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Racing report
Amazing Race AU Season 4, Episode 10
The last pit stop was at Lake Malawi. Teams start close to the lake. They are released in 2 minute intervals in the following order:
1. Tom & Tyler at 05:48
2. Jasmin & Jerome, at 05:50
3. Tim & Rod, at 05:52
4. Femi & Nick, at 05:54
5. Viv & Joey, at 05:56
The first task is that each team member must paddle a dugout canoe the 1km length of Leopard bay. These are just hollowed out tree trunks and they are very heavy and unwieldy.
It is fairly windy and a lot of waves close to shore. The canoes are rank and we get lots of shots of racers tipping over. Tom & Tyler make their way further out where the waves are smaller and have a fairly smooth paddle from there. The other teams stay closer to shore and have lots of problems.
Viv & Joey find their speed bump right at the start. Their canoes are full of water so they must bail it out before they can even move them.
Nick & Femi are struggling a lot and in the process they loose one of their paddle boards. Things look bleak for a while but they find it and can continue on.
Teams reach the goal in the following order:
1(+0) Tom & Tyler
2(+1) Tim & Rod
3(+1) Femi & Nick
4(+1) Viv & Joey
5(-3) Jasmin & Jerome
--- Quote ---DETOUR
"Dirty" or "Smelly"
Dirty: Do a load of washing
for the local villagers, then
lay the clothing out to dry to
receive your next clue.
Smelly: Sort the day's catch
from a local fisherman into
separate species, then lay
the fish out to dry to receive
your next clue.
--- End quote ---
In dirty teams must wash 20 items of clothing by hand. Once clean and laid out to dry they will receive their next clue.
In smelly teams must carry a bucket of fish to a sorting table and sort it into different species. They are not told that there are three different species. of fish in the bucket, and they all look pretty much alike. Also to make matters worse the fish have various spiky fins etc so teams will cut themselves while sorting them.
Tom & Tyler go for the smelly detour and divide their fish into two different species. When they think they are done the judge tells them they have their species mixed up.
"I just don't know, they're all the *beep* same", Tyler
Eventually Tom & Tyler gets it. As they are leaving they pass Viv & Joey who are just about to start sorting their fish. They boys stop and help them by telling them that there are three different species and how to tell them apart.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+1) Tim & Rod, wash
2(-1) Tom & Tyler, fish
3(+0) Femi & Nick, wash
4(+1) Jasmin & Jerome, wash
5(-1) Viv & Joey, fish
Road block: "Who never tyres out?"
The clue inside reads:
--- Quote ---Make a pair of sandal
tops for you and your
partner and properly
glue on the tyre-thread
soles to receive your
next clue.
--- End quote ---
Teams must now make sandals.
"These are a lot harder to build than they actually look", Tim
As he is working on his sandals Tim cuts himself in the finger. One of the medics have to come in and put a band aid on it to stop the bleeding.
"I felt the need to rush, that left room for errors and more mistakes", Nick
"We weren't allowed to provide any feedback apart from encouragement", Jasmine found it hard to not be able to help
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
1(+4)Viv & Joey* (2-4)2(+0)Tom & Tyler* (3-3)3(-2)Tim* & Rod (4-2)4(+0)Jasmin & Jerome* (1-5)5(-2)Femi & Nick* (3-3)
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
Make your way on foot to
the Nsapato section of
the market and listen for
a message for the
Racers.
--- End quote ---
A lot of the vendors on this market are using loudspeakers to advertise their wares. In this challenge and number of these are instead used for a message to the racers. It is not trivial to hear them above the background noise and then there is the matter of understanding what they actually are saying.
The message reads: "Amazing Racers, your next destination is Harry's Bar"
Tim & Rod have trouble understanding the last part of the message and asks on of the stall owners. She says it says "Come and buy nice dresses here". Even with this setback they are the first to get the message. As they are leaving they pass Tom & Tyler and Viv & Joey. They act as confused as possible and get out of there.
