Topic: TAR 28 Pre-Race Discussion **Spoilers**

[Plaidmoon]

According to these two websites it's 10:30 PM Eastern, not AM.

The evening makes more sense to me, as there aren't many international flights leaving soon after 10:30am eastern. But there will be plenty on the west coast leaving in the hours after 7:30pm Pacific.


http://www.tvguide.com/news/the-amazing-race-28-cast/

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/11/amazing-race-season-28-tyler-oakley-social-media-stars

Thanks for the correction. That makes much more sense. Most west coast starts end up on flights in the evening.

The press release said "10:30/9:30c". Pretty ambiguous and I didn't even get the 9:30 Central time right. I just assumed morning without thinking about it. I'll fix my earlier post.

I probably should have finished catching up on the news of the day before posting. 

[weihen]

According to these two websites it's 10:30 PM Eastern, not AM.

The evening makes more sense to me, as there aren't many international flights leaving soon after 10:30am eastern. But there will be plenty on the west coast leaving in the hours after 7:30pm Pacific.


http://www.tvguide.com/news/the-amazing-race-28-cast/

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/11/amazing-race-season-28-tyler-oakley-social-media-stars

The press release said Phil will live stream as teams arrived at first checkpoint...

[Plaidmoon]

According to these two websites it's 10:30 PM Eastern, not AM.

The evening makes more sense to me, as it was pointed out, there aren't many international flights leaving in the late morning or afternoon. But there will be plenty leaving in the hours after 7:30 pm.


http://www.tvguide.com/news/the-amazing-race-28-cast/

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/11/amazing-race-season-28-tyler-oakley-social-media-stars

[Plaidmoon]

According to these two websites it's 10:30 PM Eastern, not AM.

The evening makes more sense to me, as there aren't many international flights leaving soon after 10:30am eastern. But there will be plenty on the west coast leaving in the hours after 7:30pm Pacific.


http://www.tvguide.com/news/the-amazing-race-28-cast/

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/11/amazing-race-season-28-tyler-oakley-social-media-stars

The press release said Phil will live steam as teams arrived first checkpoint...

Maybe there's another press release. This is what I see in the one I linked to:

For the first-time ever, on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 10:30/9:30c, Phil Keoghan, host of The Amazing Race, will be live streaming via Facebook the kick off of the show's next season direct from the first leg.

It doesn't say the first checkpoint. It doesn't specifically say when or where. The timing suggests to me the starting line. I could be wrong. It happens way too often.

 

[theschnauzers]

We can't assume 100 percent that the first airport is LAX, Season 25 started at about 3 a.m. in NYC using JFK, so there's a slight change it could be another US airport. It's interesting that WRP has picked up on the demand to watch webcams live for the TAR 25 and TAR 27 starts, and now that they've crossed this barrier and the good experience from the two live starts and immediate team announcements, this is really moving TAR into a new interactive frontier for reality competition programs.

I'm not bothered yet by all the teams having a social media presence, it's no different than a earlt tar season being mostly models, and better than the TAR 8 and TAR 26 twists. At least there is a good health mix of relationship with three parent-child teams, two sibling teams,only a couple of dating teams, a couple of professional athlete teams (dancers and frisbee players), etc. and that will be fascinating to see how they function minus social media access for a month.

[weihen]

Maybe there's another press release. This is what I see in the one I linked to:

For the first-time ever, on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 10:30/9:30c, Phil Keoghan, host of The Amazing Race, will be live streaming via Facebook the kick off of the show's next season direct from the first leg.

It doesn't say the first checkpoint. It doesn't specifically say when or where. The timing suggests to me the starting line. I could be wrong. It happens way too often.

 

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/11/amazing-race-season-28-tyler-oakley-social-media-stars
This website said first checkpoint...

Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan will live-stream as the contestants arrive at the first checkpoint via video on his Facebook page, giving the audience a behind-the-scenes look at the show in real time.

[theschnauzers]

The information I saw at CBS.com and the TAR Twitter feed was ambiguous as to time of day and it is explicitly clear that the live streaming is of the start line. (Most likely the CBS press release had the more complete time listed. (For those outside the US, the UTC tine would be 0330 Monday since it is 5 hours ahead of EST.) I'm concluding that it isn't a convenient place for fans to witness the start, and the webcams in Times Square and Venice Beach show that there is a global audience interest in seeing the start, wherever it is, thus WRP is making another live interactive advance with the show and the global fan base.

