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Amazing Race Season 32, Episode 5, "You don't strike me as a Renaissance man"
Film date: 2018-11-19 - 2018-11-20
The driving times shown here are from Google and assume no traffic. So they should be taken with a big serving of Chantilly cream.
The last leg ended at Plaza Italia in Asunción, Paraguay. This is also where teams are released after what seems as a bit over 24h pit stop. Teams are released in the following order:
1.Will & James 01:412.Michelle & Victoria01:55+0:143.Leo & Alana 02:35+0:544.Riley & Maddison 02:39+0:585.Eswar & Aparna 03:11+1:306.Hung & Chee ??:??+?:??7.DeAngelo & Gary ??:??+?:??8.Kaylynn & Haley ??:??+?:??
Route info: "Fly to Paris, France". Once they land teams must drive themselves to a castle named Domaine de Chantilly in Chantilly, France.
"I know how to drive a stick", Will looks forward to the self drive
"I'm basically fluent in stick shift", Riley has lived in Europe
Teams end up on two different flights. Flight #1 is (first leg is unsure):
AR1261 ASU-EZE 2018-11-19 08:39 - 10:25 (scheduled 08:35-10:25)
AF229 EZE-CDG 2018-11-19 14:29 - 07:34+1 (scheduled 14:35-07:50+1)
This carries:
Will & James
Michelle & Victoria
Leo & Alana
Riley & Maddison
Flight #2 is (first leg is unsure):
LA1317 ASU-GRU 2018-11-19 10:15 - 13:16 (scheduled 10:25-13:30)
AF457 GRU-CDG 2018-11-19 17:32 - 07:44+1 (scheduled 17:35-08:05+1)
This carries:
Hung & Chee
DeAngelo & Gary
Kaylynn & Haley
Eswar & Aparna
The flights are supposed to land 15 minutes apart but end up being 10 minutes apart. At the airport teams pick up their cars and find that they are going to be driving stick.
Riley & Maddison are first out of the parking garage. After them come Will & James, or at least they try. ill has a hard time driving so their car gets stuck on the exit ramp, effectively blocking the teams behind.
"Baby, we need to go", James
And while they are stuck in the airport parking garage we cut over to the Volleyball bros making good progress on the freeway.
"There's gotta be at least one team that doesn't really know how to drive a stick", Riley
Back in the parking garage Leo jumps out of his car and runs up to Will & James. He jumps into their car and drives them up to the next level and to the side so the teams behind can pass.
"I hope it gets them eliminated", Leo as he drives past
Will is freaking out but eventually he figures out that he has had the 3rd gear in all the time. And that is not the right gear when you want to start on an uphill ramp.
Another team struggling with the manual gears is Kaylynn & Haley.
"Kaylynn and I thought that we could drive a stick shift, but we were very wrong", Haley
And that is not all they struggle with, they have an awfully hard time finding the castle. Perhaps because the start off driving towards Paris which means they run into a lot of traffic and also that they are getting farther from the castle as they are driving in the wrong direction.
"I don't know where I'm going Victoria", Michelle when Leo & Alana took an exit and they did not
"We asked somebody but only wrote down vague directions", Michelle
Meanwhile James complains that Leo wasn't very nice when he helped them with their car.
"We used the U-turn but it's like no empathy", James
Teams reach the castle (25 minutes) in the following order:
1. Riley & Maddison
2. Leo & Alana, arrive as #1 is leaving
3. Will & James, arrive as #2 are doing the task
4. Hung & Chee, arrive as #3 are doing the task
5. Eswar & Aparna, arrive as #4 is leaving
6. Michelle & Victoria, seconds after #5
7. DeAngelo & Gary, before Eswar & Aparna have left
8. Kaylynn & Haley
Road block: Who has an eye for art?
This castle turns out to have a very big collection of antique paintings. In one room there is a party going on, there seems to be about 50 party guests and they are all dressed in period clothing. Nine of them are dressed up as people featured in one of the ~70 paintings in the next room. The players must find one of these nine people and present them together with the name of the artist (the paintings are labeled) to the judge to get their next clue.
Riley's strategy was to concentrate on the few party guests wearing bright colors. Unfortunately he couldn't find any of them in the art gallery, but then he found one guy with facial hair.
Alana hopes that her masters degree in fine arts will help.
While Alana does the road block Leo tells the camera that he hopes that Will & James are still stuck at the airport. Alas his hopes are dashed as right then Will & James arrive through the door behind him.
Hung spots one party guest looking like Jesus and decided to look for him. That turns out to be a successful strategy.
