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Justin, it’s a church, take your hat off.
All teams but one did the cardboard Detour, and it was clearly the faster option. The team that did the statue Detour handled it well, and still dropped to sixth place. Still, they showed good navigational chops, which could serve them well later.
One member of Team DudeBro came up lame at the very end. Can someone explain the benefit of dropping your back pack and racing to the Mat for second place?
And a bit of bad taxi luck takes a team out. Along with last week at the beach, maybe we have a new Race rule; it’s not enough just to get to the stadium (beach, whatever), you’ve got to get to the right entrance to the stadium.
The race for #2 was dumb.
The losers of this leg…
… came up short.
BOOOOOOO!
Still find every team unlikable.
How long until the Green Team has an epic meltdown? Justin in particular. Can’t happen fast enough!
Green Guy already had a meltdown on the first leg, crying all the way from the aborted Fast Forward to Copacabana. He’s almost as annoying in this leg coming in first. He’s enthusiastic about the race, at least, but one has to wonder whether his partner shares his enthusiasm.
I’m kinda liking Team Dancers now. They’re just doing all the tasks with no real complaining or intra-team drama. Unfortunately, I don’t anticipate them lasting long.
I wasn’t paying close attention. Did they know for certain that it was a race for #2?
And if it is that close and not too terribly difficult to overtake the next team I’d probably still do it for a slight edge in catching a taxi or whatever at the start of the next leg.
As for finding the right entrance, this time I think it was that there was more than one polo field there. At one point they showed a team standing on one but apparently not the one Phil was on.
I have to assume that Team Texas thought they were racing for first place, not second. If they weren’t racing for first or to avoid last (which I’m sure they knew was not the case) then it makes no sense.
The cardboard challenge seemed odd. It looked like a lot of those recycling containers were stocked with stacks of unfolded boxes, rather than just normal trash.
Yeah, Team Texas said they thought they were “in it for first.” They made some pretty great disappointed faces when they realized they had traded a hamstring for the meaningless difference between second and third place.
The cardboard challenge was obviously staged… I suppose it’s doubtful there would be 220 pounds of cardboard each for potentially 8 teams (10 if they got staggered enough to re-use carts) in the small area they were allowed to roam, so the producers obviously just threw a bunch of newly-purchased boxes in the recycling pods.
Had to laugh at the one line from the track girls… “My feet!” “It’s a million dollars, I’ll buy you new feet!”
Can’t believe the producers didn’t even take the strapping off the boxes they planted.
We noticed that too. At the start of that task, I wondered how the teams were going to find over 1500 lbs of recycle cardboard in the small mapped out area. When I saw the new cardboard bundles, well, that’s the answer
The same comment was made in our house. Even my daughter (who takes her baseball hat off in school and restaurants and that’s about it) knew he should have removed his hat!
Yeah, I found myself really hoping they weren’t going to get eliminated. I’d just like to see more of what they can do. I thought they were funny at the detour, too. Sexy Beast!!
Right? Respect your audience a little more and at least try to make it look less staged.
I haven’t been catholic for a long time, but I was pretty shocked they allowed the church to be used to film a TV show. Especially having the priest in full vestments hand them the clue, like he was giving out communion.
My problem with Team Dancers is the whole “Queen for a Day” storyline. I don’t care that they’re homeless. I rarely, if ever, care about the racer’s backstory. Just shut up and race. If they’d just shut the fuck up about how they neeeeeeeeeeeeeed this because < sob > if they lose, < sob > they won’t be going “home” because < teary eyed > they <sob> have no home, I’d like them a lot more.
Ditto with redneck mom/gay kid. Unless the Amazing Editors are foreshadowing some kind of epic homophobic meltdown. But right now, mom looks a little uncomfortable when gay kid mentions he’s gay and that’s the extent of the ‘drama’