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Amazing Race Canada Season 9, Episode 5, "This is not a hot girl moment"
Film dates: 2023-04-30 - 2023-05-01
The last leg ended on Whiffin Spit in Sookes. Victoria Island. For this leg teams are released from Langford center (27km away) in the following order:
1.Derek & Jaspal 11:542.Gracie & Lily 11:59+0:053.Tyler & Kayleen 12:20+0:264.Ty & Kat ??:??+?:??5.Jermaine & Justin??:??+?:??6.Ben & Anwar ??:??+?:??7.Deven & Amanda ??:??+?:??
The first clue tells teams to sign up for one of two buses to Ucluelet. The sign up board is located on the pier by Glen Lake Park (3.4km) and teams travel there by taxi.
"Tyler used to live in Tofino for a few summers", Kayleen feel they have an advantage (Tofino is next door to Ucluelet)
Teams reach the sign up board in the following order:
Bus #1:
1(+1) Gracie & Lily
2(-1) Derek & Jaspal
3(+0) Tyler & Kayleen
4(+0) Ty & Kat
Bus #2 (arrives 15 minutes later):
5(+1) Ben & Anwar
6(-1) Jermaine & Justin
7(+0) Deven & Amanda
At the sign up board Derek & Jaspal talk to Gracie & Lily about an alliance for the next two legs, as the express passes must be used by the end of leg #6. They consider the girls their second biggest rival but Ty & Kat are #1 as they have an express pass.
"The enemy of our enemy is our friend", Jaspal
All agree on a truce and having each others backs for the next two legs.
Once in Ucluelet teams jump into sponsor cars and drive themselves to Hotel Zed in Tofino (36km). Here they will each need to get a Tarot reading in the Psychics den.
Unfortunately the fortune teller has already left for the day and she will return the next day at 7am. Here racers get a messages from Jon on their sponsor smart watches. To celebrate the half way point of the race there will be a bonfire on McKenzie beach. The beach party gives teams the opportunity to talk good about each other.
The next day teams will get their Tarot reading in the order they arrived the day before. That is:
1. Tyler & Kayleen
2. Ty & Kat
3. Derek & Jaspal
4. Gracie & Lily
5. Ben & Anwar
6. Deven & Amanda
7. Jermaine & Justin
After giving them a reading the fortune teller gives them their next clue. This is a route info which tells teams to drive back to Ucluelet and Ukee ice manufacturing (36km). Here they must load 75-80lb of crushed ice and deliver it to one of four local businesses. The weight is checked before they leave for their delivery and when they return with their receipt they will receive their next clue.
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Tyler & Kayleen
2(+0) Ty & Kat
?(+?) Derek & Jaspal
?(+?) Gracie & Lily
?(+?) Ben & Anwar
?(+?) Deven & Amanda
?(+?) Jermaine & Justin
The next clue is frozen into a block of ice so teams first need to get it out. They can just smash it into the ground or they can borrow a mallet and chisel.
Route info: It's time to take a dive
One team member must now put on a wet suit and go snorkeling. They must search an area to find three streamers bearing names of ingredients in the sponsor energy drink. There are five sets of streamers (all of which seem to be valid).
This task takes place on Little Beach (800m)
There is an instructor on the beach teaching teams how to do equalization as they dive.
"I'm a commercial diver actually", Kayleen feels she does not need to practice this
"The pacific ocean, it's murky and it's cold", Kat describes the water
Gracie feels that it is her turn to do the task even though she is not a very strong swimmer, from their comments it seems Lily doe snot consider herself to be much better. And she is scared of deep water so she is freaking out. Derek feel obligated to help her as they have an alliance, as he is just above a cluster of streamers he dives down and fetches one for her.
Kayleen, Ben and Deven have diving licenses so they have no problems with this tasks.
"I was hopeful that maybe one of those hot divers was gonna come to my rescue or something, but they really did not", Gracie
Jermaine & Justin have a hard time at this task. Initially Justin swam and he was not really making any progress.
"Let me know when I can sign up for The Amazing Race Canada solo edition", Jermaine
Eventually Justin struggles so much that Jermaine feels he has to go into the water and do the task.
"I feel like I'm literally carrying the team at this point", Jermaine
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Tyler & Kayleen, Kayleen swam
2(+1) Derek & Jaspal, Derek swam
3(-1) Ty & Kat, Kat swam
4(+?) Ben & Anwar, Ben swam
5(+?) Gracie & Lily, Gracie swam
6(+?) Deven & Amanda, Deven swam
7(+?) Jermaine & Justin, both swam and it took them more than 2 hours
Route info: "Pass the tacos"
Teams must now drive back to Tofino and search for a taco truck named Tacofino. Here teams will find their next clue but also a double blind pass. A team which has been passed must wait for another team to pass them before they can move on.
