What a pitiful production day. The highest ranking temple team with 80 points?

No surprise to see the Snow Cone team rank low. I thought they would be the lowest ranking team this day, but second best team? Although that doesn't say much since they beat the two lower ranking teams by only 3 points. This was a terrible team and they couldn't even get past the Dark Forest. That's deplorable for S3 standards. One of the worst episodes ever and the entire episode is a joke. 

No surprise to see Upside-Down Compass rank the highest, although I thought they would rank higher since they were strong pre-temple rounds. The temple layout was pretty tough, but both players moved too slow. A good team like Pirate Captain would've won. Easily best team this day.

Jedediah Smith team sucked and I was never impressed by them. Irish moved slower than Brittany and Damien from Lost Whale Bome, but gets nothing but sympathy. It should not take 2:30 to reach the Ancient Warriors using a shortcut. Brian sucked as a second runner and should'e made it to Room of Ancient Warriors at least where Irish left off. 

So it looks like the Purple Parrots from Marble Armrest ranked higher than the Green Monkeys. I think the same thing happened when I ranked both teams a long time ago. To this day, I'm still pissed Levi and Candace didn't go to the temple. He was a beast in this episode! Candace was so close to winning her individual game, but lost by one step in the sinking poll game. Green Monkeys sucked in the temple. The layout was very hard, but the Purple Parrots probably would've made it to the top floor.

I rewatched the War Fan run on Youtube and none of the doors leading to the King' Storeroom opened. Some people on Youtube think the last guard was in the Ledges, making a double entrance temple guard encounter. I really doubt the temple guard was in the Ledges, although it's not impossible since the Sforza run had temple guards in both entrance rooms.

I love the list you posted, TSM. I agree with everything you said in your post too. For temple runs like Lost Lion Tail, Golden Cricket Cage, and Xerxes those temple teams were so bad that they were doomed to fail no matter how much you try to correct them. In those episodes, the losing temple team should've gone to the temple.

Word on the Nathan Hale suggestion. I definitely think the Silver Snakes got screwed in the "Attack Philadelphia" game. No where in the rules did it mention that the players had to have to word in exact orientation. Although Christina still was a big failure for not finding the most obvious half-pendant that both Kirk and James pointed out. I think James should've gone to the temple second though. He would've found the half-pendant AND was faster than Christina. Even if Christina found the half-pendant, they would've still lost due to her being so slow.

I agree that Lucky Pig would've been a solo run if the team started in the Cave of Sighs and took Kristen's exact path. This layout was pretty long, but a competent player should've been able to grab the artifact. After all, Kristen came up one room short despite being slow and clueless. Scott should've gone in first and started in the Cave of Sighs for a solo run.

Here are a few more:

Gordian Knot - Send Retina into the temple first and have her get removed in the Tomb of the Ancient Kings. She really wasn't a bad player aside from taking the Well elevator. If she went into the temple first, she should've been removed with about 2 minutes left. Tim was definitely faster than Retina and hopefully he tries to take the Shrine shortcut.

Joan of Arc - Same strategy as Gordian Knot. Send Mandy into the Room of Three Gargoyles and have her removed in the Room of Harmonic Convergence. Speedy Eddy would follow-up on her path and maybe grab the artifact.

Harriet Tubman - Send Ryann into the temple first. She could actually start in the Crypt if she wanted to and get removed early in the temple. And Chris would've hopefully found the half-pendant and score a win. This didn't look like a hard temple layout considering the Dark Forest door was already open for them. The other solution would be for Ryann to actually follow her partner's path. 

Egyptian King - Have Josh enter into the temple first and have him take the King's Storeroom from the Pit. Josh probably wouldn't have dropped his Pendant of Life AND would've completed his rooms faster. After getting removed in the Room of the Ancient Warriors. Kerry should have enough time to grab the artifact and possibly win.

For Anne Bonny, I would have Ron go into the temple first and get removed early in the Throne Room or Fallen Columns. And Fred would follow-up as a second runner and hopefully take the Troubled Bridge out of the temple. This was a very easy layout because Ron grabbed the artifact with 53 seconds despite being slow and clueless.

