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The Amazing Race: Design Challenge VIII - Final Round Design Show on Page 50!
Glamazon Racer:
Overall thoughts:
The quality of the designs in this leg is extremely high. There is truly no weak link in this field and I want to, first of all, congratulate everybody on delivering great designs.
I enjoyed seeing such a wide variety of locations visited in this round. We got fantastic designs in countries that TAR has, regrettably, not visited yet. We also got fantastic designs in locations that TAR has visited before, and in some cases, our designers improved on what the actual race offered, which is always great to see.
As a whole, the things you did well were definitely your creativity and the way you incorporated tasks around your Heritage Sites. I had allocated 5 points to each of these categories and after going through each design individually, I had pencilled in a score of at least 4 out of 5 in both of these categories for every single designer. For the purposes of distinguishing between the designs a little bit more, I had to adjust these scores a little bit and some designs dropped to a 3 to create a bit of a spread but every designer did a great job and I simply can't justify giving anybody a lower score than that, particularly in these categories, because there wasn't a weak design out there.
I'm certainly not opposed to giving out a perfect score in this game, especially when a design deserves it. There were at least 4 or 5 designs that could make a case for receiving such a score from me and I had to be highly pedantic and picky to distinguish those designs from one another. In truth, based on my initial scores, I only had 1 point separating second and sixth place. I had to nitpick quite drastically to create a slightly greater disparity in the scores and prevent way too many ties.
In terms of the designers who received the lowest scores from me, I wouldn't be too disheartened either. Even the design which ranked last was still a design I really enjoyed and had plenty of positives. I hope whoever is eliminated from the game will leave with the knowledge that they did a brilliant job and hopefully they learned a thing or two which they can bring forth into a future edition of this wonderful game.
I'd also like to thank the hosting team for the opportunity to guest judge. I have a long history with this amazing game and this experience brought back plenty of great memories. Not only that but I'm thankful to have had the opportunity to judge designs in a continent which has such a firm hold of my heart. I love Africa and I hope to visit many of the beautiful locations you guys designed in. It has been an honour to judge again and I can't wait to be able to do it again one day!
Good luck to all the contestants and I can't wait to read your future designs and see who wins this exciting contest! You guys are on fire!
ZBC Company:
i did think my roadblock is hard.
redwings8831:
--- Quote from: Glamazon Racer on August 14, 2020, 02:23:51 AM ---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.
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I went back and forth multiple times trying to decide if I wanted to include the team watching a voodoo ceremony where the and priest sacrifices their live chicken but eventually decided the way in which that happens (the priest killing the chicken by ripping out its throat with his teeth and then drinking the blood) was just a little too much.
MikeDodgers:
I only just got up so I might not be up to snuff off the bat, but thank you for the vote of confidence, Racer. The placement of the FF is a bit off, but I felt it was warranted to try and give it the air of unpredictability. I can't take all the credit for the FF and ARI idea. That honor goes to Leafsfan. I had been going over ideas with him over Discord and he suggested I put in an eating task for the FF and a Nigerian wedding based task afterwards. So thanks to him on those. If you looked at the notes, you'll see my inspiration for the scam awareness RB. I had been looking at YouTube scambaiters and how they preach consumer literacy and it got me thinking about how I could translate that to Amazing Race. That's what came of it.
Glamazon Racer:
@redwings - I think that was a good call to avoid the live sacrifice lol. :funny: Still felt you could do a bit more with it but as I said, it was only a minor criticism and I enjoyed the task regardless! :tup:
@Mike - Definitely a great job with that, I think you executed that task superbly and well done Leafsfan for helping haha. :clap2:
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