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Amazing Race Canada Season 8, Episode 5, "I am a human kite"
Film dates: 2022-05-06 - 2022-05-07
The last leg ended at the Canmore Nordic Center, AB. Teams are released from the plaza in front of the Canmore Public Library in the following order:
1.Brendan & Connor 14:342.Jesse & Marika 15:00+0:263.Franca & Nella 15:09+0:354.Cedric & Tychon 16:00+1:265.Jully & Kathy 16:42+2:086.Beverly & Veronica16:47+2:137.Cassie & Jahmeek 16:56+2:22
Route info: Fly to Vernon, BC.
Teams must now drive 120km from Canmore to Calgary and then fly from there to Vernon, BC. Or, at least that is what Jon say in the episode. They actually fly to Kelowna, and will then have to drive 40km from there to Vernon.
When teams land in Kelowna they find a road block clue in their cars: Who'll go first?
In this road block racers will get to tandem paraglide into the Okinava valley. But before they can do that they must find Freedom Flight School outside Vernon (63km) and sign up on the board.
We are shown a montage of teams driving to the flight school. We get to see a short clip of Connor talking about a back road and then they arrive first. So it is easy to think they found a faster way, but looking at the map I see no such shortcut. It is basically just driving down the main road and two turns they need to make, so this feels like some deceptive editing.
"I don't wanna fight with Franca, I think she'll probably take me in a wrestling match", Jesse and Franca got to the board more or less at the same time.
Teams sign up in the following order:
1. Brendan & Connor
2. Franca & Nella
3. Jesse & Marika
4. Jully & Kathy
5. Cedric & Tychon
6. Beverly & Veronica
7. Cassie & Jahmeek
It is dark when teams get here and there is also a sign that the school is closed and will open at 8:00 AM.
This is a very linear task and unless you chicken out, which nobody does, there is no way to pass any teams.
"Marika has a poker face, no one's gonna see that she's nervous", Jesse
"I'm so nervous", Marika confesses to the camera
"I feel literally like I'm a human kite", Kathy gets the title as she is nervous about the fairly strong wind
Then when Kathy tries to start it looks like a gust of wind hits their parachute from the side so she and her instructor never get airborne instead they just end up in a heap on the ground. But nobody is hurt so they get back up and try again and this time they have a successful start.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1(+0)Brendan* & Connor (3-3)2(+0)Franca & Nella* (2-4)3(+0)Jesse & Marika* (3-3)4(+0)Jully & Kathy* (2-2)5(+0)Cedric & Tychon* (2-4)6(+0)Beverly & Veronica*(3-3)7(+0)Cassie & Jahmeek* (2-4)
The next clue teams get is another road block: Who has no choice but to do this road block?
This road block takes place at the Sovereign lake Nordic club (51km). The participating racers must try their hand at Biathlon.
They must first ski around a 300m loop. Then they are given a rifle, five targets and five shots. If they to not hit all their targets they have to ski another lap and are then given five new shots to continue on their targets. They are done once they have hit all five targets. As expected, the team member who did not do the previous road block must do this one.
They are shooting lying down and they have a support they can lean their rifle against as they shoot, this probably moved the difficulty rating of this task from more or less impossible to challenging.
Jesse is stoked about this task as he is a two times Olympic cross country skier. And he was skiing in Sovereign lake about a month ago so he knows the place. The racers are at different levels when it comes to skiing. On one end we find Jesse who effortlessly passes everybody and at the other end we have Franca, Jully and Cassie who do not look like they have ever stood on a pair of skis. But skiing is only one part of this task. You need to be able to shoot as well. And when it comes to the shooting teams are very uneven. Some like Connor get three hits on their first attempt but then have to do 16 additional laps before he hits the last two targets.
This is also where Cassie & Jahmeek encounter their speed bump. They must sort a big pile of cross country ski boots by size and style. This is a typical speed bump task. Not particularly hard, it just takes a while.
"Beauty and grace", Veronica comments when Beverly struggles to lie down for her shooting
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1(+2)Jesse* & Marika (4-3)After 4 laps2(+1)Franca* & Nella (3-4)After 4 laps3(-2)Brendan & Connor* (3-4)After 16 laps4(+2)Beverly* & Veronica(4-3)After 6 laps5(-1)Jully* & Kathy (3-2)After 5 laps6(+1)Cassie* & Jahmeek (3-4)After 5 laps7(-2)Cedric* & Tychon (3-4)After 16 laps
Detour: Ball'n or Pomme'n?
In Ball'n teams must play a game of Lawn Bowling against a local team. The racers must earn a total of five points to get their next clue. This may seem easy, specially since the local teams are all seniors. But they turn out to play a wicked game of Lawn Bowling so it takes a while for our teams to get five points.
In Pomm'n teams must make five mini apple pies. This involves rolling out the dough, slicing the apples and topping it with a pastry lattice.