Knowing the crew around here, I'm sure they will be busy with Google Earth with the live streaming starts, and we'll know where soon enough.

[georgiapeach]

The CBS press release did not specify AM or PM, thankfully others did.

And my guess is that this is being done at least partially for security.

[georgiapeach]

Teams are sequestered in LA...I would be VERY surprised if it isn't LAX...

[Plaidmoon]

I'm not sure where to put this since it doesn't seem right for Contestant Spoilers. It's sort of "I was offered a place on TAR 28 but turned it down" spoilers. I'm also not sure whether to believe them or if it's "comedy".

Eric ‏@RealityRecaps 12h12 hours ago
I guess I can now tell you that @comedyjonah & I turned down being on next season of TAR (b/c I refused to do it).  Surrrrrry! 😭 #Chicken
10:39 AM - 11 Nov 2015



James Gribbon ‏@FuriousJamez 11h11 hours ago
@Big_Brudda Hey, your brother turned down "The Amazing Race" get in contact with them & tell them you'll do it with dadio!.
1:01 PM - 11 Nov 2015

James Gribbon ‏@FuriousJamez 11h11 hours ago
@lorenzabraham12 Larry, Jesse turned down "The Amazing Race" you or big brudda should take his place with psycho dad.
1:03 PM - 11 Nov 2015

Big Brudda is on Youtube and has 645K subscribers. He has 103K followers on Twitter. I don't know who his brother (Jesse?) is. I'll leave that as an exercise for the readers.

[SamualDude]

I wouldn't be surprised if we head to New Zealand or Australia as a first destination. A city leg and a rural adventure leg to start off the season.

[Lemontail]

Since there's Tyler this season, could we have 5 Tyler winners again?

[DrRox]

Well according to the press release and the Facebook post, the race starts at either 7:30am Pacific or 7:30pm Pacific.

7:30 am----I am a few degrees of Latitude south of Socal and the sun is just barely up at that time. It is daylight, but the light is very flat and not very good for filming. from watching the Times Square start and Venice Beach start, it seems like it takes WRP about an hour to get the race started. So actual start time about 8:30 am. Then give them 2 hours to complete any start line tasks and then drive to LAX by 10:30 am. That seems to set teams up for the long flights to Europe at midday.

7:30pm---- all dark by then so lights will be used to light the area. Again actual start at 8:30pm and 2 hours to reach LAX at 10:30 pm. This scenario seem to set teams up for the long overnight flights to the western Pacific Rim, anywhere from Seoul/Japan all the way to New Zealand or Aus.

So I would hazard a guess and say teams head to Asia or South Pacific.

[Vodka.]

any ideas for the starting line? hope it's not LA again..

[SamualDude]

any ideas for the starting line? hope it's not LA again..

Maybe Silicon Valley? It'll be LA more than likely.

[Vodka.]

Possible First Destination: South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, England

[gamerfan09]

What the hell is this start though

Is it an ENTIRE leg? 

[naejae91]

any ideas for the starting line? hope it's not LA again..

I rather they have LA start (most of time it just a non entity starting task and head to LAX for first destination) and non-LA for final destination city given that post-TAR12 non-LA start tend to have final destination city on LA.

[aryantsoeseno]

The CBS press release did not specify AM or PM, thankfully others did.

i think they did, Peach... 

[claude_24hrs]

Well, the race always starts in Southern California (mostly LA) and teams are sequestered there in that city according by Peach.

[Kamineko]

Since Phil will live stream the starting line on his FB account, I guess we're from outside the US can watch it right?

[Kamineko]

Since we know from this post that they're starting in night time, I think they possibly start on somewhere that not a remote place, since they'll need more budget for lighting. So I guess they're starting on somewhere in downtown LA, like back on TAR25 where they started on Times Square?

Also, I think we can guess which potential flights they will be in and where they are heading to.

[gamerfan09]

Could "checkpoint" mean the first Pit Stop or the first clue? *shrugs*

[georgiapeach]

That is totally new!! Before it said 1030 but did not specify AM or PM

[claude_24hrs]

That is totally new!! Before it said 1030 but did not specify AM or PM

Isn't bit really 10:30? But in ET not PT?