I’d guess the girls’ camera crew was in contact with the producers. They sent Phil ovre when the girls said they wanted to quit, but the girls had to quit officially, not just mutter about it in a field.
Are there any non-elimination legs left?
StG
The penalty for skipping a Detour is 24 hours. Even if this was a non-elimination leg, there’s no way they could have overcome it.
The following is from Tiffany’s blog:
Tiffany Michelle, on her blog says:
So it looks like the 24 hour penalty for skipping an entire task still exists.
She says that Sam & Dan came out to them in Vietnam, before coming out to the rest of the teams. She also explains why she was suddenly wearing a coat in the middle of the golfing task - killer hypothermia!
ETA: Eh? Drain Bead’s post wasn’t there before!
Well, they seems kind of unfair. They just assembled 12 hookahs on the previous leg.
I guess I missed the season where they did this hay-bales thing. Can someone give me a recap of the challenge?
The infamous haybales were in season 6. It was nothing more exciting than unrolling a haybale to find the next clue. It was a Roadblock, so only one team member could do it. According to Wikipedia, there were 270 haybales with 20 clues. Some teams got lucky and only had to unroll a couple of haybales. Some other teams had to unroll a few more. One team (Lena of Lena & Kristy) spent eight hours unrolling haybales without success. Night had already fallen and Lena was still unrolling haybales when Phil showed up and informed them that they had been eliminated. At no point did they actually quit.
There are still those TAR fans who think that something was amiss with that haybale challenge and that either there weren’t actually 20 clues or something else fishy went on. It was brutal to witness, I will say that.
That’s what made Mika’s refusing to go down a waterslide amusement ride so tough to sympathise with----Other teams on other tasks had put themselves through SO much more difficult/dangerous/disgusting challanges for the chance to stay in the Race, and she quit over something that would have taken her 30 seconds of fright…
According to teh intarwebs, Lena had unrolled 100 haybales by the time Phil showed up. She would have probably kept on going if the Amazing Producers hadn’t granted her mercy.
I was going to comment that I don’t think we have seen anybody quit a detour and take the penalty before. If I were team zebra, I would have taken a cab back to the bikes (if possible) and then completed the task. That said, I think they set penalties for things like that by how much time you save. If they would have saved 15 minutes by driving and not bicycling then they set a 30 minute penalty. Considering that walking took them a lot longer than biking, I don’t think the penalty was unfair.
I do think that Canaan should watch both Brian and Cheyne closely to see how to properly avoid an impending meltdown. Brian is a saint, but I can’t hate Ericka because he is obviously so crazy in love with her and because despite her whining she did actually suck it up and finish strong. I was also wondering why she didn’t step out of the bell room and come back in a few seconds with the next higher number.
While my least favorite team was eliminated, I do give Maria some credit for admitting that she expected Tiffany to do all of the physical stuff.
I was initially pissed that they are repeating tasks but to repeat this one when killer fatigue is setting in and most players know what heppened last time is evil genius.
Finally, I still love my Malibu Barbie and Ken. I don’t get the dislike. They may not be as colorful as most teams but they’re strong and I like the way they complement each other.
I don’t even see how that’s possible. If there are 20 clues in 270 hay bales, statistics tells us that there should be one in every math 13.5 bales of hay. WTF?
Hence the speculation in my post. I can’t find a cite for that, although I could have sworn I read some speculation on Tarflies or TWOP.
Just as every family has 2.3 children. Averages don’t tell you anything about a specific hay bale.
Basically, she was just spectacularly unlucky. There were 250 bales of hay that didn’t have clues. She kept picking those bales. Over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. It was awful to watch; I can’t imagine how bad it was to do.
According to my calculations, the probability of not picking up a clue after unrolling 100 bales would be about 0.54%. That’s given the starting conditions of 20 clues in 270 bales. Of course, some other racers came by, unrolled the bales and picked up their clues. Lena & Kristy were eliminated in ninth place, so there should have been only 11 clues left. It’s too difficult to compute the changing probabilities so I’m going to be generous and say that each previous team unrolled 10 bales. That leaves 11 clues in 190 bales, which gives a probability of 0.02% of NOT finding a clue after 100 bales. So, yes, Lena was spectacularly unlucky.
It’s also been speculated that she didn’t completely unroll a few bales 100% and a clue might have been in the very, very center, unlike most of the rest of the bales where the clue was in the first wrap or two.
I vaguely remember the haybale episode. At the time, I thought they missed clues in the some of the unrolled bales.
I hope this is not answered later, but how do you talk the holder of the clue out of it if you don’t finish? If that was my job I’d just say, “Tee it up!”