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Amazing Race Canada Season 7, Episode 5, "Clamgeddon continues"
Film dates: 2019-05-01 - 2019-05-02
The last pit stop was at Dene First Nation Community Dettah on the Great Slave Lake. Teams are released from in from of the Northern Heritage Center in Yellowknife (this is close to where season 4 started) in the following order:
1.Aarthy & Thinesh08:352.Meaghan & Marie 08:51+0:163.Dave & Irina 09:08+0:334.Sarah & Sam 09:19+0:465.Lauren & Joanne 09:22+0:496.Anthony & James 09:39+1:047.Trish & Amy 10:00+1:25
Route info: Fly to the Nanaimo, BC.
We learn that Sam does a lot of mentorship work for school kids and he wants to win this leg.
At the airport everybody seem to be glad when the non-eliminated teams Trish & Amy turns up, that is everybody but Dave & Irina.
All teams are on the same flight to Vancouver via Edmonton. Once they land in Vancouver they must make their way to the Harbor air terminal in downtown Vancouver where they must sign up to one of four seaplane flights which will land 15 minutes apart in Nanaimo, BC.
There is the usual taxi race and for once Dave & Irina are last.
"I'm ready to give up, like I don't want to do this anymore", Irina does not like being in the back
Teams end up on the following flights:
Flight #1
Aarthy & Thinesh
Flight #2
Anthony & James, got to the sign up board one second after Aarthy & Thinesh
Trish & Amy
Flight #3
Lauren & Joanne
Sarah & Sam
Flight #4
Dave & Irina
Meaghan & Marie
During the flight we learn that James is a doctor and did his residency on Vancouver island.
Everybody seem to enjoy the flight except Sam who is afraid of heights and Dave & Irina who are stressed because they are not first.
Once teams land they pick up a nice sponsor sports car and drive themselves to Petroglyph provincial park.
Teams arrive to the park in the following order:
1. Aarthy & Thinesh
2. Anthony & James
3. Trish & Amy
?. Sarah & Sam
?. Lauren & Joanne
?. Meaghan & Marie
?. Dave & Irina
Here we find some product placement, this time from the movie Dora and the lost city of gold. They get a video clue from the main star of the film. There is also a backpack and a bunch of stuff. The video clue just tells them that the next clue is in the backpack.
Next to the pack is a bunch of stuff and teams must pack everything in the bag. The items include:
* gloves
* a yo-yo
* a head lamp
* a bunch of carrots
* a whiteboard with 11 lines on it (5+2+4)
* a tooth
* a map
Once the bag is packed they must make their way to Wild Play element parks. Here teams must gear up and get strapped in. One of them will have to bungee jump and the other does a tandem primal swing. Just before they jump they have 60 seconds to memorize the ingredients of the famous Nanaimo bar.
TOP LAYER
Semi-sweet Chocolate
Unsalted Butter
MIDDLE LAYER
Unsalted Butter
Cream
Vanilla Custard Powder
Icing Sugar
BOTTOM LAYER
Unsalted Butter
Sugar
Cocoa
Egg Beaten
Graham Wafer Crumbs
Finely Chopped Almonds
Coconut
At the bottom they must correctly recite the ingredients in each layer to get their next clue. If they fail they have to go again.
"I don't cook man, I don't know what's in a Nanaimo bar", Aarthy
"Is there a barf bag included in this?", Anthony
"Do you want to just triple check that one", Sam wants his harness to be checked again as he is afraid of heights
Once done it seams each team get two Nanaimo bars.
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+2) Trish & Amy, on their 1st attempt
2(+0) Anthony & James, on their 1st attempt
3(-2) Aarthy & Thinesh, on their 2nd attempt
4(+?) Sarah & Sam, on their 2nd attempt
5(+?) Dave & Irina, on their 1st attempt
6(+?) Meaghan & Marie, on their 1st attempt
7(+?) Lauren & Joanne, on their 3rd attempt
Route info: Drive yourselves to the Deep bay marine field station and search outside for your next clue.
Reaching the marine station seems to be pretty easy for all teams but Lauren & Joanne. There has been an accident and the police has closed the only access road so they have to wait for a while before they can continue.
At the field station Trish & Amy find their speed bump. They must assemble a 37 piece model skeleton of an Orca whale. The pieces are spread out on the floor. The task is made easier by the fact that they get a drawing of the skeleton and each piece is numbered. A niece detail is that one of the bones they need to use is the tooth they got with their Dora packs. The task does not take too long and only Anthony & James pass them while they are doing it.
The clue at the marine field station is a route info and tells teams to dig for clams on the nearby sea shore. There is a reference board and some samples so teams can correctly identify four different type of shellfish. They must collect:
5 Butter clams
30 Manila Clams
30 Pacific oysters
30 Mahogany clams
Each team gets waders, a basket and two shovels. They all quickly realize that it is a good idea to put on the gloves from the Dora backpack.
As one could guess the Butter clams are harder to find.
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry people have to listen to him", James about Anthony's singing while he is digging for clams
Dave & Irina have a slightly different approach to this task than the others. Dave is digging and Irina seems to do nothing.
