Slap The usual annoyance flight-based creation of Front Pack and Back Group, with no chance for the later to catch up. No fault for the SimulMat-Arrival at the end of the last leg creating that first-to-worst chance based on taxis and traffic: you probably (justifiably) felt there would be more separation leaving the Pit Stop. But still... under normal circumstances, this would be a no-position-shift leg: the rich stay rich and the poor fight over the scraps.

Slap Was that the Shortest Leg Ever? Without any way to get a sense of travel times other than sun angles, figuring for a moderate run down the river... can we safely estimate they all wrapped up the active part of that run in a couple of hours? When teams not using Fast Forwards or Express Passes are on their way to the Pit Stop thirty minutes into the episode, it almost makes it feel like we're watching a partial real-time cut -- and not a good one. There just wasn't much happening here, or many places for it to happen at all.

No Hand Movement And given how close you were, if you really wanted something else to do... well, the original Survivor filming site was just a TAR skip away. Imagine the activities! Take a trip to the mud volcano! Dance nude on the beach! Revisit the last place MB was ever sort of remotely relevant!

Inter-continuity mocking for the win. Pity you passed it up.

Slap For an all-returnees season, you pretty much have to know who could be on the course well before it starts -- and so the tasks have to fit all of them. Overriding a Roadblock choice because you didn't design it to accommodate one Racer is on you. And if that team lasts long enough for a partner to start running out of Roadblocks, it could come back to haunt everyone.

Clap We usually don't mention not seeing the two-person camera/sound teams because we're used to their being invisible and spotting them is the special occasion. But given all the chaos on the river, having them stay out of sight throughout deserves a special notice.

Slap Overly basic Roadblock with no real challenge to it unless, say, you happened to be afraid of heights, torrents, or, just because it could never happen, waterslides.

No Hand Movement If they don't know what yellow and red means by now, it's not your fault.

Slap The comedy of taking to the water in a craft not up to the stresses of a bathtub is one thing and I'm sure the contracts mean all surviving relatives pay you a nickel for each death, but this was the time to have a judge at the Detour branch inspecting each effort: no going out on the river without a minimum level of quality. It didn't happen -- and the price for leaving it out could have been high.

Clap The blowgun Detour branch was a good design with a decent amount of challenge to it and a chance to pick up time for the skilled and fast-learning. However, you may now expect a thousand protest letters from the truly stupid, accompanied by the formation of People For The Ethical Treatment Of Stuffed Animals.

micro-slap Never let Phil try out any American accent ever again.