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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Yeah, I think with the Scramble you want to go to the one most people are doing, so you can learn from their mistakes. I'm also wondering where the memory step was in comparison to the trapeze scramble over the glass blowing one as I suspect that R&C went from 'start' to 'middle' (trapeze) back to 'start' (glass blowing) to 'end' (memory challenge) while the other two basically made a straight line.
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The memory challenge was about 12 miles north of the city centre in Kenmore. The trapeze was south of the city centre, about 4 miles south of the Space Needle. The glassblowing was about a half mile south of the Space Needle and the stage set-up was another half mile south of that. Either way, the teams had to go south from the Space Needle, then back north to Kenmore.
Going all the way to the trapeze first likely cost Rob & Corey some time, but not likely so much to be the one thing that did them in. In fact, I'd say doing the trapeze without any other teams would be an advantage that could more than make up the travel time difference. It looked like there was only one trapeze, so multiple teams would have needed to wait their turns for multiple attempts, which would be a real time killer.
As it worked out, the other two teams arrived at the trapeze far enough apart that their attempts didn't overlap and neither team struggled with it as much as Rob did.
For those three challenges, I'd say there was an advantage to being at the stage set-up task along with the other teams because you could get clues from watching the other teams. The advantage to the trapeze would have been being there without any other teams to get unlimited attempts without waiting. I don't know if there would have been an advantage either way with the glass blowing. You would probably benefit more from the professional demos than watching another team struggle with the same thing you are.