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Now an all around Amazing Race thread! You can check out the Season 36 cast courtesy of Sting 64!STING 64 posted:i made a makeshift OP if a mod or SGB wanna slide it in to the existing one The Amazing Race is back with season 35, this time with 90 minute episodes because of the writers strike. I guess this is actually the 36th season to be filmed, but they created and filmed a season based on having 90 minute episodes. So there is still a season filmed in 2022 that has not been aired. Don't worry if you haven't seen the previous season that aired, they will promptly spoil the winner in the first 10 minutes! This season features the Express Pass & a mandatory all teams vote U-turn at some point. This season also doesn't have any non-elimination legs, although I assume they still might have a non elimination episode / double leg. The season is going back to airports being part of the game, no chartered flights. Didn't seem to be any easy to hate teams in the first episode, so seems like a good start to the season. The website I got this cast and occupations from had them in order of how they finished Leg 1, so I shuffled them around a bit. Elizabeth & Iliana Mother & Daughter Retired Lieutenant (Elizabeth) Entrepreneur (Iliana)  Alexandra & Sheridan Siblings/Roommates Consultants (for the same company)  Joe & Ian Engaged Head of Business Development (Joe) Director of New Business (Ian)  Rob & Corey Father (deaf) /Son Teaching Assistant/Assistant Football Coach (Rob) Senior Manager of client strategy analytics (Corey)  Greg & John Brothers Software Developer (Greg) Product Manager (John)  Jocelyn & Victor Married / Grocery Store Managers  Morgan & Lena Sisters Marketing Executives  Andrea & Malaina Best Friends Director of Credit Management (Andrea) Tax Examiner Technician (Malaina)  Robbin & Chelsea Childhood Best Friends Stay-at-home Moms  Steve & Anna Leigh Father/Daughter Paint Contractor/ Speech Pathologist (Steve) Private Flight Attendant/Influencer (Anna Leigh)  Joel & Garrett Best Friends / Army bros Auto Claims Training Specialist (Joel) Delivery Driver (Garrett)  Liam & Yeremi Brothers Navy Veteran (Liam) Marine Corps Veteran (Yeremi  Todd & Ashlie Married Special Education Teacher (Todd) Hospitality Account Manager (Ashlie) 
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I liked Joe and Ian early on, but I think I'm shifting my faves right now to Greg and John. Also the colour-coding is really blatant this season, huh.
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Sep 28, 2023 17:09
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Yea not sure if the color coding is just for the viewers or also their production and camera crews so they know who to keep following... Also interesting that all their clothing is brand free, but the backpacks still have some branding on it, although hard to get a good view of the brands...
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Sep 29, 2023 08:48
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Digging the vibe of pretty much every team so far, hopefully that continues. Love the 90 minute episodes too, shame that it won't be a standard going forward though. The logic behind doing the swords challenge over the spa day was sound but man even being confident I would pick it up quickly there's absolutely no way I would have passed up "get a 30 minute deep tissue massage" to save maybe 10 minutes if everything went perfectly.
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Oct 1, 2023 00:48
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IcePhoenix posted:
Weirdly enough google says it takes a bit longer to get to the pit stop from the park too. So 5 minutes, if you do it right. I think they were expecting a lot more people to stop the massage and eat time that way.
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Oct 1, 2023 03:30
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It's the one massage parlor where you don't dare ask for the happy ending.
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Oct 1, 2023 03:50
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Please give me the sad ending… Good season so far, even if my wife and I joked about it being some sort of weird creepy incest casting. Are we nutjobs or did some of these people seem awfully close.
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Oct 1, 2023 04:02
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shazbot posted:Please give me the sad ending… The "Siblings/Roommates" definitely got a raised eyebrow from me but otherwise I didn't see anything overly weird.
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Oct 1, 2023 04:32
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IcePhoenix posted:The "Siblings/Roommates" definitely got a raised eyebrow from me but otherwise I didn't see anything overly weird. It raised an eyebrow, but they are in Chicago, so they probably need to roommate it up.
