TARA 3 GALLERY OF SPOILERS and SPECULATIONS

I wandered in all Amazing Race forums and this one took my attention:

A certain abarry90 posted at TWOP last Sep 23, 2008 @ 4:38 pm:

My in laws saw filming in progress back in early may in Morocco. I am guessing Morocco may be one of the unknow locations?

Though the guy is referring to the route of TAR 13, could this be TARA 3 and the sighting might not have been Early May but Early June?

I would love the idea of them going to Morocco. The possibility is high since TAR loves to reuse the route of previous TAR editions.

I would love to see them in Morocco.
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Anyways, I was reading a Thai forum when I came across with this post of CHIANGMAIBRUCE whose wife was offered to be one of the local crew

Yes and the pay they offered for local helpers wasn't real flash
either! they were in chiang mai a few months back and advertised
beforehand, originally offering 1,000 baht for translator/guides to
accompany each couple. My wife applied as she thought it might be fun,
and was accepted. Then they dropped it to 800 baht, and for which they
wanted fluent English speakers who had to attend a session the night
before filming plus accompany their alloted couple all day plus provide
a uniform of sorts plus ? (oh, i can't remember the rest). In the end
not worth the bother.

SOURCE: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Amazing-Race-Asia-Series-3-t212447.html

Thanks to Ahdeng for interpreting this article and to Heartz for giving us the link.
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驚險大挑戰香港參賽者贏友誼


(星島)9月30日 星期二 06:30


(綜合報道)
(星島日報 報道)《驚險大挑戰亞洲版》是一個鬥智鬥力的遊戲節目，各地的參賽者以二人為一組，要到世界各地接受不同挑戰，以往的挑戰包括吃蟲、跳Bungee Jump等，每集淘汰一支表現欠佳的隊伍，最後勝出的可奪得10萬美元 獎金。最有趣的是節目規定兩名隊友必須是認識多年，各項挑戰就成了兩人感情的考驗。剛開始在AXN亞洲頻道播放的第3季節目，是由英語講師吳偉強(Sam)及自由節目主持人張澤民(Vince)代表香港出賽。Sam來自新加坡 ，Vince則來自加拿大 ，04年在香港認識，由於同樣愛玩愛說笑，二人一見如故。
　　
他們更同聲表示相信對方是最佳拍檔，Vince解釋說：「：「我是較衝動的人，不過體能不錯，膽子亦大；而Sam從前曾被蜜蜂針過，很怕昆蟲，卻擅於思考，我們可以互補長短。」遊戲中部分挑戰是要選一個隊員獨力迎戰，他們可按提示決定人選，雖然二人個性迥異，但原來決定人選亦困難重重。Sam說：「有提示是要游泳，自然選了Vince，但原來游泳過程要考智力；有一次提示是貓，我一向喜歡貓，便由我出賽，誰知遊戲要求搬動數十隻小貓。」

至今遊戲已圓滿結束，但二人都不願透露結果。不過無論如何，他們都已贏得友誼。Vince說:「雖然有不同意見，但我們不斷提醒對方『這只是遊戲，不能因此失去好友』，最後我們的友情增進了!」
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The 1st paragraph, they r introducing Sam & VInce.

2nd paragraph,
Sam & Vince said they have trust in each other, Vince explained that he is a rash person, but he is physically fit. While Sam said that he was stung by a bee before, that's why he's afraid of insects, but he is good in using his brain, so they can actually cooperate well in the race, they chose their Roadblock very carefully. Sam said, one of the Roadblocks is a swimming task, so Vince did that Roadblock, but that Roadblock need to do some mental works . Then there is once, the clue is Cat, Sam like Cats, so he did the Roadblock, but it actually want them to deliver dozens of cats!!

In the 3rd paragraph.
The race was over, both Sam and Vince did not reveal the results, but nevertheless, they already won their own friendship. Vince said that, although they have some arguments in the race, but they told each other " this is only a race, they should not let it affect their friendship".
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If TARA 3 has only 11 episodes, if there's 1 TBC and 2 NELs, there's only 10 legs this season.

Maybe,
Leg 6 - Hong Kong (NEL) - Episode 6
Leg 7 - India TBC European Country??/Oman?? (EL) - Episode 7 & 8
Leg 8 - Oman??/European Country?? (NEL) - Episode 9
Leg 9 - Somewhere in Africa (EL) - Episode 10
Leg 10 - Finish Line in Thailand (Final 3 - Winners) - Episode 11

eragon wrote:If TARA 3 has only 11 episodes, if there's 1 TBC and 2 NELs, there's only 10 legs this season.

