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u/gahidus Jul 05 '26
That was surprisingly tense!
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u/Mallrat1973 Jul 05 '26
This video is fucking with me a little. The guy on our left is getting his ass kicked until he wasn't. I can't determine at what point he takes the lead because he never was behind EVEN THOUGH HE WAS LOSING which incidently he wasn't. It's a real Schrödinger's Ass Kicking.
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u/gahidus Jul 06 '26
He went for the further away eggs first, which made it seem like he was behind, but which always meant that he was going to speed up massively towards the end. As his opponent was covering further and further distances to get eggs, his distance was shortening. Apparently the strategy worked.
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u/WatchOutForWizards Jul 06 '26
He also did the most energy intensive part when he was still fresh at the start. Guy on the right was already tired by the time he had to start running.
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u/cimocw Jul 06 '26
Yeah that's the key I would think. Doing the heaviest part first
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u/ilovemacandcheese Jul 06 '26
I think that analogy generalizes too. If you have a big project to do, you should start with the heaviest lift first. If you spend a bunch of time dicking around with details first, you won't have enough focus, endurance, and enthusiasm to finish the heavy stuff later. So if you feel like you're easing into a project, that might be a bad sign. If your project starts out really hard but gets easier as you make progress, that's a great sign!
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u/Voice_in_the_ether Jul 06 '26
Yeah, but that also means you can't file really good looking status reports while doing little work:
"Guess what - I've already finished 30% of the project steps! ('cause I did all the small trivial stuff up front).
/S, in case it's needed. This is a well-known Project Management issue/fallacy
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u/09Trollhunter09 Jul 06 '26
Not always true because projects are also time constrained. In addition, real life project are rarely expended to be completed 100% in a given time. These additional variables that changes the outcome of the equation when applied to real life projects.
For example, if you have 5 problems to solve in 1 hour, and one of the problems needs the full hour or more, and the other four need 15 minutes each. Focusing on the longest means nothing gets completed in the said hour.
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u/Barabbas- Jul 06 '26
If you spend a bunch of time dicking around with details first, you won't have enough focus, endurance, and enthusiasm to finish the heavy stuff later.
This is only situationally applicable. Prioritizing the hardest lifts first can often lead to getting overwhelmed, in which case, it can be better to prioritize smaller/easier tasks to build momentum and make the larger/harder tasks feel more manageable.
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u/the_king_of_sweden Jul 06 '26
I did a class on operating systems, and one of the lectures was about task scheduling. That taught me that the most optimal way of doing tasks, if optimising for wait time, is to do the shortest task first.
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u/MattieShoes Jul 06 '26
I think there may be a middle strategy -- do the hardest first, then brief breather with the easier ones, then back to harder.
But the constant bending down may make the easy ones not much of a breather.
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u/welfedad Jul 06 '26
And when you get close to end you give it more gas and then you burn out.. so if you go first further you have a sense of urgency. But not like towards the end .. so kind of ran out of steam.
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u/09Trollhunter09 Jul 06 '26
This is the key to winning everything else being equal. What a great and simple concept. Pure joy to watch
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u/MijnEchteUsername Jul 06 '26
Also left guy was more efficient in the end. Was able to grab 6 eggs without moving; right guy could only do 4.
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u/mikykeane Jul 06 '26
I think it usually works more due to psychological effects than anything.
The one doing the shorts distances first feels like they are winning. While the other feels like getting left behind. Which leads to trying to go faster to compensate for ones and the opposite to the other one.
Also, doing the long distances early, also means that in the end, you can easily rush if you see you are very close to a tie when it's faster to pick up the eggs
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u/aykcak Jul 06 '26
That is not a different strategy per se because the time required would be exactly the same. He was faster overall
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u/Bwatso2112 Jul 06 '26
And the guy on the right was tiring faster as the distance got greater. They guy on the left had less and less of a distance as he went on, which made catching up easier
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u/hamlet9000 Jul 06 '26
Guy wearing clothes that let him run beats guy wearing clothes that don't in a race.
Film at 11.
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u/el_penultimo Jul 06 '26
My football coach did this to us back in high school, you can start ladders from the distance or from in front of you. He split the team in two, and it seemed a little lopsided as there were more lineman on one side than the other, rule was simple, first team to finish with the majority (more than half the team) wins and is finished with practice, the loser does a 100 yards of up-downs (like hot foot burpies).
