The first to actually be heard flushing, if I'm not mistaken.

Oh, and it's pronounced terlit.


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Of course they go. They don't get described as pissin' and moanin' for nothing.

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Lack of sleep? They just had a 12 hour pit stop. They had a wonderful night under the stars with all the food they could eat.

Don't give me that.

What happens is that when they go back and read the clue when there is a problem, they see what they want to.

I work in sales and when I put a lead time on quote of 3-4 weeks the customer always puts a 3 week lead time. When I call and tell them that it might be 4 weeks they complain that the quote said 3. When I have them get the quote out and read it to me they all go "Oh I didn't see that the first time." Even though they saw the three weeks.

msquared

Teams have the 12 hour pitstops, but they don't get to sleep the whole time. They have hours on hours of interviews with the camera crew and hosts. Then they have to eat, plan for tomorrow and unpack for the night, repack in the morning, clean themselves off as best as they can, refill water bottles, etc. At this stage, they probably also had to hand wash, wring and dry their clothes. After all that stuff is done, they probably have 6 hours of sleep, tops. Add the fact that the 'night under the stars' was on a dusty hard terrain, with the noise from wild animals in the background, 90 degree plus weather and no bathrooms or running water in sight, and you've got the camping trip from hell. Every racer that has ever been interviewed has said the schedule is hell and they were absolutely exhasuted, pitstops or no pitstops. So I can see careless mistakes happening quite easily, especially since the racers are rushing so much.

That last pitstop in the middle of nowhere looked terrible.
( Though I'm not much of a camper, so maybe it just looked horrible to me)
I agree that most teams wouldn't have gotten a nice relaxing rest stop under those conditions.
The race itself is also stressful and draining.

But that said, these are the kinds of conditions that separate the really good teams from the rest of the pack.
Teams that double check the clues, know the rules, take an extra minute to buy a map at Airports, ask for directions, tend to do better. It's part of the Race to be on your game.

I do think that when teams are tired they make more mistakes, we all do, but that's all part of the game.

I think we can expect to see more simple mistakes as it goes on.

>The race itself is also stressful and draining.
>
>But that said, these are the kinds of conditions that separate
>the really good teams from the rest of the pack.
>
>Teams that double check the clues, know the rules, take an
>extra minute to buy a map at Airports, ask for directions, tend
>to do better. It's part of the Race to be on your game.
>
>
>I do think that when teams are tired they make more mistakes, we
>all do, but that's all part of the game.
>
>I think we can expect to see more simple mistakes as it goes on.

I agree on all counts.

Tell me about it. I do computer repairs, and a large percentage of service calls would never be done if people just read what is in front of them.

I have been on calls for printers that do not work, only to arrive and see in BIG GLOWING LETTERS the words "Out of paper in tray". And when you point this out and prove that all it needed was paper by putting it in I get, "But I already know how to do that, you are not going to charge us are you?".

Other people complain the user manual is no good, when I ask them to read the part that they don't understand or what I say answers thier problem, what they read aloud are not the words on the paper. Even after I point out thier mistake and ask them to SLOWLY and CAREFULLY read the manual word by word, they still read back something diffirent than what is written down.

I even once guided a customer's finger word by word to get him to read it properly and he still changed the words. I had to force him to reread the word three times by preventing him to more his finger to the next word to get him to see his mistake.

Insulting yes, however this customer came in on a Monday yelling he spent all weekend trying to get "this piece of crap" (his words) to work, and he was going to sue us unless we not only refunded the money for the part but also money for the time he wasted over the weekend.

An entire weekend and he could not read the sentence once the correct way, his day job - Nuclear Plant Reactor Monitor.

>I'm reluctant to criticize these people
>for misinterpreting their instructions.
>The teams are all short
>on sleep and possibly food,
>they've got teams whizzing by
>them left and right, and
>perhaps they're worn down by
>constantly dealing with strangers and
>strange tasks in strange lands.
> It's natural to assume
>their reading comprehension skills take
>a dive under those circumstances.
>
>
>But it sure does look bad,
>doesn't it?

You make all valid points but what happends when teams make up things in the instructions that are not even there? Like when the brother was climbing the water tower? LOL.
The instructions said the clue would be under the water tower, not inside. So the brother climbing up the tower was nothing more than a waste of time and thus cost them the race.
Where is a high lighter when you need one.? CHECK!
They totaly blew it. READ PEOPLE! READ!

" Holy Cannoli ! "

In the case of the brothers, I'd imagine they were still shaken up from what happened in the previous leg of the race. So I'll grant them a little leeway.

Uchenna and Joyce and particularly Meredith and Gretchen (considering their previous clue-reading failure) get no breaks from me.

One factors in all of these things people should be used to it by now the stupidity speaks for itself each time:

U\J misread the clue and dam there almost got another penalty at the end due to Joyce's insistence upon getting out and trying to help out on a roadblock

G/m not only did they completely ignore the fact that they needed another clue to get to the end but they also stopped at the water tower albeit not as long as the brothers

The brothers climbed up the frickin tower Even if they did misread the clue shouldn't the fact that there was no flag there have been a big time clue that they were at the wrong place.

Thank you for giving me honor in hat form.