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Thingamajig wrote:

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Woah, there are more M/M teams that F/F teams left. This is like the antithesis of Sucks virtual TARs.

*prays this turns into a TAR6-style couple-fest in the end*

On second thought...that means Wuming predictably beats bryan and I. Nevermind.

*prays this turns into a TAR12-style elimination order where the boring couple wins it all <3*

In order:
1) Leg 5 - The train drama was an interesting alternative to flights (though if the next location is what I suspect it is, we won't be having nearly as big a clusterfuck about it). I liked the subtle differences in Detour, and the RB was an easy enough flash game. Funnily enough, I was originally planning on having a leg in Bled, with riding around the lake as the FF and the "carry your partner to the church" as a RB in line with Bled tradition; the church at the top of the hill would've been the pit stop. But oh wells.

2) Leg 3 - Granted, I'm a fan of strategy porn, and this had it in spades, even if I didn't completely understand the RB, and it was a fairly quick-paced leg (were it not for me leaving for work, I probably would've gotten first after a ~90 minute leg. Detours were okay, though the obvious difference in difficulty was a bit of a let down (why did people pick Wrestling, anyway?)

3) Leg 2 - A good effort, and one which would've easily made for a great opening leg IMO. The salt task I vacillate on; sometimes I think it was superfluous, especially since we could've just gotten on charters from Kenya to Timbuktu, but right now I found it a good way to produce team interaction. RB was fun, even though you could kind of wing it after seeing other people's successful attempts (simply changing a numeral doesn't change the distance traveled enough to fall outside of the allowed window most times)

4) Leg 4 - The only reason this is low is because of the Intersection, and really that's because I've had bad experiences with them *glares at Kat*. The Detour was fine, if...kind of the same task, really. The RB could've been really awesome, but was just okay, I think because the only criteria used was colors, rather than being aesthetically pleasing[/NinaGarcia].

5) Leg 1 - In my Number Theory class (which is so real, so fierce *fans self*) the first thing we talked about (after a review on induction) was that, in any finite set (such as, say, the natural numbers), there has to be a 'least' element in that set; Leg 1 happens to be that for me. It's not that it wasn't well structured (and in fact, if it was intentionally made without a RB, then it's even better), and it's not that the tasks were awful (because they weren't), it's just...not as appealing as the other four so far (and tbf, the first leg tends to be the hardest to do, since you have to get used to the players' styles of playing, Yuku, etc).