Ball'n takes place at the Vernon Lawn Bowling club (24.5km) and Pomme'n at Davison Orchards (26.5km).
"Betty is the nicest lady, but she is a killer", Jesse about one of their opponents
"Heather is show her experience right now, and she's trash talking me like Michael Jordan", Cedric
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+2) Brendan & Connor, bowling
2(-1) Jesse & Marika, bowling
3(-1) Franca & Nella, bowling
4(+0) Beverly & Veronica, pie
5(+0) Jully & Kathy, pie
6(+0) Cassie & Jahmeek, bowling
7(+0) Cedric & Tychon, bowling
Route info: Drive yourselves to Jealous fruits orchard.
At the orchard teams are given a math challenge. They must count the number of trees in a marked area (the correct number is 548). Then they must use the knowledge that one tree produces 31 pounds of cherries to calculate the total production of the marked field (16,988lb).
The extra info tells teams that the orchard can be found at 1408 Broadwater Road in Lake Country (27km). On their way to the orchard Brendan & Connor overshoots it and that allows two teams to pass them.
Jesse & Marika have a strategy where they both count each row of trees and then compare their numbers. This turns out to be effective.
Jully & Kathy struggle with this task their math is correct but they have the wrong number of trees. Cedric & Tychon arrive as Jully & Kathy are still counting. The boys decide to take a shortcut and pick up the chalk boards used by the previous teams to peek at their answers.
"We know we're getting a penalty on the mat but this may be quicker than counting the trees", Tychon
The episode is a bit evasive about what actually happens with Jully & Kathy here. We see footage of Jully also handling boards from the other teams so there is no question that she did it but we do not know if they used the information on them.
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+1) Jesse & Marika
2(+1) Franca & Nella
3(-2) Brendan & Connor
4(+0) Beverly & Veronica
5(+0) Cassie & Jahmeek
6(+1) Cedric & Tychon (after looking at another teams answer)
7(-1) Jully & Kathy (see below)
The next clue sends teams to Predator Ridge resort (20km) where they must find the yoga platform where Jon awaits with the mat.
Teams reach Jon in the following order:
1(+0) Jesse & Marika, win a trip to London and a $2000 gift card from Marshalls
2(+0) Franca & Nella, just after #1
3(+0) Brendan & Connor
4(+0) Beverly & Veronica
5(+0) Cassie & Jahmeek
6(+0) Cedric & Tychon, are given a 2 hour penalty for interfering with another teams equipment
7(+0) Jully & Kathy, almost 2 hours after Cedric & Tychon but they are also given a 2h penalty and are eliminated
"We told ourselves no shortcuts, and we didn't listen to our own advice", Cedric
At the mat there is some talk about the board touching. Jully apologizes for accidentally touching the board. Kathy mentions that they know that they can not touch but if something is out then it is fair game. We have another data point to use when trying to figure out what actually happened at the counting challenge and that is the fact that when the girls showed their board with the correct result to the judge it only contained the answer, on their previous shown attempts the board also held the calculations which lead to their guess.
This makes me think that Jully touched the other boards and may or may not remember this. After that they noted that they could see the result on at least one of the other boards. I assume they did not need to touch this board at this time since Cedric & Tychon (or Jully) had already moved it so the writing was visible. They then copied the result from this board to their and showed it to the judge.
"We had fun today. This is a VIP experience of some of the most wonderful things in this country', Kathy
And I must of course mention that the preview for the next episode ended with a shot of a black clue envelope lying i a pit on the ground and then we see the three teams who, due to Covid, had to quit racing earlier coming back. From this we can gather that at least one and possible all of these teams get to come back to the race.
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Amazing Race Canada Season 8, Episode 6, "Racing for our lives"
Film dates: 2022-05-11
The last leg ended at Predator Ridge resort, near Vernon BC. Teams are released from the Waterfront park in nearby Kelowna in the following order:
1.Jesse & Marika 05:192.Franca & Nella 05:20+0:013.Brendan & Connor 05:34+0:154.Beverly & Veronica06:02+0:435.Cassie & Jahmeek 06:32+1:136.Cedric & Tychon 07:01+1:42
Here we see that they have messed with the start times. In the previous leg Cedric & Tychon arrived after Cassie & Jahmeek to the mat and they got a 2h penalty. So they ought to start more than 2h after Cassie & Jahmeek rather than the 29 minutes they do start behind. My guess is that production had a time they had to have everybody released by in order to make the planned flight. So as to not have to release the first teams at an ungodly hour they compress the times a bit. This does not really affect the race as they will all be bunched up soon anyway.
The first clue tells teams to fly to Toronto, ON.
Once they land they need to make their way on public transit to the Marshalls store at Yonge & Gerrard St.
