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Racing Report Leg #4
mswood:
Racing Report
Amazing Race
Season: 12, Episode #4
Title: “Let’s name our chicken Phil” quote from Shana.
Provided Funds: Zero Dollars (CBS wasn’t kidding about cutting the budget)
Pit Stop: A non standard Pit Stop, I guess it to be around 20 - 22 hours (Chateau states the main group checked in before 10:15am
Trivia Note: This leg is one of only 3 legs in the shows history that provides no form of equalization for any of the teams (either through waiting for transportation, hours of operations, or staggered departures). The other two are from Season 1, episode #5, ”Desert Storm” where teams travel through Tunisia. Paul and Amie where eliminated. The 2cd time was in Season 7, episode #6, “Houston, We have an Elephant” where teams travel through Botswana. Brian & Greg are eliminated.
The morning of July 15th (since I apparently have no idea what day it has been) :dick, teams leave the traditional native village of Bingo in the order that they arrived:
1. Azaria & Hendekea 7:58am
2. TK & Rachel 8:12am
3. Nathan & Jennifer 8:13am
4. Kynt & Vyxsin 8:14am
5. Ronald & Christina 8:15am
6. Nicolas & Donald 8:16am
7. Shana & Jennifer 8:38am
8. Lorena & Jason 10:07am
Teams must followed the marked path to a nearby village, where they must find Dakissaga, the tribal chief, who will give them a customary gift of generosity.
Once teams find Dakissaga (which I believe is a proper name, and not his title), he will offer a chicken to the team. Once a team successfully retrieves and bags a chicken, Dakissaga will hand them their next clue. :chicken
P.E.T.A.: They do WHAT!!!! (:;)
Teams greet Dakissaga in the following order:
1. Azaria & Hendekea
2. TK & Rachel
3. Nathan & Jennifer
4. Kynt & Vyxsin
5. Ronald & Christina
6. Nicolas & Donald
7. Shana & Jennifer
8. Lorena & Jason
Teams retrieve their chicken and get their next clue in the following order:
1. Azaria & Hendekea
2. TK & Rachel
3. Nathan & Jennifer
4. Kynt & Vyxsin
5. Nicolas & Donald
6. Ronald & Christina
7. Shana & Jennifer (who think the chicken will pluck them) :lol3:
8. Lorena & Jason
Teams must take a taxi nearly 100 miles to the town of Bouda Pelegtanga. Once there, they will search for their next clue. As a sign of respect for the tribal chief, teams must also keep their newly acquired gift (H5N1) :umn: with them at all times to successfully complete this leg of the race.
Note: It appears that cabs have been provided for the day, at no cost to the teams.
Teams arrive in Bouda Pelegtanga and find the clue box in the following order:
1. TK & Rachel
2. Nathan & Jennifer
3. Azaria & Hendekea (exactly how long was her bathroom break…) :groan:
4. Nicolas & Donald
5. Ronald & Christina
6. Kynt & Vyxsin
7. Shan & Jennifer
8. Lorena & Jason
DETOUR: Shake your Pan or Shake Your Booty (And I Can’t believe hound109 called half of this)
In this detour teams must choose between a common African trade and a common African art form.
Shake Your Pan: Teams must choose one of the gold mining pits, and use the local panning method to find at least one ounce of gold, which they can trade for their next clue.
Trivia Note: AR Brazil features a gold mining roadblock in episode #3.
Shake Your Booty: Teams must learn a traditional local dance, and then they will perform the dance for a panel of local celebrities (insert random American Idol joke…..). But they also must include their own creative dance moves. If the judges are impressed the team will receive their next clue. However, if the judges aren’t impressed, the team will incur a 10-minute penalty.
All teams, except Nicolas & Donald, choose Shake Your Booty. After watching the demonstration, TK & Rachel switch to Shake Your Pan.
Teams reach the detour in the following order:
1. Nathan & Jennifer
TK & Rachel, before switching.
2. Azaria & Hendekea
3. Nicolas & Donald
4. Ronald & Christina
5. Kynt & Vyxsin
6. TK & Rachel at Shake Your Pan (arrive when Nicolas & Donald have finished).
7. Shana & Jennifer
8. Lorena & Jason
Teams finish the detour in the following order:
1. Azaria & Hendekea (about 4 and a half minutes ahead of…)
2. Nathan & and Jenn the Clipper girl (who got a penalty) :yikes
3. Nicolas & Donald
4. Kynt & Vyxsin (about 4 minutes ahead of…..) :bunny
5. Ronald & Christina (who got a penalty)
6. TK & Rachel
7. Shana & Jennifer (how they didn’t get a penalty is beyond me) :yikes
8. Lorena & Jason
Teams must make their way on foot to the Pelegtanga Market, where they will find their next clue.
Caution: U-Turn Ahead (you have no idea how many times I typed “Yield”) :umn:
This is the 1st of only Two U-Turns found along the racecourse.