"I love art", Gary
"You don't really strike me as a renaissance man", DeAngelo gets the title
Kaylynn & Haley arrive last, and when they do arrive they find their speed bump. They must clean up the riding gear for two horses.
"I have never used any of these cleaning supplies, and there is also something that stinks", Kaylynn
The editing tries to make it seem as if they arrive to their speed bump as two teams are still doing this road block. That may or may not be true, but all teams have left the road block when they get to the party.
Most racers find a correct guest on their first attempt. They complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
1(+0)Riley* & Maddison (2-2)2(+0)Leo & Alana* (2-2)3(+0)Will* & James (3-1)On his 2n attempt4(+0)Hung* & Chee (2-2)5(+1)Michelle & Victoria*(2-2)6(+1)DeAngelo & Gary* (2-2)7(-2)Eswar & Aparna* (2-2)On her 16th attempt8(+0)Kaylynn & Haley* (2-2)
Teams must now make their way, on foot, to a restaurant called Le Vertugadin in Chantilly (about 1km). There they must hand whip Chantilly Cream. They must prepare two bowls and the cream must be firm enough so hat the bowls can be turned upside down without it falling out. Then they have to put this on four pies.
Teams quickly realize that whipping cream manually is hard work.
"Let's see your forearms", Maddison to the judge after learning he makes 16 pies a day
The first three teams are all at this task at the same time.
Once done with the pies teams are told to deliver them in the tent outside. In the tent are people pelting the racers with pies. The teams must place their pies on a table at the far end. Nobody drops their pies so we do not get to know if they would have had to redo them in this case.
Riley & Maddison ruin the surprise by telling Will & James and Hung & Chee about the pie throwers. They do this because they have an alliance and later they interview that Gary & DeAngelo are also in the alliance but it is not as strong with them (and they had not arrived to the restaurant yet).
Kaylynn & Haley are last at this task and they feel very last, but are not giving up.
"We haven't seen anybody in hours", Kaylynn
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Riley & Maddison
2(+0) Leo & Alana
3(+0) Will & James
4(+0) Hung & Chee
5(+0) Michelle & Victoria
6(+0) DeAngelo & Gary
7(+0) Eswar & Aparna
8(+0) Kaylynn & Haley
Teams must now drive back to Paris and find Musée des arts forains. The clue actually tells teams to drive to a parking garage in Bercy (Saemes Parking Bercy Seine) and leave their cars there. This is about a 10 minute walk from the museum).
Michelle & Victoria are having trouble finding the museum. They are shown asking a guy on the street who gives them directions and tells them it is less than 2km away. But they take off in the wrong direction and get lost. Eventually we get a sign on the screen that they have been driving for 6 hours 30 minutes.
At the museum (44 minutes) teams find a yield and a clue box. They arrive in the following order:
1(+0) Riley & Maddison
2(+0) Leo & Alana, just as #1 leave
3(+1) Hung & Chee, while #2 are at the task
4(-1) Will & James
?(+?) DeAngelo & Gary
?(+?) Eswar & Aparna
7(+1) Kaylynn & Haley
8(-1) Michelle & Victoria
Nobody uses the yield.
Double roadblock: Who wants to step right up?
This museum holds a big collection of 19th century carnival games and contestants must now win three games to get their next clue. The games they must win are:
- toss three balls into a hole
- roll balls into holes to make you racing horse go
- throw balls at a pyramid of cans
The person who did not do the previous road block must perform this one.
"This is a weird one", Maddison
Production has filled the halls with clowns, musicians etc dressed in period clothing. There is also a bunch of other people there enjoying the games.
Maddison struggles with tossing balls into the hole and laments that Riley would probably have been good at this as he is very good at darts.
Chee turn out to be better at the carnival games than Leo.
"Chee, I have been here for a few races", Leo when Chee wins the horse races on his first attempt
"Hung & Chee are just made of magic and faerie dust", Alana when the former leave
Kaylynn & Haley are happy when they arrive at the museum.
"We're pretty sure we're last but we're just happy we made it", Haley
"We haven't seen a team since we pulled out of the airport", Haley
"I sure hope that we are not last, but that is the slimmest chance", Haley
I must admit that I am impressed by the girls here. They did mess up royally at the start of the leg but they have not given up. And that will pay off because we as viewers know there is a team behind them.
Michelle & Victoria are also not giving up, which s also impressive.