Teams seem to get separated in the subway so they reach the clue box outside the store in the following order:
1. Brendan & Connor
2. Cassie & Jahmeek
3. Beverly & Veronica
4. Cedric & Tychon
5. Franca & Nella
6. Jesse & Marika
Teams must now go shopping. In the store are 7 drawings of people in various outfits. Each team must pick one drawing and the find the pieces of that outfit in the store. The items they need to pick up are marked with a race flag but seem to be hidden among all the normal items in the aisles.
Each team will have to find four items and they may not move the picture showing the items they must find.
"This is right up our alley, we love fashion. We're big time fashion guys", Brendan is sarcastic
"I'm a frequent flyer at Marshalls", Franca
"This is definitely the most stressful shopping I've ever done", Marika
Teams complete their shopping in the following order:
1(+2) Beverly & Veronica
2(+3) Franca & Nella
3(+1) Cedric & Tychon
4(-2) Cassie & Jahmeek
5(+1) Jesse & Marika
6(-5) Brendan & Connor
Route info: Catch a train to London, ON. Once in London make your way to East Park Golf Gardens and search for your next clue.
It is evening when teams are done with the shopping task so I assume they take the first train the next morning (06:50-09:06). Once they arrive they jump into cars and drive themselves to East Park Golf Gardens (7km).
"It could be something like a game of mini put, it could be to clean 200 golf balls, we have no idea.", Beverly speculates about the next task
It looks like some teams have a hard time getting to East Park but once here we see all teams run in together. They may have had an hours of operations here or production may just have held them until everybody was here. Anyway when they run in together they see Jon waiting for them. He asks everybody to line up and the racers are confused. Jon does not keep them in suspense but rather immediately welcomes Catherine & Craig, Court & Ali and Dennis & Durell back. These are the teams who had to stop racing two legs ago due to Covid.
Jon tells the returning teams that technically none of them were eliminated and this is their on-ramp to get back into the race. Or at least it is for two of them. There are two on-ramp passes hidden on the grounds and the returning teams will receive a riddle which should help them find them.
The riddle reads:Everyone here wishes you well
But where the pass is hidden we cannot tell
It's up to you to figure out what's up
So go somewhere that gives you luck
Find the right place
And you're back in the race
Teams zero in on the words "up" and "luck" which is almost correct. The clue is hidden in the wishing well hole of the mini golf course.
Court & Ali are the first to find it and they tell Catherine & Craig. As Dennis & Durell did not find one of the two on-ramp cards they are eliminated.
"It's been an amazing experience to do this with him", Durell
Now that we have sorted out who is rejoining the race Jon can restart it. He points at the next clue box nearby and after a short pause yells GO.
Detour: Aviate or Animate
Aviate takes place at Fanshawe college Norton Wolf school of avaiation (9.3km) and requires teams to install and assemble a propeller on a Cessna 150. Teams are given a sheet of instructions, some of the steps require the judge to approve before they may proceed.
Animate takes place at the Fanshawe school of digital and performing arts (7.6km). Here one racer will slip into a motion capture suit while the other takes the role of director. The director get to see an animated movie and must then explain to their partner what they need to do match the movements of the hero the movie. The move shows the hero, Jon, jumping around in an old temple. To help the racers there are tape marks on the floor of the studio marking the various ledges etc.
Beverly & Veronica struggle with the propeller. They ask Cedric & Tychon for help but the boys just give terse answers to their questions.
"They're just annoying", Cedric
There only seems to be one recording set available at the Animate task so teams have to wait in line.
"I don't think Jon is as graceful as you", Craig when Catherine does a very graceful ballet jump
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1. Brendan & Connor, Aviate
2. Cedric & Tychon, Aviate
3. Beverly & Veronica, Aviate
4. Franca & Nella, Animate on their 2nd attempt
5. Catherine & Craig, Animate on their 3rd attempt
6. Jesse & Marika, Animate use their express pass after 3 failed attempts
7. Cassie & Jahmeek, Animate on their 2nd attempt
8. Court & Ali, Animate
Road block: Who wants a new best friend?
This road block takes place at the Middlesex dog agility club (16.5km from animate and 24.7km from Aviate). Contestants must choose a dog and memorize an agility course. They must then guide their dog through the course in 45 seconds or less.
Teams arrive to the challenge in the following order:
1(+0) Brendan & Connor
2(+2) Franca & Nella
3(-1) Cedric & Tychon, arrive as the first team is leaving
4(-1) Beverly & Veronica
?(+?) Jesse & Marika
?(+?) Cassie & Jahmeek
?(+?) Catherine & Craig
8(+0) Court & Ali
"That's why I let him do it, because I'm afraid of dogs", Cedric
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1(+0)Brendan* & Connor (4-4)2(+0)Franca* & Nella (4-4)3(+0)Cedric & Tychon* (3-5)4(+0)Beverly & Veronica*(4-4)5(+1)Jesse & Marika* (4-4)6(-1)Catherine & Craig* (1-3)7(+0)Cassie & Jahmeek* (3-5)8(+0)Court* & Ali (2-2)
The next route info sends teams to Western Interdisciplinary Research Building (12.6km).
