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The Amazing Race: Design Challenge VIII - Final Round Design Show on Page 50!

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Cocoa:

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--- Quote from: Cocoa on September 13, 2020, 10:55:26 AM ---My comments for the last two designs will be posted tomorrow. :tup: (oh boy, I feel like an old man already tired in writing long paragraphs of comments hahahaha)

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I'm now officially scared of what you're gonna say about my design because I know I probably didn't do well...

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No need to be scaredddddd, I believe we all have rooms for improvement :)

smiley:
Aw man, if MrDS doesn't submit... :(

Lemontail:
Thanks for the comments, Cocoa.

The Roadblock is to collect race markers, the yellow and red flags with a letter imprinted on them, as stated on the clue.

I agree with some of your comments. I always try to strive myself to improve the flawlessness of English grammar. Thanks for the tip!

nrh2110:

--- Quote from: Cocoa on September 13, 2020, 10:50:49 AM ---DESIGN #5 - nrh2110
Puno, Peru

- Great job at introducing a unique community (reliant on Lake Titicaca's totora reeds). Lay It Down is good as it capitalizes on what's unique in the area (and also reflects the common work and daily life in this part of the world).

- However, the other task (catching a fish) feels like there could have been better tasks that features the Uru people. Catching a fish is not one of them. I feel like this was forced to be the second half of the Detour.

- Teams had to dress up... to just search for the person doing the diablada? Why? Though I love to imagine that teams are in the middle of huge crowds dancing.

- The Roadblock is simply Indonesia's Angklung but now in panflute version. I like it, just as how I loved that task in TAR23(?) in Bandung.

- Overall, I felt like the highlight is the floating community at the Uros Islands. I felt that the fishing task was a weak task, but I am sure it would still be set on an entirely new environment we haven't seen on TAR before. Great job!

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Thanks Cocoa for your comments! Here's a few things from me:

1. For the Detour, I wanted to focus on the sustainability of the Uru people while also creating something that'd be good to watch on TV. The thing about the Uru people is that much of their diet relies on what they can get out while on the islands, so fish and bird meat are staples to this diet and I wanted to reflect it, and not only that, having them cook on a pottery stove (which most people probably haven't) and eat seagull meat along with it could be good to watch while also staying relevant to how the culture is.

2. The ARI is almost completely for show. It's a necessarily difficult ARI, but it's not supposed to be, and having teams change into traditional outfits (which they will likely wear to the end of the leg for efficiency reasns) and in a dancing crowd with music would make great for promos and as you said, fun to watch the teams run and dance around in the crowd while trying to find it, especially if they have no clue what they're looking for because they'll just be going up to all these random dancers asking for a clue when they don't have any.

3. The panflute task is a bit different from the anklung task. After your comment, I went a rewatched that part of the episode, and the difference is they just had to figure out they needed to put them in size order—which is different, because in this task, there are notes that don't belong at all (there are 12 unique notes in a chromatic scale, the panflute is only 7 of those) and along with that, they have to make sure every note matches. Along with this, they could mess up by completely transposing it. The correct sequence of notes should be D, E, F#, G, A, B, C, but if the roadblock performer doesn't have a great ear, maybe they'll make a panflute that's G, A, B, C, D, E, F—which sounds like it should be correct because the distance between each note is the same, but it's not, every single note is incorrect! In the anklung roadblock, from I could tell, the pile of anklung pieces just had multiples of the 8 notes, not every single note that exists like in mine, so all they had to do was pick out 8 unique sized pieces and that was it.

Hope that helps clarify some things! Thanks Cocoa!

Cocoa:
DESIGN #6: MikeDodgers
Paramaribo and Onverwacht, Suriname

- While I like that there were skits incorporated in your presentation, personally they are quite distracting to my main agenda which is to read the actual tasks and imagine them. Don't worry, they won't affect your scores, just my two cents. But I like the extra-ness this gives tho! Makes you pumped! :)

- I'd like to see how the teams will be covered in shells (and the method they'll use in covering themselves with shells). I see no picture of these shells, so I cannot imagine how hard or easy this task would be? Do we have any videos to show an example on singing of village epic?

- The second RB was okay, but I like the attempt on infusing multiple religions in one leg. But what are the materials to be used in making menorahs? Isn't this just inserting candles into a candelabra? (Apologies in advance to all our Jewish friends there, but I have no idea)

- Interesting take on the Detour -- your chosen angle of your presentation focuses on how the indigenous populace were colonized by invaders

- Hunt and Gather seem to be a task I could do anywhere on the planet with an indigenous population. Nothing from it highlights the Carib people. Live and Learn, while potentially a good task, is something I could also field anywhere with a history of colonization.

- Bold move on choosing Suriname, but I felt like I knew nothing of the place. Or maybe I really don't know something about the place, that's why I found it difficult to imagine how these tasks will play out. Still, I appreciate your move and your interesting takes for this leg of the race!

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DESIGN #7: betheactress
Santiago, Chile

- I like how teams are presented with a detour that will let them choose which one suits them best, not like the usual detours we have that is simply do this vs do that. I like that about this Detour.

- I can't imagine how difficult the roadblock is going to be. Maybe you should have provided a video or at least a picture of the actual creation. Though I like how you try to lure the teams into spending more time to gain more advantages (though, for me, these advantages are not good on screen but I will let this pass since the point you are trying to give here is that they need to spend time to get rewards). THOUGH personally I feel like there could have been better RB tasks than this.

- I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the See the Bigger Picture task. Sets up a potential drama and position switching just right before the pitstop. I love it.

- I like the flow of this leg. From the Mapuche's old to the city's new. Great job!

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