"Keep hoping, you never know", Michelle
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
1(+0)Riley & Maddison* (2-3)2(+1)Hung & Chee* (2-3)3(-1)Leo* & Alana (3-2)4(+0)Will & James* (3-2)5(+?)DeAngelo* & Gary (3-2)6(+?)Eswar* & Aparna (3-2)7(+0)Kaylynn* & Haley (3-2)8(+0)Michelle* & Victoria(3-2)
Route info: Race to Ponts des Arts.
This is the pit stop for this leg of the race. Teams travel here by taxi (9 minutes).
Teams reach Phil in the following order:
1(+0) Riley & Maddison. win a trip to Vietnam
2(+0) Hung & Chee
3(+0) Leo & Alana
4(+0) Will & James
5(+0) DeAngelo & Gary
6(+0) Eswar & Aparna
7(+0) Kaylynn & Haley
8(+0) Michelle & Victoria, are eliminated
Kaylynn & Haley have a hard time believing Phil when he tells them that they are not last.
"I never thought somebody could screw up worse than us", Kaylynn
"We're so thankful for everything", Michelle
We also get to hear that Michelle & Victoria feel very close now, and they were not close at all before the race.
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Amazing Race Season 32, Episode 6, "I'm not even walking, I'm falling"
Film date: 2018-11-22
The last pit stop was at Ponts des Arts in Paris, France. Teams are released from Place Vendôme after what seems as a 24+ hour pit stop in the following order:
1.Riley & Maddison 00:252.Hung & Chee 00:47+0:223.Leo & Alana 00:58+0:334.Will & James 01:21+0:565.DeAngelo & Gary 02:15+1:506.Eswar & Aparna 02:25+2:007.Kaylynn & Haley 05:15+4:50
Route info: Travel by train to Berlin, Germany.
Once in Berlin teams will find their next clue in a suitcase by the East Side Gallery (a preserved section of the wall).
At the start we get to hear a lot of talk about the alliance.
Everybody is on the same train to Berlin, probably something like:
TGV 9561 from Paris to Frankfurt 07:20 - 11:00
ICE 372 from Frankfurt to Berlin 11:14 - 15:28
We get a shot of all teams running together in a big bunch on the platform in Berlin at 15:50. This implies that they exited the train and the gathered on the platform before starting to race.
From the Hauptbanhof (main train station) teams travel by taxi to the East Side Gallery. Kaylynn & Haley are last out of the station so there are no more taxis. They run around a bit and eventually find one, but are very stressed when they tell the driver to go to the Berlin Wall.
"Can you relax a little bit and tell me it slow?", The taxi driver
"The East side gallery", Kaylynn tells it a bit slower
"Now we are on the way", Now the driver understands whet they are saying
This gives us a glimpse of what it must be like for the taxi drivers who get their cars taken over by frantic teams yelling at them to go to places quickly.
"I run really slow", Kaylynn on why they got to the taxis last
"Why you don't run faster? You don't look fat.", The driver
And in the taxi we learn that Chee thinks the wall is from WWII but Hung knows it is from the cold war.
At the East Side Gallery teams run along the river looking for the next clue. They all spot it more or less at the same time so they all descend on it en masse.
This clue is a route info which tells teams to drive a Trabant to the Teledisco. A Trabant is an old East German car, known for being small, difficult to drive and unreliable. We see that teams get a couple of pages titled "Quick Guide for Using a Trabant".
"This thing is tiny", Gary when trying to get into the Trabant
"I'm just going to stay in first", Chee is afraid to change gears once he gets the car going
Teledisco is a phone boot re-purposed into a small disco. It is located at 99 Revaler Straße (5 minutes 2.1km). Teams arrive in the following order:
1. DeAngelo & Gary
2. Riley & Maddison
3. Hung & Chee, just after #2
4. Will & James
5. Leo & Alana
6. Eswar & Aparna
7. Kaylynn & Haley
Phil tries to sell us that this is the latest greatest craze, I'm not sure I buy it. Anyway teams must enter and dance for 3 minutes.
There is one booth and it holds one team so there is no way teams can pass each other. Hung & Che squeeze in together with Riley & Maddison which saves them some time.
After 3 minutes the music stops and the both prints out four bad photos of the racers. On the bottom it says "Drive to Andels hotel and park out front".
Here we see that some teams have not figured out how to make the Trabant go in reverse so they just push them out of the parking spots.
Riley & Maddison and Hung & Chee start by getting directions so when they get back to their cars Will & James are just done with the disco. They agree to drive together but Will & James promptly loose the other teams while they figure out how to release the parking brake.
Will & James soon figure out the parking brake but have lost the others. And when they are halfway to the hotel the clutch throws in the towel. Apparently production gave them a choice, fix the clutch or make their way to the hotel on foot. They select the latter.