"I don't like hard work, not for me", Irina
After about 1.5h Dave & Irina decide to take the penalty and leave.
Initially Dave & Irina's decision to take the penalty inspires the other teams to work together to defeat them. But that soon falls apart as tree more teams decide to take the penalty.
After 3+ hours on the task the tide start to come in which makes the task harder. But the two remaining teams stick with it.
"They just bought us 2 hours", Thinesh as Meaghan & Marie took the penalty
Aarthy & Thinesh talk abut the express pass but decide to not use it.
"This is actually the challenge from hell", Aarthy
Eventually the last two teams decide to work together. And when Aarthy & Thinesh find their last Butter clam they do not leave bu instead go back and help Anthony & James to find their last ones.
"Clamageddon continues", James gets the title
The last two teams spends more than 4 hours 37 minutes on this task.
Teams leave this challenge in the following order:
1(+4) Dave & Irina, gave up and took the 2h penalty
2(+5) Lauren & Joanne, gave up and took the 2h penalty
3(+1) Sarah & Sam
4(-3) Trish & Amy, gave up and took the 2h penalty
5(+1) Meaghan & Marie, gave up and took the 2h penalty
6(-3) Aarthy & Thinesh
7(-5) Anthony & James
--- Quote ---ROAD BLOCK
Who's the photog on
your team?
--- End quote ---
Teams must make their way to Horn Lakes caves provincial park. Here they will find a Huawei P30 phone. They must take this phone into one of the caves where they must search for 11 letters hidden in different cracks and crevices. They should then take pictures of them with their phone. Finally they go out and use the board they got at the start of the leg they have to descramble the letters to form three words. All they know is that the words have 5, 2 and 4 letters and spells the location of the pit stop. Once they snap a picture of the correct phrase the Park director will give them their next clue.
The words they should form are: "GOATS ON ROOF".
Dave is the first one there and he quickly finds 10 letters in the cave. He decides to try to solve the puzzle with what he has, but find himself stuck.
"I hate mixing up letters", Dave
Meanwhile the next two teams turn up and Sarah and Lauren decide to work together.
Dave resorts to some unconventional methods to solve this road block. First he creeps up on Sarah and Lauren to see which letters they have. He asks to work with them but is turned down. He then tries to work with Trish, but she remembers who stole their cab in Yellowknife so she also turns him down. Then Trish gets the answer but she has left her board open so Dave goes there and photographs it before erasing all text to stop other teams from repeating what he just did. Trish spots him and is upset but can not really do anything.
While driving to the spelunking task Anthony thinks it over and starts looking through their Dora backpack. When he finds the carrots James, who has lived in the area, suggests that it perhaps is goats on roof. Once they arrive they tell Aarthy & Thinesh and both teams try this answer before even entering the cave. Since it is correct this turns into a very quick road block for them.
"They literally just arrive here so I'm confused how they just left", Marie to stunned
1(+3)Trish* & Amy (4-3)2(-1)Dave* & Irina (4-3)3(-1)Lauren* & Joanne (4-3)4(-1)Sarah* & Sam (4-3)5(+1)Aarthy* & Thinesh(4-3)6(+1)Anthony* & James (4-3)7(-2)Meaghan & Marie* (3-4)
Teams must now drive to the town of Coombs and locate the famous Goats on the roof at the old country market.
While driving Trish tells Amy that Dave stole her answer they are upset and call him cheater. Meanwhile Dave tells Irina and justifies by saying that the others were working together against him. Irina promises to snap at them if they bring it up.
Teams reach the pit stop in the following order:
-. Trish & Amy, have to serve their 2h penalty
1(+3) Sara & Sam win a trip to Manchu Pichu
-. Dave & Irina, 7 minutes after Trish & Amy, have to serve their 2h penalty
-. Lauren & Joanne, 8 minutes after Trish & Amy, have to serve their 2h penalty
2(+3) Aarthy & Thinesh
2(+4) Anthony & James
-. Meaghan & Marie, have to serve their 2h penalty
4(-3) Trish & Amy
5(-3) Dave & Irina
6(-3) Lauren & Joanne
7(+0) Meaghan & Marie, are eliminated
"They're ganging up against us, we're here with these peasants and we're gonna have to deal with them", Irina has an interesting take on the other teams
Aarthy & Thinesh and Anthony & James do their best to step on the mat simultaneously. When Jon asks Aarthy explains that they did not want anybody who did not give up to go home.
"Karma is a beautiful thing", Aarthy about the help from Anthony during the road block
After Meaghan & Marie have arrived at the mat Jon calls the other waiting teams there and tell them their placement (they all took penalties). He then tells Meaghan & Marie that they are eliminated. Trish & Amy and Lauren & Joanne immediately go over to hug them while Dave & Irina just stands there.
"This race brought us together more than I ever could've imagine", Meaghan
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Amazing Race Canada Season 7, Episode 6, "I'm a Little Muskrat on a Mission"
Film dates: 2019-05-04 - 2019-05-05
The last put stop was a goats on the roof in Coombs, Vancouver Island. Teams are released from the Nanaimo harbor in the following order:
1.Sarah & Sam 06:182.Aarthy & Thinesh07:02+0:442.Anthony & James 07:02+0:444.Trish & Amy 08:13+1:555.Dave & Irina 08:19+2:016.Lauren & Joanne 08:20+2:02
The first clue tells teams to fly to Saskatoon, SK.
