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Racing report
Amazing Race Season 18, Episode 1
Film date: 2010-11-20 - 2010-11-22
I have tried to estimate distances and driving times every now and then. This data, from Google, is an approximation at best and the driving times assumes no traffic.
This race starts at a wind farm in Palm Springs California and is made up of returning teams which have some unfinished business (i.e. those the producers think will generate the best show). The teams are:
* Jet & Cord, season 16, Cowboy brothers.
Got cut in front of by the eventual winners at the Shanghai airport
* Margie & Luke, season 14, mother and deaf son.
Got hung up on the last memory challenge.
* Amanda & Kris, season 14, recently engaged.
Were U-turned by Margie & Luke in Siberia
* Flight time & Big Easy, season 15, friends and Harlem
Globetrotters. Big Easy got stumped on a road block in Prague.
* Mel & Mike, season 14, father and son.
broke away form the pack and wandered off course in Thailand.
* Kent & Vyxin, season 12, dating Goths.
Self-destructed in Italy.
* Gary & Mallory, season 17, father and daughter.
Lost their way in Oman.
* Kisha & Jen, season 14, sisters.
Took an untimely bathroom break in Beijing.
"This time I will not drink four bottles of water on the way to the pit stop", Jen
* Zev & Justin, season 15, best friends.
Lost a passport in Cambodia.
* Ron & Christina, season 12, father and daughter.
Baffled on the final memory road block in Alaska.
* Jamie & Cara, season 14, former NFL cheerleaders.
Traveled off course on the way to the final challenge in Hawaii.
At the starting line Phil gives his usual spiel. The first team checking in at the pit stop of the first leg will win an express pass (which will allow them to skip a task on the race). He also warns them there will be changes this season and they should not think they know how things will work.
The first task starts right at the starting line. Teams must fetch something from the desert which Phil needs before they get their first clue and airline tickets. Behind Phil is a number of paper airplanes on sticks with different airline names on them. Phil tells teams he needs planes from Queensland And Northen Territories Aerial Services. What he doesn't tell them is that the desired paper airplanes are marked with the better known acronym for this airline, Qantas.
The last team completing this task will get an automatic U-turn at the first detour.
Teams find the correct planes in the following order:
1. Mel & Mike
2. Zev & Justin
3. Jet & Cord
4. Kent & Vyxin
5. Ron & Christina
6. Flight time & Big Easy
7. Margie & Luke
8. Jamie & Cara
9. Kisha & Jen
10. Gary & Mallory, just seconds before #11
11. Amanda & Kris
Choice quotes:
"We are stressing out", Amanda & Kris is one of only two teams left
Route info: "Fly to Sydney, Australia".
Choice quotes:
"It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, again", Jet & Cord
"It's out own fault, we didn't think that through very clearly", Kris analyzes why they were last
The first flight, QF12, departed at 22:25 and was scheduled to land at 08.00. However a medical emergency forced it to divert to Honolulu so it eventually landed in Sydney at 10:47. This flight carries:
Mel & Mike
Zev & Justin
Jet & Cord
Kent & Vyxin
Ron & Christina
Flight time & Big Easy
Margie & Luke
Jamie & Cara
The second flight, QF108, departed at 23:50 and landed at 10:20 and carries:
Kisha & Jen
Gary & Mallory
Amanda & Kris
Once they land teams make their way by train to Sydney harbor, where they must take the ferry to Oceanworld in Manly to find their next clue.
Train #1 to Circular Quay carries:
Kisha & Jen
Gary & Mallory
Amanda & Kris
Train #2 carries
Flight time & Big Easy
Zev & Justin
Margie & Luke
Jamie & Cara
Kent & Vyxin
Train #3, which left at 11:32, carries
Mel & Mike
Jet & Cord
Ron & Christina
Teams then travel by boat to Manly.
