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cbacbacba1:
There is one mistake on the race report of Leg 3
Chris did the leg 3 roadblock, not Logan
So the roadblock count by the end of leg 3 should be
Logan & Chris* (1-1)
maf:
--- Quote from: cbacbacba1 on October 18, 2015, 04:00:02 AM ---There is one mistake on the race report of Leg 3
Chris did the leg 3 roadblock, not Logan
--- End quote ---
Yes, fixed.
maf:
Racing report
Amazing Race Season 27, Episode 4, "Good old fashioned spit in the face"
Film date: 2015-06-27 - 2015-06-30
The last pit stop was at Museo Gauchesco in San Antonio de Areco, Argentina. This episode starts with a shot from that location where Tanner & Josh tell Kelsey & Joey that they promise to give the express pass to whoever U-turns Justin & Diana.
"So go out and spread the word", Tanner wants all teams ,except one I assume, to know
"If you guys give us your word, We're in it", Kelsey agrees to the plan
Their plan is to use their express pass to make sure they get to the U-turn board first. Once there U-turn Justin & Diana, then the next team U-turns Tanner & Josh. This would not affect Tanner & Josh since they have already passed but would prevent Justin & Diana from U-turning any other team. This strategy has been used before on the race, but the plan is fragile since it assumes that at least two teams, who are in on the plan, arrive at the board before Justin & Diana.
Tanner & Josh are very focused on this plan throughout this episode. At least that is the way the episode is edited.
The next afternoon teams are released from the local plaza in the following order:
1.Tanner & Josh 15:472.Justin & Diana 15:48+0:013.Kelsey & Joey 15:56+0:094.Jazmine & Danielle 16:14+0:275.Logan & Chris, 16:25+0:386.Denise & James Earl ??:??+?:??7.Cindy & Rick ??:??+?:??8.Tiffany & Krista ??:??+?:??
Route info: "Fly to Livingston, Zambia". The route info tells teams that they must first travel by bus to Buenos Aires. It also states that there are only two sets of flights they may take, and the first one only has room for four teams. Teams need to go to a local travel agency to pick up their tickets.
Teams arrive at the travel agency, Areco Tradicion turismo (450m), in the following order:
1(+0) Tanner & Josh
2(+1) Kelsey & Joey
3(+1) Jazmine & Danielle
4(-2) Justin & Diana
5(+0) Logan & Chris
?(+?) Denise & James Earl
?(+?) Cindy & Rick
?(+?) Tiffany & Krista
At the bus station we yet again get to see Tanner & Josh talk to the other teams about the U-turn plan. Now and throughout the rest of the episode Justin & Diana get a feeling they are being left out.
Teams probably flew together to Johannesburg on the 28th on:
4M4540 EZE-GRU 06:52 - 09:43 (scheduled 06:55 - 09:40)
SA223 GRU-JNB 18:00 - 07:37+1 (scheduled 18:00 - 07:40+1)
Here teams are split on two different flights.
The first fight is:
SA48 JNB-LVI 10:41 - 12:26 (scheduled 10:40 - 12:30)
This carries:
Tanner & Josh
Kelsey & Joey
Jazmine & Danielle
Justin & Diana
The second flight is:
MN6291 JNB-LVI 11:00 - 12:45 (scheduled 11:00 - 12:45)
This carries:
Logan & Chris
Denise & James Earl
Cindy & Rick
Tiffany & Krista
Once teams land they must make their way to Mukuni village, here they will receive a traditional Mukuni welcome. But first we have the traditional race through the airport to the taxis. Teams get into taxis in the following order:
1. Kelsey & Joey
2. Tanner & Josh
3. Justin & Diana
4. Jazmine & Danielle
5. Cindy & Rick
6. Denise & James Earl
7. Tiffany & Krista
8. Logan & Chris
During the taxi ride teams marvel over how beautiful the place is.
