Topic: TAR 32: Bitch, Moan, Squeal Here! (Filming and pre show Spoilers)

[redskevin88]

Hoping Victoria/Michelle were so good they got U-Turned or something

Haha, now that I think about this, the only FFs I remember being U-Turned out of the game are Jamie & Cara in S18 and Nicky & Kim in S23. Have there been others?
And the only other FF I remember being U-Turned is Brooke & Claire, lol.

Technically Jamie & Cara were not u-turned out of the race, they were eliminated because they fell behind at the roadblock.

[Granth]

Roller Derby Moms were the first ever team to survive a U-Turn and Speed Bump.

[RachelLeVega]

Hoping Victoria/Michelle were so good they got U-Turned or something

Haha, now that I think about this, the only FFs I remember being U-Turned out of the game are Jamie & Cara in S18 and Nicky & Kim in S23. Have there been others?
And the only other FF I remember being U-Turned is Brooke & Claire, lol.

Technically Jamie & Cara were not u-turned out of the race, they where eliminated because they fell behind at the roadblock.

Kisha & Jen were U-Turned during their bathroom break leg. Remember Tammy & Victor autographing "Sorry, we can't beat you in a foot race " on their picture?

Also, I'm pretty surprised with the Yield appearing out of nowhere this season. Wasn't expecting them to even remember let alone consider that element.

[Granth]

What're the odds that this regression shows up during Reality Clash a la Blind Date Edition's penultimate leg twist already appearing the season prior?

[RaceUntilWeDie]

What're the odds that this regression shows up during Reality Clash a la Blind Date Edition's penultimate leg twist already appearing the season prior?

Ooh. I wonder if this is possible.

It’s crazy how no one thought of the F4 twist occurring in Season 25.

[RaceUntilWeDie]

Whoops just spoiled myself of the possible boot order even though I had forgotten it but ew, 3/4 of the F4 is M/M?

[Jro]

Whoops just spoiled myself of the possible boot order even though I had forgotten it but ew, 3/4 of the F4 is M/M?

EDIT: MY BAD. THOUGHT THIS WAS THE TAR 31 BMS THREAD LOL. Deleted what I had posted.

[Jay33]

Why do so many people on here hate M/M teams?

[NELs]

Why do so many people on here hate M/M teams?

[Jro]

Why do so many people on here hate M/M teams?

Because they're mad that most F/F teams are flops and that there aren't enough of them cast. Rooting against F/F teams for being female is considered sexist tho. It's a societal double standard tbh.

[Granth]

Part of me was hoping that the last elimination was the Asian couple, both for the irony as well as the rationale for writing this season off as a TARCAN3-style disaster.

[I ♥ TAR]

Why do so many people on here hate M/M teams?

I think is because of historically seasons with MM teams heavy endgame (TAR 4, 15, 16, 24) were not that good while seasons with FF teams heavy endgame (TAR 5, 14, 17, 25) were. This season had all FF teams eliminated early while 3 MM made F4, which doesn't look good on paper, but we will see, I guess.

My biggest problem is that TAR is recently (after TAR18) started casting like 4 or 5 MM teams each season which is not equal with FF teams casted. I mean we have only 2 seasons with more than 3 FF teams. But we also have 5 MM teams casted in 4 from last 10 seasons (I'm counting TAR24 original casting).

TAR US (other versions have no problem with it) has HUGE problem with gender equality in casting, which is kinda sad in today's age. Yeah, TAR US casting is sexist.

[RaceUntilWeDie]

Why do so many people on here hate M/M teams?

Because they're mad that most F/F teams are flops and that there aren't enough of them cast. Rooting against F/F teams for being female is considered sexist tho. It's a societal double standard tbh.

Because many M/M teams tend to be boring... and they cast so many of them at once

For instance:
TAR 23
1. Leo & Jamal
2. Tim & Danny
3. Brandon & Adam
4. Chester & Ephraim
5. Rowan & Shane

TAR 30
1. Alex & Connor
2. Eric & Daniel
3. Trevor & Chris
4. Joey & Tim
5. Cedric & Shawn

When S30 was airing, I don't think I ever learned all of the M/M teams' names lol... because they're that boring.

Not all of them are boring, though: out of all the seasons I've watched, I liked Michael & Kevin, Bopper & Mark, Joey Fitness & Danny, Jaymes & James, Tanner & Josh, Leo & Jamal, Matt & Redmond, and Alex & Connor

Now of course, S32 hasn't aired yet. Hoping these M/M teams are entertaining at least!

