Topic: Speculation and Discussion of the **SPOILERS** WORKZONE!!

[angelbaby09]

i think next week is another KOR leg?? there is a pitstop and rb in cologne and then there is another rb in rheinstein castle with andrea rapelling. You can also see in one of morgan/lena confessional last episode it was at night that looks like in Germany???

[RaceUntilWeDie]

Ep 8 is called A Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Day so maybe episode 7 is just a long Germany leg? 2 legs in one? Who knows

[stunami]

I'm pretty sure teams where spotted in Rudeshein am Rhine first no?
Coming in from Frankfurt... unless it was the other way around?

I think teams land in Frankfurt, have to drive to Rudeshein am Rhine for the castle task (and maybe another task?)
Then drive to Cologne for the Football task (maybe a FF?), the bridge task and then we know the Chocolate Museum is our pitstop.

I think it's just a long leg, old school style, with a lot of driving!

[Zack.]

Rudesheim am Maine to Cologne is roughly 164km distance (2h30 travel time); they've covered that distance in single-length legs before (TAR 33 Leg 5 comes to mind) and even if the driving causes teams to spread far apart they're bunch on the train to Slovenia (much like in TAR 32 with Kaylynn & Haley being hours behind everyone in France). I'm inclined to say it's one long leg.

[OMGitsGARRET]

Does anyone know where this image is from? I believe it's Steve and Anna Leigh checking into a Pit Stop from timestamp 00:01:02 in episode 1.
Maybe this could help determine if Germany is one episode or two.

[Straightfromtranslation]

I think based on the airing/leg schedule, it would have to be one leg, no? The only way it could stretch to two episodes would be if it is to be continued, but I don't find that likely! I think they are adding more tasks, which is what we wanted!

[Zack.]

Does anyone know where this image is from? I believe it's Steve and Anna Leigh checking into a Pit Stop from timestamp 00:01:02 in episode 1.
Maybe this could help determine if Germany is one episode or two.

Maybe Socerb Castle (also listed as Strmec Castle), near Koper, Slovenia:



(eta there's an outside chance of it being on the grounds of the nearby Stanjel Castle, slightly further inland but still near the southern Slovenian-Italian border)

[Straightfromtranslation]

Does anyone know where this image is from? I believe it's Steve and Anna Leigh checking into a Pit Stop from timestamp 00:01:02 in episode 1.
Maybe this could help determine if Germany is one episode or two.

Maybe Socerb Castle (also listed as Strmec Castle), near Koper, Slovenia:



(eta there's an outside chance of it being on the grounds of the nearby Stanjel Castle, slightly further inland but still near the southern Slovenian-Italian border)

Wow! I guess we know they make it to Slovenia 

[Brannockdevice]

Does anyone know where this image is from? I believe it's Steve and Anna Leigh checking into a Pit Stop from timestamp 00:01:02 in episode 1.
Maybe this could help determine if Germany is one episode or two.

Maybe Socerb Castle (also listed as Strmec Castle), near Koper, Slovenia:



(eta there's an outside chance of it being on the grounds of the nearby Stanjel Castle, slightly further inland but still near the southern Slovenian-Italian border)

Wow! I guess we know they make it to Slovenia 

They get fourth place...

[stunami]

Does anyone know where this image is from? I believe it's Steve and Anna Leigh checking into a Pit Stop from timestamp 00:01:02 in episode 1.
Maybe this could help determine if Germany is one episode or two.

Maybe Socerb Castle (also listed as Strmec Castle), near Koper, Slovenia:



(eta there's an outside chance of it being on the grounds of the nearby Stanjel Castle, slightly further inland but still near the southern Slovenian-Italian border)

Looks like a good match! Could this be the second pitstop?
Because if the first leg is mostly northern Slovenia, it doesn't make sense to have the pitstop in the southern part....

[naejae91]

Does anyone know where this image is from? I believe it's Steve and Anna Leigh checking into a Pit Stop from timestamp 00:01:02 in episode 1.
Maybe this could help determine if Germany is one episode or two.

Maybe Socerb Castle (also listed as Strmec Castle), near Koper, Slovenia:



(eta there's an outside chance of it being on the grounds of the nearby Stanjel Castle, slightly further inland but still near the southern Slovenian-Italian border)

Wow! I guess we know they make it to Slovenia 

Well we knew Steve & Anna Leigh was eliminated in F4 Ireland leg so they're 100% made it to Slovenia. We could've been totally out of dark on 8th-5th place order had WRP restricted any form of social media activities on eliminated teams until the race was over.

[Straightfromtranslation]

Does anyone know where this image is from? I believe it's Steve and Anna Leigh checking into a Pit Stop from timestamp 00:01:02 in episode 1.
Maybe this could help determine if Germany is one episode or two.

Maybe Socerb Castle (also listed as Strmec Castle), near Koper, Slovenia:



(eta there's an outside chance of it being on the grounds of the nearby Stanjel Castle, slightly further inland but still near the southern Slovenian-Italian border)

Wow! I guess we know they make it to Slovenia 

They get fourth place...

I know...

[Straightfromtranslation]

Does anyone know where this image is from? I believe it's Steve and Anna Leigh checking into a Pit Stop from timestamp 00:01:02 in episode 1.
Maybe this could help determine if Germany is one episode or two.