"There is a double pass coming up. Ty & Kat are our main competition. This sparks a light inside of me to demolish them", Derek gets over the top
Gracie & Lily miss the sign for the Taco truck so they pass it, which turns out to be a fatal mistake for them. They get directions and arrive just as Deven & Amanda are leaving. Gracie runs up to Deven & Amanda's truck and get told it was not them who put their faces on the board. Missing this truck is forgivable as it is located 4km before they get to Tofino.
Teams arrive to the Tacofino truck (38km) in the following order:
1(+0) Tyler & Kayleen
2(+0) Derek & Jaspal, put Ty & Kat on the pass board
----- Ty & Kat, have to wait as they were passed
3(+1) Ben & Anwar, put Gracie & Lily on the pass board
4(-1) Ty & Kat
5(+1) Deven & Amanda
----- Gracie & Lily
6(+1) Jermaine & Justin
7(-2) Gracie & Lily
Detour: By Sand or By Sea
By Sand takes place on South Chersterman beach (2km). In this challenge teams will have to search 300 sand castles for a marked sand dollar buried in some of them. They have to rebuild every sand castle they destroy.
In By Sea teams must make their way to Naas food (3km). Here they will take a 20 minute boat ride to Clayoquot sound (a biosphere reserve) where they must harvest 20kg of fresh ocean Kelp. Then there is a 20 minute boat ride back to Naas where their catch will be checked.
There are no scales in the boats so teams must keep harvesting until they think they have at least 20kg. Which just means that everybody gets way too much.
"I wonder if there was an example of 20kg which we should have looked at", Tyler when they are in the boat (and no there did not seem to be an example)
"Oh, this is easy", Jaspal when he arrives to the beach with the sand castles
"At what point do we think about switching?', Jaspal after 31 minutes
After having been at the sand castles for well over an hour Derek & Jaspal play rock-paper-scissors to determine if they should stay or switch. The result is switch so they get into their car. Once in the car they read the Kelp instructions more carefully, they think it sounds hard so they decide to go back. Once they are back they find a sand dollar in the first sand castle they search.
Jermaine & Justin are smart at the sand castle detour and look for the driest sand castles as they have not been disturbed. This is really smart and they seem to find a sand dollar fairly quickly.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+0) Tyler & Kayleen, sea
2(+1) Ben & Anwar, sea
3(-1) Derek & Jaspal, sand
4(+0) Ty & Kat, sea, collected 42kg
5(+0) Deven & Amanda, sea
6(+0) Jermaine & Justin, sand
7(+0) Gracie & Lily, sea
Road block: Who's ready to knock on wood?
This road block takes place at North Chesterton beach (2km from sand and 3.7km from sea). The racers will be paired with an Aeriosa Dance Society instructor. They will need to learn nine different poses which they need to form together with their instructor. The catch is that everything happens while hanging high above the ground from wires among the trees. The assist is also available on this task.
There are practice trees where the contestants may practice and then a performance tree. In all cases they must start by climbing a ladder to get up a bit before their lines are stretched.
"Tyler is a terrible dancer", Kayleen
After practicing for a bit Tyler & Kayleen decide to use their assist and learn that then he only needs to complete the last five poses.
"There is so much sand in my hair, okay, this is not a hot girl moment", Gracie gets the title
The girls arrive to the road block as team #6 is leaving. They immediately whip out their assist to make the task go faster.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1(+0)Tyler* & Kayleen (2-2)On his 1st shown attempt2(+2)Ty & Kat* (2-2)On her 1st shown attempt3(+0)Derek* & Jaspal (3-1)On his 2nd shown attempt4(+1)Deven & Amanda* (2-2)On her 2nd attempt5(-3)Ben & Anwar* (2-2)On his 12th attempt6(+0)Jermaine* & Justin(2-2)On his 2nd attempt7(+0)Gracie* & Lily (2-2)On her 1st attempt
"Well, poetic justice has just been served" Jaspal when Ty & Kat, who they applied the pass on, passes them
Route info: "Drive yourselves to Long Beach and search for Jon and your next Pit Stop"
Teams must now drive themselves to Long Beach (13km)
As usual we get to see the next to last team struggle when going to the pit stop (the can not find their car keys, not find their map) while the last team seems to fly through everything. Maybe I am too cynical but as long as we do not get to see both teams in the same shot I am assuming the are not even close.
