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Yeah...that's great dapa. Kind of like saying "It's my Germany and my extermination camps, so there!". I don't remember asking for a survey, too. Odd that, isn't it?

Anyhoo, I'm just gonna do condensed things for each leg and say why I didn't like it, and just link to it. Much easier, and most of the legs aren't exactly long to read.

30: Thiruvananthapuram, India
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In theory, this leg should have been rather awesome, but it suffers from a number of problems. The massive pro of this leg was the Roadblock, but even then it was pretty much a direct ripoff of the Macau Roadblock. Furthermore, in general the skits around this Roadblock weren't as good (IMO), apart from Zoila's cry of rape. Which was kind of awesome. The Detour was another issue, since it was pretty much a sucky-ass "either write something about some random Indian painter's work" choice or "monotonous posts about tigers". Thiruvananthapuram is really tough to spell each team, too, and that drags this leg down too. But I think the major problem it has is that there was very little tension with oh ehm gee never showing, and it was far, far outshadowed by the New Delhi leg that followed on.

29: Algiers, Algeria
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Yes, I know, it's another W&C1 leg. Algeria always seemed to be a bit of an odd one for me - it just seemed to be a bit of a...dull spot after three legs where there had been quite a bit going on. The "Terror" part of the Detour has always been a personal favourite of mine, in fact, but it is kind of the only thing that stands out in an otherwise drab leg. The other Detour option, "Peace", seems like something that would come out of the real race, which was something I think I was going for in the early legs (I think that's very apparent in Morocco, especially the Detour...but more on that later), but it was a little bit too boring for this race. Finally, an all-too luck driven Roadblock with the whole Rock, Paper, Scissors. The bright spot of this leg probably came in the mini-leg battle between Nick and Max because both of them missed the original leg, but that was all to determine who was going to get the Speed Bump in the next leg - and both of them kind of bankrupted themselves in the run up to Botswana as a result.

28: Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia -> Khovd, Mongolia
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I had always wanted to do a leg in Kaliningrad, because it's just so obscure that it's kind of <3able. Plus, it's full of Russian gangsters, and also apparently the home of the KGB, as teams found out in the Roadblock. I think that's partially why I didn't like this leg as much, because it didn't really have a Roadblock, meaning it relied all too much on the Detour. That, and the Fast Forward was a kind of sucky research one that was fairly obvious once you got the info. Moving the leg to Mongolia halfway through was partially because A: Mongolia had been on the to-do-list since the first season, and was a big candidate instead of Hachiko-Kojima at one point in W&C2, and B: Kaliningrad is kind of sucky for research. One thing that annoyed me was the fact that teams acted like they were reunited after they got knocked out, which kind the idea of team members reuniting in the Khovd square. As for the Detour...well, this I had no real problem with. "Trade" was a direct ripoff of one of the Detour options during the South African leg in TAR7, but it's still a good concept, while "Cash" required teams to actually think about the notes and did spread the field a little. But as a leg, it's stuck between two good legs again, which means it's held down.

25: Manila, Philippines
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Apologies to the Pinoys out there, but Manila doesn't make it out of the bottom third in my rankings. Theoretically, there was nothing wrong with this leg - no massive problem that keeps on bugging me about it. It was just far too MOR for its own good: no drama because of the fact that smiley disappeared halfway through the leg, therefore negating Funkey's Speed Bump, and just...nothing really happened. The Roadblock was a nice bit of fun for me, if only because it was fairly random and again had one of the "ooh, decision!" moments. Then the Detour was kind of boring/sucky/seen it all before. So...yeah, I can't really say much more about it because it's just too boring >_>.

24: Beijing, China
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Ah, Beijing. TAR14 do an Olympic leg seven or so months after the Olympics? I do one that's current, bitches. The best thing about this leg was probably the beginning: teams had to go to the Water Cube and find their clue in one of ten lockers. Somehow, only five teams actually started this leg at the right time...and all five managed to eliminate every other locker until they finally found the right one. After that, this leg was generally a case of "INACTIVITY RULES!", with Crow going missing during the leg, and a host of people starting it late. The Detour had teams either listing medal winners from the 08, 04 and 00 Olympics, or swimming 100m of the Water Cube (HEY, THOSE BITCHES STOLE MY IDEA!). There was an Olympic Torch FF that was alright, too. Then came the Roadblock, which was during my Dynasty Warriors <3fest phase, with teams having to give descriptions of a figure from either Wu, Wei or Shu. This leg is also notable for the fact that it was postponed halfway through thanks to Yuku sucking, so it was held over until the next race day. And somehow, we got to a point where max was just finishing the Roadblock and smiley was just starting the leg. Far too broken apart to make a good leg, but the design of it was good, at least. Oh, and it had my favourite death ever (Wan putting concrete shoes on Candy & DeJeMaul and making them drown in the Water Cube <3. Ranks up there with JP & Steve being blown up on the aircraft carrier).