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Oct 1, 2023 05:07
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Sighence posted:Weirdly enough google says it takes a bit longer to get to the pit stop from the park too. So 5 minutes, if you do it right. I think they were expecting a lot more people to stop the massage and eat time that way. If they weren't split into two plane groups you'd see a lot more people doing swords.
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Oct 1, 2023 16:12
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Not sure if it's lucky or just cool to have a detour literally made for a team to crush. Asian grocery store owners having to get groceries in an Asian market? 
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Oct 5, 2023 10:36
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Not sure if it's lucky or just cool to have a detour literally made for a team to crush. Asian grocery store owners having to get groceries in an Asian market? I mean there was no guarantee they'd speak the language either, it just so happened that half of one team did (and it wasn't even the exact same dialect). I think the team that's quietly surprising me is Greg and John, I didn't pay much attention to them early on but I think right now they're my favourites.
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Oct 5, 2023 16:05
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I think it's cool that the teams I'm enjoying the most are the teams at the top of the packSLICK GOKU BABY posted:Not sure if it's lucky or just cool to have a detour literally made for a team to crush. Asian grocery store owners having to get groceries in an Asian market? There's always stuff that happens this way. I think most of the time it's rad because it's awesome just watching someone pop off. I forget which team it was but last season you had the one where they had to put together a motorcycle and one girl was like a literal mechanic as a hobby and she just blew past four teams who were all like "what the gently caress???"
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Oct 5, 2023 20:09
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IcePhoenix posted:I think it's cool that the teams I'm enjoying the most are the teams at the top of the pack yeah, that was the just-met-as-twins Emily and Molly, that was such a great moment
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Oct 8, 2023 05:19
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Why does amazing race get pirated so much earlier than survivor even though it airs later. Important questions
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Oct 12, 2023 02:11
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shazbot posted:Why does amazing race get pirated so much earlier than survivor even though it airs later. Important questions Because it's the better of the two shows
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Oct 12, 2023 03:41
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shazbot posted:Why does amazing race get pirated so much earlier than survivor even though it airs later. Important questions Because I bought the season pass for this season on Amazon Prime Video and it STILL won't let me watch episode 2.
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Oct 12, 2023 05:09
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I want to know how many takes it took Phil to do that "once they piece together" thing with the three photo pieces
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Oct 13, 2023 00:34
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Watching those girls panic and use their express pass at a clearly inopportune time and having it immediately bite them was funny.
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Oct 13, 2023 01:23
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IcePhoenix posted:Watching those girls panic and use their express pass at a clearly inopportune time and having it immediately bite them was funny. Hmm, I don't know. It was hard to parse whether or not they needed to get on that boat in the first place in order to use the Express Pass - it felt like they were trying to save it, but ran into a boat traffic jam and realized it would be better to just move past the task. I kinda feel like coming in sixth during a leg when you used your pass means that you DID use it at the right time though. Better to use it and move from last to 6th than use it to jump from 6th to 1st. It was only good for one more leg (though who knows if the next ep counts as Leg 3 or Leg 4) and you gotta get there if you wanna be able to use it.
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Oct 13, 2023 15:18
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Poque posted:Hmm, I don't know. It was hard to parse whether or not they needed to get on that boat in the first place in order to use the Express Pass - it felt like they were trying to save it, but ran into a boat traffic jam and realized it would be better to just move past the task. I kinda feel like coming in sixth during a leg when you used your pass means that you DID use it at the right time though. Better to use it and move from last to 6th than use it to jump from 6th to 1st. It was only good for one more leg (though who knows if the next ep counts as Leg 3 or Leg 4) and you gotta get there if you wanna be able to use it. They didn't move from last to sixth, they moved from fourth to sixth!
