TARCAN6: Heroes' Edition - Premiere on Tuesday, 3rd July! SPOILERS AVAILABLE!

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It begins at 15:45 Eastern Standard (Canadian) Time.

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Anyone else watch it live? If not, look below:

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Locations:

Starting Line: Hatley Castle, Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC's suburb of Colwood

Leg 1: Squamish, BC (first time that the first leg and the SL are in the same province/territory)
Leg 2: Dawson City, YT (Yukon)
Leg 3: Duncan, BC (on Vancouver Island) and Salt Spring Island, BC
Leg 4: Jakarta, Indonesia
Leg 5: Yogyakarta, Indonesia?
Leg 6: Stratford, ON and Toronto
Leg 7: Winnipeg, MB
Leg 8: Charlottetown, PE (Prince Edward Island)
Leg 9: Mexico City
Leg 10: Fredericton, NB (New Brunswick)
Leg 11: Banff, AB (Finale)

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Boot order:

Ten teams: 3 F/F, 4 M/F, 3 M/M

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10th: balding M/M, eliminated on Leg 1 (Squamish) or Leg 2 (Yukon)
9th: dude with condition and partner M/F or Sikh guy and buddy M/M, eliminated on Leg 3 (Vancouver Island) or Leg 4 (Jakarta)
8th: dude with condition and partner M/F or Sikh guy and buddy M/M, eliminated on Leg 4 (Jakarta) or Leg 5 (Yogyakarta?)
7th: fancy-haired F/F, eliminated on Leg 6 (Toronto) or Leg 7 (Winnipeg)
6th: Argos cheerleader F/F, eliminated on Leg 7 (Winnipeg) or Leg 8 (Prince Edward Island)
5th: bronze Winter Olympian and rodeo-barrel racer F/F, eliminated on Leg 9 (MXC)
4th: one of Asian M/F, tall-short M/F, other M/F, or interracial CFL M/M on Leg 10 (New Brunswick)

F4: Asian M/F, tall-short M/F, other M/F, interracial CFL M/M

[DouglasS]

The past two seasons (especially season 4) have been really good and so I’m stoked.

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First international destination revealed!

Locations:

Starting Line: Hatley Castle, Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC's suburb of Colwood

Leg 1: Squamish, BC (first time that the first leg and the SL are in the same province/territory)
Leg 2: Dawson City, YT (third visit to Yukon)
Leg 3: Duncan, BC (on Vancouver Island) and Salt Spring Island, BC
Leg 4: Jakarta, Indonesia

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Spoiler Summary below!

Locations:

Starting Line: Hatley Castle, Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC's suburb of Colwood

Leg 1: Squamish, BC (first time that the first leg and the SL are in the same province/territory)
Leg 2: Dawson City, YT (Yukon)
Leg 3: Duncan, BC (on Vancouver Island) and Salt Spring Island, BC
Leg 4: Jakarta, Indonesia
Leg 5: Yogyakarta, Indonesia?
Leg 6: Stratford, ON and Toronto
Leg 7: Winnipeg, MB
Leg 8: Charlottetown, PE (Prince Edward Island)
Leg 9: Mexico City
Leg 10: Fredericton, NB (New Brunswick)
Leg 11: Banff, AB (Finale)

https://i.imgur.com/x14DTKZ.png


Boot order:

Ten teams: 3 F/F, 4 M/F, 3 M/M

https://i.imgur.com/CMadv72.png

10th: balding M/M, eliminated on Leg 1 (Squamish) or Leg 2 (Yukon)
9th: dude with condition and partner M/F or Sikh guy and buddy M/M, eliminated on Leg 3 (Vancouver Island) or Leg 4 (Jakarta)
8th: dude with condition and partner M/F or Sikh guy and buddy M/M, eliminated on Leg 4 (Jakarta) or Leg 5 (Yogyakarta?)
7th: fancy-haired F/F, eliminated on Leg 6 (Toronto) or Leg 7 (Winnipeg)
6th: Argos cheerleader F/F, eliminated on Leg 7 (Winnipeg) or Leg 8 (Prince Edward Island)
5th: bronze Winter Olympian and rodeo-barrel racer F/F, eliminated on Leg 9 (MXC)
4th: one of Asian M/F, tall-short M/F, other M/F, or interracial CFL M/M on Leg 10 (New Brunswick)

F4: Asian M/F, tall-short M/F, other M/F, interracial CFL M/M

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Meet THREE of the FINAL FOUR...



