Unpopular opinion sorry but I didn't enjoy the Malawi episodes that much unfortunately. Does anyone else think its weird to see such few teams racing in African legs - all the way down to F4? Typically they are mid-season.
Quite a lot of the tasks were make/build something and were a bit repetitive over two episodes. I think this is also heightened from the previous two legs being in somewhat similar southern African countries.
I am also seriously pissed off with the intervals that they are releasing the teams in - why the hell did they now decide to release teams two minutes apart and randomly show us the times this leg
This is pretty frustrating to me as it removes a core principle of the race being continuous over the twelve legs?? Not fair on both Jasmine/Jerome that were just seconds apart and Viv/Joey that appeared quite far behind on the NEL.
I understand that the producers don't want to repeat exact placements in consecutive legs (as this is anti-climatic/boring) but legs should be designed to counter this fact - this is particularly a problem in this season as there are so many double legs in countries

However, they could still use HOO, sign up boards, internal bus/train/flight travel to counter this.
On the other hand, its also extremely frustrating that we are not getting any flight drama whatsoever and that teams appear to be forced to travel together on the same flight by production. There has not been a single leg with multiple flight arrivals this season and I doubt that will happen next week.
Luckily, the teams have really been delivering this season and at least Tom/Tyler are pretty likable to overcome their 1st place dominance. I feel though that their dominance is in sometimes due to the poor leg designs in numerous legs however? Also special mentions to Tim/Rod for smashing the Leg 9 U-Turn and Viv/Joey during the Leg 10 Roadblock.
The production this season is letting it down for me, although I'm grateful TARAu is back on our screens and the teams are pretty amazing. Personally think the South Korea and Mongolia legs have been the best so far.
Looking forward to Thailand as I think it will deliver!

RANT OVER