"Anyone but green team in front of us we're happy with", Tanner & Josh are focusing on their plan, which requires Justin & Diana to be no better than 3rd
Teams reach the village in the following order:
1(+0) Kelsey & Joey
2(+0) Tanner & Josh
3(+0) Justin & Diana
4(+0) Jazmine & Danielle
5(+0) Cindy & Rick
6(+0) Denise & James Earl
7(+1) Logan & Chris
8(-1) Tiffany & Krista
The welcome consists of being blessed by a woman living in the village. Part of the blessing is her taking a mouthful of water and spitting it out on the contestants. Some teams get it on their bodies and some in their faces.
"Some good old fashioned spit in the face", Josh gets the title
"Mukuni village was amazing", Diana
"Our first ten minutes in Africa, and to get a welcome like that, I mean, it's just amazing", Danielle
After the blessing teams walk through the rest of village before being given their next clue at the back. Nobody get lost so teams receive this clue in the same order as they arrived to the village.
Route info: "Make your way to Batoka Aerodrome and search for your next clue".
Teams jump into their taxis again and make their way to Batoka Aerodrome (15km 39min). They arrive here in the following order:
1(+0) Kelsey & Joey
2(+0) Tanner & Josh
3(+0) Justin & Diana
4(+0) Jazmine & Danielle
5(+0) Cindy & Rick
6(+1) Logan & Chris
7(-1) Denise & James Earl
8(+0) Tiffany & Krista
--- Quote ---ROAD BLOCK
Who wants to rise above
the smoke that
thunders?
--- End quote ---
In this road block contestants are taken on a scenic flight along the Victoria falls in a microlight aircraft. Along the way they must spot their next location. The location, which is marked by a big red and yellow flag, is the knifes-edge bridge. The flag is big so no one have any problems finding it.
Tanner & Josh are really pumped about their express pass and their plan to U-turn Justin & Diana so they do not even look at the task before they whip out their express pass.
"Man, it stinks that it was a height one, it would have been easy", Josh has second thoughts in their taxi
There is a set of comfy chairs where the contestants not doing the road block can sit and talk to each other.
"In the history of the Amazing race, when you U-turn a team which is right behind you at the top, It never works out", Justin know the race
Justin uses this time to strike a secret alliance with Joey. Joey later interviews that he feels like a puppet master having alliances in both directions. And that he has no problems breaking the one with Justin. But having two mutually exclusive alliances can come back and bite him in the future.
Generally teams that wait here seem quite surprised that Tanner & Josh used their express pass on this, rather simple, road block.
"The road block is probably just going to take 20 minutes instead of a detour which typically we would guess an hour, hour and a half", Cindy sums it up
The actual flight looks fantastic. Teams get to see some wildlife before arriving at the falls.
"It's my first time, and I'm very afraid of heights", Diana
Teams complete the flight part of this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
1(+1)Tanner & Josh* (1-2)Used their express pass2(-1)Kelsey* & Joey (2-1)3(+0)Justin & Diana* (1-2)4(+0)Jazmine* & Danielle (2-1)5(+0)Cindy & Rick* (1-2)6(+0)Logan* & Chris (2-1)7(+0)Denise* & James Earl(1-2)8(+0)Tiffany & Krista* (1-2)
After the fight teams jump into taxis. The drivers have no problem understanding where they should be going from the racers descriptions.
We learn that Jazmine tried to get the pilot to tell her what the bridge was called. He would not, but good thinking on her part.
"I'm really happy that you found the clue, but I'm extremely jealous", Danielle saw how fun the task was
Jazmine & Danielle are a bit confused when their driver arrive at the knifes edge path and say that they have to go to Victoria Falls bridge. This is a different bridge and to reach this they must go into Zimbabwe. As they are in the no-mans land they spot the flag and realize they are heading in the wrong direction.
