# TAR 11, All-Stars, now with teams. (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-11-all-stars-now-with-teams-spoilers/388220 "2007-01-16T18:24:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-11-all-stars-now-with-teams-spoilers/388220/61 "2007-01-18T17:43:19Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Oh dude, you totally missed out on some of the best challenges _ever_ last season. You missed tanks and robot camel jockeys and annoying people getting pelted in the face repeatedly with tomatos. [/QUOTE] Absolutely. Plus the “Carry your teammate through a muddy obstacle couse” Detour. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-11-all-stars-now-with-teams-spoilers/388220/62 "2007-01-18T21:09:48Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] That very idea just made me so happy I might just pass out. [/QUOTE] WORD. _Heavens to mergatroid_, I would love that so very, _very_ much. And it should be _totally_ random fruit, too – like, grapes, then kumquats, then quinces, then carambolas, then … oh my lands, I’m positively _atwitter_. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-11-all-stars-now-with-teams-spoilers/388220/63 "2007-01-18T21:46:45Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] I just can’t imagine that as being true post 9/11. [/QUOTE] Oh, right. Because of course a pair of terrorists would certainly turn up at an airport with an American TV network cameraman and crew. I figure that most airlines having cameras pointed at them just might figure this would be a great chance to ingratiate themselves with the TAR audience and maybe get some clients. Heck, the pilot could’ve been a TAR fan. We just saw Rob & Kim beg their way onto a flight after the boarding had ostensibly been closed. Maybe the airline won’t make an exception for Joe Schlub but turn up with a CBS camera crew and I suspect you, too, might find a path cleared for you. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-11-all-stars-now-with-teams-spoilers/388220/64 "2007-01-18T21:59:07Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Ooh! Brainstorm! Make this the new NEL penalty! They can keep their money and their clothes but everywhere they go on the next leg random villagers will run up and pelt them with fruit! [/QUOTE] Heh. I’d love to see the resulting Detour/Roadblock descriptions: **Detour: Fire or Water** In _Fire_, teams must travel three miles to the El Barra outcropping. Once there, they must build and ignite a watchfire using traditional flint and steel implements, while local nomadic tribesman pelt them from camelback with overripe apricots and sugared figs. The task is finicky and the fruit is sticky, but teams with skill and quick dodging relexes may finish quickly. In _Water_, teams must travel six miles to the Al-Akha oasis. There they must carry twenty gallons of water in pottery jars one thousand yards from the spring to the cooling cellar. Along the way, ululating women from the local village will bombard them with tomatoes and pomegranates. The water is heavy, but teams that have strength, stamina, and resistance to bruising may finish easily. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-11-all-stars-now-with-teams-spoilers/388220.md?page=3)