Here teams must meditate. They will each be give a head sensor and a phone with the Muse app. They will have a running score which increases as they are calm but decrease when they are not serene enough (as measured by their head sensor). Teams get audio feedback in the form of bird chirps and sounds of thunder. The goal is to reach a combined score of 30 bird chirps.
"We are trying to meditate right now", Brendan
"That's basically near impossible, we're running the Amazing race Canada", Connor
"In my mind, I don't have much going on, so I think this is going to be a really easy challenge", Nella
"Those girls ran in, that gave us anxiety", Tychon looses his relaxation when Beverly & Veronica arrives
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+1) Franca & Nella
2(-1) Brendan & Connor
3(+0) Cedric & Tychon
4(+0) Beverly & Veronica
5(+2) Cassie & Jahmeek
6(-1) Jesse & Marika
7(-1) Catherine & Craig
----- Court & Ali, not shown completing
Route info: Make your way to Western Alumni stadium and find Jon on the field at your next pit stop. Warning, the last team to check in may be eliminated.
Teams must now drive themselves down to the Western Alumni Stadium (1.5km). Here they will be greeted by a marching band and a cheerleading squad, as well as Jon. Teams reach Jon in the following order:
1(+0) Franca & Nella, win a trip to Honolulu and a $1500 gift card at Marshalls
2(+0) Brendan & Connor
3(+0) Cedric & Tychon
4(+0) Beverly & Veronica
5(+0) Cassie & Jahmeek
6(+0) Jesse & Marika
7(+0) Catherine & Craig
----- Court & Ali, not shown
Teams 5-7 are all on the mat at the same time. They talk with Jon how sad they are for Court & Ali who are very last. Then Jon tells them to not be sad because they are all still racing, and he gives them their next clue.
Route info: Make your way to Belville and Prince Edward County, ON. Once there search outside the train station for your next clue.
Warning, double elimination ahead!
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Amazing Race Canada Season 8, Episode 7, "What the Duck is going on"
Film dates: 2022-05-11 - 2022-05-12
The last leg ended with a keep on racing event on the mat at the Western Alumni Stadium in London, ON. Teams leave the stadium in the following order:
1.Franca & Nella 14:432.Brendan & Connor 14:52+0:093.Cedric & Tychon 15:04+0:214.Beverly & Veronica15:19+0:365.Cassie & Jahmeek 16:15+1:326.Jesse & Marika 16:17+1:347.Catherine & Craig 16:19+1:368.Court & Ali ??:??+?:??
It is interesting that teams 5-7 were all at the mat at the same time and are seen leaving the mat together, but we are still shown different departure times for them and we do not see them driving together. I wonder if they did another of those pause the race for a while here and then released teams a set interval after they arrived.
On the mat Jon talks to Court & Ali and confirms that they were most certainly prepared to give up their spot in the race for Catherine & Craig had they not both made it back into the race.
The first clue is a route info telling teams to make their way to Prince Edward County, ON. It also warns teams that there is a double elimination ahead.
The first two teams are the only ones still having an express pass and both of them say they are going to use them in this leg to avoid the double elimination. The express passes usually have an expire date around this point in the race so I would guess that this or the next leg is the last leg where they can be used.
Teams first need to make their way to Spring Bank park where they can sign up for one of two buses to Toronto, ON. They sign up to the buses in the following order:
Bus #1
1(+1) Brendan & Connor
2(-1) Franca & Nella
3(+0) Cedric & Tychon
4(+0) Beverly & Veronica
Bus #2
5(+0) Cassie & Jahmeek
6(+1) Catherine & Craig
7(-1) Jesse & Marika
8(+0) Court & Ali
"We've got a second map for Court & Ali", Catherine & Craig want to help their friends
The buses will arrive in downtown Toronto 15 minutes apart. Once they arrive teams must search the streets for two people wearing red hats, each of them is holding train tickets to two different trains to Belleville. One of them holds three tickets for the 06:17 train and the other 5 tickets to the 6:32 train.
Looking at the current train timetable I have grave doubts about these times. Currently the morning trains run with 2 hour intervals, and we see some racers board train #50 which according to the current schedule leaves Toronto at 06:47. It seems far more likely that they put all teams on the same train and then just released them 15 minutes apart from the station in Belleville.
All the teams from the first bus find the same lady and get 06:32 tickets. They realize there may be an earlier train and given them back and continue their search for the other person. This second person can not have been easy to find because the second bus arrives before they find her and two of the teams on the second bus find her first and score tickets on the first train.
In the end teams end up on the following trains:
Departing 06:17:
1. Catherine & Craig
2. Court & Ali
3. Franca & Nella, ran into Court & Ali who helped them find the ticket giver
Departing 06:32:
?. Beverly & Veronica
?. Brendan & Connor
?. Jesse & Marika
?. Cedric & Tychon
?. Cassie & Jahmeek
Cedric & Tychon are frustrated that Franca & Nelly just beat them to the tickets to the earlier train.
