I would imagine it can keep you out of last place if you’re close to the end. Maybe you can make a team you don’t like - say, the twins, for example - get stuck and miss the ferry and then miss their flight out of wherever, and they’ll need to spend the night in some Ogforsaken place, and perhaps they’ll get eaten by a pack of wild dogs or molested by amorous proboscis monkeys or whatnot. Just for example.
You can really screw with another team to save your own butt, in other words.
I wonder too. Re-reading the quoted text that Doug Bowe supplied, it doesn’t explicitly say the Yield can only be used on teams behind you. Maybe if you apply it to a team in front of you, that amount of time will be added to their 12 hour layover?
I’m 98% sure that when Phil (and forget Probst and his dimples, I’d rather have Phil and his weird little speh impediment any day – but I digress) explained it, he said it could only be used on teams behind you.
Amazing Race is a great favourite of my daughter’s here in Hong Kong. She got me to watch the one that Chip and Reichen won and I was hooked.
This time round, she picked the couple that was eliminated in the first episode, while I only did a little better, picking - of course - the father and daughter, ostensibly because, well, I can play the game vicariously, but actually because the daughter is right up my street. Beats that ex-Miss Texas hands down, though still not as good looking as Reichen and Chip.
Also gunning for the pizza brothers. I like their supreme self-confidence (one of them just knew he’d win on roulette - and did - he can pick horses for me here any time) as well as the fact that that self-confidence will prove entirely unfounded when they’re eliminated.
But the main reason I like them is for that look and comment when they saw that sultry Uruguayan bird. A man after my own heart.
Could very well be true. I was interrupted a few times during the race so I didn’t hear every word.
Assuming it is true, it seems to only make sense for the team that is second to last to use it. And in order for that to be effective, they have to a) know that they’re second to last, b) know which team that’s behind them, and c) know that the team behind them is close behind them.
I suppose part of the entertainment might be to see a team use it unnecessarily and/or stupidly.
Since a team can only use it on teams behind them, then every team that reaches the Yield probably removes their photo to show that they’ve already reached the Yield station. Interestingly, this would give every team the information of where they are in relation to the other teams (who’s ahead of them and who’s behind them).
I was thinking the exact same thing. Either the teams remove their own photos or someone on the production staff removes the photos as the teams go by.
I bet the whole Yield thing could either be very interesting or a total bust.
The International Socialist Organization, if you please.
I had stepped out of the room for a slplit second and missed half the description of the yield.
There’s a site somewheres where the original “Team Guido” from season one used to provide weekly commentary on later seasons from a veteran perspective. They often speculated on why certain things were done in terms of their experience of the discrepancy between how the Racers wanted to play the game in terms of their own strategy and energy level, and how the producers wanted to see the game played in terms of good television.
The point about how every team must see the yield, giving each one a bird-eye view of the pack behind them, I think indicates something important here.
Since there have been any number of moments in previous seasons where teams have kind of sauntered along since they were tired and had no idea of their standing anyway, I now think the yield is designed to give them a little kick in the pants along the way (“Damn, there’s only two teams ahead of us, haul ass!”, or “Shit, we’re last, haul ass!”), with the “hourglass” gimmick thrown in as an afterthought.
With the casting of TAR6 well underway already, I just wanted to take this time to state that if there is a TAR7 in the future, I will be applying. I thoroughly believe my wife and I would win (well, I guess most teams think that), but we fill in the right gaps for the other person that the only clear weakness I can see is that we might want to rush when there are times that slow and steady is preferred.
But then again, as a fan of the show, since I know this, it might offer some protection against screwing up too royally.
Cool! Hope you get in. You should have T-shirts printed up that read “Team Doper” and shout out “Hi, Opal!” at random intervals.
Or, as you or Mrs. Mullinator head off to do some task alone at a Roadblock, the other can yell to them “When come back, bring pie!”