They arrive at the Pit Stop in the following order:
1(+0) Tyler & Kayleen, win a trip to New Orleans
2(+0) Ty & Kat
3(+0) Derek & Jaspal
4(+0) Deven & Amanda
5(+0) Ben & Anwar
6(+0) Jermaine & Justin
7(+0) Gracie & Lily, are eliminated
"We will cherish these legs forever", Lily
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Amazing Race Canada Season 9, Episode 6, "This is going to be a spicy leg"
Film dates: 2023-05-04 - 2023-05-05
At the head of the episode Jon tells us that this is the last leg where teams can use an Express Pass or the Assist. So we can assume that all remaining passes will be used.
The last leg ended on Long Beach outside Tofino. This leg starts three days later next to Glass Beach in Sidney (338km from Long Beach), this is next to the Victoria International airport. Teams are released in the following order:
1.Tyler & Kayleen 08:572.Ty & Kat 09:57+1:003.Derek & Jaspal 10:18+1:214.Deven & Amanda 10:32+1:355.Ben & Anwar 10:48+1:516.Jermaine & Justin11:03+2:06
The first clue is a route info which tells them to fly to Ontario and then find their next clue in the sponsor car.
Everybody meets up at the airport and teams learn that Gracie & Lily were eliminated in the last leg. Derek & Jaspal are bummed as they considered the girls to be their only allies. They try to form a new alliance with Ben & Anwar, but Ben & Anwar avoid committing to anything. This scares Derek & Jaspal.
"We have burnt every bridge possible", Jaspal
At the airport a woman (Monique Gray Smith, a Canadian author) notes that Deven & Amanda are doing the race. She is very proud of them representing First Nations people on TV.
Everybody is on the same flight to Toronto. Once they land they find their next clue in the cars. Route info: Drive yourselves to Salem Chapel in St Chatharines and learn about its most celebrated member, Harriet Tubman, before receiving your next clue.
It is late when teams arrive to the Salem Chapel (106km). Teams get the next clue the following day. Harriet Tubman was deeply involved with the Underground Railway and spent more than a decade helping freedom seeking people find a new life in Canada. The woman giving out the clues is a direct descendant of one of the freedom seekers.
Road Block: Who's up to speed?
Teams must now make their way to the St Catharines propulsion plant (10km). Here the chosen team member can watch an ongoing demonstration on how to assemble and disassemble a V8 engine head. They must then do the same in less than 2:10.
Teams arrive to the plant in the following order:
1. Tyler & Kayleen
2. Derek & Jaspal
3. Ty & Kat
4. Jermaine & Justin
5. Deven & Amanda
6. Ben & Anwar, got lost on the way
Tyler gets frustrated when he notices that Kayleen is missing the disassemble step. Soon it turns out that she is not alone, everybody is missing that step. Their partners see this but can not say anything which seems to be very frustrating. Eventually Devon comes over to Ty and they reread the instructions and spot their error.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1(+5)Ben* & Anwar (3-2)Immediately used their Express Pass2(-1)Tyler & Kayleen* (2-3)Tyler used the Express Pass after Kayleen had failed two attempts3(-1)Ty* & Kat (3-2)On his 2nd attempt4(+0)Deven* & Amanda (3-2)On his 2nd attempt5(-2)Derek & Jaspal* (3-2)On his 2nd attempt6(+0)Jermaine & Justin*(2-3)
Kayleen was not happy that Tyler unilaterally took the decision to use the Express Pass. She is also frustrated that he did not encourage her at the road block.
Detour: Here or There
This is a blind detour. The clue includes the address of each detour side but no further info. Teams will find the rest of the instructions when they arrive to their chosen detour option. And the distance between the detours is 17km.
"Here" takes place at 1050 Canboro road in Pelham (27km), here racers will find United Floral Distributors and their task is to recreate three bouquets of flowers. They are given pictures of the bouquets and have to find the flowers and foliage they need on marked shelves in the warehouse. Once they have completed their bouquets they have to film them with a sponsor phone and send the film to the judge. The judge will them step up to them and either tell them that they have passed or tell them which of their bouquets not approved. This feels like a bit of forced product placement as the filming was completely unnecessary.
"There" takes place at 16 Towline road in Welland (33km), where racers will find Welland International Flatwater center. Here they will first get to learn how to row a two person Scull. Then they have to row 200m in 2 minutes or less.
"Blind detour, this is going to be a spicy leg", Anwar gets the title
Ben & Anwar and Tyler & Kayleen decide to work together. Each team will create two copies of one of the bouquets and give each other the extra bouquet, then they'll work together on the last one. This seems to work out fairly well.
Derek & Jaspal is the only team we get to see doing the rowing. Initially they are very confident, specially Derek as he uses the rowing machine in the gym. As soon as they are released they immediately tip over. The instructor then tells them that it takes about 20 minutes to reset so this bleeds a lot of time.