A U-Turn is found at the end of a Detour. Teams may use the power of the U-Turn to slow down another team (also known as pissing them off :knuckles:), forcing them to backtrack and complete the other side of the detour, that they didn’t complete. Teams can use the power of the U-Turn only once during the entire race, so they need to decide on the best time to use it.
Teams reach the U-Turn in the following order:
1. Azaria & Hendekea
2. Nathan & Jennifer
3. Kynt & Vyxsin
4. Ronald & Christina
5. Nicolas & Donald
6. Shana & Jennifer (who U-Turn Lorena & Jason)
7. Tk & Rachel
8. Lorena & Jason.
Note: Several teams had difficulty finding the market. On the previous leg, the extra info provided several translations and one of hem was the local word for “Market”. To bad TK couldn’t find it….
All teams (not named Lorena & Jason) :spoiler: must now travel by taxi’s to the outskirts of Ouagadougou to the Tampouy Goat Market, where they find their next clue.
At this time we get a couple shots of goats and chicken being taken to the market. :shocking:
P.E.T.A. What the hell….call the lawyers.. Quick…
Teams arrive in the Tampouy Goat Market in the following order:
1. Azaria & Hendekea
2. Nathan & Jennifer
3. Kynt & Vyxsin
4. Ronald & Christina
5. Nicolas & Donald
6. TK & Rachel
7. Shana & Jennifer
8. Lorena & Jason
ROADBLOCK: “Whose Ready for a Juggling Act?”
Deliver Supplies on Bicycle
In this roadblock, the team member must load a bicycle with an unwieldy amount of supplies, including a potentially uncooperative goat. They will then ride their bikes like a traditional local delivery person to the market place where they will find a different specified vendor to deliver their supplies in exchange for their next clue.
The items are: 3 African Print blankets. A plant. 2 yellow containers (look similar to gas cans), a bundle of sticks, 2 teakettles, 2 hoops of twine, and a goat in a basket.
P.E.T.A. Sweet Mother of God, what is this show trying to do to us?
Teams complete the roadblock in the following order:
1. Azaria & Hendekea
2. Nathan & Jennifer
3. Nicolas & Donald
4. Ronald & Christina
5. Kynt & Vyxsin
6. Shana & Jennifer
7. TK & Rachel
8. Lorena & Jason
Once they return to their partner (ok Rachel, TK is still waiting…), teams must now travel by taxi through the streets of Ouagadougou to find the Hotel de Ville. This City Hall, is home to the Major’s office and is the Pit Stop for this leg of the race.
Teams arrive at the Pit Stop in the following Order:
1. Azaria & Hendekea who win motor scooters
2. Nathan & Unsportsmanlike like conduct.
3. Ronald & Christina (who think they are so much better then Nicolas & Donald) Nic go step on them.
4. Nicolas & Donald Who still get hardly any screen time on the clips, damn it.
5. Kynt & Vyxsin Who I love more and more.
6. Shana & Jennifer
7. Tk & Rachel
8. Lorena & Jason who are eliminated
Trivia Note: Azaria & Hendekea have now won three out of the first four legs of this season. Which only Ron & Amber managed to do during All Stars, yeah remember…right before they were given the boot.
patlini:
nicely done mswood - thanks :cmas20
TARAsia Fan:
Thanks mswood. You do a great job with these. :cmas51 :cmas51 :cmas51
apskip:
mswood, nice job. I disagree with you on the nonstandard pitstop time. It looked like a standard 24 hour pitstop to me. The teams must have completed their tasks and checked in at the end of leg 3 much sooner than we thought(and that certainly includes me if you look at the estimates I made.)
On a different note, who noticed how CBS was trying to create phony drama with respect to the 2 teams that were ahead of Lorena and Jason? First of all, Lorena and Jason arrived at the start 1 hour 20 minutes after Shana and Jennifer and TK and Rachel. I have no reason to believe that their task compeltion was significantly different, so when they got to the U-Turn board, they were still 1 hour 20 minutes behind. After they completed the second detour, they were then 1 hour 35 minutes behind. In a 2 hour drive back to Ouagadougou, there would not have been any opportunity to make up time. The final task with loading the bicycle couldn't have taken more than 30 minutes to complete. The other teams were at the pitstop for an hour before Lorena and Jason even got to the loading the bicycle task. Don't allow the editors to fool you.
mswood:
Nice to have you back apskip.
As to the Pit Stop time.
Well teh ticket counter at the train station didn't open until 6am. Racers commented ont he train ride being between 45 minutes to over an hour.
So I think we have to assume that the train couldn't have left right at 6am. Probably at earliest 615am. Then 45 minutes to a little over an hour.
That means at the earliest teams got to the first clue box at 700am. But could easily be closer to 730am or later.
That would mean that Azaria & Hendekea finished all tasks (including having difficulty with the camel milking, getting lost to the school and part of a 40 minute storm) all in under an hour.
With other comments from racers like Shana & Jennifer, Marianna & Julia, Lorena & Jason and Kynt & Vyxsin on how long they spent on tasks and how lost they got, not to mention screen footage of when there was a 40 minute storm I can't see how teams managed it.
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