Topic: TAR 38 Maps

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Leg 1: Around Amsterdam.
- Teams made quite a detour to head to the greenhouse in de Ronde Venen, which took them out of North Holland into Utrecht and requiring them to double-back towards Amsterdam.
- While we see Angela/Lexi take the most direct cycling route from Volendam to Edam along Zeestraat (~3.2km/2.0mi), Tucker/Eric and Jag/Jas took the coastal route, which is longer (~5.0km/3.1mi) but more straight-forward and with fewer road crossings.
- No idea why they had teams take taxis back into Amsterdam instead of driving in the cars they drove in on.

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Leg 2: Prague.
- If Tucker/Eric got out of the metro at Staroměstská and were looking for a bridge over the river, not surprising they accidentally ended up at the Josef Manes monument, which is even closer than the correct clue box
- U Fleků was also visited in TAR 15 as part of a Detour where teams had to deliver beer through the streets of the Old Town
- U Fleků is ridiculously close to the Pit Stop at Žofín Palace (450m/490yd), too bad teams had to run the 1.4km/0.9mi up to the Josef Manes monument and then double back to the Pit Stop!

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Leg 3: Kutná Hora.
- Megan/Matt drove 65km/40mi back into Prague before realising their mistake and turning around, easily setting them at least 1h30 behind
- By contrast, Kristine/Rubina's mistake was insignificant; they missed the church and went 2.5km/1.6mi further, stumbling onto the Pit Stop at Kačina
- The Google Earth image is from 19 Mar 2025, just two days before the teams arrived! You can clearly see the task being set up for the plowing, with the lanes clearly delineated and the line where all the clues were buried (and maybe a couple of production vehicles?)

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Leg 4: Budapest.

Teams were brought back from Kutná Hora to Prague to start the leg, and were released at Senovážné Sq, just across the street from the train station.

Lots of back and forth in Budapest, with the juggling right across the street from the thermal baths, and the dancing not too far from the coach course.

Joseph/Adam's driver asked if they were going to the "museum", and were dropped off at the "right" location - the Hungarian Natural History Museum. They were not far off, just 370m/400yd, but got lost / were directed round the park that separates the two. There is a tiny bit of benefit of the doubt to be given to the locals here...

Kyland/Taylor were dropped off just 180m/200yd from the right place, but were sent in the completely opposite direction; they went another 630m/700yd off-track before turning around.

Jag/Jas did a lot of running this leg. Depending on their actual route, they did:
- 0.9km/0.6mi from the coach challenge to the metro station
- 1.8km/1.1mi from the metro station to the House of Houdini
- An unknown distance from the House of Houdini to the dance
- 1.7km/1.1mi from Astoria (where they got off their last bus) to the Pit Stop

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Leg 5: Dubrovnik.
- Lots of backtracking this leg; teams started the leg by running past the locations for the Roadblock clue box, cart assembly work stations, and the cart racecourse; I wonder if these were set up only after the teams started their Detours?
- From the Western Harbour (nets) to Buža Gate (chum), Eric/Tucker and Kristine/Rubina took the more direct route within the city walls (shorter but with lots of stairs), while the other teams followed the main road around the walls (longer, but with a more manageable gradient).
- Izzy/Paige and Hannah/Simone didn't go too far out to the larger Buža Bar, it's a simple 170m/185yd walk along the city walls between the two.
- The cart race was actually pretty straight-forward, with only one bend in the road to navigate.
- Revisiting a lot of locations from TAR 12, which also had tasks at the Western Harbour (the stone matching Roadblock) and Fort Bokar (the rappelling Detour).