Boat #1 carries:
Kisha & Jen
Gary & Mallory
Amanda & Kris
Boat #2, which left at 12.00, carries:
Kent & Vyxin
Flight time & Big Easy
Margie & Luke
Jamie & Cara
Zev & Justin
Boat #3, which left at 12.20, carries:
Mel & Mike
Ron & Christina
Boat #4 carries:
Jet & Cord
Choice quotes,
"Oh, that's kind of scary", Cord realize they are last at the boats
Teams reach the clue box at Oceanworld in the following order:
1. Gary & Mallory
2. Kisha & Jen
3. Amanda & Kris
4. Margie & Luke
5. Flight time & Big Easy
6. Zev & Justin
7. Jamie & Cara
8. Kent & Vyxin
9. Ron & Christina
10. Mel & Mike
11. Jet & Cord
Road block: "Who's ready to get tanked?". One team member must dive down into a tank full of sharks and an enormous stingray and locate a compass somewhere on the floor of this tank. Then they must use the key on the rim of the compass to decipher a message encoded in nautical flags. The full message reads:
MANLY
16 FT
SKIFF
SAILING CLUB
FIND THE
COMMODORE
I AM BETWEEN
THE DEVIL
AND THE DEEP
BLUE SEA
Teams must say the last paragraph to the commodore to get their next clue. This is a clever twist to the task which is sure to catch any teams taking shortcuts with the decoding.
Teams complete the roadblock in the following order (* denotes team member performing the road block, and the numbers how many roadblocks each team member have performed):
1.Gary & Mallory* (0-1) 2.Amanda* & Kris (1-0) 3.Kisha* & Jen (1-0) 4.Zev & Justin* (0-1) 5.Margie* & Luke (1-0)Did not get the entire message 6.Jamie & Cara* (0-1)Did not get the entire message 7.Flight time* & Big Easy(1-0)Only decoded the first couple of lines 8.Ron & Christina* (0-1) 9.Mel* & Mike (1-0)10.Jet* & Cord (1-0)Only decoded the first couple of lines11.Kent & Vyxin* (0-1)Only decoded the first 7-8 words
Choice quotes:
"I think the fear of the sharks is the big challenge here", Gary
"Dammit man, these sharks look hungry", Gary
"It was a visual delight watching Vyxin in the tank. She looked like a pink little mermaid", Kent
"You can't put me in there with those monsters", But Ron has no trouble putting his daughter there:-)
"I'm from Oklahoma. I don't do water, I don't even take baths", Jet did not feel comfortable
"Maybe work with Margie", Jamie suggest that Cara should cooperate with Jamie
"I was at my wits end", Vyxin almost panicked in the tank
Some teams realize it is a good idea to cooperate on the decoding. So we see Margie and Cara work together as well as Christina and Mel.
Teams now make their way on foot to the Manly Skiff sailing club (~1km). Where most of them say the correct code phrase to the Commodore. Those who do not have the correct phase must go back and check their decoding, unless they get another team to tell them the correct answer.
Zev & Justin tell the code phrase to Flight Time & Big Easy, after all they are form the same season. Margie & Luke and Jamie & Cara have a hard time. First they try to listen to hear what FT & BE says, but they whisper the phrase so no luck there. Then they ask Zev & Justin, but they do not want to help. Finally when they are almost back at Oceanworld they encounter Ron & Christina and Mel & Mike who are willing to help (in exchange for being shown where the sailing club is).
Kent & Vyxin get the code phrase from Margie.
Jet & Cord run into serious problems. They did not decode the entire message. So they went back, decoded the second part and tried again. When that failed they had to go back a third time. And the episode ends with Jet still stumped by the flags.
Choice quotes:
"We helped Vyxin and Kent, it just makes sense to maybe have a team we feel like we might be able to beat at the finish line", Margie on why they helped
Teams manage to get the clue from the Commodore in the following order:
1. Gary & Mallory
2. Kisha & Jen
3. Amanda & Kris
4. Zev & Justin
5. Flight time & Big Easy
6. Ron & Christina
7. Mel & Mike
8. Jamie & Cara
9. Margie & Luke
10. Kent & Vyxin
?. Jet & Cord
Route info: "Join the crew, help sail at 16ft skiff... Make your way to the boat ramp outside and change into your sailing gear... You may not swim to the clue". Teams must sail a skiff across the bay and pick up their next clue from a buoy.
