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TAR Australia 6 Premiere Episode LIVE SHOW UPDATES and DISCUSSION Thread

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BourkieBoy:
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BourkieBoy:
Episode 1 Thoughts

Firstly, that was a pretty solid premiere all things considered! It’s good to see TAR Australia going around the world again, the locations the teams visited were pretty awesome and the cinematography was pretty awe-inspiring!

However, I thought a few of the challenges were poorly designed - both the spice task and the sphinx riddle task were poorly designed and allowed for teams to team up and share answers… I got bad Season 32 flashbacks!

Also… what the hell has happened to the old 4 hour penalty for quitting the Roadblock?? Why did Paul & Rachel only get a 30 minute penalty when they decided to quit the Roadblock? I’m not a fan of this at all - a team could easily skip a Roadblock with hardly any penalty! I’m also not a fan of trams serving their penalties at the challenge site… I think it’s much more appropriate to serve penalties at the mat!

NumfarPTB:
Interesting that the OP only included the 10 teams that are part of this mini group. Which is our Group B. It's the group that departed from Melbourne,
Curious how they'll structure the OP once both groups get merged.
At least from this group, casting did try to have very strong FF teams

All teams seems to use the same back-pack.

There's no briefing about there being another set of 10 teams also racing. So merging likely to be a surprise at the start of a leg like stowaway situation from last season.

The challenges were fine.
Level of difficulty for the detours were good.
Sphinx challenge was curious, it was like watching race blinders go into play. Yes, design wise does allow teams to help each other easily. Still amazed by how much teams struggled at this one.
Final clue, was " last team to check-in will be eliminated". The top 4 teams racing to the pit stop was fun. The run to the pit stop was a awesome part, people missing the marked route was another thing.

Promo was focused on the other group racers for tomorrow's episode for leg 1 of our group A, so nothing about what is ahead, or the the COVID impact on production.

Maanca:
Great first episode. It's been a long time since a TAR season has started with an African country! I loved The Mummy (not so much the third one, but Brendan Fraser was its saving grace) so that part was cool. A cranky camel interrupting Beau telling the second-to-last team their place was strangely hilarious 🤣

Now tonight/tomorrow we see how the other half of the cast do in Morocco.

Xoruz:
Nice to finally return to international travel and with quite a jump for the first leg.

Awesome to see Ouarzazate again after 16 years. The date task reminded me of the jewelry sorting task from 2012 though not as easy. The laundry task was pretty easy to mess up with the name tags. The wrapping part of the Roadblock seemed to be the hardest, but it did provide a spectacle. Show contentCompletely understandable why Rachel had an anxiety attack. The spice and sphinx tasks were really difficult but crossed the point where helping others made sense.

With the exception of maybe one or two teams, the teams got decent content though I still wonder how it'll work when we merge with 18 teams.

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