set-up was in Season 25, with 8 legs with 1 roadblock and the finale with 2 roadblocks.

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