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TAR Australia 9 (Celebrity Edition 3) Ongoing SHOW Discussion

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BourkieBoy:
Episode 3 Thoughts

Well! Another good episode to end Nepal Week!  :cheer:

Starting off right away with the water carrying task was quite unique - it was quite a long distance between the water fountain and the courtyard where the water needed to be delivered to - 6 litres is a lot of water (imagine carrying a 3 litre bottle of milk while trying to go as fast as you can!) It's no wonder a couple of teams needed to go back to the fountain for another attempt. It was also interesting to see the Speed Bump return in this task (interesting to see that they are continuing on with the idea of using the Handicap challenge instead of a whole separate challenge - not too sure about this. Not a fan also of making the team finish last on a KOR complete a Speed Bump)

We then come to the potter making Roadblock - it was an interesting enough task, but felt that the judging of the task was quite lenient? Maybe because I don't like pottery, but felt that this was the worst challenge of the leg by far. We then move onto the Detour, where again the challenges were very unbalanced (at the least the judging was a lot stricter for this challenge). Brush Off was by far the easier task (having to simply scrub tiles to remove all dirt and grime, compared to sanding and then painting a door in a whole new colour). At least the Brush Off doors looked really nice after they had been repainted (that teal color of Luke & Sassy Scott's door was memorizing)

And then off to another temple for our Pit Stop  :funny: :lol:

Very, very happy with our first English-speaking visit to Nepal. Last night's episode was by far the best, followed by tonight's and then followed by the premiere. Really looking forward to the first ever visit to Uzbekistan on Sunday night!

Show contentGobsmacked and utterly shocked that Bronte & Benfield were our second boots. You have to understand that Bronte is one of Australia's greatest ever Olympic swimmers, so was expecting her and Benfield to at least make it three quarters through the Race. It just shows no matter who you are, choosing the wrong Detour can be Race suicide (especially if you don't pay attention to the intricate details of the task!)

Xoruz:
A lot of focus on grunt work this leg as well as some massive rises and falls. Was not expecting that team to finish last. Really shows how one bad Detour choice can be killer. All in all, these past three episodes have been a good showcase for why Nepal is my most sought after country for TAR US. Come on CBS (though there may be some complications at the moment).

NumfarPTB:
Really sad by that elimination.
Felt like Fewer tasks as they were coming from a KOR, still two very physically demanding tasks, and could be frustrating RB in between. That was still an ARI, a RB and detour.
In the end mostly the luck of the detour choice, and with them designed in a way that seems to be straightforward enough to complete, and being far enough between them that did not incentivate switching (an intersting contrast to previous night's TAR Can that had a detour in the same building that allowed some leeway towards that).

G.B.:
The show really, really needs to stop using those incredibly stock "ding" and "buzzer" sound effects for when someone does something right and wrong in a task. It sounds so cheap and the sounds play about 50 times per episode. Why do they do that? It's yet another bizarre choice...

Dom starts the meditation task and fails a bunch of times off the get-go... "ERRNT!! ERRNT!! ERRNT!! ERRNT!!"

BourkieBoy:
Episode 4 Thoughts

Well, that was a very interesting way to start our first ever visit to Uzbekistan! We had another three task leg, but it felt a little better then the premiere last week?

We start off the leg with another eating task - this one was slightly easier in my opinion, but eating that thick and doughy bread would of been extremely tough! (The pure fat they had to eat along with the bread would of been disgusting as well - my worst nightmare).

Coming to the Detour between Fruit & Veg - both of these challenges I thought were quite difficult, because with the Fruit side, not only did you have to sell enough bottles of the pomegranate juice to make 200,000 Som, but you had to make the stuff as well! Veg required very good attention to detail skills (with the radishes, potatoes, beetroots and golden carrots needing to be stacked to the exact height as demonstrated in the example and also lined up in the same order), which a few teams definitely struggled a little with!

We then come to the worst task of the leg - the traditional Uzbek dance that was an Intersection - there was nothing wrong with the task itself(and I quite liked the traditional element of it and also having the teams not practice with the music, but perform with it), it was just the editing of the task! It felt like it went on for at least half the episode and I was very bored of the task halfway through (watching it live with the commercial breaks made it ten times worse :()

Overall, not a bad start to the trio of our Uzbekistan episodes and I'm looking forward to what is presented to us tomorrow night!

Show contentNot surprised at all with Steph & Ben's elimination tonight. She was in extremely poor physical condition to compete competitively in the Race to start with and I'm surpised that they event lasted this long

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