...TWO of which are BROTHER-SISTER TEAMS!

CFL Coaches Dylan Elias and Kwame Osei from Fort McMurray, Alberta:

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Sibling RCMP Officers Taylor Callens and Courtney Callens from Williams Lake, BC:

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And last, but clearly not least, Sister and Home Economics Teacher Martina Seo plus Brother and Businessperson Phil Seo from Vancouver:

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Pre-season rankings of the F4:

Martina/Phil > Courtney/Taylor > unknown M/F > Kwame/Dylan

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Here are FIVE of the OTHER SIX TEAMS:



5th Place: Bronze Winter Olympian Mellisa (sic) Hollingsworth and Rodeo Barrel Racer Nancy Csabay, both from AB

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6th Place: Argos Cheerleaders Marielle Leigh-Lyon and Leanne, both from ON

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8th or 9th Place: York Uni Business School graduates Akash Sidhu and Joseph Truong

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8th or 9th Place: Concordia Uni graduate Anna Holtby and her disabled brother Todd Holtby (latter not pictured), both from AB:

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10th Place: Ex-Pilots Mark Laverdiere and Cory Blakely

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[Josiah.]

Apparently, Courtney (Adam's partner) is the sister of Kelsey from BBCAN4.

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[Macie Lightfoot]

I still haven't looked at anything preshow for this but this starts tonight!

[Headie]

Yay I'm excited :clap1:

[Macie Lightfoot]

Probably not gonna end up watching this until later this week but I guess I have an obligation to root for Kelsey's sister?

Hoping this season is more like 4 than 5 but I'm not holding my breath.

[Valmafra]

Yay I'm excited :clap1:

Fun fact: Monica's from Sudan!

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Updated Spoilers:

Locations:

Starting Line: Hatley Castle, Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC's suburb of Colwood

Leg 1: Squamish, BC (first time that the first leg and the SL are in the same province/territory)
Leg 2: Dawson City, YT (Yukon)
Leg 3: Duncan, BC (on Vancouver Island) and Salt Spring Island, BC
Leg 4: Jakarta, Indonesia
Leg 5: Yogyakarta, Indonesia?
Leg 6: Stratford, ON and Toronto
Leg 7: Winnipeg, MB
Leg 8: Charlottetown, PE (Prince Edward Island)
Leg 9: Mexico City
Leg 10: Fredericton, NB (New Brunswick)
Leg 11: Banff, AB (Finale)

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Boot order:

Ten teams: 3 F/F, 4 M/F, 3 M/M

https://i.imgur.com/CMadv72.png

10th: Chewy/Happy, eliminated on Leg 1 (Squamish) or Leg 2 (Yukon)
9th: one of Anna/Todd and Akash/Joseph, eliminated on Leg 3 (Vancouver Island) or Leg 4 (Jakarta)
8th: the other of Anna/Todd and Akash/Joseph, eliminated on Leg 4 (Jakarta) or Leg 5 (Yogyakarta?)
7th: Zainab/Monica, eliminated on Leg 6 (Toronto) or Leg 7 (Winnipeg)
6th: Leanne/Mar, eliminated on Leg 7 (Winnipeg) or Leg 8 (Prince Edward Island)
5th: Mellisa/Nancy, eliminated on Leg 9 (MXC)
4th: one of Martina/Phil, Courtney/Taylor, Adam/Courtney, and Kwame/Dylan, eliminated on Leg 10 (New Brunswick)

