Yes, I felt the same. Especially the Carnival challenge, which I thought was quite lame.
The soccer darts challenge looked hard though, for anyone who hasn’t played soccer.
Although not our top team, my wife and I were sad to see Andrea and Malaina go.
But Rob and Corey continue to be our favorites.
I liked the episode, and think the carnival was tossed in there to give the teams a breather - I would have failed miserably at the soccer. I like mustard, my D does not, so it would have needed to be my taste buds to the rescue, she, however is amazing with languages (and memorizing stuff) so she’d have gotten the words easy peasy.
Navigation issues seems to be a real issue on this show…every season. I was thinking about the woman that was driving that doesn’t know her left from her right (oof!), and as a self-proclaimed efficiency expert, if I were sitting behind her giving directions, I’d say the word left, and tap her left shoulder. Or I’d tie a bandana or string on one wrist and say that’s your right…when I was little I had a hard time with left/right. My mom tied a little red ribbon on my wrist and gave me the mnemonic “red ribbon, right wrist” (wrist sounds like it begins with r, so all the words were pointing to my right) - but I was 6!
and for the next lesson, buoys at an inlet:
“red, right, … return”
Red buoy is on left in French Polynesia.
I did feel for her because I’m terrible at knowing left from right.
Interesting!
Going into port - or heading out?
See region B versus region A in above photo
Not sure if the emoji will show up when I hit reply, but I taught kids to hold their hands up with thumbs touching - the left hand makes an “L”.
Or, as my son’s karate teacher used to say after someone put up the wrong hand “your other left”.
I was taught similarly. Extend thumb and forefinger. The hand with the digits resembling an L is the left. Fortunately this also works in Germany, Austria, Netherlands. Curious how they’d teach in Frace, Spain, Italy, etc, where this doesn’t work.
Shockingly, I find myself having to say this to adults at times.
Or they could just take a marker and put an “L” on their left hands.
I’m guilty of not being able to tell my right from my left. I just can’t seem to get it. My husband frequently says “ your other left”. I think some people just have more difficulty with this than others.
I have no trouble distinguishing left from right, but I often mix up east and west 
For example, I might say town X is 20 miles east from my home, when I meant to say 20 miles west.
I love maps (digital and paper) and navigating by them. Even when navigating by phone I like to look at the overall route and any difficult sections ahead of time, unlike my children who would drive off an embankment if the phone said “turn left.” I’d be awful at any height or strength challenges but give me a navigating or needle in a haystack and I’d be great. Which is why I like the mixture of hard/exciting/easy/boring challenges on AR. They have no idea if they’ll be riding a bicycle horse or repelling down a building next. It doesn’t necessarily favor the strongest, most athletic teams.
Cool! I guess I missed that if Phil explained it. It makes a lot more sense for the mixture of costumes.
Level set your expectations. This was filmed before the currently airing season and was planned with 60 minute episodes in mind. Expect a lot of filler.
Any chance the episodes will be 60 minutes for that season??
No. CBS made the announcement this morning. Both Survivor and TAR will be 90 minutes in the Spring, except for the first 2 episodes of Survivor will be 2 hours.
Given that 95% of material is probably tossed out during editing, not because it’s not good material, but because it had to be crammed into n 40-minutes episodes, chances are the extra 20 minutes won’t have to be filler - but rather are content, extra depth, more fun interactions within a team or with “locals”, that we were missing out on before. 
We can only hope LOL.
