We Raced To Circumnavigate The Globe In 100 Hours

Ahoj,

I just watched your series. Thanks for your series!

### Strategical questions:

What makes me puzzle: Why do you sprint off at the beginning to the airport?

I would think that for three resons it would be strategically better to start with a challenge straight away, if you do not have a very good reason to get a specific flight which is departing soon (one team had that weekly flight to Thailand planned, that might be a good reason to just head off, but the other did not have a detailed plan, just ideas what could be done).

Reasons:

* You are right in town. Most challenges can easier be completed in town than at the airport. So, when you are already in town and just do a challenge now, this saves time to actually get from airport to town and back.
* If you do more than one challenge within 300 miles, the challenges are less worth. So ideally whenever possible you want to do a challenge at each new place and evenly distribute challenges. So, a good reason to do one straight away before the first long distance trip.
* If you do a challenge first, you take it away from your opponents. So you should have an incentive to do challenges early.


And regarding the proof of onward travel as an entry requirement in many countries: Does this always have to be a flight?

E.g. from Milano you can get cheaply to Austria or Switzerland, by train (also local train!) or long distance bus. I think much cheaper than a spontaneous flight to Paris. I don't know about Sinfapore, but it seems Malaysia is just close by. So why did you just consider airplanes? Is this the only allowed mid- and long distance transportation in the game?

Regards!