Lauren & Joanne are happy since they are going home.
"I can't wait for flat ground",
All teams meet up at the airport and they have time to talk so there is a minor blowup. Dave & Irina start offensively by saying that in the last leg it felt like all the other teams worked together to eliminated them and that did not feel good. They are surprised when Anthony admits that people had a common cause for a moment. Trish fires back that Dave copied her answers without asking in the last road block. Dave admits that and the other teams are shocked.
The scene ends with Aarthy getting upset and Irina mocking her. Even though they hug it out Thinesh removes Aarthy from the situation and calms her down.
"Thinesh and I always help people so I accept your apology, but No Irina you mocked me. It's not cool, I forgive you bet I'm not gonna forget.", Aarthy
All teams are on the same flight from Nanaimo via Calgary to Saskatoon. Once they land they must make their way to Canada's brightest light at the University of Saskatchewan.
Something has been left out of the episode here since it is dark outside when teams land and jump into the taxis but it is morning when they arrive to the next route marker. I assume they arrived and found a hours of operations and had to pick numbers determining in which order they may go and fetch the clue inside the following day.
The visit at the light source seems to be mostly a bit of product placement showing that Canada has cool science. We can also see that the additional instructions forbids them from running inside the facility as they instead walk hurriedly up to the clue box one team at a time.
Route info: "It's curtains for you"
Teams must now make their way to the Nutrien Cory Potash Mine.
Once at the mine they must suit up and take an elevator 1000m down into the mine. Here they will hang plastic ventilation curtains. They have to use a special tool to nail them to the ceiling. Once the curtains have been hanged correctly they will get their next clue.
Getting to the mine seems to be easier said than done. Sarah & Sam's taxi driver say it is 60km away while Anthony & James driver say 10km.
Teams seem to ride the elevator down into to the mine in the following order:
1. Anthony & James
1. Lauren & Joanne
3. Dave & Irina
3. Trish & Amy
5. Sarah & Sam
5. Aarthy & Thinesh
"I hate the outfits, they're very not figure flattering", Irina about the mining gear
"We're sweating like grease monkeys, it's a good day", Joanne
As usual Dave & Irina divide the work so that Dave does everything and Irina hand him stuff. It seems Aarthy & Thinesh use the same division of duties.
Towards the end Aarthy & Thinesh get stressed when they realize they are the only ones left. They still have an express pass but do not use it.
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Anthony & James
2(-1) Lauren & Joanne
3(+2) Sarah & Sam
4(-1) Dave & Irina
5(-2) Trish & Amy
6(-1) Aarthy & Thinesh
Teas must now make their way to the local Shell station. Here they will be given a tablet with a video greeting from home. Teams reach this in the following order:
1(+0) Anthony & James
2(+0) Lauren & Joanne
3(+0) Sarah & Sam
4(+0) Dave & Irina
5(+0) Trish & Amy
6(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh
The relatives in the video also tell them to make their way to Champêtre county vacation ranch and search outside the Howling Coyote saloon for their next clue.
On their way to the ranch Joanne comments that she likes Saskatchewan because she can see down the road for a couple of kilometers and there is nobody behind them.
Teams arrive at the ranch in the following order:
1(+0) Anthony & James
2(+0) Lauren & Joanne
3(+0) Sarah & Sam
4(+0) Dave & Irina, as #1 are leaving
5(+0) Trish & Amy
6(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh
--- Quote ---Detour:
"Dance in a Square" or
"Walk in Circles"
Dance in a Square:
One of you joins the
square dancers while the
other one calls the
dance to receive your
next clue.
Walk in Circles:
Search a 7,5000 square
foot maze to collect 4
ears of corn, then reach
the exit to receive your
next clue.
--- End quote ---
For the dancing there are 19 moves to call and the racers must memorize all of them. This turns out to be harder than learning the actual dance moves.
The maze is large but not that complicated. We do get to see a lot of drone footage of the teams in it and it seems as if the old strategy of always turning left or always turning right would work just fine.
"It's big but it's not that big", Dave about the maze
One interesting thing about the drone shots is that you see that the cameraman is following the team but a little bit back, at times it looks like they may loose their teams in the maze.
Sarah & Sam initially try to draw the maze on a piece of paper but that quickly falls through.
Dave & Irina initially go for dance but when Dave gets to see the list of calls he have to memorize he balks and they switch to the maze.
"Follow me, I'm a little muskrat on a mission", Aarthy gets the title while in the maze
Amy has a severe hearing problem and she can not really hear what the caller says so she has to spend some more effort to memorize the moves. She still does much better than Trish who struggles with memorizing the calls.
"We want to show our kids there is no failure in trying", Amy on why they do not give up
We also learn that Trish has battled with her weight for her entire life but after her 3rd child she started running and she lost about 100lb.
