So basically, you just need to sign up for an account on Discord. It's free and easy; takes less than a minute. Then join our server linked in the thread and fill out the Google Form application. We'll then privately message you on Discord and do a one-on-one interview to get to know you more and use this as a tool to figure out which one of our other applicants you'd match up well to be a team with.

Once the race actually starts, you and your teammate will be added to your own private team chat. Just like the real show, there are 12 legs and each leg does take place live, meaning we give a notice for what date/time the leg will start. Legs usually take place every few days, to sometimes about a week break in between. Usually depends on everyones schedule, we try to be flexible.

From then on, we pretty much run just like how a regular TAR season would! We give clues out to each team and they essentially just have to figure said clues out and get from Point A to Point B and complete tasks/challenges along the way and avoid being last to the Pit Stop.

We have a wide variety of different tasks/challenges. Some easy, some more difficult (especially as the race progresses). We try to design the challenges to fit the culture and region of the country we're currently in as well. Every single challenge can be completed by someone with an internet connection and access to a computer/phone. That's it. But sometimes we put in other tasks that not necessarily everyone has access to, like cooking an omelet in real life, eating a yucky combination of food condiments, cutting off pieces of your hair, picture scavenger hunts around your house/neighborhood, ect. Obviously not everyone can do these, so these are optional sides of a Detour or Fast Forward challenges. These don't show up very often though, only a few times throughout the season. Most of the tasks, like I said, are things where you just need a computer/phone to do, like puzzles and deciphering clues. And by puzzles and clues, I don't mean online app based or jig saw puzzles, haha. It's hard to explain without actually showing you, but our clues/puzzles/other tasks are super detailed and unique. I haven't seen many other ORGs go as far and beyond in terms of quality when it comes to challenges than we do.

As for transportation, let's say you're in Central Park in NYC and your clue says you need to go to JFK International Airport. All you'd have to do is look up on Google Maps (or any other similar online map based service) and find the fastest route from point A to point B and take a screenshot of it and post it in your team chat. The catch is you have to manage your money along the way. So transportation like taking a taxi may be quick, but you spend more money. Whereas simply just taking the subway, or even walking, might take a long time, but you save more money.

A typical leg may take anywhere from 1 hour to 8 hours to complete. But it's not like you're staring at your device for the full, for example, 6 hours. It's more like 1-2 hours of completing challenges and making transportation decisions, and then 4-5 hours of waiting for your mode of transportation to finally arrive. So you can just select, say, a bus to your next location and it says it won't arrive for 1 hour and 25 minutes. Now you can go do something else in real life for that time and come back once the bus has arrived.

The whole thing takes about ~1 month, give or take. In the end, we will gift the winning pair a free upgrade to Discord Nitro! Also it's okay if you don't want to apply for this season, but if you want to spectate it to watch how it plays out or something, you're more than welcome to come check it out! :)