Leo & Alana parked at the side of the hotel to look for the correct place. Then when they want to move their car it will not start. Alana offers to push it if Leo steers and thus they arrive at the front of the hotel.
Teams arrive to the front of hotel (11 minutes 3.1km) in the following order:
1(+0) DeAngelo & Gary
2(+0) Riley & Maddison
3(+0) Hung & Chee
4(+0) Will & James
5(+1) Eswar & Aparna, as Riley & Maddison are leaving
6(-1) Leo & Alana, a minute or so after #5
7(+0) Kaylynn & Haley, as #5 and #6 get it
Here teams find a yield, which nobody uses, and a clue box. The clue is a road block: Who wants to feel the wind in their hair?
In this task contestants must climb 15 flights of stairs to the top of the hotel. Then they must do a face first rappel down the building. At the bottom they have to correctly answer a question to receive their next clue. There is also a max weight for racers on this task and as far as we know Gary was the only one exceeding this.
We are told, but the racers are not, that the question will be to unscramble the blinking letters lying on a roof next below. The correct answer is "Sauerkraut". teams may not use pen & paper during this task.
DeAngelo is the first to reach the bottom, but he is dumbfounded when the girl asks him to unscramble the letters.
"I didn't see any letters, like all I saw was my life flashing before my eyes", DeAngelo
DeAngelo has to go back up and try again. He is walking back up with Hung and offers to help her if she agrees to wait for him at the bottom. She agrees and he tells her that they have to unscramble letters when they can see during the descent.
"Did you see the letters?", the judge to Maddison who looks like a big question mark (he did not see them)
"Andel's?", Maddison look up and see the hotel sign (which is not what she is asking for)
"Have fun", The rigger to Hung as she starts screaming on the way down
"I'm not even walking, I'm just falling", Hung gets the title
Hung does not appreciate the rappel but she had the presence of mind to look at the letters while she was being hooked up and she manages to figure out the word once she is back on the ground.
Both Aparna and Leo see the letters on their way down and once on the ground they brainstorm together and eventually Leo cracks the word.
Haley arrives to the downstairs rigging while Leo is getting out of his harness. They speak a bit and Leo gives some hints but does not say what the actual word is. Haley realizes this
"You didn't help me so I won't help you", Haley interviews about Leo
"It was hard to not help Haley, but we didn't want to be in a race for last", Leo
"Haley does not like heights", Kaylynn
Poor Haley is absolutely terrified when she does the rappel the first time. She can not figure out the word though so she goes up again and again and so on. Apparently she did upwards of 9 rap ells and while she still could not figure out the word she did seem to get over her fear of the task. Eventually she stop rappelling and enters the hotel lobby to find some locals who can help. One lady is willing and figures out the word.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
1(+2)Hung* & Chee (3-3)2(-1)DeAngelo* & Gary (4-2)On his 2nd attempt and after getting the answer from Hung3(+0)Riley & Maddison* (2-4)On his 2nd attempt and after getting the answer from DeAngelo4(+0)Will* & James (4-2)Got the answer from Maddison5(+1)Leo* & Alana (4-2)6(-1)Eswar & Aparna* (3-3)Just after #57(+0)Kaylynn & Haley* (3-3)After ~9 rappels and asking random people in the hotel
Detour: Belt it out or belch it out
In belt it out teams must perform a classic German song "I wish I was a chicken". They must dress up and learn to sing the song, which is is song in a furious tempo. To make the task easier there are cue cards while performing, so it seems the only things needed is to sing the words quickly enough and more importantly "sell" the performance. This takes place at Ballhaus Berlin (14 minutes, 6km).
In belch it out teams must learn a sequence of beer yoga poses and then teach them to a class. This takes place at Life Artists Creators Hub at 4 Milastrasse (11 minutes, 4.8km).
"Do you need the car?", A worried James asks Chee who just have read the clue
"Uh, no. It's taxi", Chee's response makes many teams happy
Hung & Chee hang around and wait for DeAngelo to do his rappel. Then they wait for Maddison as well. All in all they wait for 10 minutes. Riley & Maddison wait for Will while the first two teams look for taxis. Hung & Chee are not happy when DeAngelo take the only taxi they see.
"DeAngelo & Gary are not helping the alliance, they just bring it up when it is helpful to them", Hung
From racers we learned that the beer used in the beer yoga was non alcoholic. Teams must learn four poses and then demonstrate those for the class. Exactly how you present them turns out to be important as well. The poses they have to learn are:
Beer salutation
Beer chair pose
Beer boat
Beer dancer
Not shown on the show is the fact that Will & James's teacher did not mention that there would be cue cards so they spent 45 minutes memorizing the lyrics. The other teams got told about the cue cards and could go much faster.
