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Why is Family Edition so hated?

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Traveldude1:
Fans asked for something new and that is what they got. I personally love it now. Most of the teams are enjoyable with obvious exceptions. The tasks may be dumbed down a bit, but seeing the little kids competing was cool to see. I'll admit, the season does slow down by the Gaghans elimination in Costa Rica, but those first couple legs are amazing to watch. I don't understand the hate for this season. I'd take this season over some other seasons that are worse such as seasons 2, 13, 6, and 20

Maanca:
It was fine as an idea to try once. but they should have covered more of the country. The season's weakness IMO, is in those midwestern legs where about every task is pioneer-themed for 3 straight legs. What about Los Angeles, the Rocky Mountains, Florida, etc? :)

At least according to Wally Bransen, a leg in Belize got cancelled due to hurricane (p.s. TAR's still not been to that country :( ) Which makes me wonder if they planned for another non-US leg.

theschnauzers:
That season, filmed in the summer of 2005, was plagued with hurricanes through much of its filming. The 2005 Atlantic Basin hurricane season is the busiest on record, with 25 named tropical cyclones. At this moment, the current hurricane season in the Atlantic is on track to exceed that number of named cyclones. They had the “R” named cyclone form yesterday, 11 days ahead of the pace in 2005, and forecasters are expecting a tropical wave to move off of Africa into the Atlantic basin and also develop into a tropical cyclone by the end of this coming weekend.

It’s my recollection that one of the Arizona legs was a last minute substitution.

claude_24hrs:
For me, The Family Edition is considered the least season in the entire series of the Race. The route was mostly in the states included some parts of North America (Panama, Costa Rica and Canada). It should've had legs within Texas and Maine.

cbacbacba1:
Having too few teams for the latter half of the season (2 legs F6, 2 legs F5 and 3 episodes of F4) made the course become repetitive and dull in my opinion.

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