CAA's Amazing Race - FINALE!!!

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CAA's Amazing Race - FINALE!!!

Postby Godly Paladin » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:18 pm

We've arrived at the uber-cool finale of CAA's Amazing Race! Many racers started this journey, but only two remain:

Kaemmerite
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Alice


Now they must engage in the mightiest race of all for the title of Season Three Champion and a banner designed by Sam*ron and Angent of Wrath! Big cheers for everyone involved in this race!

And now, the rules for the FINALE! (Kudos must go to Termyt, who was the original designer of this format. :jump: )

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

1) I will post a country, and that will be the country for the final round. Simple, no? :brow:
2) At that point, either one of the racers can post a fact, same as always.
3) This is where it deviates from the rest of the race: after the first racer (A)has checked in with a fact, the other racer (B) has 24 hours to check in with a fact. Once B checks in, A has 12 hours. After that, B has only 6 hours to respond with a fact. This continues, with the time limit halving after each fact, until either racer surrenders or cannot submit a fact within the time limit.
4) If you post a fact that is incorrect or has been used already, you can still try again as long as you still have time.
5) You don't have to find a new website for the info. If A used CIA.gov, B can as well. You just have to have different facts.

To reiterate, the timetable goes like this:

24 hrs
12 hrs
6 hrs
3 hrs
1 hrs
30 min
15 min
10 min
5 min
3 min
1 min
60 secs
30 secs

...etcetera.

Any questions? We won't start until everyone is ready.

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EDIT: And the final country is... BELARUS!!!

(Who loves those obscure little countries everbody forgets? Can we have a show of hands? :jump: )
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Postby Nate » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:22 pm

I'm certainly ready. Hurry up, Alice, I want to start! :D
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Postby Alice » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:27 pm

Oh, sweet. I'm going to enjoy this!
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Postby Syaoran » Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:31 pm

Be for we do start lets remember the brave racers that did not make it to the finale and give the a big hand to the reacers
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Postby Godly Paladin » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:53 pm

Okay, racers, if you're ready. I'll EDIT the country into the main post on this thread. (Remember that if you don't want to stay up all night you have 24 hours to make your move.)

And, to quote Fukui-san of the immortal Iron Chef: "Let's get it o-o-ooon!"

:grin: :dance: :thumb: :jump:
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Postby Alice » Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:02 pm

The religions of Belarus are Eastern Orthodox 80%, other (including Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 20% (1997 est.).

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Postby Nate » Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:49 pm

After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics.

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Postby Kura Ookami » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:21 pm

Okay here we are at the finale! This will be a tough contest to see who will win. Who's excited to see who will be the champion racer? *everyone says me in hte huge crowd of spectators* Okay, the race is on! :) And what do you know? This is my last post before i reach the infamous post count of 666. :evil:
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Postby Godly Paladin » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:26 pm

Kaemmerite has logged in, and now Alice has 12 hours to respond.
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Postby Alice » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:27 pm

Belarus's natural resources: forests, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, and clay.

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Postby dragonshimmer » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:30 pm

I vote for zee weemen :D Go Alice, go!
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Postby Godly Paladin » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:04 pm

Kaemmerite has a mere 2 hours to respond. If he doesn't check in by 11:27 PM (on my own personal CAA time zone setting), then it's over.
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Postby Syaoran » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:33 pm

The race is heating up........The racers are on fire.
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Postby Nate » Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:57 pm

Belarus' borders are:

Latvia 141 km, Lithuania 502 km, Poland 407 km, Russia 959 km, Ukraine 891 km

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Postby Alice » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:43 pm

For area comparison, Belarus is slightly smaller than Kansas.

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Postby Nate » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:34 pm

As of July 2005, the population estimate was 10,300,483.

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Postby Alice » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:37 pm

The agriculture products of Belarus are grain, potatoes, vegetables, sugar beets, flax; beef and milk.

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Postby Nate » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:47 pm

National holidays: Independence Day, 3 July (1944); note - 3 July 1944 was the date Minsk was liberated from German troops, 25 August 1991 was the date of independence from the Soviet Union

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Postby Alice » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:50 pm

The currency of Belarus is the Belarusian ruble (BYB/BYR).

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Postby Nate » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:52 pm

Constitution ratified: 15 March 1994; revised by national referendum of 24 November 1996 giving the presidency greatly expanded powers and became effective 27 November 1996; revised again 17 October 2004 removing presidential term limits

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Postby Alice » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:54 pm

The highways of Belarus in numbers:

total: 79,990 km
paved: 69,351 km
unpaved: 10,639 km (2002)

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Postby Nate » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:54 pm

The flag: red horizontal band (top) and green horizontal band one-half the width of the red band; a white vertical stripe on the hoist side bears Belarusian national ornamention in red

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Postby Alice » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:56 pm

The terrain of Belarus is generally flat and contains much marshland.

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Postby Alice » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:56 pm

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 1,657,984 (2005 est.)

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Postby Nate » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:58 pm

If my math is correct, Alice missed her time limit by one whole minute just now, making me the victor, but I'll wait for GP to verify. :P
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Postby Alice » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:59 pm

One whole minute. Oh I'm SO bad. Yeah, let's let the judges call it. XP

But if you won, congrats and stuff. And if you didn't... BOOYAH! :lol:
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Postby Godly Paladin » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:26 am

12:54 - 12:56, it was a two minute delay on a 60 second timetable. So after a spectacular fight equal to the battle of the titans that was the first finale, we have a victor.

Kaemmerite!

Kaemmerite, I'll contact you later with your victory banner. :thumb:

Alice, that was great! All the way to second place on your first attempt! Victory next time, eh? :grin:

Thanks to everyone who signed up! What would happen if GP gave an Amazing Race and nobody came, I wonder? :lol:

Special thanks to Sam*ron, Agent_of_Wrath, and Kinkosami for the victory banner!
Major thanks to Termyt for the Finale format!

And now there's nothing more to say than goodbye...and to watch out for an *all new CAA game* from the maker of CAA's Amazing Race! :grin: (Shameless self-plugging.)
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Postby Syaoran » Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:42 am

Good job racers and Congrats to Kaemmerite.
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Postby termyt » Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:41 am

Congratulations Kae. Good job.
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Postby dragonshimmer » Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:43 am

Yeah, you guys both did well.

*whispers* You'll get 'em next time, Alice.

o.o; *looks around innocently*
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