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Amazing Race Season 22, Episode 11.1, "Beacon of hope"
Film date: Dec 4-5 2012
This report covers the first half of the finale episode.
Teams are released from some street in Edinburgh in the following order:
Route info: "Travel to the capitol of northern Ireland, Belfast". To get there teams must first take the train to Stanraer (via Glasgow). From here they take a ferry to Belfast. Once in Belfast they must pick up a sponsor car from a harbor warehouse (All-route shipping) and drive themselves to Peatlands Park.
"We definitely think the roller moms have to go, I think they are one of our strongest competitors", Anthony
"I really think we got this far because Jen and I have so much positive energy", Caroline
"We are close friends, but our whole relationship is centered around competition", Mona thinks this gives them and edge
The first 3 teams probably arrived at the ferry terminal i Stanraer around 21:00, and learn that the next ferry is at 07:30 in the morning. This gives the roller derby moms plenty of time to catch up (they probably arrive around midnight).
The ferry reaches Belfast at 09:45. While on the ferry all teams get directions to Peatlands park.
"We're just trying to get as much information as we can on Belfast", Max on the boat
Once in Belfast all teams run for the warehouse where their cars are. They reach it a few seconds apart, enter their cars and drive out in the following order:
1. Mona & Beth
2. Max & Katie
3. Bates & Anthony
4. Caroline & Jennifer
"You're a navigating machine Katie", Max appreciates the good directions he is given
Teams drive more or less together on the freeway, but once off it they are separated as they all search for the Peatlands Park.
"Max & Katie and the hockey players are going to the right, and rollergirls and us are going to the left", Jennifer
"Darn, darn, darn, darn", Mona when she finds out they went the wrong way
The clues at Peatlands Park lie in a basket marked with a race
flag. Teams reach it in the following order:
1(+2) Bates & Anthony
2(+0) Max & Katie, a second after #1
3(-2) Mona & Beth, probably 2-3 minutes after #1
4(+0) Caroline & Jennifer
Road block: "Who wants to get bogged down?". In this road block contestants must snorkel in the murky waters of the bog. There is a small train which will take them out into the bogs where they will be equipped with a wet suit, mask, snorkel and flippers. They must then cannonball into a pit of mud, climb up and then swim 100 yards in a muddy ditch (50 yards out and 50 yards back). All in under 4 minutes.
This "sport" was of course conceived over a few pints of beer.
A rule on this race is that nobody may perform more than 6 road blocks before the finale. This means that Bates & Anthony is the only team who may choose who will do this task, this since they skipped one task in Botswana thanks to the fast forward.
The task is a lot harder than it sounds. Just putting on the wet suit is a challenge in itself. Then, since this is early December, the temperature is a bit on the chilly side. In fact there are remnants of an ice sheet at the edge of the ditch they swim in. The mud clogs the snorkel and the mask fogs up almost immediately so visibility is close to zero.
"I'm going snorkeling in freezing cold water", Katie is not looking forward to the task
"What is Bog snorkeling, do you have any idea?", Mona wonder what the task will be while they wait for the train with Caroline & Jennifer
"They're not gonna make us get into the water, right?", Jennifer is a little worried
"Two things that I hate are being cold and in dirty water", Mona is also not looking forward to this
"I was lucky I made it since there was no chance I was going to do that again", Katie did not enjoy this experience
"I don't know that I've ever been that scared, I felt a lot of pressure", Mona is anxious before starting the task
Poor Jennifer is having a hard time. She forgot to turn back at the platform at the end of the ditch, instead she climb over it and jump into the ditch on the other side. It takes a while for her to get her bearings and free herself of the mud to go back. This makes her fail the time limit so she has to start all over again.
"Jen did a great job, but Jen can not really swim", Caroline
"I can't do it again", Jennifer is mentally and physically exhausted after her failed attempt
On her second go Jennifer gives up before she has even completed half of the swimming.
"I can't breathe", Jennifer
It takes quite some persuasion from Caroline to get Jennifer to make another attempt. On which she completes the course before the time runs out.
