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Bigfan
Member
06-09-2005
| Sunday, April 05, 2009 - 5:42 pm
Is the show being seen in some markets? No ARace in Oklahoma.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, April 05, 2009 - 6:10 pm
It's not on anywhere. Tonight is March Madness. It was announced last week that it would be back in two weeks.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, April 05, 2009 - 6:51 pm
Guess I missed that announcement -glad to know that I am not missing anything!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, April 05, 2009 - 7:17 pm
Tonight is the Country Music Awards.
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Thorandtara
Member
09-15-2008
| Sunday, April 05, 2009 - 7:52 pm
March Madness Finals are tomorrow (Monday night). TAR is not on because of the Country Music Awards.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, April 06, 2009 - 8:11 pm
wow - I havent seen so many people in here!!
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, April 07, 2009 - 4:58 am
That's right - it was the CMA... I knew TAR wasn't on, I just figured it was March Madness because it seems like it has been on for weeks.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 6:23 pm
TARA brings us info from a China forum: • went to a local net-forum of TAR fans in china and someone posted saying TAR14 was visiting china. they saw Phil and the production crew. more than 40 people replied (that's a large number of population in the forum) and more detailed information was post out sorry, phil and Mr. Van Munster. I love your show so much, but people here just want to know more about it. so here it is: date: nov.18th location: Guilin, Guangxi Province, China a girl said her boyfriend helped the production, seemed like to be one of the local assistant. she claimed that when her bf told her that, she instantly thought about TAR and could confirm that. they lived in Sheraton and the pit top was Sun-Moon-Tower. and a mountain named Di-Tsai was also visited. They also have been to a steel factory. It was also said teams had to go to a hair salon to wash their hair. Phil was described very tall and handsome by her bf. And for security reasons, all assistants have been asked to remain their position after everyone is on the plane, the left the same day. so far, no photo evidence. P.S some others said people see a lot of foreign people running in the subway in Shanghai days b4 that which the city was visited in season 6. Called up the Sheraton in Guilin, and they've been nice enough to tell us that production started arriving in dribs and drabs on the 10th, and they all left on the 20th. Remembering Salvador's whiteboard, that means teams would most likely have taken flights out on the 20th as well. How does that fit in? Also called up the Sheraton and Meridien in Shanghai, but they have no record of WRP Group. Any other ideas we could try, or should we rule Shanghai out? Neobie: •Got corroboration from various people that the Guilin leg took place on the 17th of November. Here are the various clues from the locals that help confirm the fact: 1. It was a Monday. 2. Production started serious work two days before, and on the third day (presumably the day the racers came by) it was drizzling. With Phuket being filmed at least until the afternoon of the 15th, that would mean Phuket and Guilin are consecutive legs! Will discuss more in the timetables thread... Nothing much to report at the South Gate, but just enough to confirm that teams were there. A girl in the Tourist Office (20m west of the gate) remembers seeing a team run past with a camera crew, eastwards towards the gate. A pair of tour guides told me they heard of filming on both sides of the twin bridges, just in front of the gates. Nobody at the gate, though, could tell me anything. There's a tea shop on top, but the manager there told me if there was any filming at or outside their shop, they would have been contacted. (Lie detector did not go off, I kind of believe her.) This is the Peak of the Luminous Moon in the Folded Brocade Mountains, overlooking the city of Guilin from the north, and Pit Stop in a race around the world! (Less poetic official translators call it Bright Moon Peak.) Production closed the entire compound from 6pm on the 17th (the usual time vendors pack up and go home), and stayed ON the hilltop the entire night. There was a TPTB security team of six. (Geez, how much security do you need?) The peak's really just a courtyard with a little shelter, but the views here are marvelous. According to those who witnessed production, they have been hanging around for two days beforehand (since the 15th), and finally set up lights and a few tents for the big event, on the night of the 17th. The people I talked to remembered rain that afternoon, when a few members of production popped by. The main activity, though, started at around 9pm. About 50-60 sandwiches were catered for the night, and