Topic: TAR 39 Bitch, Moan & Squeal Thread (POSSIBLE SPOILERS!)

[Joberio]

First 5 continent race since S22?

It is!  It's been so long!

[Brannockdevice]

First 5 continent race since S22?

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[BourkieBoy]

It was excellent to see Christchurch confirmed! Another very undervisited city being used on the Race! 

I’ve just spoken to my cousin who lives in Christchurch. Unfortunately, as he was in school the whole day (his school is actually right near the speculated Pit Stop location!), he didn’t manage to see any teams, but it looks like the leg was well spoiled anyway!

Very excited to see our finale destination! Fingers and toes crossed that we don’t get LA!

[Avid]

I knew rugby would be involved ..rugby park

[BourkieBoy]

And as speculated, we finish in Hawaii for the first time in 19 seasons 

This season's route is nothing short of incredible. Hopefully, the teams, tasks and editing is just as good, to give us one of the best TAR seasons ever!

Here's hoping The Road/America's Culinary Cup fails miserably and we get to see this sometime in April! 

[Avid]

Steamroll in hawai ...i have a feeling,it wil b a steamroll by you know who

[MattyGOAT]

I believe this is the first US TAR season where they did not visit the contiguous 48 states at all. (Other than flying from Los Angeles to Vancouver)

[Xoruz]

Leg 1 - Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦
Leg 2 - Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸
Leg 3 - Marrakesh, Morocco 🇲🇦
Leg 4 - Marrakesh, Morocco 🇲🇦
Leg 5 - Tirana, Albania 🇦🇱
Leg 6 - Tirana, Albania 🇦🇱
Leg 7 - Colombo, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Leg 8 - Vientiane, Laos 🇱🇦
Leg 9 - Vang Vieng, Laos 🇱🇦
Leg 10 - Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
Leg 11 - Christchurch, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Leg 12 - Honolulu, United States 🇺🇸

Dare I say, the best route of the 30s? Honolulu/Oahu is one of my all-time favorite places that I have visited. It's going to a great final location for this season.

[Maanca]

Easily. 32's route was notable for being the only season to visit a different country on every leg, but it's only 4 continents.

[Robin4]

Do we know the winners?

[Maanca]

Do we know the winners?

RFF doesn't normally reveal the finale finish order, if known.

[TARFansurvivor]

Leg 1 - Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦
Leg 2 - Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸
Leg 3 - Marrakesh, Morocco 🇲🇦
Leg 4 - Marrakesh, Morocco 🇲🇦
Leg 5 - Tirana, Albania 🇦🇱
Leg 6 - Tirana, Albania 🇦🇱
Leg 7 - Colombo, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Leg 8 - Vientiane, Laos 🇱🇦
Leg 9 - Vang Vieng, Laos 🇱🇦
Leg 10 - Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
Leg 11 - Christchurch, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Leg 12 - Honolulu, United States 🇺🇸

Dare I say, the best route of the 30s? Honolulu/Oahu is one of my all-time favorite places that I have visited. It's going to a great final location for this season.

I don't like that they have 2 legs in Marrakesh and 2 legs Tirana. And I was hoping for Boston as the final city. Besides that do i just love the route 

[RachelLeVega]

Now that we have info on the main twist of the season, what are everyone's thoughts on a limited-time Express Pass for every team?

I feel like as soon as the first team uses one, it would set off a chain reaction of EP usages at the task before the Pit Stop for the bottom-placement teams in each leg, which could potentially make an exciting scramble and force racers to drop everything they are doing to not be eliminated. However, I have a slight hesitation about where this could turn negative, especially since the effect TAR32 has had over each season after, where teams who still have an advantage are supposed to complete a task may end up advancing scot-free over a team who duly completes a full leg of tasks and ends up eliminated just because they finished a leg exactly how it's supposed to be done. It would not be in the spirit of the race course at that point.

I guess we'll find out soon enough about the risks of implementing this twist, but I am still totally excited for the teams this season! Cast looks amazing! Hopefully we have a highly competitive bunch.