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TAR 16: Joe Wang and Heidi Wang--Married
slayton:
--- Quote ---'Amazing Race' Exit Interview: Joe and Heidi
Early favorites suffered a surprise defeat
Posted by MSN TV on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:43 PM
Phil-iminated in a field following a failure to crack a Morse code challenge, early favorites Joe and Heidi Wang suffered a surprise defeat in this weeks "Amazing Race." (Blame their loss on the leading cop duo, who U Turned the team to their tragic end.) We talked to the married Californians about Joe's villain edit, their kids' take on the season-ending loss, and their million-dollar plans for the future.
MSN TV: It must have been murder to relive the Morse code challenge on last night's episode.
Joe: It was tough knowing we were going to be eliminated - our kids and my mom watched it with us, and we kept trying to give them little clues.
Heidi: Our kids were saying, "We know you're going to the top three."
Did they have ideas for how you could have done better?
Joe: My son made the point of how come every other team had to do one task, and we had to do two.
Heidi: My daughter was, like, "Why didn't you just rip your picture off [the U Turn notice] and put someone else there?"
Were you just devastated when you saw you'd been U Turned?
Joe: We were on such a high after the trenches, and the crawling -- it was supposed to be such a relief, getting the route info, but it was a real downer when we saw the Morse code. I was, like, "Have you ever studied Morse code?"
Did you have a favorite moment we didn't see on the show?
Joe: Our best memories would be Hamburg -- our flight getting in was supposed to be an hour earlier than everyone else. We ended up two hours behind, but we caught up to the cowboys.
Heidi: It's interesting actually -- Joe has been portrayed as the villain. We were having fun with the character development. Maybe he was being very confident and [editors] turned it into something that wasn't there.
Joe: I was interviewed [on the show] about hurting my knee -- the other teams heard I was more worried about my knee and less worried about the competition. But I respected all the teams we competed against.
What's next for you?
Joe: I actually left Microsoft and now I'm pursuing other opportunities. I didn't win the million dollars here -- but I'll win the several-million-dollar-prize elsewhere.
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slayton:
--- Quote from: 2old4tech on March 17, 2010, 05:25:36 PM ---
--- Quote ---Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Did you do a lot of preparation before the show?
A. Joe: We did a lot of endurance things like jet skiing, parasailing, rock climbing.
A. Heidi: Joe and I took this really seriously. We trained, we went running 3 times a week before the kids woke up for school. I got lasic eye surgery. I studied maps and atlases every night before I went to bed and we actually bought the entire series of The Amazing Race on Ebay and watched it every night. We used it as game time review. We learned so many things from previous contestants
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???
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They probably got it from bootleggers that lurk on ebay.
slayton:
I think the story editors are just mailing it in this season because I think Joe & Heidi got the exact same storyline that Maria & Tiffany got.
[*]Both teams have at least one Asian team member.
[*]Both teams were really close with one other team.
[*]Both teams were disliked by some other teams.
[*]Both teams had Phil eliminate them at the detour.
[*]Both teams had the editors trying really hard to paint them as the bad guys.
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apskip:
--- Quote from: DeafRacer on March 17, 2010, 06:49:54 PM ---Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Were you surprised that Louie and Michael U-Turned you as opposed to Steve or Allie?
A. Joe: I think being U-Turned is definitely a surprise. We were running ahead and typically, when I've seen U-Turns, it's the second to last team. They don't want that team behind them to catch up to them. If you're in the front of the pack, you usually just keep going because you don't wanna create negative vibes.
A. Heidi: They had the opportunity to u-turn anybody. They didn't have to choose between us or Steve and Allie.
Margie & Luke didn't do that! :lol3: We were the third team to be at the U-Turn mat when we u-turned Amanda & Kris. I guess we created a new strategy that it doesn't have to be for a second to last team to u-turn a last team. :lol:
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Yes indeed, and it proved to be devastatingly effective. However, in both the cases of Joe/Heidi and Amanda/Kris those teams had severe difficulties in doing the second DETOUR (which in Amanda/Kris' case they had already failed at. If there had been "normal DETOURS" then neither U-turn attempt would have succeeded.
Hooky:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 18, 2010, 05:10:07 AM ---
--- Quote from: DeafRacer on March 17, 2010, 06:49:54 PM ---Q. Gina, RealityWanted: Were you surprised that Louie and Michael U-Turned you as opposed to Steve or Allie?
A. Joe: I think being U-Turned is definitely a surprise. We were running ahead and typically, when I've seen U-Turns, it's the second to last team. They don't want that team behind them to catch up to them. If you're in the front of the pack, you usually just keep going because you don't wanna create negative vibes.
A. Heidi: They had the opportunity to u-turn anybody. They didn't have to choose between us or Steve and Allie.
Margie & Luke didn't do that! :lol3: We were the third team to be at the U-Turn mat when we u-turned Amanda & Kris. I guess we created a new strategy that it doesn't have to be for a second to last team to u-turn a last team. :lol:
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Yes indeed, and it proved to be devastatingly effective. However, in both the cases of Joe/Heidi and Amanda/Kris those teams had severe difficulties in doing the second DETOUR (which in Amanda/Kris' case they had already failed at. If there had been "normal DETOURS" then neither U-turn attempt would have succeeded.
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That's funny. I seem to recall Amanda & Kris stating in interviews later that they flew through the stacking option of the Detour after being U-turned. I don't think that task is what eliminated them - it seems pretty obvious that it was the U-turn. I think they would have caught up if they hadn't been U-turned.
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