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Jilliterate said on March 3rd, 2015 at 12:25 am

I haven’t seen an episode of the Amazing Race in probably ten years, but I’m thoroughly enjoying these recaps.

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chrisrw109 said on March 3rd, 2015 at 2:14 pm

John!

Awesome to see you doing recaps of one of my favorite shows, and I lived the shout-out to TWoP in the first one.

Team Tuskegee, wow. It was pretty obvious pretty quickly that they were not going to make it very far on the race at all. But missing a train because you’re taking a selfie? That is one for the books.

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The selfie cams are clearly Race provided and their use is encouraged. Does the guy responsible now get fired or a raise?

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@Bael: I’d settle for “firing squad”, but my preference is always going to be “staked out next to a fire ant nest”. I think they are the least necessary, most obnoxious concept in the history of ever. Seriously, did it make sense to anyone to give cameras to a group of people being followed around and filmed constantly? What, were they worried they wouldn’t have anything but the memories of their trip? GRR.

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chrisrw109 said on March 4th, 2015 at 12:53 pm

Ehhh. The selfie cams aren’t honestly the worst idea. There’s a difference between the race file / images and you taking a special picture for ye old photo album.

However, I actually wonder if the cameraguy asked them to do a quick interview in front of the train, or if Tuskegee came up with the idea. If it was the former I wonder if they’d have gotten a bonus on time. On the other hand they were pretty clearly dead as gophers so unless it was 12 hours no bonus would have helped.

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Somebody must have hired a “social media consultant”. I bet there are some official instagrams or something out there. In other words, some producer’s cousin got paid $80,000 dollars to come up with the cameras and hash tags.

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They’ve been doing the hashtags for a while now, both for teams and events. While I don’t love the actual nicknames they come up with every time (“#SweetScientists” is pretty good, “#TeamJJ” less so) it makes sense to do. If you want people to tweet about the show, and they’re going to have favorite teams, it’s a good idea to get them all on the same page about what they’re called in order to get it trending.

If you have the energy to read and watch at the same time, BTW, Phil live-tweets during the show.

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The Crazed Spruce said on March 5th, 2015 at 8:27 am

Missing your train because you’re taking a selfie may be the stupidest move I’ve ever seen on a reality show. (And yes, I do watch Big Brother.)

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Out of curiosity, do you have trouble telling the teams apart?

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Sometimes with some teams. It’s trickier this season because they’re all dating couples, so they’re a bit more similar than usual.

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