Teams complete this roadblock in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock)
The thing with a ring is a big steel statue also known as 'Beacon of hope' and it is fairly well known. Mona & Beth catch up with Max & Katie in the parking lot as the latter are getting directions. The moms decide to just follow Max & Katie to the next route marker.
"I hate being followed", Max
The only team having a hard time finding this route marker is Caroline & Jennifer they get directions to the Giant's ring which lies 5km south of Belfast. But eventually they get good directions.
"We need a beacon of hope right now", Jennifer gets the title
Teams reach the clue box by the statue in the following order:
1(+1) Max & Katie
2(+1) Mona & Beth
3(-2) Bates & Anthony
4(+0) Caroline & Jennifer
At the Titanic dock teams encounter a tent with a menu on a poster outside. The menu is:
Below the menu is a bunch of seating charts, one for each table. These lists the names of the passengers at the table as well as their choices for the soup and the dessert. This throws a number of teams who immediately start to serve what is on the seating chart and bypassing the other courses. Another difficulty is that there are lots of different courses on the tables in the kitchen tent, and none of them are labeled so teams must identify the correct course by looking at them.
The hardest course to identify is the peaches with Chartreuse Jelly. The chefs have prepared to different dishes with peaches and jelly. One with red jelly and one with green. Chartreuse is a kind of green color, something which only Mona & Beth seem to know.
Teams divide the job so that one team member prepares the tray in the kitchen tent and carries to the top of the stairs. The other member picks it up here, walks down all the stairs to the bottom of the dock and then over to the dining tent set up in the middle of the dock where the tables are set up. It means quite a lot of running/walking for the teams.
Max & Katie is the first team to arrive and prepare a tray with the different soups. But before they leave Katie realizes that something must be wrong. She looks around and find the menu poster and realize they must server oysters first.
Bates & Anthony also figure out the menu pretty quick, but they do one wrong run with the soups first. Mona & Beth make many attempts before they finally figure out what they are doing wrong.
"This is not what these people ordered", The waiter gets to say this a lot to Beth
"I used to be a waitress so you'd think I'd be better at this", Beth apologizes for he bad serving skills (and she still is still serving the wrong course)
"If I don't win this challenge I hope I get tipped well", Bates hopes to get something out of the serving
"I think what is going on is that we're just intermixing our dishes", Mona thinks she knows what they do wrong, but in reality they aren't reading the menu
"He's just having a meltdown right now, and there is no calming him down unless I get it right", Anthony feels the pressure
"I'm gonna kill him", Bates gets frustrated when his next serving is also rejected (he had red jelly)
As Anthony is waiting to see if Bates is going to kill him or not (i.e. checking if the desserts are correct) he chats with Beth and happens to mention the list of courses. Luckily for him the desserts were right so they get their next clue. This leaves Mona & Beth alone trying to figure out which the first course they should serve is.
"I'm so tired", Beth is rejected for the 10th time
"Anthony said something about a list", Beth shouts to Mona
"Bettie, I figured it out", Mona finally see the big menu
And this time the courses served are correct. And Beth gets an applause from the dining guests when she has served it. From this point on it is plain sailing for the moms.
"We are probably in trouble, but all we can do is try to finish this challenge and get our next clue", Mona is not giving up
In spray it teams must complete a graffiti painting. They must drive to the T13 skate hall. Here they are given an almost blank door where they should spray paint one half of a given Graffiti painting from a given photograph. There is a simple outline on the door which helps with scaling and placement. Once they are done the other half of the painting is revealed and we get to see how well their half matches. All of this takes time. But Caroline & Jennifer, who is the only team doing this, feel like they are flying through it.
Once Caroline & Jennifer say they are done the artist closes the other door so we get to see the entire painting. He then points out some things which the girls need to improve on their half. They do this quickly and are then given their next clue.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+0) Max & Katie, tray it
2(+1) Bates & Anthony, tray it
3(-1) Mona & Beth, tray it
4(+0) Caroline & Jennifer, spray it
Route info: "Make your way to the next Pit Stop, Ulster Hall". Here Phil waits together with a bunch of young Riverdance girls.
