Episode 9 of TARA 3 - Spoilers and Speculations

heartz1988 wrote:1) geoff and tisha riding some sort of a vehicle
2) ida and tania pushing something with flower pots on top
3) geoff and tisha playing cricket
4) sam and vince laughing out loud facing someone i think (a pitstop?)
5) sam and vince grinding bamboo i think
6) ad and fuzzie seems to be choosing one of the guys wearing turban? standing there

sorry, i dont think i described it well but here goes

JonL0ver wrote:I have observed 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?????

The sequesterville is the Santiburi Resort in Thailand so I guess, they are going back to Thailand after Oman.

There are 3 more episodes and 4 racers left. There is one more elimination and one TBC or NEL before the finale. With these, we have only two options left.

But if this is another non-elimination leg, then these are what likely we have to see. There are two options.
Episode 9 - TBC or NEL ** 4 teams left (Goa or Punjabi, India??)
Episode 10 - ELIMINATION **3 teams left (Muscat, Oman)
Episode 11 - FINALE

OR

Episode 9 - ELIMINATION ** 4 teams left (Goa or Punjabi, India??)
Episode 10 - TBC or NEL**3 teams left (Muscat, Oman)
Episode 11 - FINALE

Anthonyctf wrote:No TBC for sure
We are guessing there is a TBC because of H/B interview
but now they are gone.
so no TBC
(I think Henry said that becoz of the long leg in Vietnam)

SO, LEG 9 COULD BE NEL OR EL

It's official, teams are racing in PUNE, INDIA (not Goa or Punjab)

These are the evidence:

1.

JonL0ver wrote:I got it. Club Maharashtra or Jawaharlal Neru Stadium in Pune, India.

2.

jk wrote:Here are a couple of pictures of sugarcane extractors taken on Talegaon Dabhade, a municipality in Pune.






Those are what Sam and Vince were using in the preview.

3.

JonL0ver wrote:

I got it. The writing is called Marathi. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra where Pune is situated.

4.

JonL0ver wrote:

sprity wrote:suddenly i saw all the pictures and i found one thing....

u guys are right they are in Maharastra....

Look closely the auto Number... it states MH in the begining....

MH stands for maharastra.... These public auto run under the government norms of maharastra.......

Thanks Sprity. This is another proof our racers are in Pune. This is the vidcap of what's Sprity is telling us.

5.

JonL0ver wrote:I asked someone who knows Pune and this is his message to me.

Hey,


The pics you have uploaded are all very generic places.


The first
one is some where in old Pune. Maybe Laxmi Road or one of the old
WADAS.


The second one is of a sugarcane juice stall. They are
everywhere in season. No particular area. They are wheel barrows and
move from here to there all the time.


The third pic is in Fergusson
College or Wadia College. Both have that kind of Driveway.


The forth
pic is of the potters who sell their wares on the road. You will find
them anywhere on the main road, especially any roads leading out of the
city. There is no particular place these guys sit.

Thanks to Anu!

From what I gathered from Les, teams will play cricket, India's favourite sports.

We are talking about the Indians with the turbans so I guess they are going to PUNJABI

wow..... OMG... i was very shocked just now... pheewww... what a unpredicted leg.... very very thrilling..... very sad when Henry & Bernie being eliminated but i'm happy seeing Ida & Tania able to fight away from being last.... 8) 8) 8) ...i didn't watch the last part of the show... very very mad about it...

our speculations before was very very off .... the things that we are right were the roadblock (bungy jump), pitstop (bolgatty), detour (fish) and some info.... (there was a task washing elephant Jon ).... i cannot accept the letter... so conventional.... a very goog leg i can say... the most unpredicted outcome ever.... i don't like the helicopter reward... very very unfair to the other teams...

from the preview, what i can speculate are...
1. the roadblock will be playing cricket... in the preview only Geoff played while Tish were commenting something... if i'm not mistaken "Geoff doesn't play sport often" something like that....
2. the detour will be carrying a lot of pots using a cart (Ida & Tania doing it in the preview) and grinding something (Sam & Vince doing it in the preview)

need to watch the preview again for further analysis....

Thanks for the insight Al-Hafyz. Do you have an uploaded video for that? Or pictures?

Yes, I also feel the heli ride is a little unfair. I mentioned it the other thread. We will try to review the speculations we were right in the Episode 8 thread.

Yeah, the last spoilers is so out.. LOL.. at least 50% ..

Next leg is not an EL .. I'm sure with that.. and I think there won't be any TBC this time.. hmm...

No TBC For sure
We guess there hava a TBC becoz of H/B interview
but now they are gone
so no TBC
(I think Henry said that becoz of the long leg in Vietnam)

Anthonyctf wrote:No TBC For sure
We guess there hava a TBC becoz of H/B interview
but now they are gone
so no TBC
(I think Henry said that becoz of the long leg in Vietnam)

Yeah, or maybe he is tricking the detective .. xD..