FT & BE had no easy time on the boat. They are both tall heavy guys so keeping balance and acting as the proper amount of counterweight was not easy.
We see both Zev & Justin snatch clues from the buoy, but apparently there is no penalty for that in this situation.
Teams grab the clue from the buoy in the following order:
1. Gary & Mallory
2. Amanda & Kris
3. Kisha & Jen
4. Zev & Justin
5. Flight time & Big Easy
6. Jamie & Cara
7. Ron & Christina
8. Margie & Luke
9. Mel & Mike
10. Kent & Vyxin
?. Jet & Cord
Choice quotes:
"Head down and hold on", One of the sailors on Jamie & Cara's boat when it has flipped.
Route info: "Make your way to the pit stop". Teams must now make their way to Shelly Beach (1.5km). Teams reach the pit stop in the following order:
1. Gary & Mallory, win the express pass
2. Amanda & Kris (at 14:22)
3. Kisha & Jen
4. Zev & Justin
5. Flight time & Big Easy
6. Jamie & Cara
7. Margie & Luke
8. Ron & Christina
9. Mel & Mike
10. Kent & Vyxin
?. Jet & Cord (not shown)
But it turns out that this is not a real pit stop and the race is still on. Teams get their next clue and take off.
Choice quotes:
"Mallory, this is no time for dilly dally. Just get going", Phil
"Stop talking and go", Phil to Mallory again
"I have no idea what we are missing", Jet & Cord are still trying to decode the message
The episode ends with Jet & Cord still being stumped by the coded message and all other teams have checked in.
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Racing report
Amazing Race Season 18, Episode 2
Film date: 2010-11-22 - 2010-11-23
Any driving times given are calculated using the web and assumes no other traffic. Also when I list the order of the teams I usually also list how many spots they have gained(+) or lost(-) since the last place team order was given.
The episode starts with Jet & Cord who are still stuck at the roadblock from the previous episode. They are way behind, and they spend more than an hour on it.
In the meantime the other teams have received their next clue from Phil at the pit stop. No departure times are given, but we know from the previous episode that they should leave in the following order:
1. Gary & Mallory
2. Amanda & Kris
3. Kisha & Jen
4. Zev & Justin
5. Flight Time & Big Easy
6. Jamie & Cara
7. Margie & Luke
8. Ron & Christina
9. Mel & Mike
10. Kent & Vyxin
11. Jet & Cord
Route info: "Make your way back to Sydney and get to 'To sail to stop'". Once there teams must sign up for one of two charter flights leaving for Broken Hill in the Australian outback next morning. Teams must figure out that 'To sail to stop' is the name of a statue next to city town hall.
The following teams take a taxi back to Sydney:
Gary & Mallory
Amanda & Kris
Kisha & Jen
Zev & Justin
While these teams took the ferry back:
Flight Time & Big Easy
Jamie & Cara
Margie & Luke
Ron & Christina
Mel & Mike
Kent & Vyxin
Jet & Cord are not shown getting back.
It turns out to be non-trivial to figure out what 'To sail to stop' refers to.
* Kisha & Jen use a computer in a shopping mall information desk to look it up. While they are there Zev & Justin arrive planning to do the same. Both teams work together and have no problem locating and getting to the statue.
* Margie & Luke found a woman with a computer on the ferry and used that to look it up. They then told Jamie & Cara and all of them went to town hall. It might be worth noting that they did not tell any of the other four teams who were on the same ferry.
* Mel & Mike find a gentleman on the street who knows what and where it is.
* Flight Time & Big Easy gets help at a travel agency
* Kent & Vyxin borrows a computer in a shop to find it
* Gary & Mallory seem to wander around aimlessly and eventually bumps into Ron & Christina who are doing the same. They then run into Amanda & Kris who also are completely lost, they all decide to work together. Eventually Christina finds a person who actually knows where it is and gets directions.
* Jet & Cord are shown asking a lot of people but it takes until after nightfall until they find a cab-driver who knows what it is and takes them there.
Also Mel is having problems keeping up physically. He almost collapses on the boat back. But they take it easy and have no problem finding the statue.