"This is a lot harder than the rowing machine in the gym", Derek
In the end they tipped over two times and completed the course in under 2 minutes on their 3rd attempt.
"I'm a single guy who can make a bouquet of flowers so I'm in a pretty good position here", Anwar
TY & Kat got lost on their way to the Detour so they are last to arrive, but when they do the use the Express pass so they immediately jump to first again.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+2) Ty & Kat, used their Express Pass at the rowing
2(+0) Tyler & Kayleen, flowers
3(-2) Ben & Anwar, flowers
4(+1) Derek & Jaspal, rowing
5(+1) Jermaine & Justin, flowers
6(-2) Deven & Amanda, flowers
Road Block: Who's a high roller?
This task takes place at Chateau de Charmes (33km from the flowers and 39km from the rowing). Here racers must climb aboard a Grape Harvester, drive it to a tanker and fill it with water. Then they need to drive up to two large gray bins and fill them to the marked line. And if they need they can use the assist, in which case they only need to fill up one bin. As this will be the last chance to use the Assist we can expect all teams which still have it to use it. Also the team member who did not do the engine road block must do this one.
There are instructors showing the teams how to drive the harvesters which helps a bit. The harvesters are also no speed monsters, rather their max speed is 5kph. But apparently they can be very jerky when being driven in reverse, which we know will cause some racers to spill water.
It seems as if you do not spill anything you can fill one bin in one go. But parking in the right spot so that you do not spill anything when tipping the water in is hard. The only one we see succeeding with this is Tyler.
"I'm a natural", Derek when he is backing up to the bin and spilling a lot of water
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1(+0)Ty & Kat* (3-3)Use their assist and left before team #2 even arrived2(+1)Ben & Anwar* (3-3)Used their assist3(-1)Tyler* & Kayleen (3-3)4(+0)Derek* & Jaspal (4-2)Used their assist5(+1)Deven & Amanda* (3-3)Used their assist6(-1)Jermaine* & Justin(3-3)
The next clue is a route info and send teams to the town of Niagara on the lake where they must locate the 124 on Queen Hotel & Spa (14km). Once they arrive they must hand in their car keys and then go and smell some wines. They are given six glasses of wine and six trays containing objects representing aromas. Their task is to pair each glass of wine with the corresponding tray. They are only allowed to smell the wines.
From an external article we learn that the wines they smelled were: Balance Muscat, Gastronomy Chardonnay, Rose 101, Balance Gamay Noir, Dean’s List Cabernet Sauvignon, and Dean’s List Prodigy Vidal Icewine.
From their comments it seems Kat is really into wines, and Ben used to make wine.
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Ty & Kat, on their first attempt
2(+0) Ben & Anwar, on their first shown attempt
3(+0) Tyler & Kayleen, on their third attempt
4(+1) Deven & Amanda
- Derek & Jaspal
- Jermaine & Justin
Route info: Make your way on foot to fort Mississauga and find Jon at your next Pit Stop.
The fort is 850m away. Ty & Kat ask a couple of locals for directions, they are really exited that the race is there and run with them most of the way to the fort. Ben & Anwar have a similar experience.
Eventually teams reach the Pit Stop in the following order:
1(+0) Ty & Kat, win a trip to Athens, Greece
2(+0) Ben & Anwar
- Tyler & Kayleen
- Derek & Jaspal
- Jermaine & Justin
- Deven & Amanda
When the episode ends only two teams have checked in, two are on their way to the pit stop and we have two teams still at the wine challenge. At this time we get a big To Be Continued sign.
Teams are fairly stratified at this point. After Ty & Kat used the express pass they did not see any other teams for the rest of the leg. Ben & Anwar and Tyler & Kayleen both completed the wine task before any of the later teams even arrived. Tyler & Kayleen are shown struggling to find the Pit Stop but as they left the wine task before Deven & Amanda even arrived I would be surprised if they are passed.
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Amazing Race Canada Season 9, Episode 7, "I'm sick of wearing neon"
Film dates: 2023-05-05 - 2023-05-06
The last leg ended at Fort Mississauga, just outside the town of Niagara on the lake. When the episode ended two teams had checked in, two were on their way to the pit stop and two were still stuck at the last task.