From my blog:

Episode 7 - ELIMINATION ** 4 teams left (Macau, China)
Episode 8 - TBC **4 teams left (Cochin, India)
Episode 9 - ELIMINATION **3 teams left (Goa, India???)
Episode 10- NON-ELIMINATION **3 teams left (Muscat, Oman)
Episode 11- FINALE

But if this is another non-elimination leg, then these are what likely we have to see. There are two options.

Episode 7 - NON-ELIMINATION **5 teams left (Macau, China)
Episode 8 - ELIMINATION **4 teams left (Cochin, India)
Episode 9 - TBC or NEL** 4 teams left (Goa, India??)
Episode 10 - ELIMINATION **3 teams left (Muscat, Oman)
Episode 11 - FINALE

Episode 7 - NON-ELIMINATION **5 teams left (Macau, China)
Episode 8 - TBC **5 teams left (Cochin, India)
Episode 9 - ELIMINATION ** 4 teams left (Goa, India???)
Episode 10 - ELIMINATION **3 teams left (Muscat, Oman)
Episode 11 - FINALE
______________________

What is left?

al-hafyz..... yes tisha is commenting, but she is wearing the cricket equipments

don't have the video or the pic yet.... i will wait for u guys to post it here....

Anthonyctf wrote:No TBC For sure
We guess there hava a TBC becoz of H/B interview
but now they are gone
so no TBC
(I think Henry said that becoz of the long leg in Vietnam)

Excellent point there Anthony. You are right.

heartz1988 wrote:al-hafyz..... yes tisha is commenting, but she is wearing the cricket equipments

yup, we will see the preview first before we can get more accurate answer .. :)

but I still believe that there is a TBC leg.... the season finale will be aired on 20 November... that's mean three more episodes... with 5 teams and two elimination episodes, the season finale will consist with two teams only... there is not NEL... so there will be one TBC and one EL before the season finale....

two teams in the finale??? that's impossible

LOL Al-Hafyz. I love your flow of thinking but Heartz could be right. It is boring to watch two teams only in the finale. No drama and excitement.

But you are may be right also that there is a TBC. Take a look at this:

Leg 9- TBC
Leg 10- Elimination
Leg 11- FINALE

or

Leg 9- Elimination
Leg 10- TBC
Leg 11- Finale

This is my speculation

LEG 9 - NEL
LEG 10 - EL
LEG 11 ( Finale ) - Finale

And I agree with this one too

Leg 9- TBC
Leg 10- Elimination
Leg 11- FINALE

Al-Hafyz wrote:but I still believe that there is a TBC leg.... the season finale will be aired on 20 November... that's mean three more episodes... with 5 teams and two elimination episodes, the season finale will consist with two teams only... there is not NEL... so there will be one TBC and one EL before the season finale....

two is impossible... that is why we need a TBC....

I was shocked when Henry and Bernie were eliminated.. They are the strongest team..

For me, this will be the scenario:

Episode 9: NEL
Episode 10: EL
Episode 11: Finale

We have seen challenges involving Caltex, Singha Beer, Sony, Standard Chartered Bank and MASkargo. What else? But we haven't seen a NOKIA PRODUCT yet.

Are we going to see this next episode?

1 hour ago, Michael_McKay says:

Next week's episode is one of my favourites of the series. I do hope you like that one too.

JonL0ver wrote:We have seen challenges involving Caltex, Singha Beer, Sony, Standard Chartered Bank and MASkargo. What else? But we haven't seen a NOKIA PRODUCT yet.

Are we going to see this next episode?

Yes we have. Remember the video game the teams played using a nokia phone?

to EnterMyWorld, Janet. I am glad to see you here. Please enjoy.

Thank you for reminding me. Geez, this a sign of ageing now. LOL

http://www.mapsofindia.com/air-network/international-airport-map.htm



If they're still in India, they should go to a city that is near an international airport.
Based on the above map, they should go to:
Mumbai
Hyderabad
GOA
Bangalore
Chennai
or
Thiruvananthapuram

TAR10 went to Chennai
TARA2 went to New Delhi

I posted this before but I don't know if we're going to see this since we did not see Osaka.

JonL0ver wrote:MORE SPOILERS:

I don't
know if I have shared this to anyone of you but I remember when AXN was
updating their website with the profiles of the teams competing on TARA
3, I saw pictures of Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, OSAKA and GOA wwhich were removed immediately.

So I made an speculation that we'll see these places during the race.

But according to the description of the preview, Indians in TURBAN are seen as the crowd. Could it be PUNJAB? Punjabis are those wearing turbans.

and according to http://wikitravel.org/en/Punjab_(India), there is an international airport in Punjab in Amritsar.

Amritsar also has a International airport, it is one of the only ones in Punjab, The Raja Sansi International Airport is open 24 hours, and is a closer drive to some parts of Punjab then New Delhi.

I think it's Punjab, India.

This is a look of an autorickshaw in Punjab



An autorickshaw of this kind is shown in the preview.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_cricket_team
According to wiki, there are many cricket stadiums. 
The cricket practicing/training fields should be near the stadiums too.

