LAST EDITED ON 10-12-11 AT 10:17 PM (EST)

Counting Your Blessings?

I'm not sure if that pun actually makes any sense or not because I don't know if "blessings" are necessarily a part of Buddhism... But I love me a good pun, even if it's nonsense.

Anyway, it was interesting to see another one of those no-bunching legs. It's the kind of episode that makes you wonder if bunching is necessarily a bad thing at all, since it keeps things unpredictable. But, on the other hand, no bunching makes the last leg feel more important to the race as a whole. And it wasn't like the racers stayed in exactly the same order anyway. That Buddha-counting task really shuffled things around.

Week 2 Results
1st place - Andy/Tommy (2x)
2nd place - Laurence/Zac (1.8x)
3rd place - Jeremy/Sandy (1.2x)
4th place - Justin/Jennifer (1.1x)
5th place - Ernie/Cindy (even)
6th place - Amani/Marcus (.9x)
7th place - Bill/Cathi (.8x)
8th place - Liz/Marie (.2x)
9th place - Kaylani/Lisa (0x)

Totally Radical

Of course, no bunching at the beginning of the episode also means that the top teams tend to stay the top teams... Which meant a lot of Andy/Tommy and Laurence/Zac wagers... Which meant a lot of points going out the Casino vault...

We at the TAR Casino Game would like to make our Pro-Bunching stance known to the various bunching lobbying groups, so give me a call if you know any TAR Producers.

The Greatest Gainer Award goes to several people this week, each of which climbed 9 ranks. Congratulations to Molaholic, samboohoo, qwertypie, and esquire. Enjoy your 1/4th of a trophy, you guys.

What, you think I'm going to buy 4 trophies? Did you see how many points the Casino lost this week?

The Perfect Bet Award goes to esquire, who doesn't have to share this award with no one. esquire was the only player to double-up this week with an All-In bet on Andy/Tommy. Nicely done.

Leaderboard
1. michel - 129
2. ARNutz - 120
3. Max Headroom - 114
4. CTgirl - 114
5. Yogi - 110
6. Jims02 - 110
7. beau_30 - 108
8. flipxcyd - 105
9. vennui - 104
10. 5cats - 104
11. Ontheroadagain - 82
12. Molaholic - 62
13. samboohoo - 62
14. qwertypie - 62
15. alemattos - 61
16. Scuba Steve - 61
17. Puffy - 60
18. Wallflower66 - 57
19. louislam - 57
20. Starshine - 56
21. Weez - 55
22. LeftPinky - 51
23. chiubakka - 49
24. Georjanna - 46
25. FFantasyFX - 42
26. IanQuentin - 40
27. sarah1234 - 38
28. esquire - 36
29. KwietOne - 35
30. Booted - 35
31. Snidget - 34
32. Belle Book - 33
33. popeave - 32
34. Element King - 29
35. jbug - 28
36. jbenz - 27
37. Deshawnator11 - 26
38. cahaya - 25
39. bbenzenberg - 18
40. kidflash212 - 17
41. taffnic - 15
42. MzTee - 12

Once again, the crew of samboohoo, qwertypie, and Molaholic are chugging along, although they lost former 32-point-guy Scuba Steve along the way.

Oh, and michel is still in the lead, etc, etc.

New Players Still Welcome!

Through the next week, the TAR Casino will be open to new entrants. As mentioned previously, all new players this week will be given a pittance 5 points to play. For the official rules, please consult Week 1's entry.

Week 4 Payout Table
1st place - 2x
2nd place - 1.6x
3rd place - 1.3x
4th place - 1.1x
5th place - .9x
6th place - .7x
7th place - .4x
8th place - 0x

Max Individual Bet - 55 points

Oh, don't worry, we'll get to the wacky payout tables eventually, don't you worry...

TAR19 Teams Remaining
Amani/Marcus
Andy/Tommy
Bill/Cathi
Ernie/Cindy
Jeremy/Sandy
Justin/Jennifer
Laurence/Zac
Liz/Marie

Good luck!

Andy Griffith and Tommy Pickles would definitely be a more entertaining team than the real Andy and Tommy.