So to back up, teams completed the wine task from the previous episode in the following order:
1(+0) Ty & Kat, shown in the previous episode
2(+0) Ben & Anwar, shown in the previous episode
3(+0) Tyler & Kayleen, shown in the previous episode
4(+1) Deven & Amanda, shown in the previous episode
5(-1) Derek & Jaspal
6(+0) Jermaine & Justin
After that they make their way on foot to fort Missisagua where they arrive in the following order:
1(+0) Ty & Kat, shown in the previous episode
2(+0) Ben & Anwar, shown in the previous episode
3(+0) Tyler & Kayleen
4(+0) Deven & Amanda
5(+0) Derek & Jaspal
6(+0) Jermaine & Justin
"Jermaine & Justin, you two are the last team to arrive, again", Jon
The last four teams to arrive are told that Jon has a surprise for them and they need to wait until they have all arrived to learn what it is. Once they are all gathered Jon tells them that this leg is not yet over. The first two teams have already secured spots on the first train which will arrive tho their next destination 10 minutes before the second train. There is room for one more team on that train and there will have a sudden death pop quiz to determine which team gets that spot.
Teams are then given boards and Jon start asking questions:
1. "What was the name of the golf course at the end of leg 3?". The correct answer is "Big Sky" and Tyler & Kayleen and Deven & Amanda answered correctly.
2. "What was the name of the bridge at our first Pit Stop in Calgary?". The correct answer is "Peace Bridge" and only Tyler & Kayleen answered correctly.
So this means that Tyler & Kayleen gets the last tickets to the first train.
Teams will now travel by bus to Toronto (160km). From there they travel on two different trains to Windsor, Ontario. Or at least that is what the episode tells us. I assume that in reality they were all on the same train and the latter group was just held 10 minutes at the station. Teams traveled on the 06:50 train from Toronto which arrives to Windsor at 11:08.
On the train teams receive a message from Jon on their sponsor smart watches. It reads: "Hi there Racers, The first team to finish the next challenge will win a $5,000 dollar cash prize from our good friends at Samsung. Good luck, and I'll see you at the next mat! Jon"
In Windsor teams run out to the sponsor cars and find their next clue inside. This tells them to make their way to Adventure Bay Water Park (3.4km). Here each team must find three different color rubber duckies.
Many of the rubber duckies are stuck to the inside walls of the water slides but there are some which are hidden at different places as well.
As Derek & Jaspal are on their way to the judge with their ducks they point Jermaine & Justin to where they can find their last duck.
"There is definitely a risk in helping Jermaine & Justin, but hopefully later on in the race they'll help us out to", Derek
It is hard to say how much time Jermaine & Justin saved with this help but I get the impression it was not a lot. All in all teams spent 15-20 minuets at this task, and that included changing into and out of swimwear. So it must have been fairly quick.
Eventually teams find their duckies in the following order:
1. Tyler & Kayleen, win the $5,000
2. Ben & Anwar
3. Ty & Kat
4. Deven & Amanda
5. Derek & Jaspal
6. Jermaine & Justin
Detour: Sculpt or Swing
Swing takes place at Willistead manor (3.7km). The task is that the teams must memorize and perform a 2 minute Swing dance routine.
In Sculpt teams must make their way to the Windsor Sculpture Park (2.2km). Here they must use the 12 puzzle pieces provided to recreate a three dimensional abstract sculpture. The pieces contains magnets which will snap together when they are joined correctly.
This is a limited station detour. There are only three sculpture puzzles and there seems to only be three sets of instructors for the dance.
"We can't Swing dance babe", Deven thinks he can't dance
Deven & Amanda and Derek & Jaspal go to the Sculpt detour only to find a sign saying that it is full. They now have a choice, wait for a team to complete it or go to Swing (which is 5.7km away). Deven really does not want to dance and they almost have an argument, but he calms down and they go dancing. The boys also decide to switch.
Jermaine & Justin guess that Sculpt is going to be full so they go directly to the dance task, which turns out to be a smart move.
At Sculpt Ty & Kat starts working with Ben & Anwar. Tyler & Kayleen declined as they felt they were way ahead. There does not seem to have been any hard feelings due to this.
"At least I look good, that's the best part. I'm sick of wearing neon", Derek gets the title
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+0) Tyler & Kayleen, sculpt
2(+1) Ty & Kat, sculpt
3(-1) Ben & Anwar, sculpt
4(+2) Jermaine & Justin, swing on their 2nd attempt
5(-1) Deven & Amanda, swing on their 5th attempt
6(-1) Derek & Jaspal, swing on their 3rd attempt
--- Quote ---FACE OFF
It's time for a Face Off!
Put on your poker face
for 10 hands of Texas
hold'em in historic Old
Sandwich Town and
beat your opponent to
earn your next clue.
--- End quote ---
The Face Off takes place at the Rock Bottom Bar & Grill (7km from Swing and 1.4km from Sculpt). Two teams will face each other in 10 rounds and the team with the most chips at the end will win. Players seem to have to take turns playing.
The rules are posted outside and the dealer will also try to help them as much as he can without impacting the game.
