The "turn over all your money" and now the added "turn over your backpacks" penalties for teams coming in last at nonelimination rounds have been completely ineffective. In fact, the lack of backpacks may help the team, as they don't need to haul all that stuff around!

I'm thinking of suggesting to Phil that an alternative might be to instead penalize the team upon arrival on the next pit stop mat by 1 or 2 hours.