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Fan video of the start of TAR27--very interesting
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Brian Smith
2015-10-02 23:15:26 UTC
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I just stumbled across a very interesting clip on YouTube. It's a video a
fan posted of the teams walking to the starting line for TAR27 on Venice
Beach, Phil explaining things and then the start of the race. Watching the
crew work was most interesting for me. Phil holds his arm up for a quite
awhile before officially starting the race so they can take their shots. I'm
kind of surprised security didn't stop people from taking pictures and
videos--maybe they don't care about such spoilers anymore.

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Brian
Loren Pechtel
2015-10-03 00:32:39 UTC
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On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:15:26 -0600, "Brian Smith"
Post by Brian Smith
I just stumbled across a very interesting clip on YouTube. It's a video a
fan posted of the teams walking to the starting line for TAR27 on Venice
Beach, Phil explaining things and then the start of the race. Watching the
crew work was most interesting for me. Phil holds his arm up for a quite
awhile before officially starting the race so they can take their shots. I'm
kind of surprised security didn't stop people from taking pictures and
videos--maybe they don't care about such spoilers anymore.
http://youtu.be/v5J4ZXrDx34 (3:51)
Why would they care about spoilers at the start of the race? Nothing
they learn won't be revealed at the start of the first segment anyway.
Brian Smith
2015-10-03 03:39:50 UTC
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Post by Loren Pechtel
On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:15:26 -0600, "Brian Smith"
Post by Brian Smith
I just stumbled across a very interesting clip on YouTube. It's a video a
fan posted of the teams walking to the starting line for TAR27 on Venice
Beach, Phil explaining things and then the start of the race. Watching the
crew work was most interesting for me. Phil holds his arm up for a quite
awhile before officially starting the race so they can take their shots. I'm
kind of surprised security didn't stop people from taking pictures and
videos--maybe they don't care about such spoilers anymore.
http://youtu.be/v5J4ZXrDx34 (3:51)
Why would they care about spoilers at the start of the race? Nothing
they learn won't be revealed at the start of the first segment anyway.
The first location they go to is revealed. In this case spoilers probably
wasn't an issue because the public was invited. But I am surprised they let
people post video on YouTube. CBS has been very aggressive going after
people who post content they own.
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Brian
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2015-10-03 10:37:42 UTC
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Post by Brian Smith
Post by Loren Pechtel
On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:15:26 -0600, "Brian Smith"
Post by Brian Smith
I just stumbled across a very interesting clip on YouTube. It's a video a
fan posted of the teams walking to the starting line for TAR27 on Venice
Beach, Phil explaining things and then the start of the race. Watching the
crew work was most interesting for me. Phil holds his arm up for a quite
awhile before officially starting the race so they can take their shots. I'm
kind of surprised security didn't stop people from taking pictures and
videos--maybe they don't care about such spoilers anymore.
http://youtu.be/v5J4ZXrDx34 (3:51)
Why would they care about spoilers at the start of the race? Nothing
they learn won't be revealed at the start of the first segment anyway.
The first location they go to is revealed. In this case spoilers probably
wasn't an issue because the public was invited. But I am surprised they let
people post video on YouTube. CBS has been very aggressive going after
people who post content they own.
There was a public invitation a week or so before the race started inviting the public to come to Venice Beach and watch the start of the race. I imagine they fully expected the first location to be leaked. There were several people using their phones to stream video from the beach that day on Periscope. There didn't seem to be any attempt to shut them down. The public webcam at the beach was so slammed that you couldn't see much on it. I watched one Periscope feed for about an hour. I don't know which video you looked at, haven't checked it out, but they filmed teams trotting individually up and down the beach for quite a while. They filmed the start of the race 2 or 3 times. The first couple of times they had them take off and run about 50 yards then go back and do it over.

There were at least a dozen racers from previous seasons present and at one point, you could overhear Phil talking to a few of them and hinting where they were going after South America. It was a big hint and not hard to figure out. The whole atmosphere seemed pretty loose and not very concerned about secrecy.
Questor
2015-10-06 06:49:12 UTC
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Post by Brian Smith
Post by Loren Pechtel
On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:15:26 -0600, "Brian Smith"
Post by Brian Smith
I just stumbled across a very interesting clip on YouTube. It's a video a
fan posted of the teams walking to the starting line for TAR27 on Venice
Beach, Phil explaining things and then the start of the race. Watching the
crew work was most interesting for me. Phil holds his arm up for a quite
awhile before officially starting the race so they can take their shots. I'm
kind of surprised security didn't stop people from taking pictures and
videos--maybe they don't care about such spoilers anymore.
http://youtu.be/v5J4ZXrDx34 (3:51)
Why would they care about spoilers at the start of the race? Nothing
they learn won't be revealed at the start of the first segment anyway.
The first location they go to is revealed. In this case spoilers probably
wasn't an issue because the public was invited. But I am surprised they let
people post video on YouTube. CBS has been very aggressive going after
people who post content they own.
Absent a prior agreement to enter a closed venue, any video shot by
spectators belongs to them, not CBS.

Anyway, in the current environment of "500 channels" and social media,
the game is to get the word out and draw attention to your product. Letting
the public post videos of the start is simply good, free advertising, and as
others have noted, doesn't really spoil anything, not even the first
Philimination.

Note that the locations for the finish lines have long been closed,
restricted sites where presumably even the taxi drivers who drop
off the final teams have no view of who's already waiting there.

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