Max & Katie find parking and are making their way on foot towards the hall as Bates & Anthony drive by. The brothers are convinced they can catch Max & Katie, they just have to find a parking spot first. Max & Katie in turn see that the hockey brothers drive by and realize they must hustle. They make it look like the start of a 100 meter event when they take off. Luckily for them they manage to keep ahead of the brothers so they reach Phil first.
The editors cut the episode so it looks like there is a tense race between the last two teams. But the feeling I get is that the country singers are way behind.
Teams check in in the following order:
1(+0) Max & Katie, win a trip to the Dominican republic
2(+0) Bates & Anthony, less than a minuter after #1
3(+0) Mona & Beth
4(+0) Caroline & Jennifer, around 17:45, are eliminated
"You are joking?", Mona can't believe it when Phil tells them they are 3rd
"People are just so good, all around the world", Jennifer has learned something
Amazing Race Season 22, Episode 11.1, "Beacon of hope"
Film date: Dec 4-5 2012
This report covers the first half of the finale episode.
Teams are released from some street in Edinburgh in the following order:
| 1. | Max & Katie | 16:07 | |
| 4. | Bates & Anthony | 16:15 | (+0:08) |
| 3. | Caroline & Jennifer | 17:27 | (+1:20) |
| 5. | Mona & Beth | 19:27 | (+3:20) |
Route info: "Travel to the capitol of northern Ireland, Belfast". To get there teams must first take the train to Stanraer (via Glasgow). From here they take a ferry to Belfast. Once in Belfast they must pick up a sponsor car from a harbor warehouse (All-route shipping) and drive themselves to Peatlands Park.
"We definitely think the roller moms have to go, I think they are one of our strongest competitors", Anthony
"I really think we got this far because Jen and I have so much positive energy", Caroline
"We are close friends, but our whole relationship is centered around competition", Mona thinks this gives them and edge
The first 3 teams probably arrived at the ferry terminal i Stanraer around 21:00, and learn that the next ferry is at 07:30 in the morning. This gives the roller derby moms plenty of time to catch up (they probably arrive around midnight).
The ferry reaches Belfast at 09:45. While on the ferry all teams get directions to Peatlands park.
"We're just trying to get as much information as we can on Belfast", Max on the boat
Once in Belfast all teams run for the warehouse where their cars are. They reach it a few seconds apart, enter their cars and drive out in the following order:
1. Mona & Beth
2. Max & Katie
3. Bates & Anthony
4. Caroline & Jennifer
"You're a navigating machine Katie", Max appreciates the good directions he is given
Teams drive more or less together on the freeway, but once off it they are separated as they all search for the Peatlands Park.
"Max & Katie and the hockey players are going to the right, and rollergirls and us are going to the left", Jennifer
"Darn, darn, darn, darn", Mona when she finds out they went the wrong way
The clues at Peatlands Park lie in a basket marked with a race
flag. Teams reach it in the following order:
1(+2) Bates & Anthony
2(+0) Max & Katie, a second after #1
3(-2) Mona & Beth, probably 2-3 minutes after #1
4(+0) Caroline & Jennifer
Road block: "Who wants to get bogged down?". In this road block contestants must snorkel in the murky waters of the bog. There is a small train which will take them out into the bogs where they will be equipped with a wet suit, mask, snorkel and flippers. They must then cannonball into a pit of mud, climb up and then swim 100 yards in a muddy ditch (50 yards out and 50 yards back). All in under 4 minutes.
This "sport" was of course conceived over a few pints of beer.
A rule on this race is that nobody may perform more than 6 road blocks before the finale. This means that Bates & Anthony is the only team who may choose who will do this task, this since they skipped one task in Botswana thanks to the fast forward.