Maybe,
Leg 6 - Hong Kong (NEL) - Episode 6
Leg 7 - India TBC European Country??/Oman?? (EL) - Episode 7 & 8
Leg 8 - Oman??/European Country?? (NEL) - Episode 9
Leg 9 - Somewhere in Africa (EL) - Episode 10
Leg 10 - Finish Line in Thailand (Final 3 - Winners) - Episode 11

You have miss the lovely Macau in Leg 7
(Although we don't have photo evidence.....But we have people evidence)
That means no TBC in This Season.........??

oh.. there's Macau??
so there's 3 more NELs

So
Leg 6 - Hong Kong (NEL) - Episode 6
Leg 7 - Macau (EL) - Episode 7
Leg 8 - India TBC European Country??/Oman?? (NEL) - Episode 8
Leg 9 - Oman??/European Country?? (NEL) - Episode 9
Leg 10 - Somewhere in Africa (EL) - Episode 10
Leg 11 - Finish Line in Thailand (Final 3 - Winners) - Episode 11

It was revealed in an article that there are 11 episodes. There is a TBC from Henry's interview. So this gives us 10 legs in which 7 are eliminations, 2 non-eliminations and 1 finale.

1st Epi- Thailand --- ELimination
2nd Epi- Vietnam --- ELimination
3rd Epi - Vietnam --- ELimination
4th Epi- Taiwan ---- ELimination
5th Epi - Taiwan----ELimination
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6th Epi - ?
7th Epi - ?
8th Epi - ?
9th Epi - ?
10th Epi -?
11th Epi - Finale


So we still have 2 eliminations, 2 non-eliminations and 1 TBC.

This is what I think how they designed the game

6th Epi - Hong Kong - NEL
7th Epi - Macau - TBC
8th Epi - India - Elimination
9th Epi - India - NEL
10th Epi - Oman - ELimination
11th Epi - Finale (it might be Thailand but I have a feeling the finale is in Turkey or Morocco)

or

6th Epi - Hong Kong - TBC
7th Epi - Macau - ELimination
8th Epi - India - NEL
9th Epi - India - Elimination
10th Epi -Oman- NEL
11th Epi - Finale

Hong Kong leg cannot be a TBC because as we saw the picture of Allan Wu in the pitstop with a female greeter...

eragon wrote:Hong Kong leg cannot be a TBC because as we saw the picture of Allan Wu in the pitstop with a female greeter...

Oh yes. How do I forget it. So this is a NEL.

Thanks Eragon.

I have to change my speculations then:

JonL0ver wrote:So we still have 2 eliminations, 2 non-eliminations and 1 TBC.

This is what I think how they designed the game

6th Epi - Hong Kong - NEL
7th Epi - Macau - TBC
8th Epi - India - Elimination
9th Epi - India - NEL
10th Epi - Oman - ELimination
11th Epi - Finale (it might be Thailand but I have a feeling the finale is in Turkey or Morocco)

or

6th Epi - Hong Kong - TBC
7th Epi - Macau - ELimination
8th Epi - India - NEL
9th Epi - India - Elimination
10th Epi -Oman- NEL
11th Epi - Finale

I propose this as an alternative

6th - Hong Kong - NEL
7th - Macau - ELimination
8th - India - NEL
9th - India - Elimination
10h - Oman - TBC
11th - Finale

haha... you're old Jon...

As far as I can remember, The Indian blogger saw Geoff & Tisha in the airport in Singapore?? going to India. If the next leg is Macau after Hong Kong, then we have 4 teams left.

HK Leg - NEL (5 teams left)
pitstop - still 5 teams

Macau Leg - EL (5 teams left)
pitstop - 4 teams left

Safe:
Geoff & Tisha
Sam & Vince (I also read somewhere that that blogger heard from G&T that they were 2 hours ahead of Sam & Vince.)

Haha. Yes, Eragon. I even posted it in my blog so I don't know why I have forgotten it.

I edited my original post and I included this as my alternative:

6th - Hong Kong - NEL
7th - Macau - ELimination
8th - India - NEL
9th - India - Elimination
10h - Oman - TBC
11th - Finale

So I think we can now safely say Geoff/Tisha and Sam/Vince reach at least the TOP 4.

Yehey!!!

I think there's no TBC this season.

Allan Wu said "In this race, there are 11 legs. In each leg, there is a pitstop. 7 of these pitstops are elimination points."