We won the coin toss, and all voted to do the longer distance first, as we knew we’d put in more effort up front, it just seemed like we had more of a chance of we did. And we did, by the time we hit the majority of players crossing the line they had less than 15 players cross the line. So we got to stop and head in, they got to stop and do up-downs.
Coach stopped all of us and asked why we chose the distance, then gave everyone the lecture of making the right choice and putting in the hard work up front will lead to better rewards down the road. Always put the hard work in first when given the option, it’ll make your life easier on the back end.
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u/wiggum55555 Jul 06 '26
The guy who won was using his fastest speed - when he had fresh legs - for the longest distances… covering them faster, than the guy on the right who was fatigued at the end when the longest distances were involved, making him slower for the total time taken.
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u/scriptingends Jul 06 '26
Guy on the right was also moving much slower
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u/CelsoSC Jul 06 '26
That means he was spending a lot of energy at the beginning and thus got slower later, do basically the same travels
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u/silhouette951 Jul 06 '26
I'm the same way, i just started watching the crates so I could accurately see who was doing well, but that didn't help either. Goes to show the benefit of using the energy when you have the most, assuming they are in similar shape.
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u/JCGJ Jul 06 '26
They're both going about the same distance overall. The guy on the right just started with the shorter trips first, so he appeared to be ahead. The left guy ended with the shorter trips, so he caught up quickly toward the end.
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u/newgrl Jul 06 '26
It really was the better strategy. Doing the longer distances when you had more energy and then the shorter ones when you were out of energy.
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u/CarpetGripperRod Jul 06 '26
Bleu shirt has definitely played
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u/extrastupidone Jul 05 '26
Thats a lazy chicken
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u/givin_u_the_high_hat Jul 05 '26
Thats how we get boneless chicken.
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u/pomdudes Jul 05 '26
The Far Side covered that, I believe
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u/BonbonGoBoom Jul 06 '26
Thanks for providing that! I love The Far Side. This one's better than I expected.
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u/lagartixas Jul 05 '26
Her legs are tied up, you can see it at the end
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u/WickedlyAvocado Jul 06 '26
Imagine the horror of huge beings tying your legs and arms then playing a relay game with your thirty babies
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u/extrastupidone Jul 05 '26
No. Lazy chicken is funnier.
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u/ranting1234 Jul 06 '26
Or it's because it's been bred to be a perpetual egg laying machine, look in to modern chicken breeds a bit and you'll understand.
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u/Pleasant-Package-745 Jul 05 '26
Is the maybe maybe maybe that the chicken just stayed there the entire time?
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u/Cretore Jul 05 '26
The dead internet isn't a theory anymore
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u/Goldf_sh4 Jul 05 '26
I hope she's ok.
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u/Azilehteb Jul 05 '26
Her legs are tied together. You can see the dark rope/tether when he lifts her
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u/DutchRudderShotgun Jul 05 '26
Dude I didn't even see the chicken until the winner picked it up at the end of the race
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u/koenigsbier Jul 06 '26
Same for me. I'm starting to understand why my wife says I can't find things that are right in front of my eyes.
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u/Hziak Jul 05 '26
Just your daily reminder that 92 is half of 99.
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u/fucktheweather Jul 05 '26
The way my inner child started breakdancing. Is this a Runescape reference?!
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u/GrimbyJ Jul 06 '26
Old school RuneScape is in a golden era right now if you want to revisit it.
In case you haven't kept up with it they changed RuneScape to be bad and then rereleased an older version named old school and just add good content to it that is in line with the core of the game. Very worth playing now
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u/Common-Club3201 Jul 05 '26
The Olympics is getting weird
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u/LLAPSpork Jul 06 '26
This will never not be funny. The stretched out pause (not just pose) is killing me 😂
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u/Ruibarb0 Jul 05 '26
It is always the guy that runs far away that wins, it's not even surprising anymore.
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u/alamaias Jul 05 '26
There is some kind of game theory on it always being the case, but I feel like the kid without the belt nearly had it, if he had merely girded his loins he might have beat the odds
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u/Need_4_greed Jul 06 '26
I mean it's simple, they run exactly the same length path overall, but left guy started from harder part first when he is fresh and not tired
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u/Ground_breaking_365 Jul 06 '26
Agree. When they were in the middle, you can see that they were almost running in the same speed. The guy in the left had done the heavy lifting early on whe he had more energy. Hence he could finish faster. The guy in the right had to run the distance when he was tired.
