The second lift can't possibly be one block, because that would mean the train on the first lift hill couldn't leave the chain until the train on the second hill was completely off of it, ruining any chance at actually dueling.
If you think that's overthinking something, you must have a really basic thought process.
Crossing my fingers both of the Bay Area parks get coasters in '16. As it stands I'll only have a '15 season pass to Marine World and that's only cause I'm going to be driving down to socal to ride Colossus weekly.