Welcome to the episode ten Not So Move of the Week voting thread.

There are five choices this week. You can pick one. The choice that gets the most votes will move on to the Not So Move of the Season vote at the end of the season.

These choices are based on moves of no intelligence, poor decisions made by a team, or downward movements in the field of competition.

If you'd like to take a look at the episode nine thread go here:
Episode Nine Voting Thread

1.Reichen/Chip and Kelly/Jon relax and eat in the Singapore airport. They miss out on an earlier flight to Korea and fall forty minutes behind David/Jeff and Jon/Al.

2.David/Jeff decide to finally split from Jon/Al at the end of the Roadblock, but it may have been at the wrong moment. After separating from the clowns, they just seem to have trouble by themselves for the rest of the leg.

3.Reichen/Chip, Jon/Al, and David/Jeff decide to leave their taxis and take the subway to station #228 instead. They all give up ground to Kelly/Jon who reach the clue box first.

4.David/Jeff's problems escalate when they have trouble in the subway system. They switch back to a taxi. They still have trouble with the taxi, but eventually finally find the station. They waste quite a bit of time in their indecision of tranportation options.

5.David/Jeff show more uncertainty in the Detour. First, they choose to do the restaurant option. After realizing the octopus would be hard to get down, they switch to the martial arts center. They waste a good amount of time switching between the two options.

This vote will close Thursday 8:00 PM EST.

• RE: Not So Move of the Week: Episode Ten,Edgeless Grass, 04:56 AM, 08-04-03
• #4,SurvivinDawg, 06:55 AM, 08-04-03
• #5,PackMan, 08:53 AM, 08-04-03
• RE: Not So Move of the Week: Episode Ten,I_AM_HE, 09:27 AM, 08-04-03
• #4,BlackSheep, 11:05 AM, 08-04-03
• RE: Not So Move of the Week: Episode Ten,dajaki, 11:21 AM, 08-04-03
• RE: Not So Move of the Week: Episode Ten,Steen, 11:47 AM, 08-04-03
• RE: Not So Move of the Week: Episode Ten,PlumBlossom, 11:49 AM, 08-04-03
• RE: Not So Move of the Week: Episode Ten,PlumBlossom, 11:50 AM, 08-04-03
  • Script Error,tvgeek401, 09:35 PM, 08-04-03
• #4,tig_ger, 12:26 PM, 08-04-03
• The "winners?" David and Jeff,realitybites, 01:18 PM, 08-04-03
• RE: Not So Move of the Week: Episode Ten,kpod, 03:38 PM, 08-04-03
  • RE: Not So Move of the Week: Episode Ten,ImNext, 04:42 PM, 08-04-03
• RE: Not So Move of the Week: Episode Ten,Violet Nyte, 04:50 PM, 08-04-03
• #4,tvgeek401, 09:32 PM, 08-04-03
• RE: Not So Move of the Week: Episode Ten,PrimeCupEevee, 09:34 PM, 08-04-03
• 5,cyclehausen, 05:20 AM, 08-05-03
• RE: Not So Move of the Week: Episode Ten,managerr, 05:16 PM, 08-05-03
• And now for something completely different.,memacmur, 06:49 PM, 08-05-03
• #2,MsShel330, 08:41 PM, 08-05-03
• #4,trigirl, 02:14 PM, 08-06-03

Yeah! I am first here!

My thought process ....

1) They probably think this is just another bunching...OR they probably figure this is a non-eliminating round, so to relax abit, don't want to follow Millie and Chuck's foot step.

2) In the first place, getting in the same taxi don't seen like a good idea...just look at how Jon/Al got squeeze behind the seat..and I wonder where did their crew sit? Root top?

3) I really really hope that Jon/Kelly got stuck at the traffic and get there last! Why don't what Kelly said come true? Why do we have to see the big A$$hole win the race!

4) If I were them, I rather stay at the train station. At least there are more people to ask, have they not gotten enough of the taxi due to communication?