Teams get the message in the following order:
1(+2) Tim & Rod
2(+0) Tom & Tyler
3(-2) Viv & Joey
4(+0) Jasmin & Jerome
5(+0) Femi & Nick
Teams arrive at Harry's bar in the following order:
1(+1) Tom & Tyler
2(+1) Viv & Joey
3(-2) Tim & Rod
4(+0) Jasmin & Jerome
5(+0) Femi & Nick
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
It's time for a 2-Minute Quiz!
Match your partner's
answers to a series of
questions about your fellow
Racers to earn your next
clue.
--- End quote ---
Each racer has to take a quiz. They are given a set of 10 questions and pictures of all the teams. The questions are stuff like
"Who was overtake in the last 30 seconds of the second leg of the race?"
"Which team was second to arrive to build play equipment in Zimbabwe?".
"Which team attempted a fast forward, then gave up?"
"Who nailed flyboarding in under two minutes?"
"Which team spent the most time in a taxi in the first leg"
Each contestant get 2 minutes to complete the test. They are not told their result but they do know that each wrong answer will result in a penalty later in the leg. We as viewers get told how they did and that they will get a 1 minute penalty for each wrong answer.
The clue makes it sound like their answers need to match but there is a right answer to each question which they must get.
The results of the tests are:
Tom & Tyler, 3+5 errors
Viv & Joey, 9+4 errors
Tim & Rod, 7+2 errors
Jasmin & Jerome, 3+3 errors
Femi & Nick, 2 errors
After completing the test teams get their next clue from the barman.
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
Learn an African song in the
Malawian language of
Chichewa.
Then join the musicians on
stage and perform for the
locals to receive your next
clue.
--- End quote ---
Teams are given a sheet with the lyrics written down and a local instructor.
"Singing is definitely not our forte", Jasmin
"I really hate being on a stage performing", Viv
The song does not seem to be particularly complicated and nobody is shown struggling. Teams get approved in the following order:
1(+0) Tom & Tyler
2(+0) Viv & Joey
3(+0) Tim & Rod
4(+0) Jasmin & Jerome
5(+0) Femi & Nick
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
Make your way to Kumbali
Lodge and search by the
banana trees for Beau at
your next Pit Stop.
Hurry! The last team to
check in may be eliminated.
--- End quote ---
The first step in getting to the pit stop is getting a taxi. Tom & Tyler spend at least 20 minutes at the street trying to get one.
Jasmin & Jerome are happy they asked their driver to wait.
Viv & Joey's taxi catches up an passes Tom & Tyler's on the way to the pit stop.
Teams reach Beau at the mat in the following order:
1(+1) Viv & Joey, have a 13 minute penalty
2(-1) Tom & Tyler, have a 8 minute penalty
3(+1) Jasmin & Jerome, have a 6 minute penalty
4(-1) Tim & Rod, have a 9 minute penalty
5(+0) Femi & Nick have a 2 minute penalty
The penalties makes team check in in the following order:
1(+1) Tom & Tyler
2(+1) Jasmin & Jerome
3(-2) Viv & Joey
4(+0) Tim & Rod
5(+0) Femi & Nick, are eliminated
"It's been an amazing experience", Femi
"...proud of Femi like, I just feel like... Sorry, I've to think of some bull**** to say", Nick
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Racing report
Amazing Race AU Season 4, Episode 11
The last pit stop was at the Kumbali Lodge in Malawi. Teams seem to depart from a more urban location, probably in Lilongwe, in the following order:
1.Tom & Tyler 06:242.Jasmin & Jerome06:26+0:022.Viv & Joey 06:28+0:042.Tim & Rod 06:30+0:06
Route info: Fly to Bangkok, Thailand. Once there make your way to Khlong Toei market and eat a Thai treat to receive your next clue.
Teams get $70 for this leg of the race.
The clue also warns them that there is a U-turn ahead. Teams are surprised this. It is another voting U-turn so strategy is going to be very important.
Tim & Rod know that all the other teams voted for them the last time so they feel motivated to try to beat them again. At the airport Jerome & Jasmine takes Viv & Joey and Tom & Tyler aside and reaffirms their alliance.
All teams are on the same flight from Malawi to Bangkok and on the way they each get to vote for th U-turn. This time we do not get to see the votes.
Once they land teams jump into taxis and make their way to the market, where each team member will have to eat three Thai treats.
