FORTY MINUTES!!
This was the delay in the east coast broadcast of The Amazing Race as Andy Rooney’s segment on “60 Minutes” talks about falling asleep while riding a city bus. I am falling asleep waiting for The Amazing Race to begin 40 minutes later than its scheduled time thanks to an NFL game that ran overtime.
Anyway, during this delay there was a preview for this broadcast that indicates that my predictions for elimination on this leg of the race may be wrong but my pre-mature predictions on who won’t make the final three may prove true. The preview for THIS broadcast showed us a team with lost “documents” and a team loses its passports. So know that before I finish writing this blog I am expecting some surprises on this broadcast.
So on to the weekly blog about the Amazing Race and I start with a totally biased opinion. I am sick of the NFL delaying the Amazing Race on the east coast! Dammit, tell the players to get their crap over with on time or cut some of the boring ass segments on “60 minutes” and maintain an accurate prime-time schedule. You can save most of the segments from 60 minutes for another week.
Now on to the race, this next leg began in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam with teams flying to Cambodia.
The departure times were in the early evening, the first team left at 6:53pm and the last team left at 7:32pm. When teams arrived at the airport they discovered the earliest flight wasn’t until 12:25 the next afternoon. So it was a very long wait for the racers but two teams were almost out of luck. Lance & Keri and Zev & Justin faced a sold out flight so they booked for a flight leaving 2 hours later with standby for the 12:25 flight. And they all made the standby flight. So all teams traveled together to Cambodia.
Once in Cambodia, teams had to find the Foreign Correspondents Club to get their first clue from an “assignment editor”. Their assignment was contained in a photo of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis riding in a car on a visit to Cambodia. Teams had to travel to the location in the photo which was the Royal Hotel then request to see the hotel suite named after the former United States First Lady. But the interesting part here is that many of the teams did not recognize the late former first lady as the woman in the photo. Canaan (of Mika & Canaan) thought she was Queen Elizabeth, the Globe Trotters thought she was some sort of princess and another team only said they thought she was some Cambodian Queen. Only the oldest remaining person on the race, Gary ( of Gary & Matt) identified her as “Jackie Kennedy” and saying that he probably was the only person who would have caught that. But Zev & Justin also knew who she was which made it easy for them to get their next clue.
The next clue was the “detour” choices of “cover” where teams had to sell motorcycle helmets or “Wrap” where teams had to go to a local market, select a scarf from a shopkeeper then search for a woman within the market that is wearing the exact same scarf. Most teams chose the “wrap” detour. Last place team (and my least favorite team) Lance & Keri were the only team choosing to sell helmets.
After the “detour” teams were required to travel by foot to their next destination. At this time, Zev & Justin kept their taxi and walked behind it.
The “roadblock” required a team member to perform a series of monkey related maneuvers. Zev & Justin were the first team at the roadblock and Zev performed the task but nearly passed out and he sat down for a while as the gay brothers Sam & Dan completed the task and headed for the pit-stop assuming to be the first team. But their cab driver and vehicle were much slower than the taxi that Zev & Justin retained for the day. So Zev & Justin arrived at the pit-stop first.
There was no mention of any prize for Zev & Justin’s first place finish. Then after viewers saw Dan & Sam arrive as the second team and “Flight Time & Big Easy” arrive as the third team, it was revealed that Zev was missing his passport. He and Justin were denied check-in as first place and they were told they would have to return to the course to locate the missing passport and return before the last time checks in or they would be eliminated. This made the gay brothers the first place team by default. Justin happened to have a business card to call his taxi driver and the driver helped them backtrack to locate the passport but they were not successful in locating it.
So, the official pit-stop arrivals are in this order..
FIRST: Sam & Dan
SECOND: Harlem Globetrotters “Flight Time & Big Easy” (Herbert & Nathaniel)
THIRD: Brian & Ericka
FOURTH: Gary & Matt
FIFTH: Meghan & Cheyne
SIXTH: Lance & Keri, blowing my prediction (and hope) that they would be eliminated.
SEVENTH: Mika & Canaan
EIGTH: Maria & Tiffany escaped elimination because of Zev & Justin losing Zev’s passport.
Zev & Justin were eliminated from the race. But they were not saddened by the situation. They have a strong friendship.
And so we are down to EIGHT with one team I hate rising up a few positions. Lance & Keri may stay around just to piss off viewers like me who cannot stand him. Lance has his arrogant competitive spirit but he didn’t argue with his partner and that is what I think causes good teams to fail. So if they keep their personal attitudes toward each other, then Lance & Keri will be around for a while.
I watched the “elimination station” segments online and I watched as some eliminated racers predicted the next team to go would be the two Harlem Globetrotters. I don’t know if there is some hate going on there but the Globetrotters seem to be one of the strongest teams on the race. I include them as strong contenders to make the “final three” of The Amazing Race.
The other teams I predict as strong contenders to make the final three are Meghan & Cheyne, Brian & Ericka, Sam & Dan and I am replacing consideration of Mika & Canaan and (reluctantly) replacing them with Lance & Keri. This puts Mika & Canaan into a questionable status. Their performance on this leg of the race was satisfactory at best.
What’s easier to predict is the team for next elimination. The professional poker players Tiffany & Maria are struggling and I don’t see signs of improvement. The youth and physical strength of the other teams along with Maria & Tiffany being in the last place make them the prime candidates for next elimination. So my prediction for next team elimination is for Maria & Tiffany.
My hope is that the Amazing Race will start on time next week. Would this be wishful thinking?
Well we shall see next week. Save Amazing Race weekly blog, same old internet channel.
Have a good week!
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