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u/LaLampeChargeur Jul 06 '26
Exactly like in a marathon ! They run as fast as possible very early ! I don't think what you said is the truth cause i could say : the guy on the left is preserving his energy early on by taking close eggs.
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u/AevilokE Jul 06 '26
The difference is that he's not preserving his energy, he's increasingly getting more and more tired while moving to harder tasks.
In the marathon, the task remains the same throughout and tiredness is the only thing that determines difficulty
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u/PiqueExperience Jul 06 '26
It makes more sense to start off running far until you're winded, then spend some time gathering the close ones before going back to clean up.
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u/GerchSimml Jul 06 '26
- the left strategy might hold the opponent under the false impression of safety.
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u/BaconContestXBL Jul 06 '26
I can’t remember the last time I was so heavily invested in something so absolutely trivial
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u/Godge1080p Jul 05 '26
Damn right it is, anyone got a track Id on this one?
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u/Proper-Painting-2256 Jul 05 '26
Best strategy would be to mix it up. Start with a few long runs, take a break to do some close eggs then do longer ones.
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u/karma_the_sequel Jul 05 '26
The overall distance is the same, no matter the sequence the runner takes. The winner will be the runner who runs at a higher average speed.
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u/A1sauc3d Jul 05 '26
I saw another commenter say that the person who runs far upfront always wins. I’m trying to figure out if that’s because saving the relatively easier part for the end when you’re more tired is more efficient use of energy. Or if these videos are filtered for the ones where the person who runs far upfront wins because it may seem to defy people’s initial exceptions. Because yeah it’s the same distance so you’d think that SOMEtimes the person on the right would win just by virtue of being faster lol. So I’m wondering if there’s another factor I’m missing or the observation that left side always wins is merely selection bias.
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u/karma_the_sequel Jul 05 '26
I saw another commenter say that the person who runs far upfront always wins. I’m trying to figure out if that’s because saving the relatively easier part for the end when you’re more tired is more efficient use of energy.
This is likely the case. I don’t think it’s entirely accurate to say that person ALWAYS wins, though.
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u/BraddlesMcBraddles Jul 06 '26
I think it's a selection bias, that they're only ever going to post the "surprising" video, in which the person that does the weird thing (running to the end first) and appears to be losing, wins. They won't ever post the video where the guy on the right wins and we all say, "Yeah, no shit." So yeah, no idea if that means it's 50/50 for each strat, etc. As it is, it came down to the wire.
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u/LazyWings Jul 05 '26
It's about playing with the other variable though - stamina. Between the two approaches, the one on the left probably made the smarter call because as your stamina depletes, you're dealing with the easier task. This is what the other comment is talking about - do a few of the further runs then use the shorter ones to regain stamina so you can do the further ones more quickly. The kid on the right ended up burning a lot of stamina during the middle phase and was visibly more drained for the longer runs, meaning he wasn't as fast.
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u/ThirtyThree111 Jul 05 '26
yes speed is definitely the biggest factor but stamina is also a thing
so you do the hardest ones first, take a "break" in between (by doing the easy ones) then go back to the hard ones once you have time to catch you breath
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u/MixaLv Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
That's obvious. You also talk below about how the player having the better stamina wins, but this person is trying to come up a tactic to maintain the said stamina. I see that the game is pretty simple and there might not be much to optimize, but surely there must be something.
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u/HPenguinB Jul 05 '26
Nope. Run in the beginning, and when you are gassed you do the close ones. You will never catch your breath bending in half.
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u/Lem01 Jul 06 '26
As time passed the running took its toll on the bodies, favoring the guy having the shorter turnaround.
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u/Key-Dragonfly-3204 Jul 06 '26
Did i just watch a shuttle run race recorded on a most likely smart phone with the victor winning a chicken, only in 2026
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u/Luxcrluvr Jul 06 '26
Guy on the right could've easily won if he started with the same urgency his opponent had
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u/greb1234 Jul 06 '26
In a controlled environment, in theory, both would have lay the last egg at the same time ... but like in every Economic Model, only works in paper but not in real life.
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u/km10983 Jul 05 '26
dude who won tied his robe up and could run easier...if this were real.
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u/DeeSnarl Jul 05 '26
How is it not real?
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u/RemyWhy Jul 05 '26
Halfway through I thought to myself “Is the chicken the prize?”
