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Glamazon Racer:
Just to give you guys a little update, I have reviewed and scored 9 out of 12 designs. I will complete the last 3 later today and then you'll have my comments in full. :2hearts:

Glamazon Racer:


Away we go!



Show contentGreat to see you designing in Chad – a very challenging location to work with but also one with plenty of potential to come up with something unique! Good choice to use charter flights to get to a location that's hard to reach.

Straight into the Heritage Site which is nice. The Fast Forward is absolutely exceptional. This would be a challenging task that would provide teams with much difficulty and could also be intense watching multiple teams go for it. I'm really impressed with this task and it avoids the route that many Fast Forwards go down these days. Well done!

Following the ant trail is interesting. Pretty creative method of navigation.

The Roadblock is quite solid too. We've seen attention to detail tasks before but I like that teams have to transport their supplies away from the existing location and then set it up somewhere else. I had some minor concerns that the task could be too difficult if racers forget the design and have to constantly head back but as long as the layout isn't too complex, as your notes explained at the end, this shouldn't be a problem for most teams. If one or two teams forget what they're doing, that would be great entertainment.

Your Detour is very creative too. I enjoyed the Slower Than The Sand option more and I think it could be easier than the donkeys but I definitely don't think the Detour is unbalanced. It's a really creative design that makes excellent use of the location you are in.

Overall, a very solid design that shows off the location superbly. You've done an impeccable job and if you continue to design legs of this quality, you are definitely a chance of winning this game! Well done!


Show contentHi Declive, great to see you in the game! I'm glad you've chosen Cape Verde – always nice to see a brand new country on TAR, especially somewhere I would really like to go personally.

I like the cryptic clue relating to the Heritage Site. It was well executed.

The Fast Forward is a creative spin on an eating challenge in that they have to cook it themselves. It may be a bit challenging considering you've chosen a really large portion size – I would go with 1kg personally – but I'm not too disturbed by this because Fast Forwards are meant to be challenging. The difficulty of this task could also result in the Fast Forward winner not winning the leg, given the cooking time plus the eating time.

The fishing isn't my favourite task but it makes sense for the location you have chosen and I'm glad it's just a Route Info.

The Detour tasks aren't the most original but they aren't bad. Particularly the sewing could really be done anywhere in the world although I do really like the delivery side of the task. The singing Detour is better!

Your Roadblock is brilliant and I really enjoyed it. Learning tasks are always fun to watch and I think this is a great version of that.

Overall, a solid leg with some really good elements. There are a few things that could be fixed and adjusted in my opinion, but nothing about it was bad. Great work and hope you continue to grow and come up with great designs!


Show contentEritrea is such a fascinating country and I'd love to visit, so I can't wait to see what you've come up with here! And with the entire capital of Asmara considered a Heritage Site, you have a lot to work with.

Your Fast Forward is definitely original compared to Fast Forwards we have seen on the race. I don't think it would be the most exciting challenge to watch on TV but you definitely get points for originality and the time that the task would take is very appropriate for a Fast Forward.

The Detour has its pros and cons. You've justified why cycling is appropriate to Eritrea but I wish you had done a bit more with this task to make it a bit more culturally relevant. An example could be having to perform some sort of small task at the landmarks they are visiting. The Play Detour is also enjoyable. I think the Detour as a whole is solidly passable but isn't the most amazing of tasks.

The Roadblock is the highlight of your leg though! I was really impressed with this task and you have incorporated a very interesting and unique language and alphabet into your leg which I am really pleased with. Well done, this was brilliant!

I also like the significance of your Pit Stop location which ties in well with the history of the country.

Overall, a very good leg. There are a few things I would tweak, especially with the Detour, but for the most part this is an impressive effort. Good work and good luck with the rest of the game!

Glamazon Racer:


Take two!



Show contentThree cool new locations in and we have a fourth! Mauritania is a very interesting country and much like the first three designs, I can't wait to see what you've done here.

The Fast Forward certainly ties in with the Heritage Site well. I actually really like this task. While it might not be the most visually pleasing task to watch on TV, it is certainly an appropriate Fast Forward. Not only is it appropriately time consuming, the disgusting nature of the work adds an extra element to the challenge.

I'm a big fan of your Detour as well. Way of Art is very creative and culturally relevant. It could be fun but also frustrating. The same could be said for Way of Music. It's a really creative take on a music challenge and I love the challenge of matching the musicians with the style of music they are playing. It's a great task and I think this Detour has encapsulated the culture of the region really well. After reviewing all the designs, I'd have to say that your Detour was the best Detour of the round as a whole.

The Roadblock isn't quite as creative as the other tasks but it is still a great challenge. We've had plenty of African market tasks in the past but I love how you have made yours unique. An overindulgence feast is quite a fascinating ritual to turn into a task. The shopping list being in Arabic is a good choice too. Overall, I think the task is a fraction weaker than the rest of the leg but still a great task and a good choice to have this chaos right before the Pit Stop.

Fantastic choice for Pit Stop location as well. Very impressive!

Overall, a highly enjoyable leg to read. I'm really impressed with it! I think your Papua New Guinea leg was a little bit better but this is very close in terms of quality and I hope you can continue to come up with creative designs like this as the competition heats up.