"I actually hate mazes, they look fun but they're not", Aarthy
The maze is quite frustrating for some teams. Lauren & Joanne actually talk about switching, and that is after they have found all corn and are just looking for the exit.
Aarthy is also very stressed and starts talking about using the express pass, and this also after they have found all corn and are looking for the exit. But Thinesh keeps his calm and gets them out of there. And once they are done they see that there is still one other taxi left so they are not last.
"That was the maze from hell", Aarthy in the taxi afterwards
"How do you think so clearly?[\i]", Aarthy recognize that Thinesh just saved them
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+0) Anthony & James, maze
2(+1) Sarah & Sam, maze
3(+1) Dave & Irina, started dance but switched to maze
4(-2) Lauren & Joanne, maze
5(+1) Aarthy & Thinesh, maze
6(-1) Trish & Amy, dance on their 4th attempt
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
Everyone should have
goals.
Join a Saskatchewan
Rush lacrosse practice as
you pass, catch and
shoot on goal to hit the
targets before your time
runs out.
--- End quote ---
This task takes place in Victoria Park.
On their way from the maze Dave spots a pig standing by the path and stops to pet it.
In this task one team member must pass the ball to their team mate who must catch it and shoot it at a net and hit one of four targets. There is a practice area where teams can get a feel for it first.
The clue says there is a time limit but this is never mentioned in the episode apart from a text at one time "1st attempt". I therefore assume that the time limit did not really make a difference.
"He thinks I didn't play sports but I played sports. Cheerleading is a sport", Anthony
On their way to the Lacrosse Sam say that this is their thing. Sarah points out that she got cut from every single team in grade 9, and that is why she now runs the hurdles. Surprisingly enough, once at the practice area it turns t that Sarah is much better at hitting the targets so she gets that job.
Trish & Amy arrive to the lacrosse area as Aarthy & Thinesh are still practicing. So we all hope for an exciting fight to avoid last place. But Aarthy & Thinesh kill the suspense by soon completing the task.
Of course the editing makes it look like Trish & Amy also get it quickly but you can tell that they do not feel that their hearts are not really in the chase and they do not feel that they can catch up. And in the next episode we learn that they were about 40 minutes behind.
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Anthony & James
2(+0) Sarah & Sam
3(+0) Dave & Irina
4(+0) Lauren & Joanne
5(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh
6(+0) Trish & Amy
Route info: "Make your way on foot to the Remai modern art museum and find Jon at your next pit stop."
We get the usual editing for the last two teams where the leading one seems to struggle and the trailing one just runs ahead. The experienced race watcher knows that the odds that the editors are trying to fool us are high and that turns indeed out to be the case here as well.
Teams find Jon and the mat at the roof of the museum in the following order:
1(+0) Anthony & James, win a trip to Costa Rica plus free gas for a year
2(+0) Sarah & Sam
3(+0) Dave & Irina, shortly after #2
4(+0) Lauren & Joanne
5(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh
6(+0) Trish & Amy, are saved by a non elimination
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Amazing Race Canada Season 7, Episode 7, "Balls, balls, balls"
Film dates: 2019-05-06 - 2019-05-07
The last put stop was on the rooftop terrace of Remai Modern in Saskatoon, SK. Teams are released from the nearby Kiwanis memorial park in the following order:
1.Anthony & James 03:292.Sarah & Sam 04:01+0:323.Dave & Irina 04:06+0:374.Lauren & Joanne 04:27+0:585.Aarthy & Thinesh04:33+1:046.Trish & Amy 05:14+1:45
Route info: Fly to Toronto, Ontario. Once there board a bus to your next destination.
Aarthy & Thinesh still have their express pass and this leg is the last leg they can use it on.
At the airport the other teams are a bit frustrated that Trish & Amy were yet again saved by a non elimination and they feel that they can not get rid of them.
All teams are on the same flight from Saskatoon to Toronto.
When they land they have to make their way to the Delta hotel (6km) where they can sign up for one of two buses to a mystery destination. After the first two teams the next three teams arrive to the board almost at once and there is a bit of a kerfuffle. We get to see an instant replay showing who grabbed the pen first.
Teams reach the sign up board in the following order:
Bus #1:
1. Dave & Irina
2. Anthony & James
3. Trish & Amy
Bus #2:
4. Sarah & Sam, 1 second after #3
5. Lauren & Joanne, just after #4
6. Aarthy & Thinesh
The buses takes teams 100km to Kitchener-Waterloo. But the teams do not know that as the windows of the buses have been blacked out. The buses depart 10 minutes apart.
Once teams step out of the bus they see the next clue box. Teams reach it in the following order:
1. Dave & Irina
2. Anthony & James
3. Trish & Amy
4. Sarah & Sam
5. Aarthy & Thinesh
6. Lauren & Joanne
Route info: "A whole new ball game". Teams must now make their way to TheMuseum and find a giant ball pit. The pit contains more than 30,000 green balls. One team member at a time may dive in and try to find one of the 12 read or yellow balls in the pit.
"I'm trying to channel our little dog Lucy", James while looking for balls
"Balls, balls, balls", Sarah & Sam gets the title
Sarah & Sam are the only ones who seems to struggle. They switch back and forth a few times.
