did they just have to find letters and then figure out whose name they were spelling?
This. And I was amazed at how many of the teams had NO CLUE who Chekhov was.
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SuziQ - Mar 09, 2009 5:28:53 am PDT #8343 of 23273
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Jessica - Mar 09, 2009 5:29:36 am PDT #8344 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I realized after that I never understood the bobsled challenge because I ff'ed through the instructions. What was the point of it? Finding the letters in Chekhov's name? or did they just have to find letters and then figure out whose name they were spelling?
They had to finish the course in under 4 minutes and spot letters along the way. Then they had to spell the name of "A Russian playwright" using those letters.
Of all the teams, only Victor knew who Chekhov was! I was surprised at how many teams were guessing. (And it never occured to me that Luke would have that much trouble, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense - he can't "sound it out" in his head the way the other guessing teams could.)
sumi - Mar 09, 2009 5:30:35 am PDT #8345 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
They had to find the letters while doing the bobsled in 4 minutes or under and then spell out the name.
(I was surprised by the number of people who didn't know who Chekhov was and guessed the name.)
lisah - Mar 09, 2009 6:05:16 am PDT #8346 of 23273
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And I was amazed at how many of the teams had NO CLUE who Chekhov was.
Oh, yeah, I gathered that. dag, people! Not even Mike & Mel knew??? That's disappointing.
Kathy A - Mar 09, 2009 6:10:26 am PDT #8347 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The most interesting thing for me was seeing how far behind the lawyer sibs got during Victor's forest trek--they were two hours behind the second-to-the-last group!
Nora Deirdre - Mar 09, 2009 6:12:13 am PDT #8348 of 23273
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I thought Mel knew too.
Jessica - Mar 09, 2009 6:12:43 am PDT #8349 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh right, I forgot about Mel.
sumi - Mar 09, 2009 6:13:33 am PDT #8350 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
And I think one of the redheads knew too. . . or did she just guess?
Kathy A - Mar 09, 2009 6:18:11 am PDT #8351 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The redhead guessed, and there was another team member who went through who was able to extrapolate since she knew a lot of Russian names ended in "ov".
Jesse - Mar 09, 2009 6:29:58 am PDT #8352 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was amazed that woman didn't know Chekhov, but knew enough about Russian to get it on the first (?) try.
Also, I kind of want to punch Victor in the face still, and am reminded of his smug, "I mean, who doesn't know Chekhov??"