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| #SoulSurfers |
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8 | 15.09% |
| #TeamNashville |
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1 | 1.89% |
| #TheWrestlers |
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9 | 16.98% |
| #TheDatingCouple |
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1 | 1.89% |
| #TheCyclists |
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2 | 3.77% |
| #MiamiRealtors |
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1 | 1.89% |
| #MomDaughter |
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3 | 5.66% |
| #TheFirefighters |
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6 | 11.32% |
| #SweetScientists |
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9 | 16.98% |
| #CollegeSweethearts |
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5 | 9.43% |
| #TheDentists |
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8 | 15.09% |
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Jeez heh, I've gotten used to poque's epeen reminders as a reminder to actually watch the drat show.
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Sep 27, 2014 05:27
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Watching this today was a WEIRD feeling. Amazing Race should not be on Fridays. Okay start to the season, nothing really to make it stand out as of yet.
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Sep 27, 2014 06:46
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Was hoping survivors or real estate would lose. I'll give the wrestlers one more episode. Really like the mother /daughter And thought I would hate the dentists, but was impressed with his ability at the task
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Sep 27, 2014 06:55
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MrDingleDangle posted:Was hoping survivors or real estate would lose. I'll give the wrestlers one more episode. Team Type A is always good at the tasks. That's not why we hate them.
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Sep 27, 2014 07:29
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Bye team eyecandy  At least theres still sharkbait (going to steal this from njbeachbum) Really disappointed the dentist took first because the guy is really loving creepy looking, especially during his team intro. Dont really have anyone I want to root for yet.
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Sep 27, 2014 07:44
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Sep 27, 2014 19:30
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DurosKlav posted:Bye team eyecandy Sharkbait - oh ah ah
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Sep 28, 2014 00:49
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Usually I'm intrigued to indifferent to new teams on this show but I actively hate most of these people.
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Sep 28, 2014 11:59
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Teams I like and hope might win: -Cyclists -Food scientists -Surfers Teams I don't like: -Dentists -Realtors Team that is going nowhere, in my opinion: -Boston firefighters Sadly, based on the first leg performance and securing the "safe", I think the Dentists have a high probability of winning, they just seem pretty competent. Oh, and the guy has roid-ragey intense douchebag kind of eyes, is what I think is putting people off. Maybe they will actually grow on me but I doubt it. The main thing I liked about the opening leg is the fact that Team Blonde Eye Candy had the idea for everybody to take the penalty due to assuming there was no way they'd lose a race to the mat. 
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Sep 28, 2014 17:40
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Truthfully I was expecting team blonde eye candy to get a penalty for stealing the pen out of their hands, scribbling over their names and stealing the spot on the plane. I assume they didn't get one just because it was a moot point.
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Sep 28, 2014 23:00
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I'm surprised at the hate for the Dentists. I liked them in the interviews and that episode just cinched it for me. Three reasons: 1) The self narration. It's the first time I saw a competitor putting forward his thinking process and I like it. 2) The compass watch. It was awesome that he had it and was able to check vs the compass in his hand and realize his mistake. 3) He helped everyone out who asked for it, even with the huge prize on the line. I hope they win it right now, but then again I said the same thing about the doctors two seasons ago and see how that turned out.
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Sep 28, 2014 23:15
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Hughlander posted:I'm surprised at the hate for the Dentists. I liked them in the interviews and that episode just cinched it for me. Three reasons: I've got to echo this, in the interview they totally came across as one of those teams that were going to take pride in being "villains" but the guy dentist was really awesome how he helped out everyone with the compass. Also when the girl dentist was saying about how smart he was and how he'd have no problems with the task I was expecting the usual amazing race "he's so smart" followed by gross incompetence, but no he actually destroyed the task. I also really like the fire fighters, I'm not sure why, they just seem really likeable in a Lou Ferrigno kind of way. what happened with the pen? I rewound to try and catch what went down but it was so crowded I couldn't make out who did what. Was it the realtors that grabbed it? If so they had no right to moan about being pushed away from the cab.
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Sep 29, 2014 00:12
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Yeah, team firefighter was in the process of writing their names down when team realty grabbed the pen from his hands and wrote their own name in. Nthing the Team Dentist love. Other than the dude's very menacing brow configuration, I think they may be my early root this season. Way to be prepared with a compass watch; I've always wondered if teams could bring equipment like that.
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Sep 29, 2014 01:17
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I think they only ban stuff like smartphones or ereaders or whatever. People have used their own pocket calculators. And of course you couldn't fly with like, a Swiss army knife.
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Sep 29, 2014 01:21
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That's why I said maybe I'll actually come to like the Dentists. I think the issue is simply one of maybe being fooled by appearances and prejudice. They merely LOOK like the kind of people (especially him) that I find are usually jockey-meathead douches. I do agree that I was impressed by his talking out his thought process. It's the kind of thing that I often do, and other people who I think are really competent at stuff. So it's not just that they killed the task, by "showing his work" I could see that it wasn't a fluke and dude actually knew what the hell he was doing, hence my assessment that they are one of the more competent teams.
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Sep 29, 2014 01:22
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It's not just the look of the dentists, but also pre game they said "What famous person reminds you of your teammate? Jenny McCarthy What scares you most about traveling? Traveling to places where Misti may not be safe (she tends to stand out in a crowd" So I was ready to hate them, but so far pleasantly surprised.
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Sep 29, 2014 03:05
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kitten posted:Truthfully I was expecting team blonde eye candy to get a penalty for stealing the pen out of their hands, scribbling over their names and stealing the spot on the plane. I assume they didn't get one just because it was a moot point. I was curious about this too. Isn't there a rule about not interfering with other contestants at tasks? I guess its not technically the task but still. Shoving has always been a contentious issue at these stops but somehow grabbing the pen crossed a line to me. Anyway, good riddance.