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Oct 13, 2023 15:27
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IcePhoenix posted:They didn't move from last to sixth, they moved from fourth to sixth! Right, and that IS very funny, but I was talking about the current leg and not their prior finish. They pretty clearly weren't finishing in sixth if they didn't use the pass, there's a pretty significant chance they come in last without it. They were on the record as wanting to use it to try to come in first in a leg, but that's way less important than straight-up surviving to continue racing at all Granted that's moot given the "not a non-elimination" non-elimination but that's irrelevant to their decision-making
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Oct 13, 2023 15:34
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Poque posted:Right, and that IS very funny, but I was talking about the current leg and not their prior finish. They pretty clearly weren't finishing in sixth if they didn't use the pass, there's a pretty significant chance they come in last without it. They were on the record as wanting to use it to try to come in first in a leg, but that's way less important than straight-up surviving to continue racing at all I don't think they were currently last in the leg when they used it. They just panicked about needing to queue at the boats and didn't factor in that all the other teams needed to as well, including all the ones behind them. The "proper" way to use it would have been to see where they were after they finished it, then use it for the detour to skip ahead.
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Oct 13, 2023 15:46
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IcePhoenix posted:I don't think they were currently last in the leg when they used it. They just panicked about needing to queue at the boats and didn't factor in that all the other teams needed to as well, including all the ones behind them. The "proper" way to use it would have been to see where they were after they finished it, then use it for the detour to skip ahead. Yeah I have no idea what place they were in, I got very confused by who was in what group (both planes and boats). Your proper way makes more sense. I still think it was smart for them to have used it on this leg, at least, even if they did a poor job at optimizing it.
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Oct 13, 2023 15:51
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There are going to be so many worse things to skip It was burning a hole in their pocket
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Oct 15, 2023 04:20
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Congratulations, you were the last team to get it right!
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Oct 19, 2023 10:00
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Congratulations, you were the last team to get it right! That was just painful
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Oct 19, 2023 12:11
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...I don't want to say a team doesn't deserve first place, because they worked for it, but that was one of the last teams I would have ever expected to win a leg.
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Oct 19, 2023 14:39
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I really dislike needle in a haystack challenges like that causing an elimination Especially when it's a team I really liked 
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Oct 20, 2023 01:04
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yeah that couple was probably my favorite team to watch.
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Oct 20, 2023 01:14
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If we could switch who came in first and last, I'd be much happier
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Oct 20, 2023 01:17
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IcePhoenix posted:I really dislike needle in a haystack challenges like that causing an elimination The most infamous challenge ever I think was literally the haystack rollout It does suck in a way but it's classic Amazing Race randomness right alongside lovely cab drivers and flat tires
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Oct 20, 2023 01:33
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maybeadracula posted:The most infamous challenge ever I think was literally the haystack rollout Oh I'm very aware, it's why I used that specific metaphor. But since then they have generally only used those kinds of challenges on non-elimination legs and just had them serve as a way to reshuffle the pack.
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Oct 20, 2023 01:56
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I think they're just trying to make this season harder; between the lotus roadblock, the detours last week, and then more physical exertion + the roadblock this week, probably to shut up the people who were saying the last few seasons were too easy.
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Oct 20, 2023 11:38
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lmao at the dude wiping his tears with his beard
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Oct 20, 2023 18:21
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Rob and Corey are easily my favorite team this season and seeing them come from back of the pack after the first challenge all the way up to 6th because of their positive attitude made me tear up a little
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Oct 27, 2023 17:08
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Some really fantastic camerawork in that last chase between the final two teams.
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Oct 30, 2023 00:18
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This U-turn thing is incredibly boring. It removes all the strategy of deciding if you want to use it or not, guessing if a team is in front or behind you, etc.
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Nov 2, 2023 02:57
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SteveVizsla posted:This U-turn thing is incredibly boring. It removes all the strategy of deciding if you want to use it or not, guessing if a team is in front or behind you, etc. 
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Nov 2, 2023 03:01
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The "out of towner" is really annoying and I have no idea why the think people will understand that phrase?
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