"Team Franella seem to find all the luck all the time... I don't want to depend on luck, I want to depend on strong racing", Cedric
Teams spend the night in Toronto and the next morning they leave for Belleville. They find their next clue just outside the train station in Belleville.
Road block: Who wants to go house hunting?
Team must drive themselves to the Macaulay mountain conservation area (39km) and search for Birdhouse city. This is a "city" of more than 100 bird houses, all of them bearing individual names. Here racers will find a stand with a partial map of the area. There are birdhouse symbols on them. 7 with names and 14 without. They are also given 14 stickers with birdhouse names. They need to use the named ones to orient themselves and place the stickers on the correct nameless birdhouses on the map.
The racers seems to be forbidden to move the map so there is a lot of running involved in the task.
Unfortunately all the teams get identical maps so they are able to help each other :(
Franca & Nella seem to better at navigating so they arrive quite a bit before the other teams on the first train. Once the other two arrives they all start working together.
"Sweet, I'm just gonna run the entire time", Beverly reads the additional info (and she is quick)
"Their speed is absolutely ridiculous", Craig comments on Beverly & Veronica
There is tension between some teams here. Veronica asks Beverly to try to work with Catherine. But Catherine is not interested. Craig tries to ease the tension but flubs it by calling Veronica Vanessa. We have not seen why a lot of teams seem to dislike Beverly & Veronica but for some reason they seem to do so.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1.Franca & Nella* (4-5)2.Court & Ali* (2-3)3.Catherine* & Craig (2-3)4.Beverly* & Veronica(5-4)?.Jesse* & Marika (5-4)?.Brendan & Connor* (4-5)?.Cassie & Jahmeek* (3-6)?.Cedric & Tychon* (3-6)
The next clue tells teams to head to Prince Eddy's brewing company in the town of Picton (3km). Here they will find a double pass.
The pass is a new element in the race. The team which gets passed must wait for another team to arrive and leave this clue box before they can continue racing. It is a bit like a yield with an unknown waiting time. We do not get told what happens if the passed team is last. This is a double pass which means that two teams can pass two other teams.
Teams reach the pass board in the following order:
1(+0) Franca & Nella, passes Beverly & Veronica
2(+0) Court & Ali, are convinced by Franca & Nella to pass Franca & Nelly to burn the board
3(+0) Catherine & Craig
4(+?) Jesse & Marika
5(+?) Brendan & Connor
6(+?) Cassie & Jahmeek
7(-3) Beverly & Veronica, had trouble navigating and leave as #8 as they were passed
8(+?) Cedric & Tychon
Detour: Press it or Push it
In Press it teams must typeset a short message; "Prince Edward County is an island cluster of small hamlets and villages. It is rooted in farming, agriculture, trade through the waterways, and unique natural features." The trick is that you have to typeset it in reverse so it comes out correct when printed on paper. This takes place at Spark Box Studio (3.6km).
In Push it takes place in front of Savon du Bois in downtown Picton (1.5km). Here one racer from each team must put on a bathing suit and get into a bathtub. They will have a sheet with recipes and instructions which they can read to their partner. The other team member must push and mix together 15 bath bombs.
The bath tubs each contain a bunch of rubber ducks. And teams do not just have to make 15 identical bath bombs. The recipe says they have to make:
- One (1) Medium Green Bath Bomb
- Four (4) Small Green Bath Bombs
- Four (4) Medium Red Bath Bombs
- Two (2) Large Blue Bath Bombs
- Three (3) Medium Blue Bath Bombs
- Two (2) Small Blue Bath Bombs
"Good job ladies", Franella tries to smooth things over when Beverly & Veronica arrives
Craig is the one in the bath tub for his team and he has fun with it. Pretends to strip, show his legs and does some classic beauty poses.
"What the duck is going on over there", Court gets the title when Craig monkeys around
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+3) Jesse & Marika, printing
2(-1) Franca & Nella, bath bombs
3(+0) Catherine & Craig, bath bombs
4(-2) Court & Ali, bath bombs
5(+0) Brendan & Connor, printing
6(+2) Beverly & Veronica, bath bombs
7(+0) Cedric & Tychon, printing
8(-2) Cassie & Jahmeek, bath bombs
The next clue sends teams to Sir James Whitney school for the deaf (35km). Here one racer will be paired with a student who will teach them to sign the name of the schools first deaf professor, Samuel Greene. While they do that their team mate have to memorize the American sign language alphabet. Then then they must reunite and the first of them signs the name to the other who must write it down correctly.
"Last year I actually learned some ASL on a film set. Jesse and I have been practicing ASL", Marika
At the board Court asks Craig how he is figuring the alphabet out so quickly. Craig explains that they do performances for the hearing impaired every few months. Which means he and Catherine already know ASL.
