NFT - the Amazing Race, how disappointing!

[aqua_duck]

I guess you have to pay good money to make a good show. I'd like to see them have teams from different countries, obviously the language barrier would be a problem but surely there wouldnt be a problem with having teams from the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.
I was bored the other day and I was thinking of how you could win the amazing race using dirty tactics and I thought of quite a few which would probably not only get you banned but arrested.

1)When you have marked cars, take the flags from the marked cars and the other teams will have no idea which ones are marked.
2)With the marked cars, sabotage the other teams cars, this can be done be cutting the breaks, puncturing the tyres, removing the spark plugs, etc.
3)When at the airport and waiting for a flight, take an earlier flight out of the airport and transfer. After yuor earlier flight has taken off, make a call to the airport and make terrorist threats, this will inevitably see all flights out of that airport delayed.
4)If in an Arab country, hide all your stuff with the amazing race flag/logo and go to the local mosque and let everyone know that there will be poeple arriving at the airport soon who are part of Mossad(Israeli secret service), tell them that they will be carrying bags with red and yello flags, your actions will probably get the other teams killed but hey that makes the job easier for you.
5)If in Pakistan or India, go to some religious place and tell someone that the people with the yellow and red flags are missionaries, once again this might get the other teams killed.

 

[astrogirl]

I guess you have to pay good money to make a good show. I'd like to see them have teams from different countries, obviously the language barrier would be a problem but surely there wouldnt be a problem with having teams from the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.

I would LOVE to do the Amazing Race A lot of the stuff they do is a lot more daring than anything I've tried. It would be interesting to see how I would go getting out of my comfort zone in a race scenario. I'm a bit of a wimp - never been sky diving, the only abseiling I've ever done was at school camp, never been white water rafting - you're probably getting the picture by now.

 

[Samwise]

as for the cost, i think you'll find its not that bad. the show is heavily sponsored with prizes at the end of each leg for the winner, plus all the product placements, (ie. grab your "Kodak image max digital camera" from the table and develop the photos at the "Kodak image max developing centre" etc.) these companies would put the prizes forward as well as a monetary portion for advertising rights. also they don't have to pay any actors. look at a show like alias or csi etc. probably cost around 2-5 million bucks per show to produce. amazing race would come in less than a million per show i'm betting. and each week they lose a cameraman who they wouldnt then have to pay. they're not allowed to book 1st class tickets and each flight isnt that far so that really wouldnt be that much. the reason production companies love this reality tv fad is because of the comparitively low cost to producing a good drama or real show.

 

[Big Tim]

About that not flying 1st class. They are not aloud to book 1st class tickets, so that would mean that they have signed something saying they wont sit in 1st class. Could it be looked on as cheating as Chip and Reichen were "accidentally" seated in 1st class.

I thought that it was brought up cos they were gonna get a time penalty or something for disobeying the rules of the game. That would have made it interesting..... Imagine Jon and Kelly running up to the finish line with Chip and Reichen standing there and thinking they have lost, but to find out that cos they came in 15mins after Chip and Reichen they have won cos they were given a 30min penalty for knowingly breaking the rules of the game.

Just a thought.

 

[astrogirl]

I think the "no 1st class" rule is purely cost driven, so I didn't expect that there'd be any problem with Chip and Reichen sitting in 1st class seats

 

[tigermite]

Yeah, you can't buy first class tickets, but as long as you have bought economy class, then you can sit wherever the airline tells you to sit... afterall, they don't have much control over the stewardess telling them to sit in 1st class or not. In other words, as long as they could fit on the flight flying economy, then there is no advantage for them sitting anywhere else in the plane, as they would be on that plane anyway (if you understand that).

And an interesting fact (that maybe you know or figured out already). When buying airline tickets, they have to actually buy 4 tickets. Each team has 2 crew with them (cameraman), so they have to buy their tickets as well. If there aren't 4 spots available on the flight, then they can't go on it... they have to get another one. And to avoid teams being slowed down by slow crew members, at various stages in the race, the crew are swapped around so the teams don't get stuck with them.

As for competing in The Amazing Race, I too would love to do it. In the first (I think) series, they had a task that involved walking to the clue box, but they had to walk through a place full of tigers... I so wanted to do that and it would be great to do a show like this that you get to do things that you would never normally get to do. But I think they were once talking about an international survivor series, but said they can't because of too many problems.... I can't remember exactly what they were, and I didn't understand why they were problems, but I think it had something to do with different countries have different legal requirements, or something like that, but the main point was that they wouldn't end up doing it because it was either impossible or just way too complicated to set-up. But hey, lets hope they change their mind one day...

 

[Razor]

I can't remember exactly what they were, and I didn't understand why they were problems, but I think it had something to do with different countries have different legal requirements, or something like that, but the main point was that they wouldn't end up doing it because it was either impossible or just way too complicated to set-up. But hey, lets hope they change their mind one day...

Yes it was for legal reasons. Varying tax laws and insurance purposes.