Ben makes a crucial mistake in his last hand against Tyler. He is ahead but folds as they have already won six hands, and he thinks it is the number of won hands which counts. But it is the number of chips which count and as he folds Tyler wins that hand and there were enough chips in the pot that he passes Ben.
After Deven & Amanda won over Jermaine & Justin Deven takes some time to give the boys some pointers on how to play poker.
Apparently Jermaine & Justin have a very hard time to learn poker so the one match they do win seem to be mostly due to luck, and the lack of skill on their opponents.
"Honestly, we told you guys were the duck is, can you please just let us win", Derek tries his luck (but Justin does not bite)
Teams leave the Face Off in the following order:
1(+1) Ty & Kat win over Tyler & Kayleen
2(-1) Tyler & Kayleen win over Ben & Anwar
3(+0) Ben & Anwar win over Jermaine & Justin
4(+1) Deven & Amanda win over Jermaine & Justin
5(-1) Jermaine & Justin win over Derek & Jaspal
6(+0) Derek & Jaspal, have to wait a 15 minute penalty
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
There is a higher power
Count the number of
revolutions a wind
turbine makes in a
minute, then calculate
the number of homes
that turbine can power in
24 hours to receive your
next clue.
--- End quote ---
Teams must now drive to the Port Alma wind turbine farm (78km). They are given a formula to calculate the number of homes one turbine can power. The input they need is the number of revolutions per minute (12) and a a conversion chart which will give the number of kilowatts the turbine outputs. Basically they need to multiply the number of revolutions with 91, then look up that value and get a kw value which they need to multiply by 0.8.
The one small wrinkle is that the conversion table is located a bit up in the tower so one team member must climb up and look up the value. And then you need to be able to do some math as well.
"Are you good at math?", Ty greets Tyler up in the wind turbine
"I failed everything in High School", Tyler
Tyler gets back from the tower before Ty but Kayleen makes a mistake in calculating so Ty & Kat get a chance to pass them.
"We want to help, but like you've got to just do your thing at times", Ty on why they did not give the other teams the answer
"I should be good at this stuff", Kayleen is getting frustrated as she struggles with the math
Ben & Anwar reach this task just as the first team is leaving. When they get to the base of the wind turbine Tyler offers them the numbers in exchange for help with the math. It looks like the boys are not interested in working with them, but later they are shown working together. Ben & Anwar reasons that they are not fighting for first, just to stay in the game and then it makes sense to help each other.
Deven & Amanda arrives as Ben & Anwar are leaving. Deven asks them for help and Ben gives them the number of revolutions per minute. So a bit of help but not the final answer. Eventually Jermaine & Justin work together with Deven & Amanda on this task, they all want to avoid being last.
Derek & Jaspal arrive just as the two previous teams are leaving. They feel that Jermaine & Justin owe them one so they hope to get the answer, but Jermaine just blows them a kiss as he drives past.
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Ty & Kat
2(+0) Tyler & Kayleen
3(+0) Ben & Anwar
4(+0) Deven & Amanda
5(+0) Jermaine & Justin
6(+0) Derek & Jaspal
The next clue sends teams to the Point Pelee National Park and the southernmost point of mainland Canada. Here they will find Jon at the mat. My guess is that they drove to the visitors center (46km) and then made their way on foot from there to the mat at the tip (2.7km). The clue also says that the last team to check in will be eliminated.
Deven & Amanda are still working with Jermaine & Justin at this point so they jump onto the mat together.
Teams reach Jon in the following order:
1(+0) Ty & Kat, win a trip to Rio De Janeiro
2(+0) Tyler & Kayleen
3(+0) Ben & Anwar
4(+0) Deven & Amanda
4(+0) Jermaine & Justin
6(+0) Derek & Jaspal, are eliminated
"Both of us, going into this, knew it was gonna be an amazing experience, but I don't think we knew how much closer it would bring us together", Derek
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Amazing Race Canada Season 9, Episode 8, "I should have made Snowmen"
Film dates: 2023-05-08 - 2023-05-09
The last episode ended on Point Pelee. For this episode teams are released from close to the Korean War Memorial by the river in Windsor (65km away). Teams are released in the following order:
1.Ty & Kat 05:362.Tyler & Kayleen 06:00+0:243.Ben & Anwar 06:10+0:344.Deven & Amanda 06:47+1:115.Jermaine & Justin06:47+1:11
--- Quote ---ROUTE INFO
Make your way to
Saguenay, Québec.
Caution:
Double Pass ahead!
--- End quote ---
Teams will travel on the same train to Montréal and from there they will fly to Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.
At the station we get to see Ben & Anwar talk with Tyler & Kayleen. They all agree that Ty & Kat are the biggest threat. Both teams agree to try to use the Double Pass on them. On the train Ben & Anwar bring Deven & Amanda into the plan.
