as up there. Did we have a rule change?

I've been wondering about that too. Would David and Mary have been allowed to do a second FF because they were teamed with Lyn and Karlyn who hadn't done one? Or are teams now allowed to take FF regardless of whether they already have taken FF?

Honestly, really, I wish they would just stop having Fast Forwards.

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Actually, I liked Fast Forwards on every leg. I liked players with a lead taking the FF to extend the lead... and the possibility that a later team would try to use it (not knowing that it was already gone).

I also think that having more FFs would give us more instances of it actually HARMING a team, as we've seen two or three times in the history of the show.

I did like making two teams perform the FF... can you imagine the addicts reaction if Kimberly just couldn't finish eating the cow's lips (or even if she had a caviar-like reaction)?

Edited to correct Kimberly's name, because I have their team confused with the evil Kelly from a couple of seasons ago. They are the same team, right?

and I agree. I liked it better when there were more FF's.

I wouldn't put it past Karlyn to realize that being paired with Team Kentucky all but guaranteed her team would avoid Philimination. After all, all L/K had to do was reach the mat within 30 minutes of Dave/Mary, stroll past the "marked for elimination timeout zone", and check in with Phil.

If used properly, the Intersection could be used as strategically as a Yield.

I liked the idea of it and I think, as others have stated, that it would have had more of an impact (and been more interesting) if it had lasted for longer than just the detour. What if it had lasted through the pitstop and starting the next leg? (there would have been the issue of uneven number of teams but I'm sure there could have been a creative way to work that out)

I also agree it would have been more useful when there had been more teams left in the race. Bigger variables. Rather boring when 1/3 of the racers are at the fast forward leaving only two sets left to compete.

Try it next year but during the first few legs. THAT would be more fun.

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I would have like to see the teams stay linked until they were about fifty feet from the Pit Stop. Travel together through the Detour and Roadblock, head for the PS as a unit, figuring it's a tie for first or a non-elimination leg of some weird sort. And then, just when they see Phil, someone yells 'BREAK!'

You could start an awesome betting pool on who would have been frozen in shock for the longest time. And who would plant an elbow in someone's stomach to get three extra seconds on their lead. (I vote Lyn.)

Oooh! The most interesting suggestion of all! The Cho brothers would have been too gentlemenly to knock the Barbies down. David & Mary would have waited for Lyn & Karlyn only to be knocked aside.

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I liked it.

The Beauty Queens effectively got yielded by the intersection... in fact, this twist could be much more devastating than a yield... everyone could refuse to work with the first team to arrive, leaving them with a David/Mary or Lyn/Karlyn-esque team.

>The Beauty Queens effectively got yielded
>by the intersection... in fact,
>this twist could be much
>more devastating than a yield...
>everyone could refuse to work
>with the first team to
>arrive, leaving them with a
>David/Mary or Lyn/Karlyn-esque team.

My 14 year-old son had a better strategy... the Cho Brothers should have taken a dive on the detour and not completed it until about 60 minutes AFTER David and Mary completed it. Would it have put them at a disadvantage? Sure, but not knowing what was ahead, as a Cho I certainly would have liked my chances in a footrace against the blondes.

If the intersection had kept the teams together until the end and required a footrace to the mat, that would have been the lamest twist ever. I liked how it forced the teams to cooperate for a time, but by breaking them up after the detour it forced the teams to get to the mat on their OWN abilities, not taking advantage of/sabotaging another team's racing.

And, as we saw... D/K pretty much walked all over the Chos once they were separated!

Even if it was a footrace, I'd give the BQs a good shot as I suspect they are in much better shape than the Chos. In the Mauritius leg, the brothers were completely out of breath after the swim out to the boat. Muscles do not equal speed.

>... everyone could refuse to work with the first team to
>arrive, leaving them with a David/Mary or Lyn/Karlyn-esque team.

Only if the other teams arrived more or less at the same time, in pairs - as happened in this case. I think if no other teams were in the area, the two teams would be stuck with each other, enemies or not.

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