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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Well...that happened.
While I am glad that the teams that got COVID aren't racing, it seems like it kinda defeats the purpose to bring teams that have lost back. Is that gonna be a thing? If we're like, 2 legs from the finish and everyone left gets COVID, do we just bring some other teams back? I'd have to think that they planned for this.
I found it kind of amusing that Brendan & Conner were talking to Jesse & Marika (I think?) and said something like "We have a couple strong teams we don't trust in mind we don't want to give an Express Pass to...here, have an Express Pass!" I mean, I'd interpret that as "We're a weak team you trust. Gee, thanks."
While I was unimpressed with Betty & Veronica this leg (Seriously, a bit of a setback and both crumble and throw a tantrum? Eesh) I was rather impressed with Cedric & Tychon.
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I'm not sure how else to handle the situation. Losing three teams at once is a lot. If you just pause everything until they recover, you get behind on filming. If you just cut them all and carry on, you either suddenly have a bunch of non-elimination rounds, or you run out of teams too fast. Or you bring in three completely new teams that the audience hasn't seen / haven't run the previous legs.
Changing to a bunch of non-eliminations is probably the most "fair" but it sounds like boring TV.
I'd be fine with the people giving out express passes thinking I wasn't a good team, if they were giving me the express pass. I think it's to your advantage to have other teams think you're a weak team (although I don't think that's the case here), especially if there are u-turns in this version of the race.
To me, their choice for express passes seemed weird. Both teams they gave passes to are doing fairly well. Give them to the weakest teams, rather than giving your biggest competition an advantage.
Cedric and Tychon definitely seem to be improving!