The task is a lot harder than it sounds. Just putting on the wet suit is a challenge in itself. Then, since this is early December, the temperature is a bit on the chilly side. In fact there are remnants of an ice sheet at the edge of the ditch they swim in. The mud clogs the snorkel and the mask fogs up almost immediately so visibility is close to zero.
"I'm going snorkeling in freezing cold water", Katie is not looking forward to the task
"What is Bog snorkeling, do you have any idea?", Mona wonder what the task will be while they wait for the train with Caroline & Jennifer
"They're not gonna make us get into the water, right?", Jennifer is a little worried
"Two things that I hate are being cold and in dirty water", Mona is also not looking forward to this
"I was lucky I made it since there was no chance I was going to do that again", Katie did not enjoy this experience
"I don't know that I've ever been that scared, I felt a lot of pressure", Mona is anxious before starting the task
Poor Jennifer is having a hard time. She forgot to turn back at the platform at the end of the ditch, instead she climb over it and jump into the ditch on the other side. It takes a while for her to get her bearings and free herself of the mud to go back. This makes her fail the time limit so she has to start all over again.
"Jen did a great job, but Jen can not really swim", Caroline
"I can't do it again", Jennifer is mentally and physically exhausted after her failed attempt
On her second go Jennifer gives up before she has even completed half of the swimming.
"I can't breathe", Jennifer
It takes quite some persuasion from Caroline to get Jennifer to make another attempt. On which she completes the course before the time runs out.
Teams complete this roadblock in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock)
| 1(+0) | Bates & Anthony* | (5-6) | Time: 02:18 |
| 2(+0) | Max & Katie* | (6-6) | Time: 03:09 |
| 3(+0) | Mona* & Beth | (6-6) | Time: 02:53 |
| 4(+0) | Caroline & Jennifer* | (6-6) | Time: 03:43, on her 3rd attempt |
Quote
ROUTE INFO
Drive back to Belfast and
find 'The Thing With A
Ring'.
The thing with a ring is a big steel statue also known as 'Beacon of hope' and it is fairly well known. Mona & Beth catch up with Max & Katie in the parking lot as the latter are getting directions. The moms decide to just follow Max & Katie to the next route marker.
"I hate being followed", Max
The only team having a hard time finding this route marker is Caroline & Jennifer they get directions to the Giant's ring which lies 5km south of Belfast. But eventually they get good directions.
"We need a beacon of hope right now", Jennifer gets the title
Teams reach the clue box by the statue in the following order:
1(+1) Max & Katie
2(+1) Mona & Beth
3(-2) Bates & Anthony
4(+0) Caroline & Jennifer
Quote
DETOUR
Detour: 'Tray It or Spray It'
Tray It: Become fine-dining
servers! Make your way to the
dry dock where the Titanic
was build over 100 years ago.
Once there, deliver five
courses from the last dinner
served to the Titanic's first
class passengers. When all
five courses have been
served correctly, and in the
proper order, the Captain will
hand you your next clue.
Spray It: Become graffiti
...
At the Titanic dock teams encounter a tent with a menu on a poster outside. The menu is:
Quote
R.M.S. "TITANIC"This is half the actual first class menu served as the last meal on the Titanic.
April 14, 1912
The First-Class Menu
PRIVATE
First Course ~ Hors d'oevres
Oysters à la Russe
Second Course ~ Soup
Cream of Barley finished with Whiskey and Cream
or
Consommé Olga with Scallops and Celery Julienne
Third Course ~ Roast
Roasted Squab and Watercress
served with a Madeira Jus
Fourth Course ~ Salad
Seared Asparagus drizzled with a Saffron
and Champagne Vinaigrette
Fifth Course ~ Dessert
Spiced Peaches with Chartreuse Jelly and
Crème Fraîche
or
Waldorf Pudding with Crème Anglaise
Below the menu is a bunch of seating charts, one for each table. These lists the names of the passengers at the table as well as their choices for the soup and the dessert. This throws a number of teams who immediately start to serve what is on the seating chart and bypassing the other courses. Another difficulty is that there are lots of different courses on the tables in the kitchen tent, and none of them are labeled so teams must identify the correct course by looking at them.
