A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

ELEPHANTITIS: Even aside from the end of the leg (though nice work, Amazing Editors, in keeping it suspenseful), I really disliked this leg of the Race. Two First-In-First-Out tasks separated by a complete needle in a haystack task, and worse than most needle in a haystack tasks in that it was actually harder for later teams to catch up, do not make for an entertaining leg. Here, the denominator was fixed, whereas in the infamous "9 clues in the 100+ haystacks" task, as each haystack opened, the denominator diminished.) Also, they clearly did not use the standard 12 or 36 hour time differential, as a team that checked in during the last leg at 10 AM left in daylight. But Phil again demonstrated his awesomeness, Victor again demonstrated he's an asshat, and Margie and Luke continue to get the "inspirational" edit. Also for discussion--the penalties--appropriate, excessive, or not enough?