So it turns out that of the eight teams, two use their express passes and three know ASL from before. So we are left with three teams actually having to learn ASL at this challenge and as this is a double elimination and they are all pretty sure this is the last task the pressure is on. Which does not make the task any easier. They are also there at the same time so they see each other. But Court & Ali have one advantage and that is that they got here a lot earlier than the other two remaining teams so they have spent more time practicing.
"This is so hard", Court after failing to decipher what Ali signed
Teams complete this challenge in the following order:
1(+0) Jesse & Marika, knew ASL from before
2(+0) Franca & Nella, arrive as #1 are leaving and use their express pass
3(+0) Catherine & Craig, knew ASL from before
4(+1) Brendan & Connor, use their express pass
5(+1) Beverly & Veronica, knew ASL from before
6(-2) Court & Ali, on their 3rd attempt
7(+0) Cedric & Tychon
8(+0) Cassie & Jahmeek
Route info: Drive yourselves to Sandbanks provincial park and search the beach on foot for Jon at your next Pit Stop.
The first two teams are neck and neck during the drive to the park but Jesse & Marika arrive a few seconds before Franca & Nella and they are also much faster so there is not really any question about who will reach Jon first.
Teams reach Jon at the beach (43km) in the following order:
1(+0) Jesse & Marika, win a trip to Geneva, Switzerland and a $2500 Marshalls gift card
2(+0) Franca & Nella, just after #1
3(+0) Catherine & Craig
4(+0) Brendan & Connor
5(+0) Beverly & Veronica
6(+0) Court & Ali
7(+0) Cedric & Tychon, are eliminated
8(+0) Cassie & Jahmeek, are eliminated
"Believe in yourself, get out and try new things, travel and see your country and most of all, spend time with people you love", Tychon about life lessons you can learn from the race
"Leave with you head held up high, that's all you can ask for", Jahmeek
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Amazing Race Canada Season 8, Episode 8, "Give me a Moustache and call me Sherlock Holmes"
Film dates: 2022-05-13 - 2022-05-14
The last episode ended at Sandbanks Provincial park in Prince Edward County, ON. Teams are released from East Zwick's Centennial Park in Belleville the next day in the following order:
1.Jesse & Marika 13:182.Franca & Nella 13:19+0:013.Catherine & Craig 13:53+0:354.Brendan & Connor 13:54+0:365.Beverly & Veronica13:55+0:376.Court & Ali 14:05+0:47
Route info: Make your way to Ottawa, ON. Once there find your first clue in your first ever all electric Chevrolet Bolt EUV.
The clue also tells teams to drive themselves to the Belleville train station (4km) and then they must travel by rail from Belleville to Ottawa.
"The best birthday present would just be winning first place on this leg and continuing on with my best friend", Nella has her birthday today
"Franca is now carrying her body weight in maps", Nella implies they are hoarding maps (which is smart)
"We certainly have a connection with Franca & Nella, it's just not a great connection", Beverly about getting passed on the previous leg by Franca & Nella
All teams end up on the same train so they arrive together in Ottawa. In the provided cars they find a route info which tells them to drive to the Canadian Museum of History and search outside for their next clue.
The clue box outside the museum (8km) contains a cellphone and instructions. Teams must use the Expedia app to book tickets for the museum. It is getting dark outside as teams get here and the rest of the leg is done in bright sunlight so I assume they had to wait overnight for the museum to open and the next task took place the following morning.
Inside the museum teams will be given a station with pictures of 13 stamps. Each stamp is missing its cost and teams must search the museum's stamp collection, containing more than 3000 stamps, to find the price of their stamps.
Teams are not allowed to run in the museum so there will be a lot of power-walking between their stations and the stamp collection room.
Craig wants to work with Franca & Nella but the girls want to do it by themselves. The girls thinks that it would be distracting as they have their own method.
Teams complete this challenge in the following order:
1. Franca & Nella
2. Jesse & Marika
3. Beverly & Veronica
4. Catherine & Craig
5. Court & Ali
6. Brendan & Connor
Road block: Who wants to be put on the spot?
In this road block teams have to make their way to the Canadian Aviation and Space museum. Here teams must find the famous flying beaver and there they will find tickets to one of six flights in a vintage open cockpit biplane. During the flight the racers must spot a big letter on the ground. The plane will fly at 1500ft and the letter teams must spot is 40ft and located out in a big field. The letter does not look very big from up in the plane but we do not see any racers missing it.
Teams find the tickets in the same order they left the previous challenge. There seems to be three planes so three racers can do the task simultaneously. The planes are open cockpit biplanes so the racers are equipped with a flight cap, googles and ear protectors.
It seems all racers find the letter on their first flight.
