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JiriHrdina · 05-11-2005, 01:24 AM

Well I enjoy The Amazing Race the "bunching up" of teams sucks.

I don't know if anyone else recalls this but when ABC premiered The Amazing Race for its first season, NBC put on a program called "Lost". The premise of the show was they dropped 3 teams out in the middle of nowhere - didn't even tell the them where they were (happened to be somewhere in Mongolia). Object of the game was to be the first team to get to the Statue of Liberty. Flights no paid for. Little bit of starting money (like 100 bucks) that's it.

It was a fantastic show. Teams started together but ended up all over the place. One team ended up in Moscow where they gave up. The other two teams made it to NY but the winning team was literally weeks ahead of the other one IIRC.

The show was brilliant in its simplicity but got its arse kicked in the ratings which was too bad as I thought it was superior to T.A.R.

05-11-2005, 01:24 AM	#13
JiriHrdina I believe in the Pony Power Join Date: Jul 2003 Exp:	Well I enjoy The Amazing Race the "bunching up" of teams sucks. I don't know if anyone else recalls this but when ABC premiered The Amazing Race for its first season, NBC put on a program called "Lost". The premise of the show was they dropped 3 teams out in the middle of nowhere - didn't even tell the them where they were (happened to be somewhere in Mongolia). Object of the game was to be the first team to get to the Statue of Liberty. Flights no paid for. Little bit of starting money (like 100 bucks) that's it. It was a fantastic show. Teams started together but ended up all over the place. One team ended up in Moscow where they gave up. The other two teams made it to NY but the winning team was literally weeks ahead of the other one IIRC. The show was brilliant in its simplicity but got its arse kicked in the ratings which was too bad as I thought it was superior to T.A.R.