In retrospect I should have realized from the beginning that this was a non-elimination leg, but it didn’t dawn on me until Phil didn’t congratulate the first 3 teams at the Pit Stop for making the final 3.  This was a frustration leg as killer fatigue takes over the teams and makes even simple tasks [...]

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The Beauties were faced with the opportunity to U-turn either the Lesbians who they’d been having personal issues with all race, or the Cowboys (possibly the strongest team remaining). The Beauties jumped at the chance to handicap the Lesbians, and the Lesbians weren’t able to overcome the U-turn and were eliminated. [...]

We promised that we’d do something Amazing Race related this weekend, and this seems like an ideal chance to look back at the past seasons of the Amazing Race, and rank them using a completely scientific method… our opinions. In order to make us argue a bit we decided that we’d have to mutually agree [...]

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Team Baseball ran into the worst cab driver in Malaysia, and made several brutally bad decisions relating to the detour that all dove-tailed into their elimination.They were a team that I liked and they were certainly not a bad team, but they weren’t a great team. They’d shown signs of killer [...]

Another leg that had a lot of travel at the beginning with everyone arriving in Singapore at the same time.  There also weren’t any elaborate locations for the taxis to find so it came down to who could complete the tasks the fastest.  Let’s see how they did.
As a reminder:  Jett & Cord(cowboys), Carol & Brandy(lesbians), [...]

Another leg that was long on travel and then had more aggravating traveling between the tasks which turned into a killer for one team as the race moves to Malaysia.  The Southeast Asia countries are always kind of tricky when it comes to local transportation and once Steve & Allie couldn’t complete the flag side [...]

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The Cowboys ran about a bad a leg as you can run on the race, but escaped elimination due to it being a non-elimination leg. Team Baseball finished first, but abandoned their bags at the Detour and decided not to go back after them. It’s been a long time since teams [...]

This leg was long on travel and then relatively short once the tasks began.  Great setting.  I am not familiar with The Seychelles.  If asked, I would have guessed they were in the Indian Ocean but if you had given me a blank map, I would not have been able to place them.  Just another [...]

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On last week’s leg of The Amazing Race, on a leg where most of the teams avoided making critical errors Team Big Brother’s good luck finally lapsed. They weren’t able to close up the gap between them and the rest of the racing pack. Unlike previous weeks no other team jumped on the opportunity to [...]

Another short leg this week with no bunching, so even though Jeff & Jordan managed to overcome their time deficit and speed bump last week, one random batch of bad luck and they were eliminated this week.  I had a problem and I didn’t have a problem with this episode, I will explain later.
As a [...]

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Team Detective used the Blind U-turn against Team Joe-di, my suspicion is that they weren’t trying to eliminate the married couple, just trying to teach them (particularly Joe) a lesson about being so arrogant and talking down about that other teams. However, regardless of their intentions the Blind U-Turn sent them [...]

This was a pretty short leg which makes sense as you want the team that was spared elimination last leg to have to work to stay in it.  I would have said that Team Undercover misused the U-Turn but then Team Parents couldn’t complete the morse code task even with hours to do it, so [...]