Teams find the clue at the knifes edge (8km 11min) in the following order:
- Tanner & Josh, bypassed this part of the task with their express pass
2(+0) Kelsey & Joey
3(+0) Justin & Diana, about 5 seconds after #2
4(+1) Cindy & Rick
5(+1) Logan & Chris
6(+1) Denise & James Earl
7(-3) Jazmine & Danielle
8(+0) Tiffany & Krista
Rote info: "Make your way to Shoestrings in Victoria falls, Zimbabwe, and search for your next clue". Teams must now cross the border into Zimbabwe and make their way to Shoestrings backpackers lodge in Victoria falls (4km 7min + time to pass the border).
"We know where we are going, we have a huge lead, things are great", Josh
When teams arrive at Shoestrings they find a board with eight keys, each labeled with a departure time. Teams arrive here in the following order:
1(+0) Tanner & Josh, departs at 08:00
2(+1) Justin & Diana, departs at 08:00
3(-1) Kelsey & Joey, departs at 08:10
4(+0) Cindy & Rick, departs at 08:10
5(+0) Logan & Chris, departs at 08:20
?(+?) Denise & James Earl, departs at 08:20
?(+?) Jazmine & Danielle, departs at 08:20
8(+0) Tiffany & Krista, departs at 08:20
This surprise mid-leg bunching point surprises the racers and totally wrecks the U-turn plan.
"We just basically wasted our express pass", A disappointed Josh face the facts
Tanner & Josh do not get any happier when Justin & Diana turn up and nab the second 08:00 departure time.
Tanner & Josh are devastated but decide to try to stick with the plan. They just need to make sure they are first and hope that Kelsey & Joey also beat Justin & Diana to the U-turn. On the other end of the emotional scale we have Justin & Diana who are very happy to have caught up to Tanner & Josh.
The next morning the two first teams meet up as they wait for their 08:00 release time.
"Listen fellas, I don't plan on U-turning you guys today", Justin
"We're gonna tell you, we're not gonna U-turn you either", Josh
They even shake hands on this.
"I also think it would be a great idea to give us the express pass", Justin has a sense of humor as well
The episode then cuts to interviews with both teams, which are made later in the race. Here Justin say that he may U-turn Tanner & Josh and Tanner says they will U-turn Justin & Diana.
At the given departure time teams are given their next clue envelope.
Detour: "Co-op or Croquet"
In co-op teams must finish a wood carved giraffe. They must first make their way to the big five co-op. Once there they must stain a wooden giraffe, which is almost as tall as the racers, with a pair of toothbrushes. When done they must let it dry for 15-20 minutes before they can go over it with some polish, still using toot brushes.
In Croquet teams make their way to the Victoria Falls hotel (1.4km) and change into costume and play croquet against a local player. The contestants have one ball each (red & yellow) and the local player have a black ball. The objective is to be first through each wicket and once a team have earned 5 points they get their next clue.
"We choose co-op because we're not even sure what croquet is", Cindy on their choice
"It's like hockey mixed with golf", Josh describes croquet
"I have awesome toothbrush skills", Cindy, who is a dentist
"I hope the other task is hard", Rick as they are drying their giraffe
This detour seem to be fairly imbalanced. Playing croquet is much faster than staining a large wooden giraffe.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+1) Justin & Diana, croquet
2(-1) Tanner & Josh, croquet
3(+4) Denise & James Earl, croquet
4(-1) Kelsey & Joey, croquet
The other teams are not shown complete their detour
Route info: "Make your way to the next pit stop on the Rose of Charity orphanage". This orphanage houses 70 children aged 0.5-16 years.
The route info also says "Make a donation when you visit the orphanage"
The first two teams both desperately want to reach the U-turn first. They finish the detour not far apart and we get shots where we see both teams waiting for taxis at the Victoria Falls Hotel. It seems as if Tanner & Josh get into their taxi about 30 seconds after Justin & Diana left.
"We were hoping they wouldn't U-turn us, but at the same time we didn't know how far we could trust Justin", Tanner about their feelings in the taxi
The double U-turn board turns out to be located just 10 meters in front of the pit stop, in full view of Phil. This means that there is no point in U-turning another team just to save yourself since there is a fairly low probability that you will get lost between it and Phil. But team may still use it to get rid of other teams, and it will be brutal to run up to it, see the pit stop and see your own face on the U-turn board and realize you must go back and do the other task.
