Luck Based Mission

I don't know exactly what the producers were thinking when they came up with some of the components of this leg. It seemed odd that in such an important week (being double-elimination and all) that they made the taxicabs such an important element. Giving them that long taxicab right from the start meant bad news for people like Ethan/Jenna who got lousy ones, especially since the rappelling challenge didn't give much of a chance to catch up. It was a very linear leg, it seemed.

Week 2 Results
1st place - Andy/Tommy (2x)
2nd place - Laurence/Zac (1.7x)
3rd place - Kaylani/Lisa (1.5x)
4th place - Ernie/Zac (1.1x)
5th place - Liz/Marie (1.1x)
6th place - Jeremy/Sandy (even)
7th place - Bill/Cathi (.9x)
8th place - Justin/Jennifer (.7x)
9th place - Amani/Marcus (.5x)
10th place - Ethan/Jenna (.3x)
11th place - Ron/Bill (0x)

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I couldn't think of a fun and whimsical adjective to put as the banner title, so I'm going with "adjective". Which isn't an adjective. But whatever. Leave me alone.

We had three new players join the game in Week 2. Welcome aboard to Georjanna, taffnic, and Deshawnator11! I see that threat to bring Estee into the game has motivated people to get their acts together!

The Greatest Gainer Award goes to the player who climbs (gains?) the most (greatest?) ranks, thereby winning a prize (award?). This week, our winner is the one and only IanQuentin, who climbed 21 ranks to #13 overall. Very adjective.

The Perfect Bet Award also goes to IanQuentin, but he's gotta share this prize with popeave. Both of them made perfect All-In bets on Andy/Tommy this week. Their bets were also very adjective.

It's also not Element King's birthday anymore, so stop wishing happy birthday.

Only 350+ days to go!

Leaderboard
1. michel - 76
2. Yogi - 74
3. beau_30 - 69
4. ARNutz - 66
5. vennui - 63
6. Max Headroom - 60
7. CTgirl - 60
8. Jims02 - 58
9. flipxcyd - 55
10. 5cats - 55
11. KwietOne - 50
12. Ontheroadagain - 42
13. IanQuentin - 40
14. sarah1234 - 38
15. Puffy - 37
16. Wallflower66 - 37
17. Booted - 35
18. alemattos - 35
19. Weez - 35
20. louislam - 34
21. Molaholic - 32
22. samboohoo - 32
23. qwertypie - 32
24. Scuba Steve - 32
25. LeftPinky - 31
26. FFantasyFX - 30
27. chiubakka - 30
28. Starshine - 30
29. Belle Book - 29
30. Georjanna - 29
31. jbug - 28
32. popeave - 26
33. cahaya - 25
34. Snidget - 24
35. jbenz - 19
36. bbenzenberg - 18
37. esquire - 18
38. kidflash212 - 17
39. Element King - 16
40. taffnic - 15
41. Deshawnator11 - 14
42. MzTee - 13

Week 2 is certainly where players started to separate themselves... Well, unless you're part of the 24-to-32 posse of Molaholic, samboohoo, qwertypie, and Scuba Steve. But otherwise you're seeing a spread of scores. michel is currently leading the way.

New Players Still Welcome!

Through the next 2 weeks, the TAR Casino will be open to new entrants. As mentioned previously, all new players this week will be given 10 points to play. For the official rules, please consult last week's entry.

Week 3 Payout Table
1st place - 2x
2nd place - 1.8x
3rd place - 1.2x
4th place - 1.1x
5th place - Break even
6th place - .9x
7th place - .8x
8th place - .2x
9th place - 0x

Max Individual Bet - 30 points

Stoopid TAR Producers, made me skip the 1st-to-10th payout table. That's always the 2x/2x/2x/2x/2x/2x/2x/2x/2x/2x payout. It's a shame we have to skip it this year.

TAR19 Teams Remaining
Amani/Marcus
Andy/Tommy
Bill/Cathi
Ernie/Cindy
Jeremy/Sandy
Justin/Jennifer
Kaylani/Lisa
Laurence/Zac
Liz/Marie

Good luck!

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