The Amazing Race 30

Cafe Society
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The 30th season of The Amazing Race begins Wednesday, Jan 3, in the timeslot vacated by Survivor. There are apparently going to be some double episodes in the latter half of the season. The teams this season:

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[li]Cody & Jessica (#TeamBigBrother) - former Big Brother contestants[/li][li]Alex & Conor (#TeamIndyCar) - IndyCar drivers[/li][li]April & Sarah (#TeamGoatYoga) - owners of Arizona Goat Yoga[/li][li]Cedric & Shawn (#TeamSlamDunk) - retired NBA players[/li][li]Eric & Daniel (#TheFirefighters) - firefighter/paramedics[/li][li]Dessi & Kayla (#TheRingGirls) - models[/li][li]Henry & Evan (#TeamYale) - former Yale debaters (obligatory nerd team)[/li][li]Joey & Tim (#TeamComp) - competitive eaters[/li][li]Kristi & Jen (#TeamExtreme) - professional skiers[/li][li]Lucas & Brittany (#TeamOceanRescue) - lifeguards[/li][li]Trevor & Chris (#TeamWellStrung) - musicians (obligatory gay team)[/li][/ul]

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Oh thanks for the heads up! I would have missed it!

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Thanks, can’t wait!

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Thanks for the reminder! I probably would have forgotten, although I’m sure the DVR will remember to record it.

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Arizona Goat Yoga?

Thanks for the heads up. Looks like Wednesday 8:00 will be it’s permanent time slot this season.

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I think they’re moving it to Thursday nights during the Olympics, though. There’s a schedule shift sometime in the season.

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I stopped curling on Sunday nights so I could watch the show. Guess what night I curl now.

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Was that ‘permanent’ move?

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Closest elimination finish in 30 seasons, nice way to start this season. Though I was hoping they would just call it a tie and eliminate both, they’re terrible racers and the surviving team won’t be around long. Glad to see a lot of pretty competent teams though, this season has promise.

Did Shawn Merion go straight to the NBA from high school? A little more college education might have helped, although it was most likely just a really bad moment. Actually the Yale “Wizard” had the same issue, just not as prolonged.

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Team Baaaahmaste (Goat Yoga) isn’t long for this race, no. If you’re getting the Chord of Troubles edited in within the first ten minutes of the first episode, you’re going to have problems because you haven’t even seen killer fatigue from afar yet.

I think a lot of them had problems with the diacritic mark, though none as badly as Merion. Especially if you only speak English, it’s easy to forget that diacritics actually MEAN something in other languages. Also, they’re all lucky the location name didn’t have any of the letters that Icelandic has that English doesn’t.

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I actually wonder if Marion might have had trouble seeing the diacritical because of how tall he is. They made the letter planks out of semi-transparent ice and then propped them up on more ice (or something similar). At his angle he might not have noticed it. I also wonder how visible it was from the ATVs, I never saw it shown?

And yeah, both of the final two seemed like weak teams. At least now we get to see Team Goat Yoga be mean to each other more.

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Well, for the next few months, at least. I could sign up for different leagues next year.

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We’ve never seen that before - a foot race to the mat between two teams as well as against a third team under a penalty. That was really close. I’d have liked to have seen the model-boxers a bit more. They seem to have been stronger competitors than the yoga instructors. I agree that the latter are not long for the race. One would think that yogis would be calmer.

Team Big Brother are surprisingly strong. I’m unsure about Team Yale; they seem strong, but we’ll have to see how they perform under stress.

TAR pro tip: Learn how to read a frakken map!

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I noticed they were driving Toyotas. No more gratuitous Ford product placement?

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That was so crazy how they were arguing right away. I thought they were friends, they didn’t seem all that friendly to me.

I wonder if they were allowed to write anything down during the name challenge. There’s no way I could remember that many letters.

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And park a car!

Team IndyCar better not have any problems driving a manual transmission this season.

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Anyone else find themselves calling the one team “Goat Yogurt”?

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I’m calling them Team Baaaaahmaste.

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When they don’t actually have to play a social game, they are rockin’ strong.

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I thought for sure they were going to hit the one that was parked next to their spot.