Teams find one of the race colored balls in the following order:
1(+0) Anthony & James
2(+0) Dave & Irina
3(+0) Trish & Amy
4(+1) Aarthy & Thinesh
5(+1) Lauren & Joanne
6(-2) Sarah & Sam
Once they have completed this task Trish & Amy get their speed bump clue. They must jump into a sponsor car and drive to the University of Waterloo. Once there they must get into an autonomous vehicle and follow along for a ride. When done the operator will give them their next clue.
All other teams get a detour clue: Beer fest or robot quest
In Beer fest team make their way to the Concordia club. Here they choose a table of 10 guests and take their beer orders. While they pour the beers the guests get up and dance and when they sit down again they will have switched seats. Teams must give the correct beer to each dancer.
In robot quest teams make their way to the University of Waterloo. Their task here is to guide a robot through a maze. One player sits at a remote computer and controls the robot by pushing buttons like "forward", "turn left" and "move right". The other racer is by the maze and can see the action. They will have to communicate via walkie talky. Also once teams have started the task they may not switch roles.
Unfortunately nobody chooses the beer fest, even though it is closer.
"This is like driving blind", James while controlling a robot he can not see
"Normally when we drive I'm the one that gives directions so this is a little bit concerning", Thinesh as Aarthy goes to the maze
And it tuns out that Aarthy is not really good at giving directions in this case. She acts as if Thinesh can see the robot and says things like position yourself straight.
"Do I need to go left or right?", Thinesh
"You need to go straight', Aarthy
"Keep going forward, straight, straight, straight", Anthony
"It's all feeling very hetro normative, I don't like it", James
"I even got robot hands tattooed on me so I've got the robot power", Joanne is stoked
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+0) Anthony & James, robot quest
2(+0) Dave & Irina, robot quest
3(+3) Sarah & Sam, robot quest
4(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh, robot quest
5(+0) Lauren & Joanne, robot quest
6(-3) Trish & Amy, robot quest
--- Quote ---FACE OFF
It's time for a Face Off!
Compete against
another team in a
Dempster's tortilla
cooking competition to
earn your next clue.
--- End quote ---
In this face off teams get to look at a finished dish for 1 minute and then they have 15 minutes to recreate it, without any recipe. A judge will determine which teams got closest to the finished example. The loosing team must face off against the next team.
There are three dishes available. In the first match the team which got there first get to choose which one to make and in the subsequent matches is it the team which lost the previous match which gets to choose. Each dish can only be made two times. The dishes are:
* a tortilla falafel wrap
* tortilla rolls with fruit
* a tortilla pizza
"Wow it's like a ghost town of cabs", Sarah is having a hard time finding a taxi
The order in which teams get to compete is determined by the order they put on the required apron and cap. Aarthy & Thinesh manage to do this one second before Sarah & Sam.
"One of us does not cook", Thinesh about his partner
In the final match Lauren & Joanne cook off against the moms Trish & Amy. The moms want to get even since Lauren & Joanne used the one-way on them earlier in the race so the heat is on. In the end Trish & Amy put way too much cheese on their pizza so Lauren & Joanne win the face off.
Teams lave the face off in the following order:
1(+1) Dave & Irina, make a better wrap that Anthony & James (at 14:10)
2(-1) Anthony & James, make a better wrap than Aarthy & Thinesh (at 14:50)
3(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh, made a better fruit tortilla plate than Sarah & Sam (at 15:30)
4(+0) Sarah & Sam, made a better fruit tortilla plate than Lauren & Joanne (at 16:05)
5(+0) Lauren & Joanne, make a better tortilla pizza than Trish * Amy (at 16:57)
6(+0) Trish & Amy, have to wait for the sand in a time glass to run out
The next clue directs teams to the Perimeter institute of theoretical physics.
At the institute teams must calculate a height by dropping a tennis ball and timing its fall. They can then use the equation t = sqrt((2d)/g) to calculate the height. The height has to be converted to feet. Teams will get approved if they get a height from 41 to 49 feet (but they are not told this).
For this tasks teams receive two tennis balls, a stopwatch a bunch of chalks and a calculator. They also have a blackboard where the formula and the needed constants (g and meter to feet factor) are written. They can use this blackboard to do their calculations.
"She's the brains and the looks in the family", Dave after Irina solved the equation
On their way to this task Aarthy & Thinesh debate whether they should use their express pass or not.
"Who discovered gravity? Einstein? Galileo?", Aarthy, but I get a feeling she is playing for the camera here
It seems the first three teams breeze through this challenge and they all leave before the next team arrives. Sarah & Sam struggle and after a while they go back and redo the timing of the drop. This time Sarah holds the stop watch and she records a time which is .5s longer than what Sam got. Lauren & Joanne also struggles so both of those teams are still frantically scribbling at the black boards and looking baffled when Trish & Amy arrives. Fortunately for them Trish & Amy also struggles.