[Jro]

Why do so many people on here hate M/M teams?

Because they're mad that most F/F teams are flops and that there aren't enough of them cast. Rooting against F/F teams for being female is considered sexist tho. It's a societal double standard tbh.

Because many M/M teams tend to be boring... and they cast so many of them at once

For instance:
TAR 23
1. Leo & Jamal
2. Tim & Danny
3. Brandon & Adam
4. Chester & Ephraim
5. Rowan & Shane

TAR 30
1. Alex & Connor
2. Eric & Daniel
3. Trevor & Chris
4. Joey & Tim
5. Cedric & Shawn

When S30 was airing, I don't think I ever learned all of the M/M teams' names lol... because they're that boring.

Not all of them are boring, though: out of all the seasons I've watched, I liked Michael & Kevin, Bopper & Mark, Joey Fitness & Danny, Jaymes & James, Tanner & Josh, Leo & Jamal, Matt & Redmond, and Alex & Connor

Now of course, S32 hasn't aired yet. Hoping these M/M teams are entertaining at least!

Bit of a generalization saying they tend to be boring, eh? There have been a good number of boring F/F teams as well.  Probably some bias involved since a lot of y'all love rooting for the F/F teams regardless, which is fine. If I were female, I'd definitely be rooting hard for the F/F teams too. Out of all the M/M teams you listed though, the only UNBEARABLY boring team was to me was Eric & Daniel lol. A lion share of the teams cast most seasons are M/F. Aside from the seasons loaded with M/M teams like the ones you listed, the number of M/M and F/F teams in a season is generally balanced (i.e 4 M/M and 3 F/F in 31, 3 and 3 in 28, 3 and 3 in 27. There was even 4 F/F with only 2 M/M in 25. 32 is weird with the 5 M/M, 3 F/F and only 3 M/F (Same makeup as 30), so I'm guessing there were one or two M/M teams that they couldn't refuse and they cast them instead of another M/F or F/F. At this point, I'm sure casting knows that ppl want more F/F teams on the cast (some ppl would even take an entire cast of F/F teams if they had the choice). Casting can't control the results and how the F/F teams do, though they could cast stronger F/F teams (easier said than done). Ultimately, it's up to the F/F teams to perform. That said, I probably shouldn't talk about TAR Can 7 in here, but if you wanna go check out that part of this site, with the makeup of that cast, your theory will be tested with how boring or good the season is.

[RaceUntilWeDie]

Wdym "bit of a generalization" lol it's... my opinion?

And I don't root for F/F teams regardless, lol. I could name boring F/F teams off the top of my head as well: Caitlin & Brittany, Mona & Beth, Ally & Ashley, Amy & Maya, and Kristi & Jen.

The general trend for me PERSONALLY is that M/M teams are usually on the boring side and F/F teams are more entertaining. So when they cast 5 M/M teams in a season, that's not something I necessarily wanna see. But as I've already said said, 32 hasn't aired yet. Hoping these M/M teams are entertaining at least!

and sidenote: I oddly liked Eric & Daniel, probably because they were so regular and normal, something that seems so rare in TAR casting these days.

[Jro]

Wdym "bit of a generalization" lol it's... my opinion?

And I don't root for F/F teams regardless, lol. I could name boring F/F teams off the top of my head as well: Caitlin & Brittany, Mona & Beth, Ally & Ashley, Amy & Maya, and Kristi & Jen.

The general trend for me PERSONALLY is that M/M teams are usually on the boring side and F/F teams are more entertaining. So when they cast 5 M/M teams in a season, that's not something I necessarily wanna see. But as I've already said said, 32 hasn't aired yet. Hoping these M/M teams are entertaining at least!

and sidenote: I oddly liked Eric & Daniel, probably because they were so regular and normal, something that seems so rare in TAR casting these days.

I guess by generalization, I mean taking past opinions and automatically suspecting future teams of being that way. Not to say that I always root for M/M teams (depends on the cast but I usually end up rooting for an M/F team, and I'm even rooting for Rachel and Elissa in S31), I'm just generally saying that it's pretty dumb for people to write off M/M teams from the jump just because they're M/M teams. You, in particular, said you are keeping an open mind for S32, so I respect that and what I just said isn't directed at you in that case. Sidenote: there are definitely a lot of ppl people that will root for F/F teams regardless of who they are/how boring they are lol. There are also people who will root against M/M teams regardless of how boring/not boring they are.

