Not from what I saw. I think the guys got screwed.
It did seem like an unfair disadvantage based on which sardine can was chosen. Didn’t matter in the end as they finished in the top 3 and started the final leg level with the other two teams. The boys had this problem repeatedly since the restart, getting stuck on a challenge and unable to get unstuck. Their speed/strength advantages and the non-elim kept them in the race, but they couldn’t overcome getting stuck on the “going up and down” clue in the final leg, which the other two easily figured out.
Someone grabbed a screenshot of Arun/Natalias:
Basically, you didn’t have to paint the background color of your can. The boys’ was the only one where the doorknob was right in the middle of the foreground color. I agree it was a bad design for the challenge.
I thought the same thing. I was waiting for them to be told they had to go back and find it on the mat.
I thought the last few challenges were really good. It would have been really funny to have them do the foley challenge adding sounds to themselves.
Well Kim and Penn did this which is kinda fun.
I thought the same thing too.
I noticed this race was MUCH easier on the contestants overall. No speed bumps if you were spared elimination, no having to arrange flights, no taxis that I remember (often a killer), money being tight, much easier tasks to complete than usual and they seemed more tolerant of being close enough (until the find the coin bit which was rough).
I get a lot of this was driven by COVID and a broken season but still…kinda meh.
Speaking of which: it seems like its been many seasons since they started each leg with an envelope of cash and the note: “You have 185 rupees for this leg”. (Which I recall led to an unfortunate instance of Americans panhandling in a 3rd world country.)
I think all the legs have always* had, “You have $x for this leg of the race.” They just didn’t show it on TV most of the time.
For the first season or two (or 3? 4?), the losers in a non-elim leg would have to start the next leg with no money — their envelope was empty and they had to give up whatever they’d saved. But, as you say, that led to [more than one] unfortunate instance. And so the Speed Bump was invented.
*except maybe in the post-intermission part of this last season
Yeah, they definitely still have a money limit, it’s just not much an issue anymore. I feel like in earlier seasons there was a lot more downtime where people could spend money, ending up with them being short later. Now they pretty much just go go go so they’re only spending money on cabs and maybe a map.
IIRC the show made that against the rules after that. Not sure how they resolve someone who is broke though.
ETA: Apparently they cannot beg (anymore) but they can barter. So, they could sell their watch (as an example).
Well, I gotta admit I was wrong here. I think that cheese task broke them.
And where are you getting that from? That screenshot only convinces me more that it was an unfair call. The rule should be either everyone has to paint the doorknob or no one does. I see nothing special what-so-ever about the background vs foreground.
Everyone started with a partially done painted door.
Their task was to fill in the missing bits.
The doorknob happened to be in a place that had a missing bit of the artwork.
I get it was tricky; I’d have missed it too thinking you do not paint a doorknob. But I do not think it was unfair.
If they had painted all the doorknobs the background color, then it would make sense you’d either leave it alone, if it was in the background area, but paint it if it was in the foreground area. But the fact that the preparers left it unpainted for all doors would make me think you leave it unpainted. I’m really glad it wound up being irrelevant, that would have been an awful way to lose.