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ananonislander OP t1_iu2ac1m wrote

Reply to comment by bfir3 in The Amazing Race Canada vs. US by ananonislander

A comparison I'll make is TARCAN they need to learn / memorize / perform perfectly a complex series of dance moves or sing a song etc.

TARUS, they had to learn how to play a whopping 5 notes on Caribbean drum and they had a cheat sheet to read from furthermore.

Or roll an empty barrel to Carnival vs. spending 8 hours digging for 6 species of clams. Stuff like that.

That TARCAN G7 summit ... memorizing that speech in english, then french, then answering questions in 3 other languages. Yikes!

Good point about the travel bookings - seems to all be taken care of now (for both).

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bfir3 t1_iu8wwkk wrote

> That TARCAN G7 summit ... memorizing that speech in english, then french, then answering questions in 3 other languages. Yikes!

Yup, this would never happen in TARUSA. Even in the old seasons, there's no way.

In the latest season there was a Route Info that required teams to learn ASL to sign the alphabet. They were then given a name which they had to sign to their partner and their partner had to interpret it correctly. I doubt they'd have that in TARUSA as well.

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ananonislander OP t1_iu9anqo wrote

Agreed, that one was wild in terms of difficulty. That's what I'm saying...

By comparison, TARUS is like ... race to A and point to the purple duck then race to B, talk to a guy, race to C look at the clouds, race to D, finish.

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bfir3 t1_iu9oiwf wrote

Yeah most of the time that's the way it is. But they do some really cool stuff sometimes still. They go to a lot of cool places, and you do get to see some interesting things. This is true even in the covid season.

It's still worth watching I think. If Phil keeps making Amazing Race seasons, I'll keep watching.

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