5) Well, after looking at Reichen swallowing the octopus, I would like to think the switch is a 'good move'..just that they should decide faster instead of watching the octopus moving so long before deciding to eat or not to eat.

My choice : #4.

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I choose #4. Let's go through each of these one by one, shall we?

#1. On the "good move" thread in the fanatics forum, I suggested that the earlier flight wasn't all that big a deal. Same here. Look at the order the contestants finished this leg. Maybe stopping for food was the better idea, neh?

#2. The split had to come sometime, and the other team was behind. On the face of it, this was a good move. The fact they had trouble later is, IMHO, unrelated to their being grouped with the other team.

#3. Turns out their idea wasn't good... but it was logical to try it, especially in heavy traffic. They need to learn how to read numbers, though, if they are going to use the subway.

#4. I voted for this one becuase it's this kind of mistake that gets teams eliminated. The indecision and wasting of time would have been fatal in an elimination leg.

#5. I would have put this on par with #4 (and it really is) except I think that D/J figured out that this was a non-elimination leg (and this was, of course, edited out) and figured they could change their minds on the octopi.

Contradictions don't exist. If you are faced with a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

The way I see it, #5 and #4 are related. They both demonstrate David and Jeff's inability to pick a path and stick to it. Indecision may well be their downfall in this race.

I'm picking #5 because #4 is probably going to get a lot of votes, and I wanted to give this one it's due. David and Jeff should have realized that the phrase "local delicacies" would not result in a hamburger and fries. D & J's constant waffling is the real issue, and it will most likely lead to their defeat.

If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when are you going to find time to do it again? - Anonymous

I'll take #1, with #5 second

I'd say Da'Jeff had the most indecisiveness of anyone this week - I wish it had been a elim round!

1 - Like someone else mention due to the constant bunching effect this season, I'd see why they weren't so eager to keep searching for different flights, in the long run the 40 mins really didn't benefit/penalize either team.

2 - This is almost irrelavent - if they had seperate taxis in the beginning Da'Jeff wouldn't of had to wait for the clowns after the frozen dip which would have nullified the whole "wasted time bit" because they wasted time waiting for the clowns. Also if they went on their own in the beginning chances are they would of been lost from the start!

3 - This move by the teams actually seemed to be logical, due to the traffic congestion and in a race it's always a better feeling to at least be moving than not at all. So I wouldnt call this a bad move (with exception to #4)

4 - Now this is just plain stupidity - duh, can we read a map? Apparently not, every metro/railway has some sort of map of the railways. Sure I can understand if it isn't in english, but the ones they showed us looked like if you had bothered to take a look at one of them you'd be able to figure out where you are and which train or railway you need to be on and how far away it is. Maybe it's just me being over-critical, but come on - common sense goes a long way - too bad this team doesn't possess any. This is why #4 gets my vote.

5 - Closer is not always better, eventually these teams will figure it out. But not a big enough blunder to call as the worst, imho.

#4 - As with the Move of the Week, I had a tough time deciding between #1 and #4. R/C and K/J should have tried to hunt down an earlier flight. Fortunately for them, their blunder didn't affect the game as J/A and J/D got lost at the DMZ. I'm going with #4 because J/D lost patience with the traffic jam and struck out for the subway. One thing I've learned about traffic jams, and living in Phoenix we have several each day, it's always faster to stay on the freeway at 10-30 mph than it is to go off on the surface streets and face streetlights. Ditto for Seoul. J/D had to learn a new transportation system (subway), that runs on its own schedule and includes many stops, in an unfamiliar city and ended up getting lost for their efforts. Had they stayed with their cab to begin with, they would not have ended up in 4th place.

#4

#5

LAST EDITED ON 08-04-03 AT 12:57 PM (EST)

Sorry, didn't mean to post twice. The first time I got this weird Script Error message and thought it had not posted.

i got that, too. strange.
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Indecision leads to elimination...unless you are fortunate enough to be in a non-elimination round.

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