F4: Martina/Phil, Courtney/Taylor, Adam/Courtney, and Kwame/Dylan

[JerseyWins]

Lol @ Kelsey's sister having similar bug-eyes :love:

[Macie Lightfoot]

Finally watched the premiere and it as about what you would expect from a TARCan premiere. Fun and enjoyable but very processional and not very much about the teams. The last five minutes were very, very exciting though! Leanne/Mar and Martina/Phil are the early stand outs for me, and I don't particularly like Nancy/Mellisa but I am intrigued by the fact that Nancy couldn't find anyone to run the race with that she had to resort to bringing along a random acquaintance with a terribly misspelled name.

Anyway, here's to hoping someone next week has a blackjack meltdown that can slightly hold a candle to Sukhi's Fan-Tan meltdown!

[Headie]

Really enjoyed the premiere, Martina is a STAR I hope she can last the duration <3

That ending was brilliant as well, I'm glad we've got a dull M/M team out the way early too :clap1:

[starry]

Not sure about the cast at this point, hopefully they have more mental challenges on this. Sick of hearing people say they represent some group when they are actually just representing themselves on this race. Hopefully all the stuff about them being amazing heroes has been done with after these introductions.

The ending was close which was good, and there were a couple of tasks that led to place changes. It was a slight worry at the start when a team had to catch a second ferry but that didn't turn out to ruin the leg.

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Four words: best Yukon leg ever!

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Really enjoyed the premiere, Martina is a STAR I hope she can last the duration <3

That ending was brilliant as well, I'm glad we've got a dull M/M team out the way early too :clap1:

Preach!

[starry]

Second leg was better, tasks were more of a mental challenge. But three express passes? I'd hoped that we'd moved on from giving out loads of these by now, three teams now have an easy get out if they struggle in a task.

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Four words: best Yukon leg ever!

Madame Teri is the funniest task judge in ages!

[Macie Lightfoot]

I thought this second episode was very enjoyable! Martina was still the star for me, with her charitable giving away of her backpack and her dealing blackjack in a made up accent for reasons I still don't entirely understand :love: But a lot of the other teams that I wasn't so hot on in the premiere were fun too! I enjoyed Courtney and Adam the whole way through and Taylor and Courtney were fun during the can-can, and even for OTTP frontrunners I found Todd and Anna to have a lot of value??? It was a fun episode, even though I am alarmed by how many people struggled to add up single digit numbers during blackjack.

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If the Asian boys aren't the next boot, then it's the couple who just won the latest leg.

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Martina's memorisation accent :joker:

I love her

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Enjoyed episode 3! The speed bump looked too easy though :laugh:

2 of the 3 M/M teams being gone already :clap1: And the best M/M team still left in, I'm more than happy!

[Headie]

Perched for an international leg next episode, hope the Blind Double U-Turn causes drama :clap1:

[starry]

The knots part was easily the best I thought. A detour would have been nice, but I was happy the express passes were used up (plus it meant we didn't have to see even more vomiting). The racing roadblock could have been good, but it looked like they could go relatively slow and still make the time limit.

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The speed bump looked too easy though :laugh:

What do you think about the Sailor Scouts?

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If the Asian boys aren't the next boot, then it's the couple who just won the latest leg.

The Holtbys should've saved that EP to reduce the effects of the Blind W-Turn...

[Macie Lightfoot]

lmfao I'm laughing uncontrollably at Akash just walking out of the Roadblock because "he needs to talk to Joseph" :joker::joker::joker:

they are definitely lovers right? Their relationship definitely seems like more than just friends iykwim

[Macie Lightfoot]

Honestly though that leg design was kind of terrible. Bunching the teams up at the airport, separating them based on who got a taxi first, bunching them again at the ferry, having the first Roadblock be so easy that it really just came down to how quickly you arrived there... like the only thing that mattered was the second Roadblock :skull:

Also, "eat two blueberry pies" surely has to be one of the least inspired things this franchise has ever done. Thank god for Martina's violent dry-heaving :love:

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Perched for an international leg next episode, hope the Blind Double U-Turn causes drama :clap1:

In a city never visited by the American edition no less!

