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(But if you're looking for any, like, corrections, it had been determined that Galu meant "to be rough," as in water, or just "wave" as a noun, thus the wave being their emblem. See here. It also apparently means "a number of young persons" which may actually be the best and more accurate meaning of all. gbu, Galu.)

I actually had that written down in my notes, but then got distracted by realising I didn't finish describing a Micronesia challenge, and forgot to go back once I did.

This is phenomenal. I must commend its author for the time and effort that obviously went into this. The subjective commentary gets progressively more snarky, just as the opinions of most viewers do. But it's still appropriate. And some of the observations are quite interesting. Why Greg's bandana would have a piece of a challenge he didn't even participate in hanging from it is beyond me.

I suspect that may have just been Greg doing it for the shits and giggles, but...

And you wouldn't believe how much bitchier the commentary was for the first draft. I'm actually considering editing some of it back in when I update it with Heroes/Villains and the South African version (hopefully) later this year. As it is, I really only kept in the bitchiness that was beyond deserved -- how horribly simple Tentacle was in Samoa compared to other second-last challenges (the Great Wall in China, Fiji's and Amazon's mazes, Cook Islands' ropes course, even Thailand had the Second Chance To Suck challenge.)

Thanks!

I tried getting as close to the exact tribe colours in most cases for the end-of-season graphs, but pretty much gave up after how long it took me to track down Timbira purple/black, and didn't bother doing some of the ones in earlier seasons. If anyone's got the RGB codes for the exact colours (Timbira's is 10-0-10), please tell me so I can fix them.

I'm actually going to try and get a couple of other shows done, now that I've got a basic template worked out -- TAR certainly needs a list like this, and I'd love to do something similar with The Mole (which is the cause of that cryptic "Paradise" reference in the note at the end -- the fourth Australian season was called "The Mole in Paradise") and maybe The Apprentice down the track.

No worries. The next update's going to be even more awesome -- as well as adding in HvV and the South African seasons, I'm going to sit down and put in a bunch of possible cheats (eg. carrying the flagpole with you through the cells in the Outcast challenge and using it to make your pole more stable) and puzzle solutions (where they're possible to work out), as well as listing the days/dates each challenge was filmed on.