[Granth]

Part of me was hoping that the last elimination was the Asian couple, both for the irony as well as the rationale for writing this season off as a TARCAN3-style disaster.

[RaceUntilWeDie]

Wdym "bit of a generalization" lol it's... my opinion?

And I don't root for F/F teams regardless, lol. I could name boring F/F teams off the top of my head as well: Caitlin & Brittany, Mona & Beth, Ally & Ashley, Amy & Maya, and Kristi & Jen.

The general trend for me PERSONALLY is that M/M teams are usually on the boring side and F/F teams are more entertaining. So when they cast 5 M/M teams in a season, that's not something I necessarily wanna see. But as I've already said said, 32 hasn't aired yet. Hoping these M/M teams are entertaining at least!

and sidenote: I oddly liked Eric & Daniel, probably because they were so regular and normal, something that seems so rare in TAR casting these days.

I guess by generalization, I mean taking past opinions and automatically suspecting future teams of being that way. Not to say that I always root for M/M teams (depends on the cast but I usually end up rooting for an M/F team, and I'm even rooting for Rachel and Elissa in S31), I'm just generally saying that it's pretty dumb for people to write off M/M teams from the jump just because they're M/M teams. You, in particular, said you are keeping an open mind for S32, so I respect that and what I just said isn't directed at you in that case. Sidenote: there are definitely a lot of ppl people that will root for F/F teams regardless of who they are/how boring they are lol. There are also people who will root against M/M teams regardless of how boring/not boring they are.

100% agreed.  sorry for getting so defensive lol

[I ♥ TAR]

I wish they aired TAR32 preview by the end of TAR31 episode...

Well, it sucks that we will have to wait for this season almost year again.

[Wadsy]

The only thing I am going to moan about right now are the locations of the new season, which seem very been there, done that or just not interesting compared with past seasons.

Most of the seasons since TAR18 have had at least great destinations but I just felt disappointed when I saw the spoiler list. A part of it for me is the fact that TAR still haven't visited most of Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Albania) and Australia and New Zealand are barely touched, most likely due to budgeting.

[Brannockdevice]

The only thing I am going to moan about right now are the locations of the new season, which seem very been there, done that or just not interesting compared with past seasons.

Most of the seasons since TAR18 have had at least great destinations but I just felt disappointed when I saw the spoiler list. A part of it for me is the fact that TAR still haven't visited most of Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Albania) and Australia and New Zealand are barely touched, most likely due to budgeting.

How do you mean? T&T, Bogotá, Manaus, Hyderabad, & New Orleans are getting visited for the first time. Plus, we’ve only been to Paraguay & Kazakhstan once and Cambodia and Philippines twice!

[Maanca]

Well, the Paraguay leg pretty much copied and pasted its tasks from Season 20 and added a Yield. That's the one I'm mainly down on. The rest of the route sounds okay.

[Wadsy]

The only thing I am going to moan about right now are the locations of the new season, which seem very been there, done that or just not interesting compared with past seasons.

Most of the seasons since TAR18 have had at least great destinations but I just felt disappointed when I saw the spoiler list. A part of it for me is the fact that TAR still haven't visited most of Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Albania) and Australia and New Zealand are barely touched, most likely due to budgeting.

How do you mean? T&T, Bogotá, Manaus, Hyderabad, & New Orleans are getting visited for the first time. Plus, we’ve only been to Paraguay & Kazakhstan once and Cambodia and Philippines twice!

Too much South America, same European countries as always and not enough and too much Asia. The only saving grace for me is Kazakhstan in all honesty. 

[Marionete]

I'm kinda looking forward to this route more that 31

[Brannockdevice]

The only thing I am going to moan about right now are the locations of the new season, which seem very been there, done that or just not interesting compared with past seasons.

Most of the seasons since TAR18 have had at least great destinations but I just felt disappointed when I saw the spoiler list. A part of it for me is the fact that TAR still haven't visited most of Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Albania) and Australia and New Zealand are barely touched, most likely due to budgeting.

How do you mean? T&T, Bogotá, Manaus, Hyderabad, & New Orleans are getting visited for the first time. Plus, we’ve only been to Paraguay & Kazakhstan once and Cambodia and Philippines twice!

Too much South America, same European countries as always and not enough and too much Asia. The only saving grace for me is Kazakhstan in all honesty.

How is there too much South America? There’s only 3 legs. Same as Seasons 5, 13, 16, 20, & 27.