a huge crowd started streaming in from 12am to 3am. It's such a huge group those I've talked to couldn't differentiate between crew and cast, but I guess those are our racers! (So late?) Word of caution to the racers: (pic of slippery falling icon) A THROWDOWN AT A CLUEBOX LEADS TO A MAT MELTDOWN, AND ONE RACER'S FRUSTRATION WITH FOREIGN LANGUAGES CONTINUES TO GROW, ON "THE AMAZING RACE," APRIL 19 "Our Parents Will Cry Themselves to Death" (China) — During the Detour, one Racer is frustrated when a dancing judge doesn’t understand their question, and two Teams battle each other throughout the leg, leading to a full-blown mat meltdown, on THE AMAZING RACE 14, Sunday, April 19 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Phil Keoghan is host. Sheraton Hotel (No 25 on map) Production base. Hotel staff all know of production, but secretive crew kept them out of the loop. Peak of the Luminous Moon (Mingyue Feng, north end of Binjiang Road) Pit Stop. One of the four peaks in the Folded Brocade Mountain (Diecai Shan) range. Production started at dusk on the 17th, and lasted until the following morning. One souvenir vendor was engaged to provide 50-60 sandwiches for the night, and she opened the gate for racers coming in, which took until about 3am. She couldn't tell racers from crew. The cave mentioned in the blog Joab found is halfway down from the peak. Racers must pass through the cave to make it up to the top, where Phil stood waiting. And waiting. And waiting... South City Gate (Gunammen, No 10 on map) The girl working at the Guilin Tourist Information Center saw the team running by during office hours (between 8.30am and 10.00pm). Tough luck, Mark and Michael! Sun and Moon Towers, and the Soulmate Pier (Riyue Shuangta and Zhiyin Tai, No 13 on map) The clue was on Soulmate Pier, which faces the towers in the middle of the lake. There is a ticketing booth for tourist boats on the pier, and the guy manning the booth was probably lying when he said he didn't know anything. Teams not likely to have entered the towers though. http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,18620.25.html (page 2 with screen caps of commercial)
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 6:24 pm
bottom of page 2 has a screen cap of a .... speed bump pic for Micahel and Mark
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 6:26 pm
wanted to put a hummmm hummmm in for the non spoiling community Margie/Luke, Tammy/Victor, Kisha/Jen arrived at the pitstop almost at the same time... so we can assume that they're teams number 2,3 & 4. Cara/Jaime were in 1st place while Mark/Michael arrived last and were eliminated. Just a Speculation... (all c/p from RFF page 3)
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 6:06 pm
Bonnie Hunt has revealed the TAR elimanated team - dont go to her website if you dont want to know!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 8:01 pm
Can't you tell us, this is the spoiler thread., please.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 8:53 pm
Anyone reading the spoiler thread surely DOES want to know, Reader - so please tell us!
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, April 19, 2009 - 7:45 am
lol - ok, I forget where I am sometimes - on RFF they uploaded the clip from the Bonnie Hunt show - http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,18620.275.html and told us Mark and Michael will be on her show! RFF then went back and with the pic clues tried to figure out where they were with the tasks coming up - keep in mind M/M have a 4 hour penalty to serve... pics of them doing cormorant fishing... it could be a roadblock - or a detour!! (speculating based on pics ) and from a poster: We have three possible people freaking at the judge: Jaime, Luke, VictorWe have three possible teams in first: Jaime/Cara, Kisha/Jen, Margie/Luke We have three known non-Speed Bump tasks: coal, cormorants, dancing We have three legs in China. (just wanted to put this in) We have three more episodes before the Finale. (just wanted to put this in too )
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 9:17 am
All from RFF http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,18646.0.html Next On The Amazing Race Having a Baby's Gotta Be Easier Than This (China) An Olympic task leaves racers gasping for breath. Animosity grows as two teams continue to hold a grudge against each other. One racer is paralyzed with fear-after coming this far, will they choose to go home? A Chinese foot massage puts racers through more pain than pleasure. FINALLY! Bird's Nest Stadium!! And a swimming "Olympic" challenge!! But poor Jen.... I know the Chinese foot massage. This is not like the tender loving foot massage. This is grinding, rolling of the foot, knuckles to the ball of your foot massage and its very tough. And damned funny, btw. FWIW, looks like racers are at a "practice pool", and probably not at the Beijing National Aquatics Center (as far as I can tell).

