Yay:~ 3 New Countries: Colombia, Armenia, Georgia
~ Cast is not what I expected. (11 x Joey & Meghan)
~ Imbalanced detours bringing fun to the game - more shuffling of placements.
~ Everybody starts almost at the same time after arriving in Mexico City, which is rare.
~ So much placement changes throughout Leg 1.
~ Mexico after 25 seasons.
~ Detour + Roadblock on leg 1.
~ So many intense finishes!
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Leg 1 NEL!!!~
11 teams racing in Leg 2!!!~ Flight drama on Leg 2.
~ 4-way Roadblock race at night in Leg 3.
~ Zach & Rachel surviving Leg 3.
~ Scott & Blair surviving at the back for most of the race.
~ Racers are providing info of the unaired through social media.
~ UN Flag Task!
~ Chamonix scenery!
~ Altitude drama in Chamonix.
~ Fun + Extreme tasks in Leg 5.
~ Ashley taking off during the Leg 5 roadblock was shown as a flashback to create suspense.
~ EP finally appeared on Leg 6 when I thought it'd be gone forever.
~ Tyler & Korey, a strong team, arriving 2nd to the last at pit stops in Georgia & Armenia.
~ Armenia and Georgia bring a classical vibe in terms of environment (architecture), and I hope they'll be visited again.
~ While looking for the theater clue in Armenia, not everyone found it at the same time, causing shuffling of placements and "good" time gap between the teams.
~ Language barrier drama in Georgia and China.
~ Georgian leg overall - from tasks, to teams, to drama, to EVERYTHING in that episode!
~ Brodie & Kurt and Tyler & Korey knocked off the Top 2 during the Georgian leg.
~ Zach & Rachel surprisingly winning a leg.
~ Dana owning the dance task when they had difficulties earlier that leg.
~ Return of self-driving, and it's in the twisted roads of Dubai!
~ Dubai desert scenery.
~ Return to Dubai's Aquadventure, giving off Mika-TAR15 vibes.
~ Brodie & Kurt not using their EP on the deadline leg.
~ Sheri & Cole surviving at the bottom from time to time.
~ Dubai episode finishing at night.
~ Sheri & Cole's impressive 3rd place finish in Leg 9 despite Speedbump.
~ Most teams not knowing the status of Brodie & Kurt's EP by Leg 9.
~ Brodie & Kurt, a strong team, fighting for last in Leg 9.
~ The return of the Twinnie U-turn Strategy, albeit unplanned.
~ The 1st task in Leg 10 was creative and unique.
~ A strong team was successfully U-turned out, giving underdog teams a chance.
~ Leg 11 had cool tasks, and a not-disappointing leg.
~ Rain in Leg 11 being slightly dramatic.
~ Recap summarizing race highlights.
~ A team I don't wanna see win, didn't.
~ Synchronized mountaineering was a decent finale task.
~ Presence of memory task in the season.
~ Dana & Matt's record of winning only 1st and last leg.
~ Taxi drama during finale.
~ Tyler's curse finally broken; it's now revised though.
~ Great season overall!
~ Several suspenseful finishes throughout the season.
~ Teams' reactions (especially during Leg 4) when they see Scott & Blair, indicating that they're at the back with Daddy-Daughter.
~ Scott & Blair being impressive by making it farther than expected.
~ Sheri & Cole landing on 8 different placements throughout the race (2nd - 9th).
~ Tyler & Korey being unexpectedly impressive at the beginning.
~ Not all teams were recruits.
~ Season exceeded my expectations, especially as a themed one.
~ Georgian spoilers in their news. Blair even asked for directions from the reporter.
~ Indonesia spoilers never disappoint!
~ Tyler Oakley having so many spoiler footage.
~ Sheri & Cole racing impressively - last on the Mexico Live, 2nd in the end.
~ Burnie & Ashley's ideology on choosing fun tasks.
~ In addition to Leg 1 NEL: Unlike TAR18, both Legs 1 and 2 had a roadblock and a detour each.
~ In addition to Leg 1 NEL: Unlike TAR19, 10 teams race the 3rd leg.
~ New W-turn design.
~ The funny coincidence with winners' positions on cast pics these recent seasons.
Nay:~ Team names replaced with social media usernames.
~ Underwhelming intro from the Instamodels, and I blame the editors because I'm pretty sure they said something more that was not shown.
~ Episode 1 was too crammed.
~ No mention of prizes for Legs 1 & 11.
~ EP not in Leg 1; late appearance of EP.
~ Marty & Hagan on 2nd to the last flight, giving them one major disadvantage on their last leg.
~ Boring 1st half of Leg 3.
~ Dana & Matt's negative edit.
~ Leg 3 W-turn's outcome.
~ Leg 4 pit stop design, making the results be sorted from fastest to slowest based on footrace. Even worse, it had an effect on the next leg.
~ Burnie & Ashley never winning a leg, and worse when they were robbed of 1st several times.
~ Last F/F team eliminated in Leg 5, 8th place.
~ Burnie & Ashley making detour risks in Chamonix and Shenzhen, the latter one partially led to their elimination.
~ 2-week break between Episodes 5 & 6, which weakened my excitement for Episode 6.
~ Leg 5 linearity partially caused by separation in cable car rides. I understand it was for safety reasons, so it was unavoidable, but the effect made the leg linear.
~ Armenian roadblock.
~ Only 1 self-driving leg.
~ Dubai's fight for last was unsuspenseful. I know it's not every leg wherein there's an intense fight for last though, so this is unavoidable.
~ Blair's and Brodie's leg issues that were unaired. Those could've easily explained why they were weaker in roadblocks.
~ Leg 9 somehow felt lacking.
~ Leg 10 has poor suspense, and also poor leg design which caused linearity.
~ No mid-season intro.
~ Memory task seemed too easy.
~ My top favorites not making it to the F3, again.
~ A live sneak peek of Leg 1 during filming.
~ Ugly speedbump designs.
~ While viewing spoilers: 3 FF teams were part of Top 4 in the Mexico Live, but were all eliminated before the Georgian leg.
~ Boot order.
~ Expectations on Australia & Oceania during the spoiler period, filming.
~ Intro.
~ Less screentime for pit stop greeters.
~ Complete absence of the Fast Forward.
~ Some title quotes.
It was tough to check so many threads with so many pages, but I'm satisfied that this is complete now. I hope it is.
