Yes, I like the cowboys, too. I sort of agree that several of the challenges recently have been right up their ally, but I can't help but think that this won't last, so it doesn't really bother me. I thought it was great when he commented about how he wasn't going to be able to live down missing on the first attempt. Speaking of that, it sure seemed to me that they dragged that out. He tossed the first lasso and you couldn't tell it he it or not, but then it seemed like they showed everyone else at least twice before coming back and showing him again.
I really don't like the lesbian couple, way too much bickering and they take it all very personally. There are a couple of other teams that are annoying too, but not to that level.
The Big Brother team, I'm not sure what to make of. When they were asked where the station was, they said they didn't know and then said, "what was he talking about?" but instead of trying to figure out what he was talking about, they took 3 bags to the gunslinger. Sloppy.
I disagree with you, BTW, about the cops. They were the only team that tried to be smart about the challenge, and while they did do a grid search, the first thing they did was to sit down and plot all 4 of the "steps" to get a rough idea rather than trying to step it out exactly. Considering that so many teams tried that challenge and only 1 ended up finding their bag (the rest switched challenges), their approach seemed like a very good idea to me and I had even commented to my wife that I was surprised no one was doing that. So when the cops did it, I was really hoping they would find the bag very quickly and was disappointed that they ended up having to switch. It would have been interesting to know just how close they ended up to their bag.
I definitely agree about the Asian guy, "I don't need to count, the counting is for people who don't have a compass..." What??? Because the compass counts for you?
I don't know that the moms really made any "mistakes". They probably saw a lot of people switch to the polo challenge, so making the decision to switch couldn't have been easy. And while they seemed to find the bag easily, it also seems like they edit a lot more out when it comes down to just one team, so who knows and they had already resolved to "not quit". It did seem like it wasn't significantly darker when they came in than the team in front of them, so that seems to indicate that it didn't take them long, but hard to know for sure.
But I think it was the lassoing that cost them more than that anyway and having a hard time with that couldn't be considered a mistake. Just a really bad match. It's too bad really. I never really even noticed the moms before this week. I guess they sort of blended into the background. But what I saw of them this week, I really started respecting them and was sorry to see them go.
The only other thing I wanted to comment on was the polo....I'm not a polo player, but I'd be curious to know what the difference was. It seemed to me that a lot of people were trying to use the polo mallet like it was a croquet mallet or something, hitting the ball with the small side. When they switched and stuck it broad, it went a lot farther and there were fewer difficulties. In fact, on of the brothers commented about knowing how to hit it now. But they didn't make it clear, so I'm not sure whether that is what happened or not, it was just the impression I got. Did you get that same impression about "hitting it correctly"?
