AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT:
ARA1 - Andy/Laura
ARA2 - no team, although Pailin as an individual certainly qualifies
ARA3 - Mai/Oliver
ARA4 - Ethan/Khairie
My rationale for the above is that a team must not have played a key part in their elimination through their own mistake in order to qualify on my list of a saddest elimination. As examples of other teams I considered and rejected:
Mardy/Marsio - since one played golf and they were at a golf course, wouldn't he be the choice to do a ROADBLOCK?; also personal choice to eat organ meats slowly when only chance of staying in race was to eat as quickly as possible irregardless of personal convictions (note Kat in AR17)
Daichi/Sawaka- failure to choose Slither DETOUR put them in last place
Paula/Natasha - unable to make up any time in Budapest leg when lack of Bunching required them to do so
Ann/Diane - rejection of risk strategy and choice of safe flight through London gave them 3 hour deficit to make up
Bernie/Henry - choice of Fill DETOUR rather than Fish
Faeza/ - forced choice of who to use for zipline task, followed by not grasping situation clearly and taking the risk to take 4 hour penalty immediately before Sam could do so