Teams reach the board in the following order:
1(+0) Justin & Diana, does not use the U-turn
2(+0) Tanner & Josh, does not use the U-turn
Tanner & Josh are not happy to see Justin & Diana on the mat as they roll up to the orphanage.
Teams reach Phil in the following order:
1(+0) Justin & Diana
2(+0) Tanner & Josh
At the pit stop Phil first encourages teams to make a donation, and both Justin & Diana and Tanner & Josh donate all their money. Phil then tells them that they are still racing and hands them their next clue.
Route info: "Make your way to the Lookout Cafe to search for your next clue. You have $65 for this leg."
When Tanner & Josh arrive Phil reminds them that they have used their express pass. And since the rules said they must pass it on to some other team after use, Phil wants to know which team they want to give it to. They must make up their minds right here and now since the next leg starts now.
And here the episode ends. So to summarize the status:
* Justin & Diana are on their way to the Lookout cafe
* Tanner & Josh are making up their mind about who should get the second express pass
* Two teams are en route to the pit stop (Denies & James Earl and Kelsey & Joey)
* Four teams are still at the co-op detour.
claude_24hrs:
Maf, could you add this:
Josh had performed the Roadblock in Leg 4, and this was according to his twitter:
https://twitter.com/JoshMAhern/status/656149690296070144
maf:
Racing report
Amazing Race Season 27, Episode 5, "King of the jungle"
Film date: 2015-06-30
The last episode ended with a keep on racing pit stop at the Rose of Charity Orphanage. When it ended only two teams had reached the pit stop and half the teams were still stuck at giraffe side of the detour. So lets us start at the detour from that leg.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+1) Justin & Diana, croquet
2(-1) Tanner & Josh, croquet
3(+4) Denise & James Earl, croquet
4(-1) Kelsey & Joey, croquet
5(-1) Cindy & Rick, co-op
6(-1) Logan & Chris, co-op
7(+0) Jazmine & Danielle, co-op
8(+0) Tiffany & Krista, co-op
After the detour teams make their way to the Rose of Charity orphanage where they find the U-turn board and Phil. Nobody gets lost between the U-turn board and Phil since the distance is about 10 meters. The only team using the U-turn is Tiffany & Krista who U-turns Justin & Diana because they want to keep their promise.
When teams reach Phil they all make a donation. Most teams donate all their money, but not Logan & Chris.
"I donated 20, we have 155 bucks left", Chris when Phil asks him
After Phil tells them the others gave all their money Chris donates the rest of their money as well.
Teams check in with Phil in the following order:
1(+0) Justin & Diana
2(+0) Tanner & Josh
3(+0) Denise & James Earl
4(+0) Kelsey & Joey
5(+0) Cindy & Rick
6(+0) Logan & Chris
7(+0) Jazmine & Danielle
8(+0) Tiffany & Krista
Since this is a keep on racing leg no price is given out and no team is getting eliminated. Instead teams get their next clue and $65. This clue tells them to make their way to the Lookout Cafe and search for their next clue.
Before Tanner & Josh can get their clue they must decide who they want to give the second express pass to. After a bit of deliberating they decide to give it to Denise & James Earl.
"They have helped us a lot, and they are also not a threat to us in the back", Josh on why team motherboy get the express pass
In the taxi Krista expresses her frustration about always being in the back. They are doing their best but still can not seem to get ahead.
"I'm so sick of showing up to the mat last, ... I just don't understand why these little things keep happening to us",Krista
Teams find their next clue at the cafe in the following order:
1(+0) Justin & Diana
2(+0) Tanner & Josh
3(+1) Kelsey & Joey
4(-1) Denise & James Earl, just after #3
5(+0) Cindy & Rick
6(+0) Logan & Chris, seconds after #5
7(+0) Jazmine & Danielle
8(+0) Tiffany & Krista
Road block: "Who wants to gorge themselves?"