"Learning the song was tricky", James
Editing makes it seem as if Kaylynn & Haley arrive at the singing detour just as the teams in front are leaving. But we all know that this can be deceiving and we later learn that they were 4 hours behind at the pit stop so they were not even close.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+1) DeAngelo & Gary, yoga on their 2nd attempt
2(-1) Hung & Chee, yoga
3(+0) Riley & Maddison, yoga on their 2nd attempt
4(+0) Will & James, sing on their 2nd attempt
5(+1) Eswar & Aparna, sing on their 2nd attempt
6(-1) Leo & Alana, sing on their 2nd attempt
7(+0) Kaylynn & Haley, sing
Route info: "Race to Neukolln and search for Phil on the mat at your next pit stop"
Teams check in with Phil in the following order:
1(+0) DeAngelo & Gary, win $7,500 each
2(+1) Riley & Maddison
3(-1) Hung & Chee
4(+0) Will & James
5(+0) Eswar & Aparna
6(+0) Leo & Alana, just after #5
7(+0) Kaylynn & Haley, are saved by a non-elimination
At the mat Phil berates Hung & Chee for waiting on the other teams. He points out that this probably cost them $15,000.
Fun fact, it was cold and since Kaylynn & Haley were 4 hours behind the production crew retired to somewhere warmer while waiting for them. As they did this somebody seized the opportunity and stole the pit stop mat.
At the virtual mat Phil plays with the Kaylynn & Haley.
"Your luck might have run out", Phil
"Yeah, we thought so", Kaylynn & Haley
"But it hasn't", Phil lets them know this is a non-elimination
Teams spend this pit stop in Hutten Palast, a hotel consisting of small caravans in an indoor space. It looks magical. As it is Thanksgiving they all have a shared Thanksgiving meal. A welcome chance to spend time with the other teams without the stress of the race.
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Amazing Race Season 32, Episode 7, "Give me a beard bump"
Film date: 2018-11-24 - 2018-11-25
This episode start at the pit stop hotel where teams talk about how the blondes have run out of luck. They are shocked when Kaylynn & Haley step through the door and announce that it was a non-elim.
"The blonde bandits had the best luck in this race", James
Teams are then released in the following order:
1.DeAngelo & Gary 01:302.Riley & Maddison 01:46+0:163.Hung & Chee 01:53+0:234.Will & James 02:04+0:345.Eswar & Aparna 02:13+0:436.Leo & Alana 02:14+0:447.Kaylynn & Haley 05:32+4:02
The first clue tells teams to fly to Almaty, Kazakstan. Once on the ground they must make their way to Kazakhfilm studio.
It looks like teams buy their own tickets for this trip. But it does not really matter because they all end up on the same flight anyway.
Once teams land they jump into taxis. Leo surprises us by speaking Russian to the driver. It turns out that he speaks Russian and a little bit of Kazakh.
At Kazakhfilm teams gather inside the gate and wait to see what will happen next. I guess somebody or the clue told them to do this.
Suddenly two guys on horses appear. They are both in full gallop and the first guy is also on fire. Both throws satchels on the ground in front of the racers. The first contains the clues for the teams and the second contains Kaylynn & Haley's speed bump.
The girls must go into a nearby makeup studio and apply prosthetic beards to each other. They must then wear these beards for the rest of the leg.
The other teams can go directly to the detour: Great Khan's spy or Knock out guy
In Great Khan's spy teams must watch an action sequence and once it is complete they must correctly answer some questions about it. The scene they get to see starts with some quiet village life which suddenly is interrupted by an attacking force. After a brief fight the attackers are repelled. Once that is done the teams are, one by one, lead up to the great Khan and asked the following questions:
1. How many horses entered the village during the battle? (answer 6)
2. How many warriors in the battle fought with an axe? (answer 1)
3. How many warriors in the battle carried spears? (answer 5)
4. How many times did the great Khan call out to his warriors during the battle? (answer 0)
In Knock out guy teams must learn a choreographed stunt routine. It involves fighting with swords, blocking thrown stones with shields, using sacks of flour to defeat axe wielding opponents and together push a spear guy back before finally jumping down from a ledge. Only four teams can do this task.
Both options require teams to dress up in the provided costumes first.
In the spy task teams get one attempt to answer the questions per performance. They must watch the scene again before they can make another attempt. The clue also apparently forbid teams to share the answers.
