Watching The Others?

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I thought the same thing... at first.

But then I decided that it's actually more realistic TO allow watching.
Suppose the situation was real and there were 4 places to go. 4 squads train. And for some reason, they were going to be hit serially, not in parallel. Admittedly, a stretch, but there are some weapons a platoon only has 1 of. If that weapon is needed ... it can only be in one place at a time. One example is a long distance shoulder fired weapon... starts with a J. not juniper or jaguar. Something like that. Not many of them in the field.

BUT THEN.. you'd have ALL teams watching as a team went.

BUT.. S.E.S. just had the next team watching. It can be argued this is a little better for the audience to see the folks in smaller groups when possible. As in, it's a staging and storytelling decision, not a tactical military one.

Also, if the tactically realistic ALL teams watch ALL teams occurs, there's no suspense regarding who won. Suspense in TV is a good thing. Of course the show folks didn't know that the times would be moot because the 2 stars couldn't complete. Wait and see. The AAR is going to have suspense and rejoice and agony of defeat...

STILL is would be a disadvantage to go first in the game... but at least it would be similarly a disadvantage in an actual tactical situation.

Thus... shutting a few more "this is so fake" folks' mouths. ;-)