ADC, you're just assuming she's willing to soldier right through the roadblocks. she could pull a flo & quit. for all i know she & the bowling mom could dangle all night at the climbing roadblock in the philipeans.I agree it's about willingness, but I don't know how anyone can logically assume that someone as competitive as Christie (who didn't quit the HARDEST ROADBLOCK EVER, even though Bob/Joyce were more than 4 hours behind them) would somehow be unable to complete any of the other simple tasks. Colin didn't do the RBs because Christie was useless; he did them because he either thought he could do them better or just really wanted to do them himself (in the case of the zorbs). It just seems like fanboy wish-fulfilment to think that the rule change would have had any effect. At most it might have put Christie in a worse mood and affected the team performance, but even that's really a stretch.
And in the hypothetical situation where she ends up doing the cliff-climbing task, she could quit - but that's true if you switch any of the Roadblock assignments. You could use the same logic to come up with "zomg if Margie did the underwear run instead of Luke she would have quit and got the penalty and if Luke did the RB in the following leg, he would have quit and they'd have been eliminated".
On an unrelated note, it's pretty ironic that the RB rule was supposedly introduced to give advantages to the same-sex evenly matched teams, yet the first season it was introduced all the same-sex teams left by Episode 3 anyway.
