I really don't like the U-turn. Margie said they did it to give Cara and Jaimie more time on their task. I have been trying to think of another way to give a team an advantage without destroying another team. I have thought of a way, but it may be too complicated to be useable.

LAST EDITED ON 03-09-09 AT 09:58 PM (EST)

Playing devil's advocate for the u-turn:

Every team has an equal chance of avoiding the uturn, by getting through the detour as quickly as possible and finishing ahead of other teams. They weren't u-turned because the other teams are "conniving", they were u-turned because they fell behind.

Amanda/Kris knew a u-turn was coming up because they were warned on the detour clue, and when they gave up on the wood piles they put a huge target on their backs.

In the elimination station video, Kris says it only took them 20 minutes to do the wood stacking after they returned, so it wasn't necessarily a death sentence... they just weren't fast enough at getting the other tasks done.

Also, Amanda/Kris were the last team to finish the detour and get to the u-turn mat. Even if Margie/Luke hadn't used it on them, Mark/Michael or Mel/Mike likely would have in order to save their own necks, with the same result.

Maybe not Mel & Mike, but I'd agree that Mark & Michael would have used it.

Of course not me and MIke (gee Tammy, i knew I liked you for a reason! ) we are men of god,er, well, *I* am a man of god, so we would NEVER (crosses fingers behind back) do something like that!

*Race duds by Agman*

I knew Amanda and Kris should have stayed with the wood. Not much of their stack fell, and the shutters took forever.

I hate the "blind" U-turn concept. In the past the team doing the U-turning had to identify themselves, which made it apparent to everyone else. There was a risk in publicly identifying yourselves as "Team U-turner".

Now? The "blind" U-turn allows a team to be sneaky without the chance for future retribution. It's just flat-out nasty. In this specific case, the two tasks were long enough that whoever got blind U-turned was likely ticketed for Philimination, since it was also not a non-elimination leg. Double jeopardy, indeed.

From the previews for next episode, Margie and Luke can't keep their U-turn secret to themselves, so it looks like they proceed to waste their anonymity. Not smart.

At the very least, if it's going to be a "blind" u-turn, it must be a non-elimination leg, so there's the potential drama of the angry team trying to figure out who did it to them. As it is, Margie and Luke will never have to face their victims, so who cares if it was blind or not?

>As it is, Margie and
>Luke will never have to
>face their victims, so who
>cares if it was blind
>or not?

Exactly!!

A Gift from Agman

Y'see, I thought for a minute when I saw the "blind" U-Turn that they borrowed my variation on the concept and placed it at the beginning of the leg - sort of as a reward to teams that came in first in the last leg. Especially since bunching points kind of eff that up - might as well give the teams something as a reward for dinishing first besides gnome treats.

This is much stupider. Or more stupid. Or more stupider.

I have no problem with the U-turn in general, or the blind U-turn, but in this particular situation it seemed like a death sentence to whoever got it.