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Quite possibly the best Indonesian episode in TAR history!

[Macie Lightfoot]

That was a fun episode and I was *shocked* by the boot and kinda sad about it? Like Todd and Anna were definitely cast as a sob story but for whatever reason I found them a lot more humanized and real than I expected, and I also thought they'd be a lock for like top 5 or 6 at worst.

I'm sick of U-Turns before the Detour though :rolleyes: this one wasn't that bad since there were a few Route Markers beforehand but still

[Headie]

Can't find a link anywhere for the latest ep </3

EDIT: FINALLY found one, can't wait to watch <3

[Headie]

"Who thinks they're handy?"
"You! You can fix things, you fixed my Ikea dresser!"

I ADORE Martina :love:

[Headie]

That was a fun episode and I was *shocked* by the boot and kinda sad about it? Like Todd and Anna were definitely cast as a sob story but for whatever reason I found them a lot more humanized and real than I expected, and I also thought they'd be a lock for like top 5 or 6 at worst.

I'm sick of U-Turns before the Detour though :rolleyes: this one wasn't that bad since there were a few Route Markers beforehand but still

Agree with all this. Didn't realise I liked Todd & Anna until the last 5 or 10 mins of the episode.

Martina & Phil surviving a U-Turn tho :love: This season has been great so far

[Macie Lightfoot]

Leanne/Mar :love: Mar especially you can tell is a genuinely good person and I want to see her succeed.

I'm also developing a crush on Taylor :3

[Macie Lightfoot]

Aaaaand another episode. This season, and this franchise, is just so stale because we don't even really get to know the teams. Every confessional is just so basic. "We are currently in last place," "I am going to rock this Roadblock," "we don't know where we're going and this could cost us the race," these are all nothing statements coming from nothing teams. TARCan's always had this problem but between last year and this year it's gotten out of hand.

And also these Route Markers ****ing blow. Pack up a **** ton of bread :skull: Pack up a bunch of candy and taffy :skull: Another genre of dancing :skull: My god, next week in particular looks like an abomination between a ballet dancing challenge, making balloon animals (:skull::skull::skull:), and a darts Face Off. This is like the G-rated Amazing Race.

[starry]

It does look cheap at times, the tasks and locations not that special this episode. Two teams always stood out as more different in this season, the shouting men and the excitable woman. Canadian BB and this seem to have some bland people on it, and the heroes concept was never the best. I liked Anna but I couldn't relate to Todd as well, though he seemed nice, with all the reconstructive surgery on his face it was hard to gauge his expressions sometimes.

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They're still doing this Face Off ****? Jesus Christ.

[DouglasS]

The Fave off once again showing how it doesn’t actually matter if you can race well if you’re not good at that one particular skill you’re screwed, 3rd place to last is quite harsh.

[Macie Lightfoot]

k so the latest episode of TrashCan6 was not nearly as bad as the preview made it seem but that doesn't mean it was good? I thought the museum Route Marker was a good challenge that helped shuffle things up, but then the Face Off just kinda kills the momentum. I kinda understand why they fall into the trap of Face Offs because they're high stakes and you ahve teams directly competing against each other buuuuuut they're an overall net negative since they kinda lock in the order of the teams for the rest of the leg.

THAT BEING SAID, alol next week randomly looks like an OTTM mess?!?!?! which means the actual episode is going to be a letdown but let's enjoy it while we can!

