The Wild Harlons is another good example. There are suggestions that they got help from the show - why? - because it was just too clear that they mostly were as dumb as they were shown.

Did the other teams make dumb mistakes that were not shown? Probably. But 11 hours in the mine??? Burger runs in the middle of a race??? Looking in trash cans and under every piece of trash on a marked trail (or am I the only one who notice the pieces of cloth tied to the trees?). These people were dumb, and the only way to edit them as smart is not show them for more than two minutes a show.

Browns were fat and slow, I like the Browns, I would not even minded if they had won the treasure, but no amount of editting was going to hid how fat the largest was or that he was always at the back of the pack. You could edit out is worse times so he looked healthier than he was, but that still would not speed up the teams positions in the race.

Team USA is coming across as smarter and stronger than any team of all-girl models that I have seen on TAR, but again the material is not there to make them look like geniuses. The material does seem to exist to show them as just a bunch of air-heads discussing make-up and clothes, but their performance matchs with how they are presently editted - A Good Girl Team.

Sometimes I think people think edittors have more power to shape the story than they really do, people actions give the edittor a range of how they can show someone, but they can't edit in something that is not there. Fogals could have been show as a normal competing team, they could not be shown as a team that stops and help everyone along the way, such actions would fit the personalities of people who have carried out some of the things we have seen them do already.