[MysticCat]

^^^^ You're right about how the penalty works. If you don't come in first at the mat in the next leg, you have to sit there for 30 minutes and hope that at least one team is more than 30 minutes behind you.

And I think you're right that an equalizer has the potential to make the penalty more serious if all the teams are running neck and neck. On the flip side, an equalizer cuts the challenge to the last place team of working its way to the front of the pack.

I guess we'll just have to see which possibility plays out, or if they both do. Either way, I still thinks it's a much better penalty than the penalty from past seasons.