Topic: TAR CANADA 8 Speculation and Discussion of the LIVE SPOILERS

[Joberio]

So ummm... Jully and Kathy being eliminated first creates a giant wrinkle in everything. 



Do they get brought back later on in the season like Dwes and Katherine from TARAUS5?

Where was that taped?  Are those really Jully & Kathy?

[redskevin88]

So ummm... Jully and Kathy being eliminated first creates a giant wrinkle in everything. 

TAR Canada 8 has just pioneered a new innovation. Instead of an Elimination Station, decoy racers beginning from Leg 1. 

[Leafsfan.]

lol no Elimination Station?? Or maybe a team got Covid and they came back in ("wait till you watch the season")??

[OMGitsGARRET]

lol no Elimination Station?? Or maybe a team got Covid and they came back in ("wait till you watch the season")??

That TARCAN interview did say that:
"Whether any of the cast or crew came down with COVID during the run of the series is something viewers will have to discover for themselves."

My cracked theory is a team is going to test positive for COVID (probably a false positive) and get removed from the season so they bring back Jully and Kathy to replace them.

[Leafsfan.]

Yea that makes the most logical sense ATP. I wonder which team will have this unlucky fate?

[Parasparopagraho]

^

One of the other early boots, e.g. the Whistler couple or the Uncle/Nephew.

[Joberio]

Yea that makes the most logical sense ATP. I wonder which team will have this unlucky fate?

Dennis & Durrell or Ali & Court, most likely, since they're looking like the early boots of this season, since the other teams have evidence of going much farther in the race.

[stunami]

Maybe this is as something to do with Craig and Catherine being the only team missing from the Kelowna airport?

If not than, I think leg 2 is non elimination, and that two teama gets covid after leg 3, which would explain why they bring the girls back for leg 4 or 5?

[TARUSAFan]

So ummm... Jully and Kathy being eliminated first creates a giant wrinkle in everything. 

TAR Canada 8 has just pioneered a new innovation. Instead of an Elimination Station, decoy racers beginning from Leg 1. 

I got confused as well, but that theory, made my day 

[Parasparopagraho]

Maybe this is as something to do with Craig and Catherine being the only team missing from the Kelowna airport?

If not than, I think leg 2 is non elimination, and that two teama gets covid after leg 3, which would explain why they bring the girls back for leg 4 or 5?

The latter has precedents not only with Kate & Kelly, but also Zainab & Monica.

[I ♥ TAR]

Hmm, so no signs of Dennis & Durrell, Court & Alli and Catherine & Craig in the promo for next episode. These 3 teams were only teams missing in Leg 5 Kelowna as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dilNC9CVSAw (7 cars only). So did TARCAN really have covid outbreak? It looks like they brought back Jully & Kathy and Cassie & Jahmeek as replacements for these teams... And we have evidence of at least 1 of these "positive" teams (Catherine & Cragi) rejoining the race in the later leg. Well this just got super confusing...

[Parasparopagraho]

There's always the chance that C & C were simply unseen in Vernon and/or won a Fast Forward.

[stunami]

So are they bringing back eliminated team one at a time?

It kind of makes sense that they would bring back the two eliminated teams if two teams gets covid!

[Parasparopagraho]

Eh, it could be both simultaneously a la Season 33.

[Leafsfan.]

Since one net team was lost due to Covid, I wonder if we have 10 legs instead of 11.

[Joberio]

Since one net team was lost due to Covid, I wonder if we have 10 legs instead of 11.

And I wonder what explains Catherine & Craig being on the final leg if they were removed over COVID?

[fossil-racer]

Since one net team was lost due to Covid, I wonder if we have 10 legs instead of 11.

And I wonder what explains Catherine & Craig being on the final leg if they were removed over COVID?

They were sighted in Leg 7 as well, well before the finale. Odd 3 teams were pulled

[Jjw26]

Since one net team was lost due to Covid, I wonder if we have 10 legs instead of 11.

And I wonder what explains Catherine & Craig being on the final leg if they were removed over COVID?

False positive?

[stunami]

I’m not sure how I feel about Craig and Catherine having a 2 leg break… (or maybe even 3)!
Kinda sucks covid ****ed everything up, I fear TARC8 will have a TAR33 vibe where things are a bit wierd…

[Parasparopagraho]

Perhaps C & C won a haMerotz-style competition over C & A and D & D to reenter the race. /s

[OMGitsGARRET]

Perhaps C & C won a haMerotz-style competition over C & A and D & D to reenter the race. /s

I know there's an /s there but I almost feel like that would be the best way to handle the situation lol?

Since they are basically one team short in the season schedule, it would make sense that once the three COVID removed teams finally start testing negative, at least one of them would return. It would be random and kind of unfair if the producers just randomly picked Craig and Catherine to return over the other two. There has to be a reason why Craig and Catherine specifically were the ones to return.

Then again, just because we didn't see Court & Ali and Dennis & Durrell after this doesn't necessarily mean they never came back? Just speculation but maybe once all three teams test negative, they'd all compete in a regular leg with the others as 'Second Chance' teams but only racing against each other and the team that finishes that leg first is the one that returns, and it ends up being Craig and Catherine. Either that or maybe they just won a random competition? Or the producers really did just randomly bring them back.

[stunami]

That's very true!! Maybe the other teams do return, and that's why we have a final 4?

Maybe from now on we have no more NEL?
We know Kathy and Jully are eliminated leg 5 (unless it's back to back NEL, but I doubt)
We know the other 6 teams survived leg 6
We know Craig and Catherine are back at least on leg 7 (maybe even leg 6)

Leg 4 started somewhere around May 3rd-5th while leg 6 was around May 11th, so it gives time for those 3 teams to test negative again (I think the measures at that time was that once you tested positive, you had to stay in isolation for like 5 days? and test twice negative)

So maybe something like this:

Leg 5 in Vernon: K&J eliminated, 6 teams remain
Leg 6 in London: All 3? (depending on when they test negative again) return we go from 9 teams to 8
Leg 7 in P.E.County: 8 teams to 7
Leg 8 in Ottawa: 7 teams to 6
Leg 9 in rural Qc?: 6 teams to 5
Leg 10 in Owen Sound: 5 teams to 4
Finale with 4 teams: That would explain why we have 4 teams!

Then if it's just Craig and Catherine that returns then we have a lot of NEL coming up

[Xoruz]

I’m not sure how I feel about Craig and Catherine having a 2 leg break… (or maybe even 3)!
Kinda sucks covid ****ed everything up, I fear TARC8 will have a TAR33 vibe where things are a bit wierd…

Same, hoping that they don't pull a Shanghai Rush.

[Parasparopagraho]

The two-week break until the next episode suggests a ten-leg season, i.e. a finale still on schedule to air the 13th of September rather than the 20th, the day before the Season 34 premiere.

[NELs]

The two-week break until the next episode suggests a ten-leg season, i.e. a finale still on schedule to air the 13th of September rather than the 20th, the day before the Season 34 premiere.

Your proof is?