"She said she wanted to soar", Craig loses it as Catherine is taking her flight
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1(+0)Franca & Nella* (4-6)2(+0)Jesse & Marika* (5-5)3(+0)Beverly & Veronica*(5-5)4(+0)Catherine* & Craig (3-3)5(+0)Court & Ali* (2-4)6(+0)Brendan* & Connor (5-5)
The next clue is a Face Off. Teams may use the GPS in their car to find the historic Le Château Montebello (76km). Here they must play croquet against each other. The players must take turns to each hit a ball through a series of hoops and finally to hit the center peg. The first team to have both balls complete the course wins and can keep on racing. The last team losing must wait 15 minutes before they can continue racing.
Franca & Nella drive just in front of Jesse & Marika. But then, after the ferry, they drive in different directions. Both teams checks their GPS and both think they are going in the right direction. This time it turns out that Franca & Nella are wrong. They realize that they are going in the wrong direction fairly quickly but are still passed by two teams.
Teams have to put on costumes before queuing up for the croquet.
Teams leave the face off in the following order:
1(+1) Jesse & Marika, win against Beverly & Veronica
2(+1) Beverly & Veronica, win against Catherine & Craig
3(-2) Franca & Nella, win against Catherine & Craig
4(+0) Catherine & Craig, win against Court & Ali
5(+0) Court & Ali, win against Brendan & Connor
6(+0) Brendan & Connor, have to wait 15 minutes before continuing
"If the alliance is over, that's okay", Nella about their ex alliance with Catherine & Craig and Court & Ali.
ROUTE INFO
J'accuse!
Solve a Montebello
mystery by talking to
local witnesses ti
receive your next clue.
Teams must now search Montebello for six witnesses to a murder mystery. They must ask each what they saw and figure out who was last seen at the scene of the crime. The catch is that the witnesses only speak French.
The task starts at Le Petit Château B&B (1km). The witnesses can be found in front of businesses along Rue Notre Dame between Rue St Charles and Rue Laval
"Give me a Moustache and call me Sherlock Holmes", Nella gets the title
"Thank goodness you speak french", Marika to Jesse as they hear the first witness
"Most of our French comes from ballet terms", Catherine on why their French did not help them
The teams who do not speak french find locals who can translate for them, so nobody really struggles with this task. But Court & Ali make some wrong guesses.
The clues they get are (translated):
"I saw the server after I saw the baker" says the butcher
"I saw the baker after I saw the butcher" says the wine lady
"I saw the chef after i saw the server" says the baker
"I saw the cheese maker before I saw the wine maker" says the chef
"I saw the baker before I saw the chef" says the server
"I saw the butcher after the wine maker" says the cheese maker
Looking at the clues it is pretty obvious that the Chef was the last person seen and this indeed the correct answer. Teams get their next clue from the detective in the following order:
1(+0) Jesse & Marika
2(+0) Beverly & Veronica
3(+0) Franca & Nella
4(+0) Catherine & Craig
5(+0) Court & Ali
6(+0) Brendan & Connor
The next clue tells team to search on foot for Jon at their next pit stop at Manoir Papineau.
Manoir Papineau is a national historic site which is located about 700m away. Once you find the right path, which starts very close to where they got the clue, all you need is to follow it so it is fairly easy to find. But that does not stop Franca & Nella and Court & Ali from finding a longer route.
Multiple teams almost forget their bags, but this does not mean much except for the last two teams who both realize they need to go back and get their bags. But the race is so close that if the last team had not gone back for their bags they would probably not have been last.
Teams reach Jon in the following order:
1(+0) Jesse & Marika, win a trip to Istanbul and a $2000 Marshalls gift card
2(+0) Beverly & Veronica
3(+0) Franca & Nella
4(+0) Catherine & Craig
5(+0) Court & Ali
6(+0) Brendan & Connor, are saved by a non-elimination
maf:
Racing report
Amazing Race Canada Season 8, Episode 9, "I Love You. I Know"
Film dates: unknown
The last leg ended with a non-elimination pit stop at Manoir Papineau in Montebello. Teams depart for this leg from downtown Ottawa, by the Wellington/Lyonbus stop, in the following order:
1.Jesse & Marika 07:112.Beverly & Veronica07:36+0:253.Franca & Nella 08:25+1:144.Catherine & Craig 08:44+1:335.Court & Ali 08:57+1:466.Brendan & Connor 08:58+1:47
Route info: Fly to Bathurst, New Brunswick.
Teams drive themselves to the Ottawa airport and then fly from there via Montreal to Bathurst, NB.
Once they land they must get into the sponsor cars, pickup trucks for this leg of the race, and drive themselves to Frostbites dairy farm (8km). Here they will get a cone of ice cream and their next clue. The cone of ice cream feels a bit misplaced as it is raining during this leg and it looks kind of cold. But it serves to separate teams a little as it takes the attendant a few moments to make each cone. All teams seem to arrive to the ice cream place at the same time.
