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TAR8 Ep 1 Title " Go Mommy, Go! We can Beat Them "
Chateau d If:
Well, one is Panama.
puddin:
thanks Chateau....and Costa Rica ?
Chateau d If:
And the 11,000 mile thing limits the other one to one of these.
gingerman28:
I believe we had sightings in BELIZ which would be the second country not visited by TAR before.
Article mentions 50 cities; now that is a lot to cover in only 25 days.
If shooting start is July 7 in New York (pretty much confirmed) then the final pit stop would be on July 31. Which is the date the Niagara Falls sighting is supposed to take place. Or was that still in Montreal?
TVGuide (with the help of the producers) has pretty much given out all the details of the first two-hour program with the first PIT STOP some where in Amish Country (Lancaster) PA. This follows the pattern in most TARs that the first two hour program includes a camp out the first night (a la Iceland and Paraquay)
Now we have a quandry to puzzle over.
According to supposedily good evidence TEN teams arrive in Huntsville on two buses from South Carolina late on Sunday night, July 10 or early Monday morning, July 11 after nine hour bus ride from South Carolina and have to wait until the NASA space center (Space Camp) opens early Monday morning, July 11.
But it now looks like the first elimination takes place in PA at the first pit stop (according to TV Guide)on July 8 Which means only nine teams would continue on through Washington DC; North Carolina; and South Carolina on July 9 and 10 (more camping out on the evening of July 9?) Before arriving at Huntsville, Alabama. Are the rumors true that TAR8 started with the usual 11 teams, but one team was booted off the show in Beliz? I call upon all RFF sleuths to watch the first two shows closely to see if some strange people can be spotted; the producers are very good at digitally removing crew members and such but they do slip up now and then (for example the camera crew filming the winning couple at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is seen as Jon and Veronica run up)
And if it is true that they go to Huntsville then on to Beliz and Panama, the remaining teams would still have about 8500 milles to travel to make up the total of 11,000. Going all the way to Alaska then back down through Montana, Wyoming, to Toronto and Montreal could eat up this many miles.
Chateau d If:
--- Quote ---the producers are very good at digitally removing crew members and such but they do slip up now and then
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GMan, I believe with all my faith that they never do this. Never. It's just an inside feeling of trust. They will blur some private faces and some product logos. I have found shots of cameramen, I'm not actually counting, but about a dozen times. (eg. when Kelly & Jon run through airport exit doors to get their Taxi in Phoenix.) And there are reflections and shadows of production happening several times per leg. The Berlin shot of production was used because of the importance of what was taking place between J & V. I think the editors invert, crop, omit footage, and overlay Frankenbitten soundtracks but never photo chop info in or out. I forgot one thing: footage of B&G's rollover in Africa was concocted by production in the field (the rollover itself was real).
I can imagine that the report of ten teams at the space center comes from the reporter using information that the Race has ten teams in it. We should check the actual text to see. Did they really count ten teams?
If so, then it will be fun to do as you say and hunt for vestiges of the 11th team. I'll be game for that!.
Here it is:
From the Huntsville Times
--- Quote ---Between midnight and 4 a.m., one by one, a fleet of eight to 10 GMC Yukons rolled out of the parking lot and sloshed down Interstate 565, got off at exit 15 and headed toward the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
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