I've seen annoying alliances (and mostly non sense) but I feel like mine five isn't one of them, it's far from it. Sure, the exchange answers took away the unpredictability and I can understand some ppl were irritated about it, but they play the alliance good and at least they have a make sense goal and not like it was created because one of the member got U-turned and were bitter about it
I understand what you mean, it's less annoying because there's no bickering carried on. The rivalries always got cut short.
Im more appreciative towards the alliance because the alliance worked out for them and bring themselves into F3 (i believe the lastalliance that worked out was TAR 31 with Amazing race alliance but this wasn't as intense as this season).
I don't get the fact that the some of the fans have the ball to attack the racers on their social media just because of the alliance. Ppl dont know that they have to do what they have to do to win, and it was like less dirtier, I've seen a lot of dirty games and strategy but this isn't, i mean sure the exchange answers are annoying and I don't like the smack talk of them to non alliance teams, but, we have seen those in the past seasons, so why they were surprised of it. If you want to blame the season, don't blame the players, blame the producers and their fatal loopholes
Tbf this seasons wasn't the worst ever, even this season is a top 10 for me (not for top 5), the routes are amazing, some the tasks are far better than most recent seasons, the unpredictability pattern on each leg, back to basic casts and most of them are really enjoyable, the return of the yield, it has many factors to become a good season. The loopholes of this season are kinda big and clear tho but it's definitely an evaluation to make the race better.