Kaylynn and Haley wanted to do the fighting task but arrived there last due to their speed bump so all swords had been taken. When they get to the spy task the second performance is already underway so they have to wait a bit.
Meanwhile Gary feels ready but DeAngelo needs to train more so teams are passing them. Gray seems to be pissed with DeAngelo for this.
"We air all our grievances right away, and we get over it", Gary
"We get it out of the way and then we move forward", DeAngelo
Eswar & Aparna fail the fight task twice because they were too quiet so on their 3rd attempt they yell all the time.
Poor Leo & Alana get stuck on this task. They mistakenly think the flags some warriors carry counts as spears (they do have pointy ends) so their count is way off. After a while they start guessing 10, 9, 8 etc spears and finally on their 10th attempt they guess correctly. This whole task took them 3+ hours and there were two tea breaks for the actors.
Teams complete this detour in the following order
1. Riley & Maddison, fight on their 1st attempt
2. Hung & Chee, spy on the 2nd attempt
3. Will & James, fight on their 2nd attempt
4. DeAngelo & Gary, fight on their 2nd attempt
5. Eswar & Aparna, fight on their 3rd attempt
6. Kaylynn & Haley, spy on their 2nd attempt
7. Leo & Alana, spy on their 10th attempt
The next clue tells team to travel by a marked van to a nomad village in the Karasay district.
The clue also warns that there is a yield ahead and: "There are only a few legs left to use your power of yield, don't waste it!"
We get to hear Will & James talk about how they would like to target Leo & Alana since they are the only non-alliance team which has managed to finish in the top 3.
Nobody has used the yield when Kaylynn & Haley arrive and the girls say they are not planning to use it. But then James and Maddison pop out of their yurts and yell to them to use it since they are next to last.
"You want this cushion of time, I promise", James
"You gotta yield them girls", Riley
The girls relent. They realize it makes sense to yield the last team to give themselves a cushion and they do have a 20 minute yield.
James is happy about this since he got another team to use their yield against a team he want eliminated.
The trip to this village apparently took around an hour. Teams arrive to the yield and clue box in the following order:
1(+1) Hung & Chee
2(-1) Riley & Maddison
3(+0) Will & James
4(+0) DeAngelo & Gary
5(+0) Eswar & Aparna
6(+0) Kaylynn & Haley, yields Leo & Alana (20 minutes)
7(+0) Leo & Alana, arrives while four teams are still at this challenge
Teams must now choose a camel loaded with possessions, lead it to an empty yurt and then arrange the items inside as shown in the finished example. There are lots of intricate details which they must get right. The most challenging thing is probably the cooked lambs head. This is not included in the camel pack but must be collected from a group of ladies who are cooking them nearby.
It turns out that the teams do not have to lead the camel themselves, a local will handle that part which is probably just as well.
This is filmed in the winter so everything is covered in snow and it is very cold inside the yurts teams have to decorate. We get to hear multiple players complain that they can not feel their toes or fingers.
"Give me a beard bump", Maddison to Kaylynn & Haley (who are still wearing the prosthetic beards), and he gets the title
In interviews after the race we learn that this task was very difficult. There were many small details you had to get right. The big details which we got to see in the telecast was the lambs head. Hun & Chee seem to be the first team to figure out where to get this, and the fact that you had to bring your tray.
"So sorry guys", Kaylynn & Haley to Leo & Alana when the latter wait at the yield
"We only hate you a little", Alana
Gary asks Hung & Chee where the skull is and Hung points it out to them. She immediately regrets it. She berates herself for this in the van and asks Chee if he is frustrated. He admits to be a little bit frustrated.
"You've got 90 seconds to be frustrated and get over it because you're wasting energy", Hung to Chee
Kaylynn & Haley find the ladies with the skulls but they did not bring their tray so they do not get one. They seem to assume it is because the heads are not completely cooked yet so they stand around waiting a bit before they realize they need to bring their own tray.
Even though Leo Alana spent more than 3 hours at the detour they catch up to the other teams here. There are still two teams decorating their yurts when the yield time runs out.
Teams complete this challenge in the following order:
1(+2) Will & James
2(+0) Riley & Maddison
3(-2) Hung & Chee
4(+0) DeAngelo & Gary
5(+1) Kaylynn & Haley
6(-1) Eswar & Aparna
7(+0) Leo & Alana
Route info: Travel to Zelenyi Bazaar in Almaty and search the meat market for your next clue.
The first team is the only one who have to search for the clue box at the meat market. It is placed on a balcony above the market. When the other teams arrive the vendors point to where the clue box is.