"999, that was not a thousand feet up there", Amy realize her result is improbable
"I'm just blanking right now because I'm so stressed", Joanne
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Dave & Irina
2(+0) Anthony & James
3(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh
4(+0) Sarah & Sam
5(+0) Lauren & Joanne
6(+0) Trish & Amy
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
Make your way to
University Stadium at
Wilfred Laurier
University and search
for Jon at your next Pit
Stop.
Warning! The last team
to check in may be
eliminated.
--- End quote ---
Teams reach the mat in the following order:
1(+0) Dave & Irina, win a trip to Frankfurt, Germany
2(+0) Anthony & James
3(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh
4(+0) Sarah & Sam
5(+0) Lauren & Joanne
6(+0) Trish & Amy, are eliminated
This episode was recorded on Anthony & James wedding anniversary so Anthony has a small bracelet which he gives to James at the pit stop.
At the pit stop Aarthy & Thinesh have to give up their express pass. Jon points out that the last team who had to do the same was Steph & Kristen who won season 4.
"It's been an honor for Amy and I to represent moms everywhere in the Amazing Race Canada", Trish
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Amazing Race Canada Season 7, Episode 8, "Open your bouche"
Film dates: 2019-05-09 - 2019-05-10
The last pit stop was at University Stadium at Wilfred Laurier University. Teams are released from somewhere else in the following order:
1.Dave & Irina 03:292.Anthony & James 04:12+0:433.Aarthy & Thinesh04:56+1:274.Sarah & Sam 06:13+2:445.Lauren & Joanne 07:18+3:49
Route info: "Ride the rails to La Malbaie, Quebec"
Dave & Irina are elated since La Malbaie is in the middle of the French speaking region and a lot of people there do not speak English. As they do speak French they see this as an advantage for them.
All teams are on the same train from Kitchener via Toronto, Montréal, Québec City to La Malbaie.
Once they arrive teams will rush to Chez Chantal snack bar (this is just next to the train station). Here each team must peel 25 potatoes. Once they are done they will get a sample of the local Poutine and the keys to a car where they can find their next clue.
"It's the first time I'm peeling a potato", Aarthy
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1. Anthony & James
2. Dave & Irina
3. Sarah & Sam
4. Lauren & Joanne
5. Aarthy & Thinesh
Road block: Who wants to press their luck?
The road block takes place at Fairmont le manoir Rechelieu (1km away), which hosted the G7 2018 summit. Contestants must memorize and deliver a speech, in both English and French. The delivery happens in the tea room of the hotel and is modeled as a press briefing so there are a bunch of pretend journalists and lots of clicking and flashing cameras present. That is everything is set up to give the contestants a major dose of stage fright.
Once they have given the speech, in both English and French contestants will have to answer three different questions. The questions and their answers are also listed in their briefing materials but the catch is that the questions will be one in Japanese, one in German and one in Italian, the answer has to be in the same language. And teams do not know which order the questions will be asked.
"I'm a terrible public speaker, hopefully I won't screw s", Irina
This task is hard, the difficulty is both in memorizing the speech in two languages and then delivering it to a crowd with lots of smattering cameras.
Irina struggles more than most and wants to quit. Dave convinces her to keep trying.
Thinesh almost gets it on his first attempt but mistakes the German question for Italian so he gave the wrong answer.
All teams are at the road block at the same time.
"This room is extremely intimidating, but I focus on Dave's huge head because he's not moving and he's not gonna throw me off", Joanne has a trick
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1(+4)Aarthy & Thinesh*(4-4)On his 2nd attempt2(+2)Lauren & Joanne* (4-4)On her 3rd attempt3(+0)Sarah & Sam* (4-4)On his 5th attempt4(-2)Dave & Irina* (4-4)On her 2nd attempt5(-4)Anthony & James* (4-4)On his 9th attempt
--- Quote ---Detour:
"This" or "That"
--- End quote ---
The extra information only lists the location of the two options so teams have no idea whet they need to do at the different detours. The detours are 6km from each other but both are about 43km from the road block.
"That" takes place in the fields in front of Maison D'Affinage Maurice Dufour Inc and here teams get to play Pick-lit. This is done by placing a piece of wood on a tree stump. The wood is taped at the ends so when tapped by a bat it flies up into the air, and while it is on its way down players can hit it with the same bat. Depending on how far they get they earn 10, 15 or 20 points. They take turns and will get their next clue when they have reached a total of 200 points.
This is not too difficult once you get the hang of it, and people seem do so after a few (up towards 20) attempts.
"I'm not a sporty person", Aarthy
"I really just want to contribute a couple points", Aarthy as she has done 0 and Thinesh 170
"This" takes place at Centre de L'Émeu de Charlevoix. Here teams get to recreate two painted Emu eggs. The finished examples depicts two buildings in town. Once teams are approved they must drive into Baie-Saint Paul and search the main street for one of the two buildings where they can exchange their eggs for the next clue.
Teams are not allowed to touch or move the examples so they have to memorize as many details as possible before they return to their painting station.
"I'm an art teacher, I can paint", Lauren
"I can only paint by numbers", Joanne
"These are so beautiful", Anthony when he sees the sample eggs
The paintings are quite detailed but the judge seems lax as teams are approved even though their drawings are much sloppier and lack some details.