"I have a wild guess they are not going to be treats, they're going to be something disgusting", Tyler
Teams leave the airport in the following order:
1. Tom & Tyler
2. Jasmin & Jerome
3. Viv & Joey
4. Tim & Rod
Tim & Rod are last to leave the airport and they are very stressed. Not only are they last but there is an upcoming U-turn as well which they have every reason to believe they will be the target of.
The treats turn out to be nicely colored eggs. But when opened they turn out to be century eggs, which is something of an acquired taste.
To make matters more interesting it starts to rain as well. And not a nice refreshing sprinkle but a hard tropical torrential rain.
Teams arrive to stall AA 15-16 in the following order:
1(+0) Tom & Tyler
2(+0) Jasmin & Jerome, after the first team has left
3(+1) Tim & Rod, as Jasmine is trying ti get her eggs down
4(-1) Viv & Joey, after all others have left
Viv & Joey spot Tim & Rod getting in a taxi as they are desperately searching for stall AA 15-16. Finding the stall is non-trivial as most stalls do not show their number and most of the locals do not seem to speak English.
"It was the most foul thing I have every put in my mouth", Jasmine about the eggs
Teams complete their eggs in the following order:
1(+0) Tom & Tyler
2(+0) Jasmin & Jerome, took 25 minutes
3(+0) Tim & Rod
4(+0) Viv & Joey
--- Quote ---Detour: "Water" or
"Wheels"
Water: Take a long tail
boat past famous
Bangkok landmarks
along the Chao Phraya
River, then correctly
place pictures of what
you saw on a map to
receive your next clue.
...
--- End quote ---
In wheels teams must assemble and decorate a tuk tuk. The task is not difficult but time consuming.
The water task is made easier by the fact that teams can take a look at the map and the pictures before they start the boat trip. There are 12 landmarks to place. The task does not seem difficult since both teams doing it get it on their first attempt.
After the detour teams will learn who got U-turned.
Even though Jasmin & Jerome left the detour before Tim & Rod they arrive 15 minutes later. Which only shows how important your taxi is.
At the wheel detour Tim & Rod ask Jasmin & Jerome if they are being U-turned again. They are stoked when Jasmin tells them that they voted for Tom & Tyler this time.
Meanwhile we are shown Tom & Tyler completing their detour. They are then stunned to learn that they are U-turned. They had counted on their alliance with Jasmin & Jerome and Viv & Joey to protect them.
"It hurts", Tom feel betrayed
"To use the U-turn against Tom & Tyler was the hardest decision we've made this whole race", Jasmin
"Tinkerbell the tuk tuk", Tim & Rod name their tuk tuk
Tom & Tyler get to the tuk tuk challenge before any of the teams there have left and the mood gets strange. None of the teams are talking to each other. It gets even more awkward after Tim & Rod have left and only Tom & Tyler and Jasmin & Jerome are there.
Teams complete the detour(s) in the following order:
----- Tom & Tyler, boat
1(+2) Tim & Rod, tuk tuk
2(+2) Viv & Joey, boat
3(-1) Jasmin & Jerome, tuk tuk
4(-3) Tom & Tyler, tuk tuk
Road block: Who's ready for a mouthful?
In this road block contestants must find the right dentures for three locals. Each local has a bowl of dentures on the table in front of them and the contestants must find the one set which fits. The task is not particularly hard as long as you can get over the ickiness of handling somebody else's dentures. The racers do wear gloves during this task.
The teams are a spread out here so no team see any other at this road block.
"It was honestly like playing Tetris", Tim
"Some of them had the cutest smiles on their faces", Tim
Viv & Joey arrive as Tim & Rod are leaving. The road block took about 10 minutes for Viv & Joey.
Jasmin & Jerome have a bad taxi so Tom & Tyler arrive to the road block before them. Tom & Tyler are pretty sure they have one team behind them at the road block since Tyler had two tables to choose from.
Jasmin & Jerome on the other hand think that they are still ahead of Tom & Tyler so Jasmin spends a lot of time nervously looking if the boys are arriving while Jerome does the road block.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
1(+0)Tim* & Rod (5-2)2(+0)Viv & Joey* (2-5)3(+1)Tom & Tyler* (3-4)4(-1)Jasmin & Jerome* (1-6)
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
Here's a golden
opportunity!