While the first teams are looking for the statue we get to see Jet & Cord try their hand at sailing. It is far from a smashing success. Rather they manage fall into the water a number of times, but eventually they reach the clue.
Choice quotes:
"This could open up the game to anybody, because now we are just driving around aimlessly", Kris is looking for 'To sail to stop'
"He's tall I'm short, he's ugly I look good", Flight Time on their differences
"We are so exited to be running this race with Margie & Luke again", Cara
"And both of them are my 'Race girlfriends'", Luke on Jamie & Cara
"The only way to get off this island is by ferry", Ron while walking down a street packed with cars
"I'll be responsible for my decision", Mel wants to go on and does not want Mike to feel any guilt if he collapses on the race
"I wonder what time that flight leaves", Jet is worried that they will miss the charter flight
Teams reach 'To sail to stop' and sign up for the charter flights in the following order:
Flight #1 departs at 06.05 the next morning (landed at 07:55):
1(+2) Kisha & Jen
2(+2) Zev & Justin
3(+3) Jamie & Cara
4(+3) Margie & Luke
5(+4) Mel & Mike
6(+4) Kent & Vyxin
According to editing Jet & Cord reach Phil at the pit stop as the first flight gets full.
Flight #2 departs at 06.30 the next morning (landed at 08:20):
7(-2) Flight Time & Big Easy
8(+0) Ron & Christina
9(-8) Gary & Mallory
10(-8) Amanda & Kris
11(+0) Jet & Cord
Choice quotes:
"Long day today, but in this one instance we are very glad there's other teams on this flight", Cord after finding the statue and signing in
Jet & Cord are very lucky here that they could to catch up with the other teams.
The next morning we find teams at the airport checking in for their flights.
Choice quotes:
"Feelin' better this morning?", Kisha checks in on Mel
"A lot, thank you. Seeing you makes it twice as better.", Mel flirts back
Once teams arrive in Broken Hill they dash for the marked cars where they find their next clue.
Route info: "Drive to the living desert and search for your next clue". Teams must now drive to the living desert (17km 0:30). Teams arrive at the next clue box at the desert in the following order:
1. Zev & Justin
2. Kisha & Jen
3. Mel & Mike
4. Jamie & Cara
5. Kent & Vyxin
6. Margie & Luke
7. Gary & Mallory
8. Amanda & Kris
9. Jet & Cord
10. Flight Time & Big Easy
11. Ron & Christina
Choice quotes:
"Kisha is a very slow driver. Kisha come on, a kangaroo can run faster than you're driving", Mel mutters to himself while Mike follows Kisha & Jen
"We've got a map and we know exactly where we are going", Mallory (didn't they in Oman too last season:-)
The clue reads:
--- Quote ---Detour: Spirit World or Natural
World
Spirit World: Using natural
materials, create an
Aboriginal Ground Mosaic.
Then, dance atop your work
to raise the spirits and receive
your next clue.
Natural World: Using
traditional materials and
methods, create a series of
tribal markers to receive your
next clue.
Note to Kris & Amanda: for
being the last team to find a
Qantas airplane in Palm
Springs, you have an
automatic U-turn and must
do both Detours.
--- End quote ---
The dance part of spirit world is what gives most teams problems. Not that there are any steps to learn, but that it has to be performed on top of the mosaic. Many teams dance around their mosaic instead.
In natural world teams create a series of Aboriginal territory markers using a natural paint made form water and a clay like pigment. Teams must put the paint into their mouth and spit the substance onto a stencil to create four images.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+0) Zev & Justin (spirit world)
2(+4) Margie & Luke (spirit world)
3(+0) Mel & Mike (spirit world)
4(+1) Kent & Vyxin (spirit world)
5(-3) Kisha & Jen (spirit world)
6(-2) Jamie & Cara (spirit world)
7(+2) Jet & Cord (spirit world)
8(-1) Gary & Mallory (spirit world)
9(+1) Flight Time & Big Easy (spirit world)
10(+1) Ron & Christina (spirit world)
11(-3) Amanda & Kris (spirit world (finish as #10) and natural world)
The clock is 09:40 as Amanda and Kris does natural world, and by 10.00 they are back in their car driving.