No teams see any other team at the detour so some of them get really stressed thinking the others could have chosen the other detour which was super quick.
Sarah & Sam have trouble finding the detour location. Things are not made easier by the fact that there is a thick fog in the area so visibility is severely limited. Dave & Irina also overshoots it.
"I was hoping I'm gonna finish the challenge and Dave is gonna take it from there", Irina has an interesting take on teamwork
Sarah & Sam arrive to the detour as Dave & Irina leave.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh, that (pick-lit)
2(+0) Lauren & Joanne, this (painting)
3(+1) Dave & Irina, that (pick-lit)
4(-1) Sarah & Sam, that (pick-lit)
5(+0) Anthony & James, this (painting)
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
Drive yourselves to
Musée Maritime de
Charlevoix and search
the grounds for Jon at
your next Pit Stop.
Warning!
The last team to check in
may be eliminated.
--- End quote ---
Aarthy & Thiensh find a Musée de Charlevoix back in La Malbaie which they go for. Unfortunately this is the wrong place. And it adds more than 35 minutes to the driving time. And that is assuming they use the optimal route. Unfortunately they do not since they overshoots the museum by quite a bit and they loose even more time.
As Anthony & James pull up to the parking by the museum they see Sarah & Sam getting out of their car. Unfortunately these are not the two you want to have a footrace against. So there not really any question about who's going to reach Jon last.
Teams check in with Jon in the following order:
1(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh, win a trip to Santiago, Chile
2(+0) Lauren & Joanne
3(+0) Dave & Irina
4(+0) Sarah & Sam
5(+0) Anthony & James, are not eliminated since the leg is not over yet
"Hey, you guys are still racing. Forget the loving, rip and read", Jon to the two last and now very happy teams
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Racing report
Amazing Race Canada Season 7, Episode 9, "Another day in Thunder bay"
Film dates: 2019-05-10 - 2019-05-13
The last leg ended at Musée Maritime de Charlevoix where Jon told teams that were were still racing. Teams reached Jon in the following order:
1.Aarthy & Thinesh16:482.Lauren & Joanne 16:54+0:063.Dave & Irina 17:35+0:474.Sarah & Sam 18:44+1:565.Anthony & James 18:45+1:57
Route info: Make your way to the Royal Ontario Museum.
Teams must now drive themselves to Québec City (114km 1h25min). From there they must travel by train to Toronto via Motreéal.
"At this point in the race we're so exhausted, we're so tired", Thinesh
There are plenty of trains but all racers end up on the same train. Apparently production did something to force them onto that train. The train ride takes close to 9 hours
Once in Toronto teams make a mad scramble for the taxis and go to the Heritage entrance of the Royal Ontarion Museum.
Teams reach the museum in the following order:
1. Dave & Irina
2. Sarah & Sam
3. Lauren & Joanne
4. Anthony & James
5. Aarthy & Thinesh
At the museum they must search for 10 different objects from the museums permanent collection and collect a stamp from each of them. The clue at the museum also tells them that they may not run in the museum. And it includes a list of the objects where the stamps can be found, but they must locate these objects by themselves. The objects are:
* Luohan Figure
* Tyrannosaurus rex
* Dodo skeleton
* Ming Tomb
* Cerussite Gem
* Straying Continents
* Barosaurus lentus
* Fish coffin
* Cleopatra VII
* The death of general Wolfe
Once they have all 10 stamps they must arrange them in the correct order to spell out their next destination. Each stamp has 1.5 letter or two halves of two letters on it and looking at the TV it looks like a fairly easy puzzle. But then again I have not been racing for multiple days straight and am not as stressed as the racers undoubtedly are. Anyway when arranged in the correct order the stamps spell out THUNDER BAY.
When it s time to solve the puzzle Irina has the right idea to just turn the stamps over so she can see the bottom and then arrange them so the letters fit. This is much easier than trying to stamp them each and then try to match them from the stamps.
"Help me", Irina to Dave
"I don't know what you're doing so", Dave feels left out
Sarah & Sam have some communication issues here. They keep heading in different directions. And once they solve the puzzle Aarthy asks if they have the answer and Sarah just blurts it out without consulting with her partner. This allows Aarthy & Thinesh to finish immediately and they get into a taxi before Sarah & Sam.
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Dave & Irina
2(+2) Anthony & James
3(+0) Lauren & Joanne
4(+1) Aarthy & Thinesh
5(-3) Sarah & Sam
Teams must now make their way to the Toronto Coach Terminal where they can sign up for a 17h bus ride to Thunder Bay. Once in Thunder Bay they will be released with 5 minute intervals in the order they signed up.
At the sign up board Dave tells Irina to write "again" after their name at the top of the board. She also adds a sad face to all the other sign up positions.
"Being a professional fighter I know that the most important thing is to get into the head of them", Dave
Anthony "corrects" the board by replacing the sad faces with happy ones as they sign up.
In the taxi on the way to the sign up board both last teams talk about what happened.