Gold leaf a statue of
Ganesh. Once approved,
take your Ganesh to
Beau at your next Pit
Stop.
Hurry! The last team to
check in may be
eliminated.
--- End quote ---
The extra info here explains how to apply gold leaf to the statue. The trick is to put glue on the statue and the wait for it to become sticky before applying the gold leaf. And do not touch the gold leaf with your fingers as it tears easily.
Teams arrive to the gold leafing station in the same order they left the road block. Viv & Joey and Tom & Tyler are still working on their gold leaf when Jasmin & Jerome arrives.
The end is actually pretty exciting. Viv & Joey leave as #2 so we have Tom & Tyler who are battling it out against Jasmin & Jerome. The former have a head start but the latter are catching up.
"It's absolute panic at this stage", Jasmin
This time it is Jasmin & Jerome who asks for a check seconds, at least it seems so, before Tom & Tyler. So Jasmin & Jerome have a bit of a head start in the hustle to the pit stop. The catch is that they have to carry their statue, and the gold leafing is fragile so they have it on a tray. And you are also not allowed to run inside the temple.
"They're not the team you want to be running to the finish line against", Jerome about Tom & Tyler
Tom & Tyler reach Beau about 10 seconds after Jasmin & Jerome.
Teams get the statues approved and reach Beau on the following order:
1(+0) Tim & Rod, at 19:15, win a trip to the Northern territories
2(+0) Viv & Joey, at 19:58
3(+1) Jasmin & Jerome, at 20:00
4(-1) Tom & Tyler, at 20:01, are eliminated
Tom & Tyler are very disappointed. It is not made easier that they are barely beaten by Jasmin & Jerome, the team they feel most betrayed by. It is a bit awkward at the mat but they manage to keep it classy.
"We definitely took away some great experiences", Tom
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Racing report
Amazing Race AU Season 4, Episode 12
The last pit stop was in a temple in Bangkok, Thailand. It looks like teams start in front of some hotel. They depart in the following order:
1.Tim & Rod 12:022.Viv & Joey 12:04+0:023.Jasmin & Jerome12:06+0:04
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
Fly to the Northern
Territory... Australia's Top
End!
Once there, search the
airport for the Jetstar
representative with your
next clue.
You have 140 AUD for this
leg of the Race.
--- End quote ---
Jasmin & Jerome are stoked to read this clue since they live in Darwin and they feel they know the area well.
All teams are on the same flight from Bangkok, via Singapore, to Darwin. Once they land, teams run as fast as they can. The Jetstar representative is easy to find and teams reach him within 2 seconds of each other.
Route info: Search the Darwin waterfront for Northern Territory News front pages and separate the race headlines and public headlines to receive your next clue from the NT News editor.
NT News is a local paper known for it sensational eye-grabbing headlines. Production has placed stacks of newspapers around the waterfront of Darwin. Teams must find the eight different race related headlines.
The headlines they are supposed to find are:
* A couple of basket cases jump the queue
* Big voice serenades tough guy
* Flying firefighter saves the day
* Slippery suckers caught dunking
* Ungodly dumpling theft
* Desert's storm forces alien alliances
* Birthday girl vomits golden opportunity
* Royal watery welcome
Teams arrive to the Waterfront in the following order:
1. Jasmin & Jerome
2. Tim & Rod
3. Viv & Joey
There is chaos as teams run around and frantically search for newspaper racks. Viv & Joey are the first to find seven of them and then spotting the newspaper rack located at the top of a big inflatable slide sitting in the water. They hesitate so Jerome also spots it and is the first to jump into the water. Then Tim also makes for the slide and Joey is last into the water.
There are of course more than 8 front pages in the stands so there are some non race related ones like "Fool speed ahead". These make the task harder and some teams have to make multiple tries.
In the end teams find the eight right front pages in the following order:
1(+0) Jasmin & Jerome
2(+0) Tim & Rod, about 10 minutes after #1
3(+0) Viv & Joey
The next clue tells teams to fly to Katherine, NT. But the plane will not land, instead they both have to do tandem skydives out of the plane.