The clue here is a route info and tells teams to load some items onto their trucks. The items seems to be:
* A large sheet of plywood
* A smaller sheet of plywood
* Two chairs
* A lobster trap
This is a basically a product placement task and the only challenge is to figure out that you need to extend the tailgate flap and figure out how to work the straps. Teams get their loading approved in the following order:
1. Brendan & Connor
2. Jesse & Marika
3. Franca & Nella
4. Catherine & Craig
5. Court & Ali
6. Beverly & Veronica, "Way longer after the others" according to Beverly
Road block: Who can think on their feet?
The road block takes place in the fishing town of Caraquet at the bar and music venue La Brôkerie (70km). In this task the participating racers must learn and perform a complicated step dance choreography. There is a silent demonstration which they can watch. For this task teams need the two chairs they previously loaded onto their truck. The clue also says that Court and Franca must do this road block.
"It's important we keep our lead as much as we can, we do have to hit a speed bump at one point today", Brendan
"The challenge is going to be picking up the steps because my brain doesn't work that way anymore", Catherine lets us know her brain tumor has affected her short term memory.
"I have zero rhythm and maybe even worse timing", Court does not consider himself a dancer
Catherine has starred in at least one tap dancing musical on Broadway so she knows the technique. Her struggle is to remember the steps. She takes notes but can not use those while performing in front of the judge. She gets in front of the judge way earlier than everybody else so she can just try and try again as there are no other racers waiting in line.
"Some are struggling more than others, but that is fine", One of the two instructors
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1(+3)Catherine* & Craig (4-3)On her 3rd shown attempt2(+0)Jesse* & Marika (6-5)On his 1st attempt3(+0)Franca* & Nella (5-6)On her 4th attempt4(+2)Beverly* & Veronica(6-5)On her 7th attempt5(+0)Court* & Ali (3-4)On his 13th attempt6(-5)Brendan & Connor* (5-6)On his 17th attempt
Route info: Get well soon
Teams must now drive themselves to Village Historique Acadien (16km). When they arrive they must change into traditional wool clothing and wooden clogs. They must then use a yoke and two buckets to transport water from a well to fill an empty barrel at the other end of the village.
"Behind us is Court & Ali and Brendan & Connor, I feel for them because... NO, I don't feel for them", Beverly as they leave the road block
"I would crush as a villager", Beverly while furiously pumping water at the well
When they arrive to the village Brendan & Connor find their speed bump (as they arrived last in the previous leg). They must use traditional tools to chop and prep enough wood for 50 roof shingles. We do not get to see much of this task but from what is seen they actually only chop and stack the shingles.
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Catherine & Craig, leave as team #3 arrives to the village
2(+0) Jesse & Marika, leave as team #4 arrives
3(+1) Beverly & Veronica
4(-1) Franca & Nella
5(+0) Court & Ali
6(+0) Brendan & Connor
Detour: Oyster shuck or Clean & tuck?
In Oyster shuck teams must carefully open 24 oysters without damaging the content inside. They must then replicate two oyster platters with ice, the oysters and all the garnishes.
In Clean & tuck teams must pick a glamping dome (a fancy hotel room) and clean it so it exactly matches a given example down to the tiniest detail.
Both tasks takes place at a glamping resort named Cielo (46km).
"Both of my uncles have oyster restaurants", Veronica feels that this is her challenge
Jesse & Marika are the only ones picking the cleaning task, and they realize this is difficult. There are lots of tiny details they must get exactly right and the example dome is relatively far away. They quickly find and fix most of their errors after the first attempt but it takes them quite a few tries before they realize they need to fold up the arms of the bathrobes in the room.
"I'm at my breaking point", Marika has a hard time with this task
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+0) Catherine & Craig, oysters
2(+1) Beverly & Veronica, oysters
3(+1) Franca & Nella, oysters
4(-2) Jesse & Marika, cleaning
5(+0) Court & Ali, oysters
6(+0) Brendan & Connor, oysters
Teams must now make their way to Pokeshaw Rock (61km). The pit stop is on a nearby beach.
"I think we just passed Beverly & Veronica because they had to stop and get directions", Franca & Nella rely on their map
The last two teams leave the detour close after each other and soon Brendan & Connor have caught up with Court & Ali. The boys decide to bet it all on a potential shortcut they have seen on their map so after a while the teams turn in different directions and we do not know which one is first. I checked with Google and the route the boys take seem to be about 2 minutes faster.
Teams reach Jon in the following order:
1(+0) Catherine & Craig, win a trip to Mexico City, 2x250.000 Expedia points and a $2.500 gift card at Marshalls
2(+1) Franca & Nella
3(-1) Beverly & Veronica
4(+0) Jesse & Marika
5(+1) Brendan & Connor
6(-1) Court & Ali, are eliminated
"We've literally done a coast to coast tour. It's such a privilege", Court
"I love you. I know", Court & Ali also gets the title
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