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"Alternate Possibilities"
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12-14-01, 11:25 AM (EST)
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"Alternate Possibilities" |
If both teams caught the same train, it would have been a foot race to the finish. Even assuming that F&M knew exactly where they were going when they got off the train (unlike R&B), Frank couldn't have steered them in the wrong direction without hurting his team as well. While I disagree with Franks's comments about R&B always following them, this would have been the one time where I think they could have done that very strategically. Based on the earlier foot race in the airport, I think R&B would have had an edge if it had indeed come down to a sprint. Of course with adrenaline, who knows?One thing I found interesting is that both teams assumed they were first when they picked up the last clue. They both also grabbed the next train anxiously hoping that the other team would not. R&B did consider the possibility that F&M had already taken an earlier train, but F&M did not. Based on these facts, I presume that the final clues were set out in such a manner as to keep the teams in the dark. Otherwise R&B would have known they were in the lead, and F&M would have known they were not. I highly doubt that F&M just "didn't notice" that the other team's clue was gone already. I was also thinking that despite the home turf advantage, R&B had to treat NYC the same as any other city as far as their unfamiliarity. We didn't see F&M doing any preparation, though that could have been edited out. Had the NYC leg been more complicated, the extra preparation by R&B could have helped them in the event that F&M were not as familiar with NYC as they thought. In the end though, it seemed like the easiest leg of all. Hats off to Frank for giving the taxi driver $100 (or was that the lawyers?). I would have laughed my a** off if Frank had haggled with him over the fare.
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sctes 53 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Hollywood Squares Square"
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4. "RE: Alternate Possibilities" |
What if R&B had replaced their own envelope? That would have been quite sneaky, but I'm sure it didn't go down that way. R&B were unsure if they were in the lead. Now that I think about it, that might have been an interesting strategy to use at some point in the race, to make a trailing team feel comfortable that they are ahead when they are not.
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