Maybe Socerb Castle (also listed as Strmec Castle), near Koper, Slovenia:



(eta there's an outside chance of it being on the grounds of the nearby Stanjel Castle, slightly further inland but still near the southern Slovenian-Italian border)

Wow! I guess we know they make it to Slovenia 

Well we knew Steve & Anna Leigh was eliminated in F4 Ireland leg so they're 100% made it to Slovenia. We could've been totally out of dark on 8th-5th place order had WRP restricted any form of social media activities on eliminated teams until the race was over.

Yes, I know...

[Zack.]

If Socerb Castle is indeed the pit stop, I have to assume it's for Slovenia 2 for the same reason stunami mentioned: it's an hour away from Ljubljana in the opposite direction to the Planica Valley which held some of the tasks in Slovenia 1 (the cluster of dots in the middle are the known locations in Ljubljana, the train station, Dragon Bridge and Congress Square, all within 2km of each other):



While the Germany leg does have a lengthy self-driving component it's a fairly straight shot from Frankfurt to Rudesheim am Main to Cologne, rather than the doubling back that would potentially happen here. I suspect the Pit Stop for Slovenia 1 will be somewhere near the Nordic Centre, and the first clue for Slovenia 2 will send teams back to Ljubljana to the cluebox at Congress Square.

[Maanca]

Guess this is the week where we find out if the season is 12 or 13 episodes, as some are claiming (I'm still not sure where that information came from).

Germany should only be 1 episode.

[ianthebalance]

Guess this is the week where we find out if the season is 12 or 13 episodes, as some are claiming (I'm still not sure where that information came from).

Germany should only be 1 episode.

It was from an article that said 13 episodes. I think it was just a typo or meant to say 13 teams.

[angelbaby09]

I think  Germany was only one leg. But what confused me is that is there 2 roadblocks this leg? One in rheinstein castle and the other one is in love lock bridge? You can see in live sightings, Chelsea and one of greg/john are waiting???

[ianthebalance]

Any leg could have two roadblocks. It wouldn’t be that crazy for there to be two roadblocks this leg

[RaceUntilWeDie]

First time there’s 2 Roadblocks AND 1 Detour in the same leg? And they’re not even branding this as a “megaleg”? Amazing

[ianthebalance]

First time there’s 2 Roadblocks AND 1 Detour in the same leg? And they’re not even branding this as a “megaleg”? Amazing

Season 27 leg 6 had two roadblocks and a detour

[MBW]

Did some research based on the sneak peek, It seems that not only is this the franchise's first time visiting North-Rhine Westphalia but also the state of Rhineland-Palatinate

[Straightfromtranslation]

Should be a packed episode! Looks great. Is the love locks challenge a needle in a haystack one? Haven't they done a love locks challenge in the past?

[Maanca]

Should be a packed episode! Looks great. Is the love locks challenge a needle in a haystack one? Haven't they done a love locks challenge in the past?

It was the final Roadblock of season 6 before the finale. I was just thinking this week about how they should make that a Switchback.

[ianthebalance]

The love locks roadblock was in Moscow in Season 21 Episode 7

[OMGitsGARRET]

So it looks like the list of people doing the Roadblock involving coins and scaling the Rheinstein Castle are:
Andrea
Anna Leigh
Corey
Garrett
John
Morgan
Todd
The only team we don't see doing this task is Robbin/Chelsea.

The list of people doing the Roadblock involving the love locks at Hohenzollern Bridge are:
Ashlie
Greg
Lena
Rob
Robbin
Steve
The only two teams we don't see doing this task are Joel/Garret and Andrea/Malaina.

The list of teams doing the whacky costumes/fake horse riding task are:
Greg/John
Joel/Garrett
Morgan/Lena
Rob/Corey
Robbin/Chelsea
Steve/Anna Leigh
Todd/Ashlie
The only team we don't see doing this task is Andrea/Malaina.

The list of teams doing the mustard task are:
Morgan/Lena
Robbin/Chelsea
Steve/Anna Leigh
Todd/Ashlie

The list of teams doing the ball kicking task are:
Rob/Corey
Todd/Ashlie

The only three teams we see doing neither the mustard/ball kicking task are:
Andrea/Malaina
Greg/John
Joel/Garrett

From this, I infer a few things:

1) This leg looks to be something like: Airport > Castle Roadblock > Whacky Costumes/Fake Horseriding Active Route Info > Mustard/Ball Kicking Detour > Lovelocks Roadblock > Pit Stop.

2) If the Detour is in fact the mustard/ball kicking task, it looks like Todd and Ashlie switch at some point since they're seen performing both tasks.

3) It looks like Germany is also in fact just one single episode/one single leg. A very long leg, but just one. So this season is probably only 12 episodes, unless Sweden had an extra F5 KOR leg or something.

4) I'm worried this might be an obvious elimination of Andrea and Malaina falling out of the running very quickly with no tension of them catching up. The only content from them we have is them driving and Andrea doing the initial castle Roadblock. After that they have absolutely nothing where the other teams all have at least a few other things. Not looking good for them, sadly.