[Macie Lightfoot]

I know I've already bitched about how the confessionals are not being utilized well at all and so many of the tasks suck, but I really feel like there's so much **** we're not being shown because these people are ~heroes~ or summat. Like why did Nancy/Mellisa and Courtney/Adam work together in the museum? I'd bet that it had to do with Nancy wanting to screw over the leeches Dylan/Kwame but god forbid any of the teams have conflict with each other!!!!! Why was Courtney sobbing at the pit stop? Why aren't we being shown any of these strategic moves or meltdowns?????

I'll end on a positive note. Episode highlight: the episode randomly cutting away from a boring Dylan confessional to show Martina saying DRAMA!!!!!!!! with absurd jazz hands for no discernible reason :love:

[starry]

The episode was really all about the magic/balloon task and the mishaps of the contestants with the funny scenes it created. It just happened naturally and was bit lucky for the editors really. The delivery task was just a commercial. A good point I saw made elsewhere was why are the faceoffs always sporting tasks? I had a feeling it would be a non-elimination, combining different planes with a faceoff later in the leg and some tasks that didn't look that hard. The dancing task wasn't one of the harder ones, the memorisation task would have been better without teams working together.

[Headie]

Martina is honestly saving this season, I'd have no interest in it if it wasn't for her

[Macie Lightfoot]

Another leg that was kinda ****ty in design but these people actually had to face some conflict for once so that was fun? I'm sad at the boot though :(

[Macie Lightfoot]

Also just wanted to say that the Roadblock was something you would find in some ****ty Proboards ORG :joker: not to mention that it was literally what you did during the round robin round on Supermarket Sweep :joker:

[Valmafra]

Even with the result(s), this Mexican leg > the three from the American edition.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Decentish leg that I don't think was actually that special but was still just soooo refreshing from the previous batch of legs we've dealt with. The telenovela task is fine and I guess it was nice for Dylan and Kwame to finally get some focus, especially good focus? The ending was #intense but the result was sad </3

And next leg looks tragic lmao a bunch of physical tasks and another F4 Face Off which like..... literally every team that has lost the F4 Face Off has been eliminated that leg so what the hell's the point. Obviously there have been a bunch of other factors and I really don't think any of those teams would've actually survived the leg even on their own merits, but it's still a #curse and a stupid one.

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The F4 F-O hasn't been the main cause of elimination:

- CabGate

- Latin with English

- entomophobia

[Headie]

And next leg looks tragic lmao a bunch of physical tasks and another F4 Face Off which like..... literally every team that has lost the F4 Face Off has been eliminated that leg so what the hell's the point. Obviously there have been a bunch of other factors and I really don't think any of those teams would've actually survived the leg even on their own merits, but it's still a #curse and a stupid one.

Yup, once again the Face Off ruins any credibility this show has. The only likeable/fun team screwed over by some pointless Face Off **** that is anti-climatic and not exciting to watch at all. They're almost always sports-related too, smh.

Anyway thank you Martina & Phil for giving us some amazing moments :love: I couldn't care less who wins now, I'll probably wiki-watch the finale.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Rooting for Courtney and Adam even though they don't have a chance?

I don't even hate Taylor/Courtney, and I actually think Taylor's a huge cutie, but him being randomly good at flight simulators and wheelchair basketball made me roll my eyes so ****ing hard.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Finale #thots even thuough my stream kept freezing and stalling so I only paid attention to the last 20 minutes or so

LMFAO :joker::joker::joker::love::love: Like obviously this would be so much more satisfying if Courtney and Adam got the full-fledged MORM edit that they deserved but still <3333333 easily the best pick to win from the finale and #truelove and this is revenge for Kelsey losing BBCan4 AND oh my god what a hilariously bad leg placement:

8/10 - 7/8 - 6/9 - 7/8 - 2/7 - 6/7 - 5/6 - 2/6 - 4/5 - 3/4 - 1/3 :love::love::love: we love bottomgoddesses

[Headie]

Mess, I really didn't expect Courtney and Adam to win :joker:

Can't say this season was anything special but I NEED Martina on my screen again ASAP