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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.)
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.)
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.
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!
Oh right, I forgot about Mel.
And I think one of the redheads knew too. . . or did she just guess?
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".
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??"
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??"
He is smug but I also have a hard time not being judgey about this too! (But, if I were in the race, I'd be happy about the other teams being ignorant!)