Leg 1 to 5 - EL
Leg 6 - NEL
Leg 7 - EL
Leg 8 - NEL
Leg 9 - NEL
Leg 10 - EL
Leg 11 - Finale

Eragon, here is an interview from Henry of Henry and Bernie:

“It was relentless ... everything was a blur. It is like nothing you have ever experienced before, really. I have worked in busy kitchens where I had to cook 100 dinners ... but in no way did it compare to what we had to go through in the race. You never really know what is going to happen. Sometimes you think it is the end of the leg and then no, we get another clue and realise the race is still on,” says 43-year-old Henry during a recent interview with The Star.

SOURCE: http://star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2008/9/2/tvnradio/1900957&sec=tvnradio


That sounds TBC:

Okay, "there are 11 legs in which 7 are eliminations" means:

1- Neena and Amit - 9 teams left
2- William and Isaac - 8 teams left
3- Natalie and Isaac - 7 teams left
4- Kapiland Niroo - 6 teams left
5- Mai and Oliver - 5 teams left

So that is five eliminations, we have 2 more eliminations

6- ?? elimination
7- ?? elimination

So no more elimination since that is 7 now. We put the NELs

8- ???? NEL or TBC
9- ???? NEL or TBC
10- ??? NL or TBC
11- FINALE


The bottomline is that you might be right Eragon if Henry was just playing around in that interview. There might be 3 NELs.

But if that was a slip of his tongue then we expect at least one TBC

JonL0ver wrote:Eragon, here is an interview from Henry of Henry and Bernie:

“It was relentless ... everything was a blur. It is like nothing you have ever experienced before, really. I have worked in busy kitchens where I had to cook 100 dinners ... but in no way did it compare to what we had to go through in the race. You never really know what is going to happen. Sometimes you think it is the end of the leg and then no, we get another clue and realise the race is still on,” says 43-year-old Henry during a recent interview with The Star.

SOURCE: http://star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2008/9/2/tvnradio/1900957&sec=tvnradio

Maybe It is not TBC......It is just there have some very long leg (Such as Leg 2)
Henry maybe think that after the detour in leg 2 there is still some AT task
Let him think it is the end of the leg and then no, we get another clue and realise the race is still on?????

Hi Anthony. I got your point there. But for me that frustration from Henry fits more after the pitstop than to any other task like detour or roadblock.

First and foremost, the racers know that they have to finish a detour, a roadblock and some route infos before the end of their race in a certain leg.

JonL0ver wrote:Hi Anthony. I got your point there. But for me that frustration from Henry fits more after the pitstop than to any other task like detour or roadblock.

First and foremost, the racers know that they have to finish a detour, a roadblock and some route infos before the end of their race in a certain leg.

Trouble again..............
HK & Macau seem to be the most fit the TBC...But we find a pit stop at HK
If the TBC is in India & Oman .... it is too late??
Remain 5 Teams to have a TBC??

So Macau & India is better But it is too far with this 2 country
It is so strange that 2 country is far but have a TBC

Trouble...........-____-

I am happy to welcome you Anthony.

Yes, from my observation, TBC is always placed before they fly to another country. In this case, a TBC is most likely between Macau and India and India to Oman or Oman to another country. So we will.

Nice to hear that they made their journey to india.....

Is that no more Spoliers in Leg 6 ?? Yes?? :evil:
No I 've found a new spoliers
Plz see this newspaper

Let see this newspaper..............................
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Oops I forget this is Eng Forum I need to translate to English
Translate:
After 5 Leg 3 Country 5 Teams need to stop their journey :waves:
5 Teams remain Who will be next to be out of the toughest race ever??
The 6 Leg wiil race in the beautiful & wonderful & happiest & lovable city ...... Hong Kong
HK team is the first team who finished Leg 5
Would the have good adventage??
A lot of task will appear in this beautiful & wonderful & happiest & lovable city Include that a task that in the old market in Central
The need to use the "Lucky Cookie" to get their Clue
The game is rush Everyteam is trying to ride the taxi to Kowloon
Except 1 Team fighre out the speediest way to KL.Will They do it sucessfuly??
Ladies Market is famous of the most beautiful & cheapest bag
They need to find one bag that contain their next clue
Let the team so frustrated Which team will be first to the pit stop---The Gold Fish Market??
A long newspaper My Eng. is bad Sorry

Anthony. we love you and we are glad you are here wih us. Let's try to find those places. And let's try to speculate the tasks and it's order.

After 5 Leg 3 Country 5 Teams need to stop their journey

This sounds a NEL.

These are tasks and locations from the article found by Anthonyctf:

1. "Use a lucky Cookie" to find their next clue (Anthony, what is LUCKY COOKIE?)