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Sep 29, 2014 21:56
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So when realtor chicks arrived and clearly saw they were going to be last - why didn't they just turn around and go back to digging for the treasure? It didn't seem that far between there and the pit stop, so you figure they may have still had a couple hours to try and get it before the 4hr penalty finished. Wouldn't that make sense to try til the last minute rather than accepting defeat? Or is there some rule that once you state that you're taking the penalty, it's locked in and you can't go back and finish the task instead?
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Sep 29, 2014 23:28
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Joose Caboose posted:So when realtor chicks arrived and clearly saw they were going to be last - why didn't they just turn around and go back to digging for the treasure? It didn't seem that far between there and the pit stop, so you figure they may have still had a couple hours to try and get it before the 4hr penalty finished. Wouldn't that make sense to try til the last minute rather than accepting defeat? Actually I can see making a case for both policies. It would be interesting, in these cases where multiple teams decide to take the penalty, if someone can "defect" and go back to doing the task. But if that's the case then everyone should have that option, to say "oh HO so that's how it's going to be, game on then!"
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Sep 29, 2014 23:32
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Did they all actually have to wait or since they were all taking the penalty did they just get told to race to the finish and it would be added on later?
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Sep 29, 2014 23:46
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ElwoodCuse posted:Did they all actually have to wait or since they were all taking the penalty did they just get told to race to the finish and it would be added on later? What happened a few seasons ago is that the three teams immediately left the task and headed to the pitstop, and the two teams that weren't eliminated had to wait an extra 4 hours before they could leave the pitstop.
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Sep 30, 2014 03:21
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I'm pretty sure you have to concede the task to get the location of the Pit Stop, which would otherwise be on the clue buried in the sand somewhere.
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Sep 30, 2014 03:30
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What's really sad is had a team just skipped the task altogether when they first showed up would have finished in like 6th and still had a good 4-5 hour lead over a few teams on the next leg.
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Sep 30, 2014 03:50
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I still can't get over the moment where one of the realtors stated that the sun sets in the east.
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Sep 30, 2014 03:55
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The Dark One posted:I still can't get over the moment where one of the realtors stated that the sun sets in the east. Even better was the other woman's response to that: Stunned silence...."Ok....sure...."
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Sep 30, 2014 04:28
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What I didn't understand is why, after seeing several teams barely dig to find it, the other teams left didn't just circle off a massive area and just drag the shovel around until they hit something.
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Sep 30, 2014 05:09
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sportsgenius86 posted:What I didn't understand is why, after seeing several teams barely dig to find it, the other teams left didn't just circle off a massive area and just drag the shovel around until they hit something. Probably because they had to find their own chest. Just going around randomly could get you someone else's and would make the clue that team got useless.
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Sep 30, 2014 05:27
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BaronVonVaderham posted:What's really sad is had a team just skipped the task altogether when they first showed up would have finished in like 6th and still had a good 4-5 hour lead over a few teams on the next leg. This actually seems a reasonable strategy, if you turn up and a task looks like a haystack challenge just take the penalty. Every season there seems to be at least one task that takes more than the four hour penalty for most teams. (The bar tending task from last season stands out here.)
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Sep 30, 2014 09:49
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jng2058 posted:I'm pretty sure you have to concede the task to get the location of the Pit Stop, which would otherwise be on the clue buried in the sand somewhere. And the times that just one team takes a penalty, they had to wait at the location of the roadblock before moving on. So far the only team I don't like is the wrestlers. I'm rooting for the gay couple and the firefighters, but I expect both those teams to get knocked out by the mid season.
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Sep 30, 2014 12:46
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jng2058 posted:Probably because they had to find their own chest. Just going around randomly could get you someone else's and would make the clue that team got useless. well, yea, but most of them looked separate enough from each other that you could circle off a fairly decent sized area without that concern.
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Sep 30, 2014 13:55
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sportsgenius86 posted:well, yea, but most of them looked separate enough from each other that you could circle off a fairly decent sized area without that concern. But if you've hosed up the compass part as badly as they had, just randomly grabbing a patch of sand is as likely as to be in someone else's turf as your own.
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Sep 30, 2014 22:01
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I think the point though is that they showed the last couple of teams digging maybe a foot or so away from where their chests actually were. I agree that they should've just scoured the area at that point, but for some reason they both just kept digging a deeper hole (literally and figuratively) in one spot.
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Oct 2, 2014 02:05
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jng2058 posted:But if you've hosed up the compass part as badly as they had, just randomly grabbing a patch of sand is as likely as to be in someone else's turf as your own. Yes but at the same time, you know it's a very imprecise process, so you should be digging wider, not deeper.
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Oct 2, 2014 04:05
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sportsgenius86 posted:Yes but at the same time, you know it's a very imprecise process, so you should be digging wider, not deeper. Hmmmm. Yeah, I'll give you that. Fair enough.
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Oct 2, 2014 06:53
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Giving up a pair of shoes to a very strong team is a really dumb thing to do. SUPER excited about this challenge.
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Oct 4, 2014 01:11
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We're racing, people! Given the choice, I'd have to pick the palace guard. What other opportunity are you going to get to do something like that? Man, I sure hope this detour doesn't require two arms.
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Oct 4, 2014 01:12
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Oh man, I can see a lot of teams screwing this task up.
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Oct 4, 2014 01:13
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Ghostpilot posted:We're racing, people! Sharkbait OOH AH AH... (I promise only to do this about 1000 more times)
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Oct 4, 2014 01:15
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Is it just me, or are they deliberately editing Bethany as to not reveal her missing arm?
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Oct 4, 2014 01:15
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OMG OXFORD?!? I WAS BORN IN OXFORD
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Oct 4, 2014 01:15
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