The Amazing Race (Finish Line!)

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If we're talking about KA Survivor tribal wins, I believe his tribes won three times in Sky Pillar and twice in Arkham. In Sky Pillar that is pretty decent since there were a lot of win trades. In Arkham aside from Purple Tribe, he was part of Cyan which lost their only legit challenge and Green Tribe which lost repeatedly.

Don't worry, KA. I'm totally in your corner in making you look nonthreatening.

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Aside from wins though, you always come across as super competent as well as intelligent.

Edit: Which I believe is valid based on my experience playing with you.

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I missed some good rping opportunity for this one.

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Can I change my players? I am so full of regrets.

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I knew saying I'd snark at Xalxe on my application would come back to haunt me in some way.

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What is the methodology being used to calculate the start times in past legs as well as future legs to equalize contenders?

I think there is also some fuzziness concerning communication about the leg while playing. Are we only allowed to chat on designated Chatzy channels during the actual leg, or are we allowed to speak on AIM/Skype/whatever? If yes to chat programs, when are people able to talk with each other, exactly? When they are at the same part of the leg?

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Ah, I don't care about my lead on leg two. The time gap between players made those times unfeasible to continue and the Amazing Race show already does similar stuff.

The Blackjack was horrible for me. I didn't know exactly what I was doing. I got out relatively quickly, but damn, it was confusing. Lesson learned to always let the minion do all the tasks.

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Sorry to all the teams I slowed down at the table

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It's almost start time and you have 9 people to run. If you think you can do it, great. That seems hardcore stressful to do, though. I don't mind either way if the leg is still on or is rescheduled.

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Given choice, I would rather a well done leg than something super rushed.

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It'll probably ultimately only affect the final four anyway, those poor people.

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Just remember, if you have to make a drastic decision on who to pm first, those from your original #Team Jaime/Jamie is always the best choice.

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Jal's The Amazing Race Confessional Quotes Thread

ani, I'm going to respond in a civilized manner

Not really but thanks for sharing?

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Congratulations, you pissed off a player! Maybe your challenge decision was unfair in their eyes. Maybe they got fucked over by a twist, or maybe their ally was eliminated because of a surprise elimination. Whatever the situation, they're pissed, and they're pissed at you. This is serious business. Do not respond with the following:

• Snark
  
  
  Catty comments
  
  Accusations
  
  Rudeness
  
  "Shut up, it's the game"
  "Obviously you aren't very good at this then"
  Ignoring the issue entirely

Contact the offended party via PM. Invite them to chat calmly with you, via AIM, Skype, PM or in a QuickTopic. Allow them to explain their issue, and then calmly explain why you ruled the way you did. Answer all questions as fully as possible without revealing information they shouldn't have. If necessary, contact a neutral third-party and ask them to offer their opinion. Do everything you can to appease the player, while at the same time understanding that it is what happened and it won't change.

Look out, the mish mash police is here

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I'm going to most probably need a sub. I have some holiday stuff that came up. I will be very appreciative!

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Is the next leg being held tomorrow still?

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Oh thank goodness. Voted.

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I'd like to thank my alliance partner Faraday for my win. There's at least one leg I won because I arrived around last at a detour and our working together got me out quickly, with me winning the leg essentially due to me having more money. You helped me on various other tasks, and I wish I had returned the favour and helped you out more. You were my own favourite to win the game.

To Klick, you were one of the hardest competitors I went up against, which is shown by how close our final times were. I thank you for making the game enjoyable and giving it an extra competitive edge as you do in every single game I'm in with you. Also thanks for following through with that u-turn on JDGA, and giving Ani answers on that one cloth detour which he also gave me! Although, on that same leg you attempted to get him to sabotage me, but all is forgiven!

Thank-you to the mods. Fun game, ran to completion, and for all I grumbled about how long the leg may take, you spent the same amount of time and more running each leg alongside us and coming up with the clues beforehand.

Had fun with everyone, really.

I enjoyed most of the game. When it got aggravating, it got

very

aggravating, and except for the last challenge, those points in the game were ironed out for the most part.

My main criticism is the amount of information told to other players. For example, telling players how much money others have or where they are at different tasks in the game to people who are at the pitstop. Basically, information I don't think players would otherwise realistically know.

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Ani's conversations with me made it apparent you were talking to others and that you were at the very least giving information helping other people do better in the game (him at least) which already put everyone not in the loop at a disadvantage. You also tried to use communications to get me to waste the most amount of time one leg, which only because Ani copy and pasted your message to me, actually helped me do better.

I helped Faraday more than he helped me in the last legs and we didn't talk during the last leg. It was very on and off in general.

I don't think the alliances directly resulted in your losing.