The hardest course to identify is the peaches with Chartreuse Jelly. The chefs have prepared to different dishes with peaches and jelly. One with red jelly and one with green. Chartreuse is a kind of green color, something which only Mona & Beth seem to know.
Teams divide the job so that one team member prepares the tray in the kitchen tent and carries to the top of the stairs. The other member picks it up here, walks down all the stairs to the bottom of the dock and then over to the dining tent set up in the middle of the dock where the tables are set up. It means quite a lot of running/walking for the teams.
Max & Katie is the first team to arrive and prepare a tray with the different soups. But before they leave Katie realizes that something must be wrong. She looks around and find the menu poster and realize they must server oysters first.
Bates & Anthony also figure out the menu pretty quick, but they do one wrong run with the soups first. Mona & Beth make many attempts before they finally figure out what they are doing wrong.
"This is not what these people ordered", The waiter gets to say this a lot to Beth
"I used to be a waitress so you'd think I'd be better at this", Beth apologizes for he bad serving skills (and she still is still serving the wrong course)
"If I don't win this challenge I hope I get tipped well", Bates hopes to get something out of the serving
"I think what is going on is that we're just intermixing our dishes", Mona thinks she knows what they do wrong, but in reality they aren't reading the menu
"He's just having a meltdown right now, and there is no calming him down unless I get it right", Anthony feels the pressure
"I'm gonna kill him", Bates gets frustrated when his next serving is also rejected (he had red jelly)
As Anthony is waiting to see if Bates is going to kill him or not (i.e. checking if the desserts are correct) he chats with Beth and happens to mention the list of courses. Luckily for him the desserts were right so they get their next clue. This leaves Mona & Beth alone trying to figure out which the first course they should serve is.
"I'm so tired", Beth is rejected for the 10th time
"Anthony said something about a list", Beth shouts to Mona
"Bettie, I figured it out", Mona finally see the big menu
And this time the courses served are correct. And Beth gets an applause from the dining guests when she has served it. From this point on it is plain sailing for the moms.
"We are probably in trouble, but all we can do is try to finish this challenge and get our next clue", Mona is not giving up
In spray it teams must complete a graffiti painting. They must drive to the T13 skate hall. Here they are given an almost blank door where they should spray paint one half of a given Graffiti painting from a given photograph. There is a simple outline on the door which helps with scaling and placement. Once they are done the other half of the painting is revealed and we get to see how well their half matches. All of this takes time. But Caroline & Jennifer, who is the only team doing this, feel like they are flying through it.
Once Caroline & Jennifer say they are done the artist closes the other door so we get to see the entire painting. He then points out some things which the girls need to improve on their half. They do this quickly and are then given their next clue.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+0) Max & Katie, tray it
2(+1) Bates & Anthony, tray it
3(-1) Mona & Beth, tray it
4(+0) Caroline & Jennifer, spray it
Route info: "Make your way to the next Pit Stop, Ulster Hall". Here Phil waits together with a bunch of young Riverdance girls.
Max & Katie find parking and are making their way on foot towards the hall as Bates & Anthony drive by. The brothers are convinced they can catch Max & Katie, they just have to find a parking spot first. Max & Katie in turn see that the hockey brothers drive by and realize they must hustle. They make it look like the start of a 100 meter event when they take off. Luckily for them they manage to keep ahead of the brothers so they reach Phil first.
The editors cut the episode so it looks like there is a tense race between the last two teams. But the feeling I get is that the country singers are way behind.
Teams check in in the following order:
1(+0) Max & Katie, win a trip to the Dominican republic
2(+0) Bates & Anthony, less than a minuter after #1
3(+0) Mona & Beth
4(+0) Caroline & Jennifer, around 17:45, are eliminated
"You are joking?", Mona can't believe it when Phil tells them they are 3rd
"People are just so good, all around the world", Jennifer has learned something
