Author Topic: TARCAN 9 Episode 3 (July 18, 2023) LIVE SHOW UPDATES and DISCUSSION THREAD!  (Read 1345 times)

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« Last Edit: July 18, 2023, 05:21:09 PM by Leafsfan. »

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25 mins till start

I can't be here tonight sorry
« Last Edit: July 18, 2023, 07:39:30 PM by Leafsfan. »


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This was an improvement over leg 2.
It was actually frustrating that it was non-elim.
If were not for that, design wise, the double one-way that was left unused last leg, might have fitted better, were this not a non-elim.

We finally see the assit being used, but it seems not every task is eligiable for it, which is something I thought it might be when it was introduced.
Seems like the additional info of the clue will indicate if a task is "Assist-able" or not. Which makes me wonder if we're going to find more needle in haystack tasks, to force teams to use it.

Well, they are definitely fitting Samsung every leg, it seems, even if that is oddly fitted. Were they strapping the phones on them somehow, because as far as I remember you can't carry things that can fall (gravity, after all) when bungee jumping.
Going back to the beginning, there was clearly an easier detour side, than the other, and that was what scrambled the teams from bus 1 and bus 2. That 15 minute gap between arrivals, matters little when there is clear different level of difficulty for the immediate task ahead.
It wasn't clear visually how far apart were the tables set for that ARI. Great ARI by the way.

Onto the final topic, the frustration of the P word being called, not once but twice. At least the amount of penalty seems decent, though they clearly did not serve the entirety of the combined 6 hour penalty, and nothing was addressed if they remainder of the penaly would be added for the following leg. Seems unlikely, considering how the Guru board works, limiting teams to two departure options, with arrivals set 15 minute apart.
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Not a bad episode. I found the detour very imbalanced. Why did they choose 10 words to memorize? I think 4-5 words would have been better and made it more balanced.

The drag queens really lucked out, this reminds of Rex/Bob in leg 2 of TARCAN 2 lucking out

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Still a step up from the last Whistler leg. The Detour would the deciding factor of the leg had we not gotten Rex & Bob 2.0. I can't help but be reminded of TAR Asia and Nokia when seeing how Samsung has been integrated. Unless its showboating, not sure why Derpal view Gracie & Lily as the team to beat when another has been in the top 2 every leg.


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Not a bad episode. I found the detour very imbalanced. Why did they choose 10 words to memorize? I think 4-5 words would have been better and made it more balanced.
Either that, on adding difficulty to the other side, by adding a second word, or by making it a setence, instead of a single word.

The drag queens really lucked out, this reminds of Rex/Bob in leg 2 of TARCAN 2 lucking out

I had forgotten about that, and Maanca reminded me of it. Not sure which was worse.

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Rex & Bob definitely had the luck on their side that a team happened to medevac that leg. You pretty much know in the 3rd or 4th leg of a season that a non-elimination is coming.