While I don't have a problem with people using the penalty, since it's clearly part of the game, the fact that it was taken pretty much first thing annoyed me. Clearly the penalty is too easy or the task is too difficult if that's an easy go-to option. Maybe what I'd like to see is increasing penalties. So, you take it once and it's two hours, but if you take another one, it's four hours, etc. That way it's there for extraordinary circumstances, but teams aren't encouraged to take it whenever a difficult task comes along.
The girls who took the penalty did well on the tasks that followed, and the last two teams were really bad, so I was glad that one of them was eliminated.
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