Kochi, Kerala: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_Stadium,_Kochi

Mumbai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_Gymkhana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankhede_Stadium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabourne_Stadium

Hyderabad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lal_Bahadur_Shastri_Stadium

Bangalore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Chinnaswamy_Stadium

Chepauk, Chennai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._A._Chidambaram_Stadium
Chennai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_Stadium,_Chennai

Let's compare the system of writing (heiroglyphic) in Punjabi to the other Indian state



It looks more of a Punjabi writing to me. Anyways, Sprity will help us tomorrow.

I borrowed the screen cap from RFF and one of the turbans I saw looks like a Punjabi wedding turban

http://www.mapcrow.info/Distance_between_Goa_IN_and_Cochin_IN.html
From Cochin to Goa is about 412 miles (664km)
So they take the 24-hours bus again? lol

I think the pitstop is in Goa. Thanks to Jonlover's spoiler.

Preview is up:
http://amazing-race-asia.axn-asia.com/season3/race/episode8/videos/129/index.html

So it's a matching task like in TAR5 Argentina & TAR6 Ethiopia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Race_5
The second Detour was Perro or Tango. In Perro, Teams had to walk eight dogs to three checkpoints. In Tango, Teams had to travel to a theatre. The teams were then given a photo of a tango dancer in the theatre. they had search the theatre, which was filled with tango dancers, who looked similar to each other, to find the dancer who matched their photo. they then gave the photo to the dancer. if the teams gave it to the wrong dancers, the dancer would take the photo and they would have to get a new one. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Race_6
The Roadblock required the member of the team with "an eye for detail" to descend into St. George's Church to match a pendant given to them with one worn by one of the hundreds of worshippers standing outside.

Detour 1: Deliver pots to a local store



or Detour 2: Squeeze sugarcanes and drink juices.

TARA taxi. Check out the flags.

JonL0ver wrote:From what I gathered from Les, teams will play cricket, India's favourite sports.

We are talking about the Indians with the turbans so I guess they are going to PUNJABI

u may be right..... but most of the north indians were these types of turbans during festival season especially in Marriages......

I think the cricket task is the roadblock.....

jon iam not sure about the script whether it is punjabi or hindi....

But iam sure they are going to the north side of india.....

we have to check out that they is any local stadium in punjab....

I saw the Banter moments (Singha Beer) of Henry & Bernie last last week, I guess... but it was not shown anymore.. Singha beer comercials are for the eliminated teams since most of them have it.

Krish saw Geoff & Tisha's banter moments, do you think they will be eliminated next?

Now, I'm searching for that video, and i can't find one... help?

The sugarcane task involves a Manual sugarcane extractor machine....

Normally machines will be attached to extract the sugarcane jucies....

i have never seen or heard these types of manual machine in south india....

i was really happy to see that the teams were happy when they read travel to cochin india.....

The local ppl in cochin did a good job....

The ida n tania's auto driver borrowed petrol from a local guy's bike n filled his auto while making his way to kolam task.....

the above stmt may look silly but the turth is the petrol rates are very high in india... Thanks to the guy who gave his bike petrol n made ida n tania to move ahead....

I really liked they had a traditional blessing from the priest....

saw the Banter moments (Singha Beer) of Henry & Bernie last last week, I guess... but it was not shown anymore.. Singha beer comercials are for the eliminated teams since most of them have it.

Krish saw Geoff & Tisha's banter moments, do you think they will be eliminated next?

Now, I'm searching for that video, and i can't find one... help?

All of the ramaining teams have a commercial of singha beer.. I have watched it all.. hehehe

I saw these Moments of Banter.

episode 1: Ida & Tania's Moments of Banter.
2: Natalie & Pailin
3: Neena & Amit
4: Neena & Amit
5: A.D. & Fuzzie
6: Mai & Oliver
7: Kapil & Niroo

banzai wrote:I saw these Moments of Banter.

episode 1: Ida & Tania's Moments of Banter.
2: Natalie & Pailin
3: Neena & Amit
4: Neena & Amit
5: A.D. & Fuzzie
6: Mai & Oliver
7: Kapil & Niroo

i saw it 2

oh really... so it wasn't a spoiler! Thanks!

guys can u post the screen shot of the auto which has a number in its back...

the sreenshot of sam n vince extracting sugarcane... if i get the enlarged screenshot of the shop name behind the sugarcane extractor machine it will be useful.....

i hope that they are in punjab this time....

Bhangra dance of punjabi's..... Note the turban........




Mostly punjabi's will have beard......... :?:

Thank you to Banzai.

Sprity, will these help?

sprity wrote:Mostly punjabi's will have beard......... :?:

All of the men wearing turbans in the video don't have beards. Then this is not Punjab. But Banzai might be right. Teams might match the turban to a picture or find the man with the wedding turban

I'll post some clearer vidcaps tomorrow.