Show contentYou had a fantastic design in the first round so I can't wait to see what you've done here! This is also the first design of the round in a country which TAR has previously visited so I'm hoping you can come up with something creative to set it apart.

I really like having both a Fast Forward and a Route Info flag from the Cairo Tower. It certainly makes things interesting if teams spot one flag before the other.

Great choice to do an Arabic language Fast Forward. It's a highly complex language and I think this task would be too hard as a regular challenge but it is very fitting for a Fast Forward. Good work!

The Roadblock would be a great task to watch on TV. While we've seen this kind of thing in the past, I think you've done a great job of incorporating language and forcing teams to interact with locals, potentially multiple times, to get through the task. I think this would be fun to watch. Also, the Heritage Site is incorporated exceptionally well into this task.

The Detour isn't super original as we've seen a lot of this on TAR5 when they visited Egypt. However, that's not to say that this is a bad Detour. The Wrapping side is really creative – wrapping a mummy would be hilarious, fun and challenging! I wish they had to do something like this on the TAR5 Fast Forward, rather than just transporting a sarcophagus. The hieroglyphic decryption side of the other Detour is also quite a good idea.

Overall, I'm really happy with this leg. There is a bit of room for improvement and maybe there is a bit too much of a reliance on language for one leg, but overall I think this would be great to watch on TV and all of the tasks definitely have their own merits.

Great work and I hope you keep coming up with great ideas!


Show contentAnother Egypt leg! Can't wait to see what you've done with Luxor, another city which has already hosted a great TAR leg in the past.

Really, really creative Fast Forward. I can't praise this task highly enough. It's creative, it's original, it's difficult enough to be a Fast Forward and it's time consuming. It ticks all the boxes.

The Detour is quite creative as well. I think you've done a really good job with this, particularly the Reed It – such a unique task. Read It was good as well and overall, a very impressive Detour.

Love the Roadblock too. This is a really exciting task and I like that they have to answer questions and explore accordingly. The Heritage Site is incorporated well and it would be fun to watch on TV. The frantic search for the correct locations right at the end of the leg creates a lot of room for drama.

Overall, there's very little I would change about this leg. It is a solid design, very much relevant culturally and very enjoyable to read. You've come up with something very different for Luxor than TAR5 did which is great. Very high quality design, great work!

Glamazon Racer:


Three more!



Show contentThis is the third consecutive design in a location TAR has previously visited and I'm excited to see what you have come up with. The TAR6 leg in Lalibela is easily in the top five best episodes in the show's history and you've got a lot to live up to! It also inspired the first fantasy I game I hosted, Survivor: The Ethiopian Highlands, so needless to say I love this place and I'm expecting great things!

Your Fast Forward is beyond exceptional. We've seen a lot of language-related tasks throughout the round but this takes the cake. I love the element of competing for each CD and listening to people talking to learn the languages. This task is not only clever but it is very well executed and you have put a lot of thought into the format. This is probably my favourite task of the round as a whole. Well done!

The Roadblock is creative too. It definitely takes elements of TAR6's Roadblock but it accentuates them and improves them. I do think that you could've perhaps done something other than a puzzle here but the element of transferring pieces between the locations is great and overall, it's a solid task.

The Detour is solid as well. Home-Brewed is an exceptional variation on a memory/attention to detail task. I absolutely love it! Tongue-Tied is cool too. If I'm being pedantic, I would've liked to see them do more with the beverage than just sell it because it looks so fascinating. However, that's a really obscure criticism and the task is very good as a whole.

The Route Info task at the end is nice. The leg wouldn't lose much if this task wasn't there but it's nice to have a challenging task right before the Pit Stop too.

This is a very high quality leg. I have tried to be exceptionally picky with the critiques I gave because in truth, there is very little, if anything, wrong with this leg. You've taken a location used for one of the best TAR legs ever and have done it complete justice. I'm so impressed and if you can keep this up, you can go very far in this competition!


Show contentMorocco is another interesting choice and has a lot to offer. Let's see how you went!

I like the carpet side of the Detour. I think there is enough here to set it apart from other weaving tasks we have seen on TAR. Hard Labour is the highlight of this Detour, though. It is a great task and I'm really glad you included it. TAR3 is obviously my favourite season of the show and they visited the tannery and all they had to do was find a clue. While that wasn't a bad task, you have capitalised on the environment a lot better with yours and this is a task that I really want to see on TV, given how disgusting it sounds. Great work!

Dancing tasks can be repetitive but as long as this dance is exciting and different, it could be a good Fast Forward. I like how you've incorporated the judges into the task – it's a nice touch. I would recommend you provide a video of the dance or explain it a bit more because it feels like this could be a good task but it requires a bit more depth to the design.

The two regular Route Info tasks you provided are good. They certainly add to the cultural relevance of your leg and there is no harm in that. I enjoyed those!

The Roadblock is a little bit too difficult in my opinion. The length of the text to translate is really long and teams have no dictionary to make the translation themselves. You also said they have to remember the words and I think there is just too much to remember. Don't get me wrong though – this is still a good task and it uses the Heritage Site really well, but the task definitely has to be adjusted to make it a bit more realistic.