Teams find the clue here in the following order:
1(+0) Will & James
2(+0) Riley & Maddison
3(+0) Hung & Chee
4(+0) DeAngelo & Gary
5(+0) Kaylynn & Haley
6(+0) Eswar & Aparna
7(+0) Leo & Alana
This clue is a route info which tells teams to travel by taxi to the next pit stop in First President Park.
As Will & James run out of the meat market they see Riley & Maddison arrive so they know they are not far ahead.
As usual the editing tries to make it seem close between the last three teams and they do a reasonably good job. But we never see more than one team in the shot so we know it can be any time between them.
Teams find Phil in the following order:
1(+0) Will & James, win a trip to Las Vegas
2(+0) Riley & Maddison
3(+0) Hung & Chee
4(+0) DeAngelo & Gary
5(+0) Kaylynn & Haley
6(+0) Eswar & Aparna
7(+0) Leo & Alana, are eliminated
This pit stop looks very grand. It is located at a typical eastern block big monument and there is a troupe of dancers and musicians to greet the teams.
At the mat Phil tells teams that the next leg will be a mega-leg, that means double the detours, double the road blocks and double the distance.
Leo & Alana arrived to the pit stop 45 minutes after team #6 so the yield did not really affect the outcome of this leg.
"Running the Amazing Race with Leo was the most extraordinary thing I have ever done.", Alana
Leo & Alana met on Tinder 10 months before the race and this seems to have been a good match because by the time the race aired they were married.
maf:
Racing report
Amazing Race Season 32, Episode 8, "Are you a Rickshaw?"
Film date: probably 2018-11-26 - 2018-11-28
The last pit stop was at First President Park in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Teams are released from in front of the Royal Tulip hotel in the following order:
1.Will & James 22:152.Riley & Maddison 22:28+0:133.Hung & Chee 22:50+0:354.DeAngelo & Gary 23:24+1:095.Kaylynn & Haley 23:40+1:256.Eswar & Aparna 23:50+1:35
Route info: "Fly to the cyber city of Hyderabad, in exotic India."
Will & James are very happy with having convinced Kaylynn & Haley to use their yield in the last leg and hope they can use their own yield in this leg. Riley & Maddison tell us that they are used to playing Volleyball all day in tournaments so the mega leg should play to their strengths. Hung & Chee complain over how they have helped DeAngelo & Gary but not received anything in return.
"I believed our alliance of 5 is still going strong", Gary
This trip seem to be booked by production so all teams are on the same flight. This was probably:
TK 351 ALA-IST 08:00 - 10:57
TK 760 IST-DXB 19:37 - 00:53+1
EK 526 DBX-HYD 03:30 - 08:30
Upon arrival we see the usual chaotic taxi race. The first destination seems to be just off one of the roads. Teams arrive in the following order:
1. Eswar & Aparna
2. DeAngelo & Gary
3. Will & James
4. Kaylynn & Haley
5. Riley & Maddison
6. Hung & Chee
Route info: "Smog test 3 auto rickshaws to receive your next clue from the pollution control technician."
Teams must now flag down three auto-rickshaws and lead them to a testing van (there is one testing van per team). Once there they must enter the vehicle data and put a probe in its tailpipe to measure the emissions. Finally the technician will print a certificate for the driver.
Some teams don't what a rickshaw is.
"What's a rickshaw?", DeAngelo
"Are you a rickshaw?', James to the technician (and he gets the title)
Eswar & Aparna is the only team who knows that here they are called just autos, But shouting that probably does not help much in flagging them down. After a while teams realize that it is easier if you pick the empty rickshaws. And you have to be pretty aggressive in getting them as well. And the girls learn that you have to follow them all the way to the van as well, otherwise they will slip away.
The street they are doing this on is as expected crazy. 3-4 packed lanes of traffic. Fortunately the traffic moves fairly slowly. Which is good since the racers rush between the lanes trying to grab the rickshaws.
Riley & Maddison flag down two rickshaws at the same time since this was explicitly allowed in the rules. This causes DeAngelo to protest.
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Eswar & Aparna
2(+0) DeAngelo & Gary
3(+3) Hung & Chee
4(-1) Will & James
5(+0) Riley & Maddison
6(-2) Kaylynn & Haley
Detour: Food app or number tap
In food app teams must make their way to a Swiggy booth, pick up a bag and complete three deliveries. To make this a bit harder production has disabled the GPS on the phone they have to use so they must rely on directions given by an operator.