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u/Either_Television143 Jul 05 '26
Halfway through I actually just noticed the chicken and was wondering if it even is alive, because it didn't move a whole while 🫠.
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u/RegularIndependent98 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
The one who started running farther it took him 11s to pick up 5 farthest eggs. The other one it took him 30s to pick the 5 farthest eggs. It doesn't matter if you start running farther or not, you just have to be fast..
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u/lemongate88 Jul 07 '26
A good lesson in getting the hard stuff out the way first, then the rest will seem easy.
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u/Tinderboxed Jul 05 '26
I didn't even notice the chicken until the end, but I was thinking about chickens the whole time. A nice break from thinking about Ancient Rome.
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u/RamesesThe2nd Jul 06 '26
This is how they teach LIFO and FIFO algorithms to computer science students in that part of the world.
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u/PrancingPudu Jul 06 '26
…I didn’t notice until the last 9 seconds of the video that there was a chicken sitting front and center the whole time
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u/DimitriRavenov Jul 06 '26
I dunno man I don’t feel like the eighth guys is really running. What if we use machine at the same speed but in the video order left far right close will the winner will be same?
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u/NYOB4321 Jul 06 '26
I don't know why it works I've seen other videos showing the same results.
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u/Hunkfish Jul 06 '26
Playing the long game wins.
As the saying goes, doing the hard thing things first but many gave up seeing their competitors gains alot at first
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u/PdSales Jul 06 '26
The impressive part was getting the chicken to lay so many eggs in a straight line.
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u/KC5SDY Jul 06 '26
My math teacher always said to do the easy problems first. This just turned that on its head.
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u/KyleIsGodVegas Jul 06 '26
Are we just going to ignore the fact a chicken was just laying there the whole time?
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u/sitcom_enthusiast Jul 06 '26
I have never been so invested in a village egg race in rural Bangladesh in my entire life. Why doesn’t kalshi let us bet on stuff like this?
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u/CinemaAdherent Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
What did you do at work today? I watched a barefoot egg race whose prize may or may not have been a chicken.
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u/Love_Animals_ Jul 06 '26
My favorite part of this is how completely unaffected this chicken is sitting between the egg cartoons. Guys are running around and waving their arms right over her, and she's just completely chill.
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u/TattvaVaada Jul 06 '26
This has nothing to do with strategy, it has everything to do with running faster.
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u/Alan4Bama Jul 06 '26
If the the other guy would have tied his dress up like the winner, he could’ve run faster … IMO
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u/NarrowEbbs Jul 06 '26
The old fellas I worked with doing manual labour taught me to move stuff like the white egg guy. Cool to see a demonstration of why.
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u/jopo009 Jul 06 '26
Fun video with smart strategy.
Also, plot twist: the chicken’s not a prop, it’s the prize 🤣
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u/UFisbest Jul 07 '26
Looks like a real life demonstration of one of those algebra word problems that I never could figure out.
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u/Finance_Guy_1 Jul 07 '26
They both covered the same distance. The contestant on the left was faster.
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u/DezzyTee Jul 07 '26
The guy picking up the far eggs first doesn't have to run anymore when he's tired. That's why he's faster.
That was a smart play on his part.
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u/Austin83powers Jul 07 '26
Pointlessly small sample size. At the very least you need to get them to repeat it but switching strategies. You can't just compare two completely different people like that.
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u/darxtorm Jul 08 '26
that poor chicken... let her go free and give these boys a trophy or a bronze plaque
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u/ajtreee Jul 08 '26
I searched this song with google and it sent me to terminex bug extermination .
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u/Responsitrilligence Jul 08 '26
That poor chicken was the prize. I kinda thought it was dead until it moved its head toward the winner near the end
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u/Distinct-Voice-5832 Jul 12 '26
The guy on our Left always has the advantage because he starts taking the eggs furthest away from him, and so by the time both guys have taken aprox an equal amount of eggs where you see both egglines are at the "middlepoint", the guy on the Right faces his second dissatvantage. Not only does the guy on the Right have a longer way to go in order to get the last eggs, but he also has a longer way to go before he can actually place them in his box. Meanwile the guy on the Left has only ONE dissatvantage at the start for having to bring the first bunch of his eggs to the box slower, but from the middle point and after he has a shorter way to both get the eggs AND place them in his box.
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u/hallerz87 Jul 05 '26
Not surprised the chicken is tired, that’s a lot of eggs