2. "Find a bag containing the next clue in Ladies Market" (Is Ladies Market in Kowloon, Anthony?)

3. Is Gold Fish Market the pitstop according to the article? Is it the same as Blake Pier at Stanley since we saw the mat and Allan there?

This the task as seen in the preview:

1. Play with the Hong Kong Rugby team and make one or more goals to recieve your next clue

So which is detour, roadblock and extra tasks? Let's try to figure these out.

JonL0ver wrote:This
vidcap might support our claim about Henry's/Bernie's possible elimination.


They missed
to read some minor detail of the clue, probably because Bernie focused more on
getting a souvenir bag. Hehe. That's how I read it.

So this bag is where the clue is contained. Now, what is Bernie reading? I saw Tisha reading that also. Did the producer hide a additional clue from the paper?

Lucky cookie?? Is this the same as what have we seen in All Star TAR 11 where Charla and Mirna ate too many cookies?

JonL0ver wrote:After 5 Leg 3 Country 5 Teams need to stop their journey

This sounds a NEL.

These are tasks and locations from the article found by Anthonyctf:

1. "Use a lucky Cookie" to find their next clue (Anthony, what is LUCKY COOKIE?)

2. "Find a bag containing the next clue in Ladies Market" (Is Ladies Market in Kowloon, Anthony?)

3. Is Gold Fish Market the pitstop according to the article? Is it the same as Blake Pier at Stanley since we saw the mat and Allan there?

This the task as seen in the preview:

1. Play with the Hong Kong Rugby team and make one or more goals to recieve your next clue

So which is detour, roadblock and extra tasks? Let's try to figure these out.

For the 1. About the Lucky Cookie (The correct name is Fortune Cookie)
Is the people put some Auspicious Messages /Fai Chun / Red Paste
in a piece of cookie The among of people eat it too see who is lucky
Yes.....it is simliar to TAR11
WIKI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_Cookie

The most important part : Chinese Legend
Although fortune cookies are undoubtedly a modern invention, a legend has been developed and circulated to explain their origins. According to this legend, in the 14th century, when the Mongols ruled China, a revolutionary named Chu Yuan Chang planned an uprising against them. He used mooncakes to pass along the date of the uprising to the Chinese by replacing the yolk in the center of the mooncake with the message written on rice paper. The Mongols did not care for the yolks, so the plan went on successfully and the Ming Dynasty began. It is claimed that the Moon Festival celebrates this with the tradition of giving mooncakes with messages inside. Immigrant Chinese railroad workers, without the ingredients to make regular mooncakes, made biscuits instead. It is these biscuits that may have later inspired fortune cookies


This History is also the History of Mooncakes......................................

For the 2. The Ladies Market is in Mong Kok (Which is in Kowloon You are right)
Photo:

For the 3. I think it is just a destination not a pit stop becoz the newspaper often wrong

Anthonyctf. Thanks so much.

Since we are discussing Episode 6 now, would you mind if I gonna copy some of the post here:

http://outofmyworld.heavenforum.org/the-amazing-race-asia-f11/episode-6-of-tara-3-spoilers-and-speculations-t616.htm

That's the thread for TAR 3 Episode 6.

Thanks.

Do you think this is slip of the tongue?
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“It was easier for me because I told everyone in Australia that I would be in Malaysia and vice versa. And, I am hopeless at replying my e-mail and SMS-es. But for Bernie, she could be in a Turkish prison and she’d still be sending out messages on her phone,” says Henry.

“Not that I have ever been in a Turkish prison,” Bernie clarifies.

SOURCE: http://star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2008/9/2/tvnradio/1900957&sec=tvnradio

Have seen them doing a mistake in the race so far?
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Though they may have made some mistakes along the way, the siblings are proud of the way they ran the race.

SOURC: http://star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2008/9/2/tvnradio/1900957&sec=tvnradio

I just thought of this and also mentioned in my blog.

I have observe that TARA is doing 2 legs in one country.

Leg 1 - Thailand - exemption since this is the starting country
Leg 2 - Saigon, Vietnam
Leg 3 - Hue, Vietnam
Leg 4 - Taipei, Taiwan
Leg 5 - Taipei, Taiwan
Leg 6 - Hong Kong, China
Leg 7 - Macau, China
Leg 8 - Cochin, India
Leg 9 - India???????
Leg 10-Muscat, Oman
Leg 11-Oman????? back to Thailand?????

Very nice observation Jon!
So they really made it within ASIA only?
Yeah that's why it was called The Amazing Race Asia.