In number tap teams must make their way to an office. Here they must play a motion sensor video game catching 1's and 0's. If they catch them all they are presented with a long binary string. Nearby is a decoding table and using that they can decode the binary string and get the message: "You can find the clue in the fourth floor bunker". The bunker turns out to be the name of a conference room.
Teams must travel to their detour choice by the marked taxis which are waiting next to the smog test location. Both detour options are about 5km away.
The number tap takes place in a building named thub. Eswar & Aparna are looking forward to this task as they are software engineers and know binary code. They will later find that this did not help them at all. Instead they struggle with the game. It seems is if in this instance playing video games is more fruitful than learning to program computers.
Kaylynn & Haley have bad taxi luck here. They take one of the marked taxis but the driver promptly gets lost. It takes the a loong time to reach the start of the detour.
"I think we're lost", Kaylynn
Their driver pulls over and asks for directions many times but he does not really speak to the girls or answer when they try to speak with him.
Riley figures out that the game is much easier to win if you keep your hands close together. After that realization they make quick work of the task.
Hung & Chee struggle at the video game and after 10 attempts they decide to make two more and then switch. They fail these as well so they switch to the food delivery task.
"I don't think I'm getting any better", Chee after failing the 12th attempt
In the food delivery task teams have to rely on the operator to guide them to their destination. Hung is smart and constantly tells the operator what they see and which landmarks they are passing. The deliveries are a bit unusual, in one case they are told to enter a park and look for a guy in a red hat.
It does not look so in the episode but in interviews after Kaylynn & Haley said that they reached the food delivery detour as Hung & Chee were leaving it. The girls also seem to struggle with understanding the operator and the directions they are given.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+3) Will & James, game on their 3rd attempt
2(+0) DeAngelo & Gary, game on their 2nd attempt
3(-2) Eswar & Aparna, game on their 8th attempt
4(+1) Riley & Maddison, game on their 2nd attempt
5(-2) Hung & Chee, started game but switched to deliver after 12 failed attempts
6(+0) Kaylynn & Haley, deliver
Route info: "Travel by taxi to the Qutb Shahi tombs and search the area for the mausoleum of Mohamed Quli Qutb Shah for your next clue. Warning, yield ahead. Do not miss the opportunity to use the power of the yield."
In the taxi to the yield Will & James discuss that the safest course of action is to yield the blondes because they have already used their yield so they can not retaliate.
Teams reach the clue box and the yield here in the following order:
1(+0) Will & James, yields Kaylynn & Haley (20 min)
2(+0) DeAngelo & Gary
3(+0) Eswar & Aparna, seconds after #2
4(+0) Riley & Maddison
5(+0) Hung & Chee
6(+0) Kaylynn & Haley, arrive ~1h after Will & James completed the road block (they see them leave after their lunch break)
"We're in timeout", Haley as they wait out their yield
Road block: Who's ready to flip their lids?
In this road block contestants must grab tablets which provide an augmented reality view of the ground level of the mausoleum. In this view they can find 18 different kings, each with a distinct turban, standing next to 18 different pillars. They must then go up to the roof and find three people with matching turbans and place them on the markers which are directly above where they appeared below. Everybody does this one person at a time. All contestants use the same set of people so there can be instances where more than one team look for the same guy. Once a person has been placed on the correct spot they remain there and can not be used again.
It seems as if each king only appear if you stand in a fairly small area in front of the pillar.
James struggles with this task. He assumes there is one marker per pillar but it turns out that there is no marker for the first pillar, so he is off by one for a long time. Gary is smarter and looks at landmarks outside the tomb (the sides are open) to see where each pillar is.
"I have no idea what I'm doing wrong", James
Finally he asks Gary and Eswar what he is doing wrong and learn he has been one off all the time.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
1(+3)Riley* & Maddison (3-4)2(+0)DeAngelo & Gary* (4-3)3(-2)Will & James* (4-3)4(+1)Hung & Chee* (3-4)?Eswar* & Aparna (4-3)?Kaylynn & Haley (3-3)
In the episode it looks like teams immediately get their clue and race on. But in interviews after the race we learn that there was a 1 hour lunch break here. That is once teams were done with the task they were told to stop racing for 1 hour and there was food available. After 1 hour teams can continue the race.
Route info: "Travel by auto rickshaw to Charminar and search for your next clue."
Production has arranged a bunch of auto rickshaws which teams can choose between.
And this is where this episode ends. Four teams have left the road block, Eswar is doing it and Kaylynn & Haley are waiting out their yield.
claude_24hrs:
Maf, the leg in Kazakhstan was on November 25, 2018, not November 24. Leg started in the early morning of November 24.
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