The full information starts: "Take a big swing over the Zambezi river, free-falling over 200 feet into the Batoka gorge"
In this road block teams must take a giant swing into the Batoka gorge. This is a repeat of the very first task of the first season of the Amazing Race. There is only one swing so teams will have to wait for the previous teams to complete the task. The order they swing seem to be decided by the order they arrive at the actual task location, which is about 150m from where the clue box is.
"I'm jealous now", Diana
"My fitbit is reading 110 on my heart rate", Josh is not entirely comfortable as he waits for his turn
"I wish I didn't see Justin go, but at least I saw that he didn't splat down there so I feel a little more confident", Josh
"Thank you for honoring our agreement", Josh to Justin about the U-turn last leg
"I love you man, You're my only child so stay safe", Denise to James Earl
"Oh my god", Joey see Josh take the plunge
Cindy & Rick arrive at the clue box seconds before Logan & Chris. Both teams are extremely stressed out and as soon as they read the clue they jump back into their taxis and tell their driver to go. That is they miss that the road block location is reached on foot along a path from the clue box.
"The Lookout Cafe and big swing.. That the same pace", Logan & Chris's driver
"I don't understand, just follow them", Logan & Chris prefer to follow Cindy & Rick
Eventually Cindy & Rick's drive find the place on his smartphone and they turn back. Logan & Chris follow.
"We're stupid", Chris sums it up
Teams complete the road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
1(+0)Justin* & Diana (2-2)2(+0)Tanner & Josh* (1-3)3(+0)Kelsey* & Joey (3-1)4(+0)Denise & James Earl*(1-3)5(+2)Jazmine & Danielle* (2-2)6(+2)Tiffany* & Krista (2-2)7(-2)Cindy* & Rick (2-2)8(-2)Logan & Chris* (2-2)
The next clue is a detour: Crocs or Canoes?
In crocs teams make their way to "Crocodile Cage diving" (2km) and change into wet-suits. They are them put in a cage which is lowered into a pool with three hungry crocodiles. Here contestants must use a stick to each feed a crocodile a piece of raw meat. This task is very linear. There is no skill involved and there is only one cage so only one team can go at a time.
In canoes teams must paddle across the Zambezi river in an inflatable canoe, Then walk along a short track before arriving at a tree where one one of them must hoist their partner up into the air to retrieve their next clue from a vultures nest. The props department have made sure that these clues are covered in something which looks like bird droppings. This task probably takes place by the Azambezi Rive Lodge (6km).
The difficulty in the canoe task lies in padding the canoe. And to have the nerve to actually do it after they spot the sign the helpful production staff put up which reads "Beware of crocodiles". It is hard to judge how dangerous this really was. We get to see many shots of Crocodiles and Hippos, but all of them seem to be stock film and we never see the racers in the same frame.
"There's an elephant", Justin spots the elephant standing by the canoes
"I've got to pull this fatty up to the top of this tree", Josh
Tanner & Josh assume they, with their massive upper-body strength, will have no problem passing Justin & Diana who are just ahead of them. But paddling the canoe turns out to be harder than it looks
"Whoa, green just killed us", Tanner & Josh realize they can't catch Justin & Diana on this task
The crocodile task is linear so the only drama is the fake one created by the crocodiles, they would be dangerous if the contestants were not in a steel cage, and the real drama created by the teams.
"I'm not exactly the thrill-seeker that Kelsey is", Joey as he changes into his wet suit
"I'm more nervous feeding the crocodiles than falling off of a cliff", Tiffany
"Oh my god. He's ripping the stick", Tiffany finds that feeding the crocodiles is not without its perils
Logan & Chris is the last team to arrive at the Crocodile task. Chris thinks they need to switch but after some fierce discussion they stay and wait for their turn. It is hard to say from the episode, but it was probably a good idea to stay. This task seemed to be quick and the canoe took place at another location.