Choice quotes:
"Vyxin please get me children", Kent utters a phrase which can be misinterpreted in many ways
"Use Chinese, please. Everyone is going to understand", Christina does not want to give the other teams hints
Route info: "Drive yourself back to Broken Hill and search for the home of the Magpies". Teams must figure out that the "Home of the magpies" refers to a local football club (10km 0:17). Teams reach the clue here in the following order:
1(+0) Zev & Justin
2(+0) Margie & Luke
3(+1) Kent & Vyxin
4(-1) Mel & Mike
5(+1) Jamie & Cara
6(+1) Jet & Cord
7(+2) Flight Time & Big Easy
8(-3) Kisha & Jen
9(-1) Gary & Mallory
10(+0) Ron & Christina
11(+0) Amanda & Kris (at 10.13)
Route info:
"Time for a "Roo'd"
awakening.
First, both of you must
dress as kangaroos.
Then search for your
next destination".
The only hint teams get about their next destination is a periodic table where the elements Hg and Bi are highlighted. They must figure out that this means they have to go to the intersection of Mercury(Hg) and Bismuth(Bi) (1.4km) street to find their next clue. We later learn from interviews that the clue also says that teams must bring all parts of the kangaroo costume to the pit stop.
It is a small town so after the first teams have passed all locals know where the crazy Americans should go. But even so we learn that both Kent and Christina knows their periodic table.
On the way Margie loses her foot cover. They realize this and have to go back to find it. While going back the meet a bunch of other teams and it turns out that Mel saw teh dropped foot and has brought it with him. That's nice of him, but bad race strategy.
Choice quotes:
"I think I have found my Halloween costume", Zev
"This is so ridiculous", Margie does not feel at home dressed as a kangaroo
"Cord, what is Hg and Bi?", Jet
"I don't know bro. You watch way more Discovery channel than I do", Cord
"This is not the kind of animal I usually dress up as", former playmate Jamie
"Both brains and beauty, go Kent", Jamie is impressed with Kent
Teams reach the clue box at Mercury and Bismuth in the following order:
1(+0) Zev & Justin
2(+5) Flight Time & Big Easy
3(+5) Kisha & Jen
4(-2) Margie & Luke
5(-1) Mel & Mike
6(-3) Kent & Vyxin
7(-2) Jamie & Cara
8(-2) Jet & Cord
9(+0) Gary & Mallory
10(+0) Ron & Christina, drive away as #11 reaches the clue box
11(+0) Amanda & Kris
Route info:
--- Quote ---Drive yourselves to the
next Pit Stop:
Junction Mine
Warning! The last Team
to arrive will be
eliminated
--- End quote ---
Continuing in their kangaroo suits teams must now drive themselves to Junction Mine (4km 0:09).
Teams left their bags in their cars while hopping around. And production drove the cars after the teams while jumping around as kangaroos. That way the cars where ready and waiting at the clue box when the teams had finished reading the clue.
Teams reach the pit stop in the following order:
1(+0) Zev & Justin, win a trip to Cancun
2(+0) Flight Time & Big Easy
3(+5) Jet & Cord, seconds before #4
4(-1) Kisha & Jen
5(-1) Margie & Luke
6(-1) Mel & Mike
7(-1) Kent & Vyxin
8(-1) Jamie & Cara
9(+0) Gary & Mallory
10(+0) Ron & Christina, about 5 minutes before #11
11(+0) Amanda & Kris, are eliminated
Choice quotes:
"Lets go win something Zev, and get to keep it this time", Justin thinks he knows where their passports are
"Give us good news Bill", Ron forgets Phil's name
Ron & Christina initially worked with Gary & Mallory. But Ron was of the opinion that Mallory did not know where she was going so he and Christina took off in a different direction. Unfortunately for them Mallory did know where to go, and Ron & Christina did not.
Next week we are going to Japan. We get to see archery, mud and teams in a waterfall. And Jamie & Cara are involved in a traffic accident.
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