For Lost Lariat, I would probably have Colleen wait a couple of extra seconds after completing the Observatory objective so she could take the Treasure Room shortcut. If she went straight into the Treasure Room, it would've been a solo run and maybe have a chance to beat Shaka Zulu's time?

It's amazing that neither Jason or Kimberly won in the Icarus and Poseidon runs. They were both doing a pretty okay job before reaching their artifacts. Both contestants reached their artifacts with plenty of time, but both screwed around and lost near the entrance room of the temple.

I'm not sure sending Karisa into the temple first for the Enormous Feather run would change the success of it. She was way too slow and stupid. I can't imagine her trying to complete the bottom floor rooms as a frontrunner.  Fortunately, David was fast but I don't think Karisa would've left him enough time. The only way I could see this run being successful is David avoiding the temple spirit in the Dark Forest similar to Joel in the Enormous Iron Nose Ring run. This team was doom from the start thanks to Karisa. 

I agree with your other suggestions. 

Just some comments about the recent rankings:

Lucky Medallion: I'm glad to see Ty and Jennifer rank high. They were one of my favorite Orange Iguanas team on the show. The moat in this episode was very long though compared to the other episodes on this day, but they still crossed first. They did struggle a little at the SOK though and lost their team game. If they did better in these rounds, they might end up being the highest ranking Orange Iguanas team.

Emiliano Zapata: Another team that was strong all day. No complaints from me about this ranking. They probably would've scored higher if Olivia-Emma found the half-pendant.

Electrified Key: I'm surprised to see Peter and Michelle rank this low, but then I remembered they scraped by the earlier rounds. Kind of sad that the Green Monkeys almost outranked them despite the fact they had some epic fails in this episode. Would've ranked better if Peter didn't take a direct path. -_-

Annie Taylor: So happy to see this team rank high! I thought they would rank lower since they had some weak moments pre-temple run like winning the team game only. But they had a strong SOK to make-up for it.

Missing Eye: I don't really hold the tripe capture against Michael and Emily. The half-pendant was no where in sight and they put up a great effort. I know this has no bearing on their ranking, but I this is probably the only forgivabe S3 triple capture.

Nose Ring: Another ranking that is not that surprising. Joel was a absolute beast in this episode! He pretty much carried this team through the episode. The SOK performance does sort of drag them down, but overall a solid team.

Ivory Elephant: I thought Brad and Monica would rank higher due to sweeping the temple games, but I guess their earlier rounds were average. Too many mistakes in the temple run as well, but that layout was pretty long as well.

Overall, I agree with your rankings.

Not surprised to see the "Dr. Livingstone" team rank high. They were pretty dominant before the temple run. Winning the temple run also helps their score as well. Too bad it's still the most forgettable win in my books. 

The "Blackfeet Chief" team sucked in the moat, but they really turned it around in the later rounds. Although they were very close to elimination. The temple run honestly could've been the first Purple Parrot win. Leah moved WAY too slow in the temple. Brandon was slightly faster, but he could've picked up the pace a little bit too. He did have the fastest Silver Monkey assemblies though. Should've been a win if both players moved faster.

"Mush Pot Hat" was the first episode of the infamous shaky log day. The moat round in this episode was no where as long as the other 3 episodes. Chris and Angela are one of the few Orange Iguanas teams I like. The temple games round was very close and almost a 2-2 tie score. The temple run was exciting. It was pretty cheap that they were forced to take the slow Mine Shaft elevator. Not much they could've done to increase their chances at winning.

Great rankings as always!  I look forward to your Stone Head rankings since Heather and Tony were a strong team pre-temple rounds.

The Red Jaguars in Anne Bonny ranked higher than I thought. Then again, Fred was a very strong contestant in this episode. She was the quickest across the moat, answered all questions in SOK, and won her temple game. She was also fast in her short-lived temple appearance. It was Ron that sucked in this episode. Too bad Ron blew the temple run at the very end or else it would've been a 4/4 winning day.