In the taxi to the airfield Tim & Rod talk about how the other teams are very afraid of heights. And so they may be, but there is $250,000 on line so they all overcome their fears and jump out of the perfectly good plane once needed.
"I'm pretty proud of myself, but I'll never do it again", Jasmin about the jump
Joey was looking forward to do a parachute jump. But when they get to Katherine the wind has picked up so it is too windy to jump. Instead their plane lands in Katherine. They do not seem to loose any time by this and are not given any penalties.
"Sorry guys, safety first", the task judge at the end when he gives Viv & Joey their clue
--- Quote ---ROAD BLOCK
Who's ready to run
circles around this
Road Block?
--- End quote ---
Inside the clue reads:
--- Quote ---Try your hand at life on an
Aussie Cattle station.
Complete a training
exercise with a cattle dog,
then gain the trust of a wild
horse, to earn your next
clue.
--- End quote ---
Teams did land quite close to the cattle station so they make their way there on foot.
The first task is to select one of several dogs and then make it run in a figure 8 around two barrels. To help them they have access to a high tech training tool, a sick with a plastic bag at the end.
All teams seem to do this exercise in the same arena. And they are allowed to switch dogs when they want.
Jasmines strategy is to pick an older dog which she hopes is better trained. But this one turns out to be completely uninterested in her and goes back to his perch instead. Rod as the same strategy to pick an older dog and get the same result.
Joey instead picks a young dog. And Teddy, which is the dog's name, is quite eager to follow the plastic bag so he has no problem completing the course.
After the dog task contestants are let into an arena with a wildish horse. They must approach it slowly to be allowed to touch its face or neck. To confuse them they are allowed to keep the plastic bag on a stick tool from the dog task, but that will only make matters worse here. Which all of the quickly realize.
Rod see what Joey did so after Joey has left he swaps his current dog, Fluffy, for Teddy. And this time there is no problem.
Eventually Jasmine also try to do the course with Teddy and he still happily tries to catch the plastic bag.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
1(+2)Viv & Joey* (2-6)2(+0)Tim & Rod* (5-3)3(-2)Jasmin* & Jerome (2-6)Spent more than 30 minutes with the dog
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
Take a helicopter into
Nitmiluk Gorge.
Search the landing area
for your next clue.
--- End quote ---
The episode has cut the clue at the landing site but Beau has already told us. Teams will have to complete a 3D puzzle of the race. But before they can start the must jump into kayaks and paddle around in the gorge to find 7 hidden pieces.
"It was really difficult for us to spot our puzzle pieces", Viv
Teams find all their pieces in the following order:
1(+1) Tim & Rod
2(+1) Jasmin & Jerome
3(-2) Viv & Joey, spent more than an hour looking for pieces
Once they have found their 7 pieces teams can go to the puzzle area where they will find a bunch of more pieces. Each piece is marked with a clue. The clues are stuff like pictures of places, teams eliminated or task names.
There is one 6 pieces 3D puzzle per country and teams must assemble all of them and place them on top of each other in the correct order.
Viv & Joey are happy when they get to the puzzle area and see the other teams there, and they do not seem to have made much progress.
Teams complete their puzzles in the following order:
1(+0) Tim & Rod
2(+0) Jasmin & Jerome
3(+0) Viv & Joey
The next clue tells them it is the last one and that they should search the gorge on foot to find Beau and the finish line.
Teams reach the finish line in the following order:
1(+0) Tim & Rod, win $250,000
2(+0) Jasmin & Jerome
3(+0) Viv & Joey
"This race challenges you mentally, it challenges you physically, you have the greatest days of your life and you have the worst days of your life and we did it together, I love you so much", Tim
maf:
And finally I found time to complete the last leg. My apologies for this taking so long.
claude_24hrs:
Here are the dates had filmed in the race, posted from the timeline thread:
--- Quote from: claude_24hrs on November 28, 2019, 06:02:17 AM ---Based on the dates had filmed on this race:
* South Korea: August 20-21
* Vietnam: August 22-24
* Mongolia: August 27-29
* Zambia/Zimbabwe: September 1-2
* Malawi: September 4-5
* Thailand: September 8-9
* Australia: September 12
--- End quote ---
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