"Might be our last thing that we get to do", Chris know they are last as they are lowered into the pool with the crocodiles
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+0) Justin & Diana, canoe
2(+0) Tanner & Josh, canoe
3(+1) Denise & James Earl, used their express pass at crocks
4(-1) Kelsey & Joey, crocks
5(+0) Jazmine & Danielle, crocks
6(+0) Tiffany & Krista, crocks
7(+0) Cindy & Rick, crocks
8(+0) Logan & Chris, crocks
Route info: "Make your way to the Lion encounter at the Masuwe safari lodge"
Jazmine & Danielle seem to confuse their taxi driver so he drives them to the Masuwe lodge instead of to the Lion encounter. Here they encounter the pit stop task and start doing it. Once they see Phil they realize something is wrong. They reread their clue and realize that they are at the wrong location. They run over to the nearby lion encounter.
Teams arrive at the Lion encounter in the following order:
1(+0) Justin & Diana
2(+1) Denise & James Earl
3(+1) Kelsey & Joey
4(-2) Tanner & Josh
5(+1) Tiffany & Krista
6(-1) Jazmine & Danielle
7(+0) Cindy & Rick
8(+0) Logan & Chris
Route info "Walk with the lions to hunt for your next clue"
In this task the teams will walk together with a number of handlers and some lions along a path. Eventually they will find a skull which holds their next clue. There are two different paths so two teams can do this task at the same time.
These are real lions so there are some rules to follow, like not to panic and not crouching down. And teams can't wear bright color so some of them have to change clothes.
"Cats like me, I do not like cats", Cindy
Jazmine & Danielle are extremely stressed out by their previous navigational mishap so they rush in to take the second track after Tiffany & Krista. As a result they do not read their clue properly and miss the part which says they have to find their next clue along the path. Therefore they miss the clue they were supposed to pick up along the path and have to go again. Of course they have to go to the back of the line when they come back so they are now in last place.
Teams return from the lion walk in the following order:
1(+0) Justin & Diana
2(+0) Denise & James Earl
3(+0) Kelsey & Joey
4(+0) Tanner & Josh
5(+0) Tiffany & Krista
Jazmine & Danielle, did not pick up their clue
6(+1) Cindy & Rick
7(+1) Logan & Chris
8(-2) Jazmine & Danielle
Route info: "Make your way on foot to the Masawe Lodge"
This is the pit stop for this leg. To make things more interesting teams must bring two large baskets of fruit to the mat. The baskets are picked up near the pit stop (perhaps 100m before) and each team member must carry one fruit basket on their head. They may not use anything to support them besides their head. If they drop the basket they must collect the fruit which may have rolled away and then put it back on again before they may continue from the same spot.
This is wonderful task, it creates a frantic but snails-pace race to the pit stop.
"We're in trouble", Justin when he learns about the fruit task
Production has helpfully provided a number of local women walking around with similar loads and they make it all look so easy.
"This is definitely the slowest footrace ever", James Earl
"I am like as calmly frustrated as I can possibly be", Diana
"I've never felt more ridiculous in my life", Tanner & Josh feel their manliness threatened
Phil stands on a platform with a nice view of the valley below. Not that the racers have time to appreciate that as they walk up balancing their fruit baskets on their heads.
Jazmine & Danielle feel that they are about a minute behind Cindy & Rick when they arrive at the fruit carrying task.
Teams reach the mat in the following order:
1(+1) Denise & James Earl, win a trip to Slovakia
2(-1) Justin & Diana
3(+1) Tanner & Josh
4(-1) Kelsey & Joey
5(+0) Tiffany & Krista
6(+1) Logan & Chris
7(-1) Cindy & Rick
8(+0) Jazmine & Danielle, are eliminated
"Our takeaway from this leg is the same as every leg, it is just something we have a really hard time implementing, it's just calm down", Logan
In the end Danielle & Jazmine finish about 2 minuter after Cindy & Rick. They are athletes so they are bummed out by being eliminated, but they are also grateful for all the places they have gone to together.
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