FOR THE RECORD:
At the Muddy course, NINE Jeeps are lined up at the Start Line. So the pattern continues:
EP 1 - 11 SUV's in the Brooklyn Bridge Parking Lot
EP 2 - 10 Stretchers and Orderlies lined up on the Battlefield
EP 3 - 9 Jeeps lined up at the Muddy run.
Why?
Some other interesting sights:
The teams on the first Independence Air flight had to check their backpacks (nobody is seen with one on getting on the plane) IAir flies small 50-seat reagional jets.
The teams on the USAir and United Flight carried their gear on board.
Later when teams are running around NASA Space and Rocket Center, all of them are now carrying, in addition to their backpacks, all of their camping gear. I guess the producers shipped it all down for them since they never had any of that gear in Charleston, SC.
All the boarding passes were issued by the SAME machine whether the flights were on IAir, United, or USAirlines.
The closeup of numbers being pulled off at the centrifuge was filmed afterwards with the same hand pulling off each number.(Hiding No. 9??)
Everyone kept the same order after arriving in Huntsville except the Aiellos. They got off the second bus in second place, but ended up getting off the centrifuge in last place. People have been saying (TES, for example) that they lost the leg because of getting stuck in the mud. But they were on equal footing with three other teams on the bus to Huntsville. They lost time getting from the bus to the NASA site and arrived last at the centrifuge. By the bye, the Centrifuge was the buncher of all bunches. Everyone finished the race in the same order that they finished the centrifuge.