> Maybe I missed something in the instructions. Why were the teams trying to
> learn a dance?
>
> As near as I could tell, the process was:
> 1. try to learn it.
> 2. try to perform it.
> 3. Add your own moves to it.
> 4. get a 10 minute penalty if you failed.
>
> I would have spent less than 5 seconds attempting to learn/perform, then
> taken the 10 minute penalty and been done much quicker than any of those
> teams.
>
> The judging was a fiasco anyway. The first team that tried clearly did a
> better job than the African American brother/sister combo, yet the judges
> ruled otherwise. Aside from letting the African American team through, it
> seemed that the dance judges were just there to slow the lead teams and let
> the laggards slide through quickly in an effort to tighten up the race.
> ...

> Maybe I missed something in the instructions. Why were the teams trying to
> learn a dance?
>
> As near as I could tell, the process was:
> 1. try to learn it.
> 2. try to perform it.
> 3. Add your own moves to it.
> 4. get a 10 minute penalty if you failed.
>
> I would have spent less than 5 seconds attempting to learn/perform, then
> taken the 10 minute penalty and been done much quicker than any of those
> teams.
>
> The judging was a fiasco anyway. The first team that tried clearly did a
> better job than the African American brother/sister combo, yet the judges
> ruled otherwise. Aside from letting the African American team through, it
> seemed that the dance judges were just there to slow the lead teams and let
> the laggards slide through quickly in an effort to tighten up the race.
> ...

> I thought it was refreshing to actually see some teams get the penalty.
> Too often on these kinds of tasks there's a penalty, but the judging is so
> slack that a six year old go get through without incurring it.

> "Rich Piehl" NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:

>> I thought it was refreshing to actually see some teams get the penalty.
>> Too often on these kinds of tasks there's a penalty, but the judging is so
>> slack that a six year old go get through without incurring it.

>
> The judging was the same slack way this time. Two teams got penalized at
> the start, but most of the teams were not doing anything remotely close to
> the dance or any interesting dance.
>
> The Goth team is the only one that might have 'earned' their pass because
> the guy knew how to twirl a baton and that seemed to genuinely thrill the
> crowd. They still didn't look like they were doing the 'learned' part of
> the dance at all well, but they did have the fabulous stick movements...

> Obveeus wrote:
>

>> "Rich Piehl" NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
>>

>>> I thought it was refreshing to actually see some teams get the
>>> penalty. Too often on these kinds of tasks...

> As it turned out, the digging challenge was much easier to finish. Or
> maybe it was just easy because so few decided to finish it.

> It was easier cause it was a rigged event.

> "V&S" gmail.com> wrote in news:hHt2j.3781$_%%4.2700
> @newsfe15.lga:
>
>

>>It was easier cause it was a rigged event.

>
>
>
> Rigged? Are you sure? You mean it's not normal to spend ten minutes to
> dig about a thousand bucks out of the ground?

> The judging was a fiasco anyway. The first team that tried clearly did a
> better job than the African American brother/sister combo, yet the judges
> ruled otherwise. Aside from letting the African American team through, it
> seemed that the dance judges were just there to slow the lead teams and let
> the laggards slide through quickly in an effort to tighten up the race.