2 days ago, Michael McKay says:

dhruvthadani, If you go back to the start of the season I said that
I was not as interested in a really spread out route like season 2 as I
wanted season 3 to me more relentless, more grueling with litle time
for teams to rest between Legs. This was more our focus this season.
It's up to the viewers to decide if this strategy worked and it has

You are definitely aware of the Santiburi prizes Sam and Vince have received for being number one in two consecutive legs.

That is the sequesterville for this season of TARA.

Probably, you have also watched the videos from Banzai about the banter moments of the teams, that is also in Santiburi.

Does this mean Thailand is also the finish line of the race?

We have been speculating Sam and Vince have won the race because of their Sony commercial but McKay has this to say.

Well, then the final 3 teams have Sony commercials.
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1 day ago, Michael_McKay says:

Sam and Vince aren't the only team to record Sony commercials this season but I will pass on your comments to AXN anyway.

I will watch the replay of Hardball here in the Philippines later at 2:30 am. I have read a comment from http://amazing-race-asia.axn-asia.com/season3/teams/geoff-tisha/comments/submit/index.html#comments
that someone get slipped. Someone has congratulate Geoff and Tisha for winning the TARA3..Hmmm....

Julsrum13, I was thinking someone slipped during the zipline in Oman.

Here is the original message:

50 mins ago, johnjay says:

Uh-ho somebody slipped...

Just finished watching HARDBALL, Jinno Rufino, one of the prolific
host and apparently auditioned to TARA3 but didn't make it, greeted
Tish for her bday tomorrow but accidentally slipped in congratulating
for winning TARA3... Oooops!!!

Boyet Sison immediately interjected: "Hey Geof if something goes wrong, you know who to blame." (LOL)

Bill Velasco added: "That is why they call it a Non-disclosure clause."

And the end credits were up, camera was still on, you could see the look on Jinno, and all the guys were like "Hala Lagot!!!"

Anybody here knows where Tish lives?

Happy Birthday to you.. Happy Birthday to you... =)

Sorry Jinno, but I hope you're still invited to a $100,000-burp-day bash!!!

Hahaha...

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Honestly, this is the order of the teams in the finale:

First - Geoff and Tisha
Second- Sam and Vince
Third - Ida and Tania.

That's only my speculation. Hehehe

What is that Hardball?

Julsrum13, I was thinking someone slipped during the zipline in Oman...

Hahaha.. You are right Jonlover..

The replay of episode 9 is showing right now.. I will wait for the preview.. I hope they will show it after the replay..

maybe they did won

Hardball(Philippines)

A 30-minute sports talk show that will explore the issues behind the world of sports; from analysis of upcoming events, breaking down match-ups and offering historical perspectives on current sports events.
Hosted by Bill Velasco, Jinno Rufino & Boyet Sison; each of them will provide a different view; Velasco will have the advantage of historical research, Rufino will be the younger, emotional voice & Sison will add humor and the ordinary fans' perspective.
A sports program for every Filipino that has an opinion on anything about sports...

julsrom13 wrote:I will watch the replay of Hardball here in the Philippines later at 2:30 am. I have read a comment from http://amazing-race-asia.axn-asia.com/season3/teams/geoff-tisha/comments/submit/index.html#comments
that someone get slipped. Someone has congratulate Geoff and Tisha for winning the TARA3..Hmmm....

are they sure ?????????? G & T got the first?

DO hope that Sam & Vince will be the first

ah, I'm spoilt again.. i hate this ;(..

No, no. Just keep it with ourselves. If it's indeed true, 5 million is 5 million. Let's just be quiet.

I hope they haven't spoilt it for us. Then again those talkshow hosts are big bellied clowns.

I still have hope for AD and Fuzzie. They may not be strong but they lasted this far.

Yes, Janet. I am also worried if there was actually a leakage.

Well, too many people claiming they know who won. This is probably like the Sony commercial, everyone is reading something into it.

Expect the teams will be ruthless in the next leg. I hope someone uploads preview soon

We can continue speculating about the leakage here guys. I had to move it here what we have posted in the other thread. Enjoy

Julsrum13, have you watched the replay and have confirmed this?

notice the three teams in the center:

SV in the apex of the triangle.
GT in the left base.
IT in the right base.

do we have pictures of Season 1 and Season 2 group pictures to verify this lead?

"the final 3 teams are in the center"

Season 1 FINAL Pitstop



Season 2 group pics (notice that the final three teams are spread):


another Season 3 promo pic:

so maybe its true that geoof and tish won
huuhhu

1st. tish n geoff
2nd. sam n vince
3rd. ida n tania