"You need to communicate, those aren't moves to make", Sam
"You're right, your 100 percent right", Sarah recognizes her mistake
"I struggle to disassociate between game time and friendship time, it was a silly move, I shouldn't have done it", Sarah
"If there's an advantage to be had between 4th and 5th to be had then we will give it to them", Thinesh
In the end Sarah & Sam seem to have a better taxi so they arrive before Aarthy & Thinesh.
"I think you guys are the greatest people in the world", Aarthy
"We're also Canadian", Sam
Teams sign up in the following order:
1(+0) Dave & Irina
2(+0) Anthony & James
3(+0) Lauren & Joanne
4(+1) Sarah & Sam
5(-1) Aarthy & Thinesh
Looking at a calendar here it seems as if teams sign up on the evening of the 11th. The bus drive takes 17 hours and thus occupies most of the 12th and teams are released in Thunder bay on the morning of the 13th. based on comments by the racers later in the leg I think they now get to spend a night in a hotel and that the bus to Thunder bay leaves in the early afternoon of the 12th in order to arrive in the morning of the 13th.
Teams are released by the Terry Fox monument in the order they signed up for the bus ride. The clue here instructs them to drive to a local Shell station. Here they must fill up with the sponsor's premium gasoline to receive their next clue.
Nobody gets lost on the way to the gas station so the order is unchanged. The clue they get here is a face off. This takes place at the local fun emporium Wacky's.
In this face off teams have to battle it out in one of three classic games; air hockey, table hockey or axe throwing. The first team to arrive to each match can pick with game to play. And as usual the last looser must wait for the sand in an hourglass to run out before they can continue racing.
Finding the face off location is harder so Anthony & James manage make up some time and get through the door just before Dave & Irina. This means Anthony & James may choose which game to play and they choose axe throwing as they have done it before with their gay swim team.
Dave continues to play with their minds and lies that he has won an axe throwing competition. The lie gets better when both he and Irina hit the bullseye on their first throws.
In the axe throwing each contestant gets 5 throws. In the air hockey all four players play a 3 minutes long match.
Teams leave the face off in the following order:
1(+0) Dave & Irina, win axe throwing against Anthony & James
2(+0) Anthony & James, win axe throwing against Lauren & Joanne
3(+1) Sarah & Sam, win air hockey against Lauren & Joanne
4(-1) Lauren & Joanne, win air hockey against Aarthy & Thinesh (by making 3 goals in the last 12 seconds)
5(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh
Detour: Cutting edge or cutting a wedge
Cutting edge takes place at Lakehead university's faculty of natural resources airfield. Here racers will have to use mavic 2 Zoom drone to locate four stuffed moose toys in a large field. One player will control the drone but can not see the drone or what it sees. The other player is wearing VR googles which shows what the drone camera sees. That player must give commands to the pilot who controls the drone. They must mark the positions on a grid system on a large board.
Cutting a wedge takes place on the Thunder Oak Cheese farm. Here teams must locate a specific numbered wheel of Gouda cheese in a storage room. Then cut 32 pieces weighing 230g to 270g. Finally they must correctly vacuum seal the pieces.
Only 3 teams can do either side of the detour.
At the drones Dave & Irina make a mistake when Dave says J (in french) it sounds like G and that is what Irina hears so she places the marker on 5-G instead of 5-J.
Anthony & James have trouble communicating with James telling Anthony things like "go towards the fields" even through Anthony can not see the drone (they are behind a screen).
A nice touch at the drone task is that each team get their own area to search and the moose are placed differently in the different areas, so they can not share their locations.
I have a nagging suspicion that the wheels of cheese weigh about 8kg each and if you just cut them into 32 pieces (by halving all pieces 5 times) you get the correct weight. But then I am well rested and have not been racing non-stop for 5 days. The teams have a hard time to cut the cheese. They tend to end up with pieces which are just too small. Fortunately they are allowed to fetch additional wheels of cheese when needed.
Aarthy & Thinesh try to go for the drones but it is full so they have to do the cheese instead.
Sarah & Sam have learned their lesson about communicating and they do an excellent job at the drone task, which is largely about communicating.
At the cheese side of the detour the stress level is high. Aarthy & Thinesh are the first to go to packaging but half of their cheeses are rejected. Lauren & Joanne get 8 rejected on their first attempt.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+0) Dave & Irina, drone
2(+1) Sarah & Sam, drone
3(-1) Anthony & James, drone
4(+0) Lauren & Joanne, cheese
5(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh, cheese
The next clue tells them to drive to the next pit stop at Kakabeka falls.
Most teams are stressed as they head towards the pit stop. Sarah & Sam think they are next to last (they have not seen the cheese detour) and the two teams who did the cheese also think they are last. Aarthy is crying as she drives. Lauren & Joanne get even more stressed when they get have to wait for a train to cross the road.
Teams check in with Jon in the following order:
1(+0) Dave & Irina, win a trip to Venice
2(+0) Sarah & Sam
3(+0) Anthony & James, just after #2
4(+0) Lauren & Joanne
5(+0) Aarthy & Thinesh, are eliminated
"Thinesh and I ran this race with so much integrity, we'll always be people that lends a hand and that truly makes us Canadian", Aarthy
"Another day in Thunder bay", Thinesh sings and gets the quite as they leave the pit stop
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