Overall, you did a really good job, ZBC! Your designs have improved so much since the good old days! I'm really impressed with how you have grown and I hope to see more great designs from you in the future!


Show contentExciting seeing a design in Benin, another country that hasn't been visited on TAR. Let's see what you can do with it!

The Route Info tasks at the start are a good way to begin, setting the mood perfectly.

I really appreciate the voodoo elements of your Fast Forward. It is definitely great to showcase this aspect of the culture and the task is fitting for a Fast Forward. My only criticism would be that I wish more aspects of the voodoo religion formed part of this task, other than simply buying and delivering ingredients. It's a good Fast Forward but you could've done a little more with it, in my opinion.

I like the Log Stilts part of the Detour more than the Fish Nets. While both tasks are relevant to the area, the Log Stilts is a lot more unique and creative. It's a really great task and would be interesting to watch amidst all the commotion. The Fish Nets is not a bad task either, though fishing tasks are relatively common on TAR.

Your Roadblock is the best part of your leg, for sure! I absolutely love this task and I think it is really creative. Brilliant job with this one! This is definitely one of the standout tasks of the round.

Overall, another great design from you, redwings! A few minor adjustments I'd make myself but overall, you've done a great job in a very underrepresented part of Africa. Well done!

Glamazon Racer:


Into the home stretch!



Show contentLove seeing the leg start in Namibia – top of my bucket list! But Seychelles is a pretty cool country too and I'm excited to see what you come up with.

I like the Fast Forward task and how it relates to the Heritage Site. The task is great but my only criticism would be that I wish you provided an image of what the decorated end product looks like, because I have no idea! Nonetheless, regardless of what it looks like, I think it is a good task and I want to see it happen!

I like the Feet Detour more than the Arms Detour. Cooking and eating the rice is a decent task but not the most original, whereas the Feet Detour has a lot of unique elements, especially travelling with these heavy pieces of fruit. I really like that element of it and I think it would be a challenging task.

The Roadblock is great. Another brilliant use of the local flora and fauna and a very creative task. This was definitely the best part of your design!

Overall, a very impressive leg for the Seychelles and very different to what TAR16 gave us. I'm really happy with this effort and there's a lot to like about it. Well done and I hope you keep on going strong!


Show contentSo good to see a Nigeria leg – it really deserves a visit! I have to say, right off the bat, that your leg is the least stereotypical Africa leg of the round. Let's see if that is a good thing...

A scam awareness class... I would never have thought of this task myself but I think it is pure genius. I think this is a great example of originality and tapping into a cultural aspect that many people would probably avoid because there is the risk of it coming off as offensive. Your task is far from offensive and it is actually extremely relevant and tasteful. I'm really impressed with this task!

The Fast Forward is a good, albeit typical, eating challenge. I think the task is fine but I wish it came before the Roadblock. I feel as though the team who wins the Fast Forward is not gaining a major advantage because they have to do the Roadblock too. While I'm not opposed to a team winning the Fast Forward and not winning the leg, I think this one would make more sense to appear before the Roadblock. This isn't a major criticism but it's worth noting.

Carrying the Nigerian bride is a fun task to add a little bit of humour to the episode so I'm happy it's there.

The Detour is an absolute joy! Not only does it utilise the Heritage Site impeccably, both tasks are creative in their own right. Poetry Prowess, in particular, is one of the best tasks of this round. It fosters creativity and could potentially be extremely hilarious to have team members writing poems about one another. I'm really impressed!

Overall, as I said at the start, you've come up with probably the least stereotypical African leg of the round. Other than the Fast Forward, these tasks simply wouldn't come to mind for me when I think of Nigeria, and I think that is the sign of great research and creativity on your part. I'm really thrilled with this design, Mike! All the best for your future designs.


Show contentAnother great location choice! Mauritius gave us an average leg on TAR10 but can offer so much more, so I'm really curious to see what you can come up with!

My favourite task in your leg is the Fast Forward. This is truly unique and highly creative. It would be particularly exciting if multiple teams were competing for the Fast Forward. This is an exceptional task and the unscrambling of the phrase is not too easy and not too difficult either, which makes it ideal. Really great work with this one!

I'm also a big fan of your Roadblock! Tasting the chutney and then searching for the matching ingredients is a very well-designed task. This certainly creates plenty of room for error and the fact that they have to search the orchard for the ingredients is a great touch. Really good task!

The Detour ties into the Heritage Site well, but it's a fraction behind the other tasks of the leg, in my opinion. Dancing tasks can be good and this one is no exception but I'm not sure it stands out as being an amazing task either. On the other hand, I do like the sailing task and how it relates to the local way of doing things. The Detour is really well-balanced though, and that is always important. Overall, a good pair of tasks but I definitely prefer the Fast Forward and the Roadblock.

Brilliant Pit Stop location, though that probably goes without saying!

Overall, this leg is light years better than anything TAR10 gave us in Mauritius. You've showcased multiple facets of Mauritian culture and this is definitely a high quality leg. Really impressive and I hope you continue to slay with your upcoming designs!

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