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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #375 on: October 24, 2017, 04:11:03 AM »
 :talk :talk

Thanks everyone.

So, still no final location news because they are still wrapping up?

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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #376 on: October 24, 2017, 04:35:42 AM »
And don't forget DavidJunior and his two friends who were awesome tonight!

And huge :tu to our fabulous ground crew both tonight and yesterday in HK!

Graytex, Dale, Stephen and friend, Vic, cbc...you all were AMAZING!!


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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #377 on: October 24, 2017, 06:58:50 AM »
If this was already posted, please delete but I don't remember seeing it.

On Instagram maxprice3 posted a video in Hong Kong giving wrong directions to the skiers.

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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #378 on: October 24, 2017, 08:48:30 AM »
Do we already have this? It's from HK:

kenn_lo_raforth 4h ago
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/IiDThj6Vn8c" target="_blank" class="new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/IiDThj6Vn8c</a>
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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #379 on: October 27, 2017, 11:40:03 PM »
Phil posted this. Is this San Francisco Bay?

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bax0q-dA6O_/?hl=en
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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #380 on: October 28, 2017, 02:02:09 AM »
The buildings between the photogs resembles the Rincon Hill towers. I'd say the boat they were on was halfway between SF and Yerba Buena island and south of the bridge. Sources:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bax0q-dA6O_/?hl=en
https://goo.gl/maps/nK2xkKC6KH42
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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #381 on: October 28, 2017, 07:47:12 AM »
REPOST (from Above^^)


NEXT:

Teams are picked up by Zodiac boats...taken away:  (Zodiac Pics from earlier)






SPEC:
Taken out to sea?? Bay Bridge??

Overheard: First team just JUMPED!

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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #382 on: October 28, 2017, 05:22:27 PM »
Here is some information on the "jump" comment.  The racers left the kayaks via zodiac boat (Pier 40/South Beach Harbor/AT&T Park).  They arrived at Pier 15/Exploratorium approximately 1 hour later.  During this 1 hour (maybe at the 45 minute mark?) I overheard one of the waiting production staff say, "The first team just jumped."  That was all I heard and no other context.  So wherever this "jump" was, they had to be able to get from Pier 40 to Pier 15 by boat with the "jump" in between.  The quoted picture of the skiers was taken at Pier 15 when they got off the boat and they don't look wet.

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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #383 on: November 01, 2017, 03:39:39 PM »
I don't think this was posted.

Found a small article in french about TAR's visit to Saint-Tropez.
According to the article, they played boules (=pétanque I think ?) at Place de Lices.

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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #384 on: November 08, 2017, 12:49:49 AM »
A blog post about Reykjavik fwiw:
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Afterward we went to a brewery near the shipyard called Bryggjan Brugghús (great food and decor), and on our way we saw some Amazing Race contestants running toward the boats (spoiler alert!).
The restaurant mentioned is next to Fiskihöfn harbor.


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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #385 on: December 27, 2017, 11:13:06 AM »
Had a walk around Aberdeen in Hong Kong earlier this week, where racers went after their clue at the Peak. The following information is compiled from a few different accounts, some of which may have been our race, some of which may have been something else completely:

- Teams were directed to Kwun Hoi Path, about a 400m walk along the waterfront from the Jumbo Dock used in TAR 17.

- Teams went south on boats from Kwun Hoi Path. This brings them towards the floating restaurants and yacht marinas in Po Chong Wan, instead of the old boats to the west of Kwun Hoi Path featured on TAR 17. Hopefully this means we won't be seeing a switchback of the sampan Detour in TAR 17.

- A new company none of the locals were familiar with was hired to provide the boats and drivers.

- Both the Jumbo and Tai Pak floating restaurants were used. (We've seen the Jumbo before in the Australian and Chinese versions.) The top decks were decorated to look like gambling dens. Were they going for the Macau casino vibe from Skyfall?

- Fireworks/cannons/guns were fired from the boats.

What do you guys make of this? Perhaps something like the gambling riverboat task in Louisiana from TAR 8, coupled with the fireworks task in Mexico from TAR 28? (I've been waiting to see a mahjong task feature on a Hong Kong leg!)



Also popped by Antwerp last month. EVERYONE remembers the crazy people in the fries costumes, but no one knew anything else.
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Re: Amazing Race 30 LIVE Sightings! Tweets Go Here! **please read post 1**
« Reply #386 on: January 03, 2018, 05:39:05 PM »
The TAR 30 Finale concluded at the USS Hornet in Alameda  with the Final Mat taking place on the Flight Deck.


The Final Three Teams picked up their clues at the San Francisco City Hall and arrived by taxi to the HORNET.


There was a Clue Box beside the ship.


Teams changed into Olive Green/Brown jumpsuits and heavy boots.


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