When teams land they need to chose a sponsor car. They will find their next clue in a hidden compartment in the car. Nobody seems to have an issue with this.
Route info: "Read the fine print"
This task takes place at the Rio Tinto Arvida Research & development center (20km). Here they will have to use high power microscopes to find nano-sized words etched into small pieces of aluminum. Each piece contains a different word.
Teams arrive to this task in the following order:
1. Tyler & Kayleen
2. Deven & Amanda
3. Jermaine & Justin
4. Ty & Kat
5. Ben & Anwar, got lost and arrive as the last teams are leaving
Deven has used a microscope like this before, but as they are under pressure he has forgotten most of that knowledge here. They key to find the word seem to be to use the right magnification and focus and then move the piece of aluminum slowly.
"Delicate work and a lot of patience, which right now in the middle of a race is hard to come by", Anwar
Teams find their words in the following order:
1(+2) Jermaine & Justin
2(+2) Ty & Kat
3(-1) Deven & Amanda
4(-3) Tyler & Kayleen
5(+0) Ben & Anwar
Detour: Snow or Go
In Snow teams will make their way to University du Québec Chicoutimi campus and locate Pavillion Parc technologique (11km). Here they will need to spray pain, using stencils, on snow to recreate a given picture.
In Go teams will make their way to Centre Amusement SPK (9km). Here one racer will get into a Go Kart and the other is given a clock and a two-way radio. The task is for the Go Kart to do a lap in exactly 60.0 seconds.
All teams go for the Go Karts. Once there we see that even if they get individual Go Karts only one team may race the 1km course at a time. So there will be a lot of waiting.
"I should have made snowmen", Deven gets the title after failing yet again
Ben & Anwar arrive just as the next to last team is leaving so they are still way behind. But as they are the only team there they do not have to wait to make their attempts so I assume they made up quite a bit of time here.
Teams manage to hit the 60.0 second lap in the following order:
1(+3) Tyler & Kayleen, on their 1st attempt
2(-1) Jermaine & Justin, on their 3rd attempt
3(-1) Ty & Kat, on their 4th attempt
4(-1) Deven & Amanda, on their 3rd attempt
5(+0) Ben & Anwar, on their 2nd attempt
The next clue send teams to the Pont D'Aluiminum D'Arvida (14km), the first bridge in the world to be made out of Aluminum. Here they will find a Double Pass and their next clue.
Tyler & Kayleen probably felt a bit stressed by being in the lead because they took off without spending the time to get good directions, so they of course get lost on the way to the bridge.
Teams reach the pass board in the following order:
1(+1) Jermaine & Justin
2(+1) Ty & Kat
3(-2) Tyler & Kayleen
4(+0) Deven & Amanda
5(+0) Ben & Anwar
There was a bunch of teams who had decide to put Ty & Kat om the pass board. But Ty & Kat did not cooperate but rather arrived just before Tyler & Kayleen so the plan went down the drain and nobody got put on the board.
The next clue sends teams to Center Plein Air Bec-Scie (34km).
"We are lost", Jermaine
Jermaine & Justin get lost on the way here and after that they never see any other teams for the rest of the leg. Teams arrive to Center Plein Air Bec-Sie in the following order:
1(+1) Ty & Kat
2(+1) Tyler & Kayleen, just after #1
3(+1) Deven & Amanda
4(+1) Ben & Anwar, as #1 are leaving
5(-4) Jermaine & Justin
Here teams have to carry a meat pie through an obstacle course with six stations. Each team has one pie they need to carry and they can switch who carries between the obstacles. The pie is placed on top of a tray and it seems they may only hold the tray.
The only team having issues with this task are Jermaine & Justin, they on the other hand seem to struggle a lot.
Teams complete this challenge in the following order:
1(+0) Ty & Kat, Ty did all of it
2(+0) Tyler & Kayleen, Kayleen did all of it
3(+0) Deven & Amanda, switched person carrying
4(+0) Ben & Anwar, Anwar did all of it
5(+0) Jermaine & Justin, Jermaine did all of it
--- Quote ---ROAD BLOCK
Who wants to be a rock
star?
NOTE: This is a rock
climb over deep water.
--- End quote ---
This task takes place at Parc Adventures Cap Jaseux (53km). Here the participating racer must hook themselves to the guiding wire of a via ferrata. Then follow that route across a vertical cliff. Somewhere along the way they will see a key (M=14 E=22) which they later can use to crack a code. The coded message is made up of two words and each letter has been replaced with a number. The key to solve it is to realize that the letters are given numbers according to their order in the alphabet in reverse order (Z=1, Y=2 etc). Using that it is easy to decode the words to read "La Pulperie".
