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TAR AUS 5 DISCUSSION of ALL SHOW & AD SPOILERS *may contain future info*

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tarflyonthewall:
I'm taking that Sydney thing to mean they flew into it for Leg 19, not necessarily for the finale. At the time of filming, New South Wales had no quarantine requirements for interstate travel unless you were coming from Victoria, so they would indeed have had no need to quarantine after finishing the race in Canberra as we're expecting.

dryedmangoez:
I wonder if the non-First Class Non-Elimination Legs were the last-minute Leg additions, or at least the ones to make up for the last-minute Legs?  :duno:
That's the reason I'll believe to explain the randomly different "rules" for those Legs lol

gamerfan09:
The legs we know for sure that were tacked on this season were the Tasmania legs, since there were interviews about production immediately scrambling to get teams in once Tasmania opened.

Charity00:
So are we are assuming the T Junction is not happening?

It stated that 2 superteams are formed and the losing superteam has to vote one team off. That cannot be done in a 2 vs 2 situation and next episode is definitely an elimination with no sign of a T Junction. I could possibly see it working in the final 4 where it is 2 vs 2 and the WINNING superteam votes off one team from the losing superteam. Don’t like it but it is feasible. Except the articles stated it is the LOSING team that votes someone out, basically like Survivor.

I’m guessing the T Junction was planned at some point but some smart person in production was like “Let’s not be stupid” and thankfully got it removed.

gamerfan09:
This is complete guessing with no basis - but I feel like the T-Junction was planned for Leg 6 but scrapped after Shane & Deb were medically evacuated, leaving us with only 9 teams racing the leg after the Leg 5 winner skipped it.

Why? So many elements of the Leg 6 design feels conducive for the T-Junction, more so than any of the other legs we've seen so far:
-There was an unaired boat scramble at the start of the leg - teams didn't just get on the boat, they had to find their ferry and then answer a quiz which I assume would have led to one team winning the chance to form the T-Junction teams.
-Speaking of the boats, there was an awkward 5-4 boat split TWICE during the leg that could have very easily been 5-5 (aka a T-Junction team takes the first ferry and the other T-Junction team takes the second)
-The turtles Detour was restricted to five teams max doing it (which would have effectively forced each T-Junction team to do two different Detours)
-The Salvage and Sabotage were small enough to be non-factors - the guide barely helped Jobelle & Rani and Jordan & Violeta could remove their scuba equipment at any Detour
-The bottle collecting task was in a big enough area to fit 5 teams vs. 5 teams racing to get all their allocated bottles
-The unaired Roadblock could have been a final challenge for the T-Junction teams
-The Pit Stop is even on a big beach location perfect for its Survivor vibe; even the parchment teams got for "Take the Bottles" looked like a voting parchment

Just my guess. And to add to the speculation, the T-Junction introductory video was deleted from the 10 site shortly before the premiere.

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