The Amazing Race -- All-Purpose Thread

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

WEEK 1 SCORING:

Drew Wilson 21
MTM 10
TigerVols 9
IJAG 8
Huggy 7
Inky_Wretch 6
LieslnTx 5
WolvEagle 4
Wenders 3
Jay Farrar 2
* beanpole 1

* = Team has been eliminated from TAR

 

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

The tall dude and his short best friend are from Michigan, right? I'm just guessing.

 

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

I am also convinced that a lot of thsoe teams had no idea what an abacus was.

Rob and Sheila discuss getting gassed in the first leg:

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Amazing-Race-Rob-Sheila-1054093.aspx

 

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

It's one of the Discovery Network channels. Ambitious original programming at first, but now it just recycles Whale Wars and Survivorman and Frozen Planet.

 

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

Y'all, for the record, I'm battling a case of bronchitis. Going to bed at 9 so I can try to get nine hours sleep before a return to the office tomorrow morning.

I'll score the episode tomorrow after work. That's when I'll have a chance to watch both TAR and Dexter.

 

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

I'm sad for the couple that left because it was a case of bad taxi drivers completely screwing them. The twins really impressed me this leg, along with my couple.

Just curious...if you were running the Amazing Race, would you feel comfortable (especially in the first few legs) to take a flight that NO ONE else is on and run the risk of either getting a huge lead or a huge deficit? I would almost say that for the first half of the race, it's almost safer to take a flight that everyone else is on, so that way, any delays affect everyone and all you have to do is beat one other team.

 

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

Wenders - I agree with you. That was a huge gamble that could have easily knocked them out of the game, but they recovered.

I really thought my guys were toast because the short guy couldn't blow the balloons. Then again, I probably would have done just as bad.

And, at the end, I'm sure Phil really appreciated being hugged by the twins, then having to stand there, reeking of fish while everyone else came to the mat. He was a good sport about it. He probably changed clothes as quickly as he could once taping was done.

 

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

WEEK 2 SCORING:

Drew Wilson 28
IJAG 28
TigerVols 13
Wenders 12
* MTM 11
Inky_Wretch 11
LieslnTx 11
Huggy 10
Jay Farrar 10
WolvEagle 6
* beanpole 1

* = Team has been eliminated from TAR



Holy shit is the tall half of the best friends pair a raging asshole. I don't know if he's Gary or Will, because I have friends with both those names and I don't want to associate that dickweed with a friend's name.

 

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

Gary is the tall one.

 

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

That's mean after I said I didn't want to know.

 

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

I hate non-elimination legs, but I was hoping for one Sunday, and not just because my team went out. I wanted to see how well Amy did with her prosthetics. She and Daniel want to be there, while Mutt and Jeff have already given up.

Wenders, you are right, stay with the pack. When the two teams got to the ice house together, my wife thought one should tackle the other task, but I said it's better to keep an eye on your opponent.

And finally, and I say this every season, I realize the necessity for equalizers, but I hate that a team can make a 4-hour mistake and only be penalized by being at the back of the line when everyone's at the same place and there's no skill in completing the task.

How about having the teams do the tasks in order they arrived by time. If you're last by four hours, you wait that long.

 

Re: The Amazing Race -- 2012-2013 All-Purpose Thread

I'd approach it the way I approach a survivor football pool...you can't win it if you don't stay in it, so surround yourself with others (or, in the football pool, always pick the usuals early, like the Pats and the Giants.) And from what we know about TAR, there is no such thing as a huge lead.