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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 9:19 am
hah, what do you know it worked!! (usually the images are too big - )
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 9:27 am
back to c/p Cara must be doing the massage with another roadblocker. With her over-the-top reactions to her little bit of dialogue I think its safe to say she's talking to someone other than the cameraman. I don't think the other team member is in the same room and Kisha + Luke have been shown going through the massage with no one else in the room. That should leave Jaimie/Cara and Victor/Tammy in the same time frame for the massage if all this speculating is correct :\ I'm wondering if Jen can't complete if they opt to take a penalty .. that's if its a NEL which makes sense unless of course they make leg 11&12 back to back continuation like a TBC but the CBS race map shows 2 pit stops in Beijing so who knows. if they choose to quit, they will be assessed a 24-hr penalty... because it's a detour. TPTB are not showing the water detour in the preview with K/J in the correct order. Jen shown with goggles and life vest. Jen shown swimming with neither item. Jen and Kisha are talking in corridor without life vest. Jen and Kisha are doing the detour, both wearing life vests. I think K/J started the task and Jen freaked. They discuss water phobia and then life vest were furnished and task completed. No big deal and no major delay. K/J are alone. It seems with Jen's water phobia they would have done the other task. Wonder why they didn't. It appears task is like a relay where 1 member has to get to the other side of pool and back however they can while in the water and then the 2nd member jumps or dives in to do the same thing. Jen probably dog paddled for her 2 lengths of the pool. BTW, the most painful style of Chinese foot massage is called Reflexology FWIW, the decor of the Liangzi Foot Massage chain in Beijing seems to match the racers location. At the southeast of Jianguomen Bridge, there is a Liangzi Foot Message Branch. Liangzi is a foot massage chain that possesses more than five hundred branches in China. The brand Liangzi means sons and daughters from decent families make money with clear conscience by good medicine, superior technique and quality service. According to ancient Chinese medicine record, China has a foot massage history of 5,000 years. A man’s feet just like the root of a tree. Root failed before a tree withers, and feet failed before a man ages. Therefore, as the second heart of a human being, feet exert an vital influence on a person’s health. This Liangzi Foot Massage Branch comprises two floors underground, including 68 foot massage rooms in Chinese, European and Japanese styles. Female receptionists will greet you warmly and show you the way. A foot massage, which costs RMB 138, will take you some 90 minutes during which your ‘second heart’ will be soaked in hot water emitting aroma of Chinese medicine in a wooden basin for 20 minutes, then a well-trained attendant will show her normative massage techniques, surely will you get a wonderful experience. The process will eliminate your weariness, kill germs, ease pain, prevent you from skin diseases of foot, stimulate metabolism and strengthen immunologic function. You will feel very relaxed after that. If you take a whole body massage, it will take you about 60 minutes and RMB 168. It's a chain store for pediluvium (my new word for the day); Jianguomen is described as their flagship store (map http://en.liangzi.com.cn/newEbiz1/en100liangzires/images/pic/map_jgm.jpg). the roofline does look similar at this pool ...and the description below says it was used as a practice pool for the Olympics... In order to provide adequate training facilities for the Chinese National Aquatics Team, the General Sports Administration of China and the Beijing Organizing Committee for 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) decided to revamp the MuXiYuan Sports Academy and make it their main aquatics training base.... (poster posted 2 pictures showing the similiarities between the TAR previews and an actual practice facility)
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 9:37 am
BEcause we have the F-4 and because the final is May 10 I went searching for more spoilers/sightings... again - no "for sure" spoilers - just posting what I'm reading on other forums... RFF seems to only post certain spoilers that have a cooberation - these are on other forums... take it FWIW... There's a flight spoiler on Margie/Luke and Jaime/Cara being on the same flight from China to Japan (connection to Hawaii). Tammy/Victor were spotted with BVM and Phil at a counter in Narita. No one is still sure what to make of this. Tammy/Victor excellently speaks Mandarin and could easily find their way though... It would be a shocking elimination. But chances are, Jen/Kisha may actually be last the next leg? We need more info... It's actually funny no one has ever spotted Kisha and Jen the whole race after Romania... My friend, Caryn Bland, she works at a airport in Hawaii. She said she saw Kisha and Jen there a few months ago. I made her watch the show with me tonight and she said she recognized them. all teams would be in Hawaii though, as the finale is there... As much as I love Tammy and Victor, them getting eliminiated would be a huge surprise, since I really think they win, which, despite all this "first asian decent winners" stuff, is an incredibly predictable ending. Slightly less so than Nick and Starr.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, April 20, 2009 - 7:07 pm
With three legs in China that should be a HUGE help to T/V, although I had to laugh when Tammy said all the use knowing Chinese was to them was to understand the cabbie when he said he didn't know where to go!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 8:32 pm
Reader, remember that they also fly decoy teams.. it has long been spoiled that Mark and Michael were seen flying to Hawai'i and indeed they probably did.. note that they did not appear at the house in Thailand but just did a video conference.. And of course all the teams would have to go to Maui but would think most would go earlier so as to be in place. There should be a U-Turn left.. M/L cannot U-Turn anyone but Jamie/Cara as their allies could go after Jen/Kisha for revenge or after Tammy/Vincent . OR J/K could get there first and go after M/L or J/C. Should be one NEL too.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 7:28 am
thumbs up Sea!! I feel as if I'm the only one that reads spoilers - so I try and just post background stuff! Glad to know I'm not alone in this thread!! <goodvibes>
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 7:48 am
You aren't alone in this thread - I love spoilers!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 12:02 pm
I dont feel right just bringing RFF stuff here.. they work so hard, so I just read there. The puzzle this week is that so far there have been NO promos that even show T/V. The swimming / diving and J/K attempting BOTH could just mean they switched tasks or that they were U turned and had to do both.. or not. The teaser about Jen's fear could mean it affected them .. or not. Definitely should be an interesting show tonight.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 12:44 pm
I love spoilers too! Have the producers always flown decoys or just since we - the viewers - have gotten smarter?
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 1:23 pm
I felt that way too Sea - then I realized that's kinda what happens in Survivor - but Ginger brings over pics and stuff - I figure if anyone really wants to know, they'd head to RFF - and I totally disclose where I've gotten them... (as does Alginger) I do google, and head over to other boards, but RFF has the most comprehensive, and they seem to really make sure of spoilers too...
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