Author Topic: TAR 37 LIVE STREAMS AND COMMENTARY HERE! EP 9 4/30/2025 8:30-10PM CENTRAL TIME  (Read 2620 times)

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:conf: TAR GOES ON TONIGHT!!! :conf: 


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We'll be back on in less than 2 hours! Have a snack, dinner, take care of some priorities in the meantime. It'll be showtime in no time.
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A race involving pizza?  Does this remind anyone of the game, Pizza Tower?  What team will receive the elusive P Rank?

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15 minutes 'til another knockout-cold episode.
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15 minutes 'til another knockout-cold episode.


No Pizza Tower references or memes?


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15 minutes 'til another knockout-cold episode.


No Pizza Tower references or memes?

Unlike the task involves running with the pizzas as fast as they can, I doubt it ;)

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15 minutes 'til another knockout-cold episode.


No Pizza Tower references or memes?

Unlike the task involves running with the pizzas as fast as they can, I doubt it ;)

Do teams have to knock down a giant Moai head, then anxiously make their way back to the entrance with the ingredients while furiously running down enemies in funny and cartoony ways?

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Now you've got "It's Pizza Time!" stuck in my head, lol

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After Googling, I'm way closer in the boomer generation to understand the Pizza Tower reference. :funny:

5-minute warning! :2hearts:
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Hopefully its as good as margherita pizza fresh out of the oven  :cheer:
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Last week EP challenge was just as long as its recap.

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AND WE ARE ON!!

Previously on TAR, 6 teams continued racing through Bulgaria! Recap. Coming up, Alyssa & Josiah decide if they want to use the EP. And a game changing twist coming up!

Brett & Mark depart 1st a bit past midnight. Aly & Josiah are excited over their Pass in their back pocket and their goal is to not use it, planning to have it on Leg 10. Jon & Ana are shooting for 1st as they depart in 3rd. Carson & Jack experienced the "Bulgaria humble bus" and revealed they fought in Rome, Italy before personal traveling. They leave in 4th. Han & Holden leave in last and Han says they won't give up.
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Brett & Mark ask Alyssa & Josiah if they had the Express Pass and Alyssa shows them the scars of the coals near their gate. Han & Holden are picking up their boarding passes at the ticket counter. Everyone is off to Naples! Jack is doing a happy dance before we cut to commercials.
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And we come back to establishing shots of Naples before the onslaught of teams running to their taxis!!! Han & Holden run the wrong way! Brett & Mark reveal they are going to Castel Sant'elmo. Teams must first travel to the funicular station to ride the way to the top of the fortification.

Alyssa & Josiah are excited to run around in Italy while Josiah often confuses Spanish and Italian. Jack loves that people are doing laundry outside. "If anyone is going to put the fun in funicular, it's us." - Jack.

Brett & Mark and Aly & Josiah are the first to arrive at the funicular. Carson & Jack catch up with tickets while Jon & Ana and Han & Holden end up all catching up in the nick of time before the first and only ride up. Everyone is enjoying the view!
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Foot race to the clue box! Seems like everyone is running one way based on flowers from a cannon matching the race flags. :funny: Han & Holden and Jon & Ana find the correct way up and receive their clue from the capitano.

ROUTE INFO: Rub the nose of the Pulcinella Statue.

Jon & Ana and Han & Holden run down while Vegas and DnD catch up just after Alyssa & Josiah.
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H&H hold the door for Jon & Ana and leave the castle as the first funicular down! Woohoo! Meanwhile, Brett & Mark miss the first one down and are now against Aly & Josiah and Carson & Jack on the second funicular. They look on a lady's phone for directions.

All five teams running now and Josiah almost runs into a delivery truck! :funny:

Brett & Mark think it's right around the corner while Han & Holden is panicking asking for directions with Ana asking a driver nearby.

Brett & Mark find the Pulcinella! DETOUR: Mandolin or Mozzarella
In Mandolin, teams must assemble a mandolin to receive their next clue. In Mozzarella, teams must craft a mozzarella wrapped pattern to receive their next clue.
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2 RIs early this leg are actually neat
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Love they have to run through the streets and that is shifting positions all around.

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Brett & Mark and Carson & Jack both leave to do Mozzarella. Aly & Josiah arrive at the nose and choose Mozzarella as well. Vegas and DnD reach the Detour location pretty quickly. They have to braid the mozzarella in a special technique and must weigh between 250-350 grams. Carson & Jack estimate it's over half a pound.

Meanwhile, Ana & Jon and Han & Holden are completely lost and on a completely different street.

Commercials.
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We return to H&H asking a cafe patron and realize they went too far with Jon & Ana. They course-correct and find the rooster guy next to the nose.

Jon & Ana are doing Mandolin while H&H are doing Mozzarella.

Aly & Josiah are meanwhile lost and can't figure out their orientation in the old city.

Jon & Ana arrive at the mandolins. Team members must delegate the work and split the strings and hardware for each teammate. Jon reveals he is familiar with guitars back home.

Alyssa & Josiah arrive at the cheese and Brett & Mark are saying this is difficult. Han & Holden argue before arriving at the cheese. Holden reminds Han that she is on race brain again.
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Jon complains that the guitar pieces are so small in that dingy workshop.

Han is absolutely confused by the braiding while Alyssa is laser-focused on the demonstration from afar. Carson & Jack go for a first check and none are at the correct weight. Their effort was way too light.

Vegas calls for a check and each are approved until the third one. They have to remake two mozzarella braids.
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Jon & Ana are in solitude and Jon is slowly making progress on putting the instrument base together.

DnD are trying to make double the amount while Brett & Mark are at the end of the tunnel of mozzarella wrapping. Han & Holden are doubting their efforts and being the thiefs of comparison against DnD and Vegas. Han decides to watch the demonstration again.

Carson & Jack are checking again and they did too much weight now. :funny:
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Having researched them before for fiction writing, at least they're assembling a mandolin and not a lute. Those have like 15-20 strings.

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Carson & Jack have 1 right at the end of it. Brett & Mark go for their second check and miss one more. Han is confused now.

Meanwhile, at the workshop, Jon finishes up the base and Ana wants him to walk her through it. Ana believes they did good working together. Jon reveals they have a different approach of doing things and this was the ideal task setup for each to do their own thing.

Josiah doesn't know how to braid while Alyssa is doing the brunt work. Carson & Jack go for a check and each end up being approved before Vegas, unbelievable.

ROUTE INFO: The Montesanto Quarter.
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Brett & Mark have their final cheese approved and leave the Detour in 2nd.

Ana finishes the stringing and they call for a check. The guitar maker checks and gives them the clue on first try! "Vipo Tu Montesanto"? Is that right?

Alyssa & Josiah are going for their first mozzarella checks and they are bellissimo! They leave in 4th.
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