Tyler & Kayleen reached this road block before Ty & Kat. The latter either got lost or took longer to get directions.
"Maybe I am afraid of heights", Kat
"That was fun", Kayleen after completing the via ferrata
Anwar and Amanda work together on this task.
Jermaine says that Justin have to do the road block as it is his turn, and Justin is afraid of heights...
"This is not what I would consider fun", Justin
We all expected a meltdown at this task from Justin, but to our surprise he completes the climbing without any problems. Well done!
The editing makes it look like Jermaine & Justin are at this task together with Ben & Anwar and Deven & Amanda. But they are never shown in the same frame so I would not be surprised if Jermaine & Justin are way behind at this point.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1(+1)Tyler & Kayleen* (2-4)2(-1)Ty & Kat* (3-3)3(+0)Deven & Amanda* (3-3)4(+0)Ben & Anwar* (3-3)About half a second after #35(+0)Jermaine & Justin*(2-4)
The next clue sends teams to the Pit Stop for this leg of the race. This is located at La Pulperie de Chicoutimi (25km).
Tyler & Kayleen are the first to arrive, but it is a bit of a walk from the parking to the mat so they do their best to hurry while we are shown footage of Ty & Kat running. Tyler's legs are hurting but he really wants to win this leg. In the end we do not see these two teams in the same shot so it was not as close as the editing made it out to be.
Teams arrive to the mat in the following order:
1(+0) Tyler & Kayleen, win a trip to Valparaiso, Chile
2(+0) Ty & Kat
3(+1) Ben & Anwar
4(-1) Deven & Amanda, a second or so after #3
5(+0) Jermaine & Justin, are eliminated
"Being the Amazing Races first ever Drag Queens has been an amazing experience", Justin
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Racing report
Amazing Race Canada Season 9, Episode 9
Film dates: 2023-05-11 - 2023-05-12
The last episode ended at La Pulperie de Chicoutimi. For this leg teams are released from Vieux-port de Chicoutimi in Saguenay (2.6km from the pit stop). They are released in the following order:
1.Tyler & Kayleen 07:042.Ty & Kat 07:26+0:223.Ben & Anwar 07:56+0:524.Deven & Amanda 07:57+0:53
The first clue tells the teams to make their way to Toronto. It also tells them they have $1400 for this leg of the race.
Teams are flying to Montréal, on the same flight. Then they will take one of two trains, 1.5h apart, from Montréal to Toronto. The tickets for the trains can be picked up at window 10 at the Via Rail ticket counter in Montréal Central station.
We learn that Anwar currently live in Toronto so he thinks they have a slight advantage from this.
"Our motto for this leg, three words: Light the candle!", Ty
There is a frantic taxi race from the airport to the central station. Once at the station it morphs to a mad dash to find counter 10.
"Slow down, we're not gonna beat them running", Tyler can't run fast with his prosthetic legs
In the end teams end up on the trains like this:
Train #69 (16:56 - 22:03) carries:
1. Tyler & Kayleen
2. Ben & Anwar
Train #669 (18:22 - 23:33) carries:
3. Deven & Amanda
4. Ty & Kat
Once in Toronto teams must make their way to the Financial district and find the new home of the Toronto Stock Exchange (650m). Once they arrive they see a sign telling them to come back at 6:30am.
The next morning Jon and the teams get to ring the opening bell. Once they have done that teams are released in the order they arrived the previous night. That is:
1. Ben & Anwar
2. Tyler & Kayleen
3. Ty & Kat
4. Deven & Amanda
Road Block: "Who's feeling artistic?"
This road block takes place at the OCAD University campus (1km). Here the participating racers will ascend 90 feet up one of the legs of the "tabletop" building. They will use an mechanical ascender to do this. This is a contraption which has been used a lot in various iterations of the race and it is tricky to use effectively/
"We were on the later train last night, which means we've had less sleep than two of the other teams here. And we're feeling that right now", Kat
"This is crushing my *SOUND EFFECT*", Deven finds the harness tight
Ty looks exhausted before he even starts to climb so we fear for him.
"I know everybody else is gone, but I'm spent. I have pretty much nothing left in the tank right now", Ty is struggling
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the road block):
1(+0)Ben* & Anwar (4-3)2(+2)Deven* & Amanda (4-3)3(-1)Tyler* & Kayleen (3-4)4(-1)Ty* & Kat (4-3)
The next clue is a Face off. Teams must make their way to Hotel X Toronto (3.9km). Here they will face each other playing double tennis. Each match is for the best of 5 games.
Tyler & Kayleen found a taxi faster than Deven & Amanda so they arrive to the tennis court as #2.
"It looks like it's the first time that Amanda has played tennis, so our strategy is to get the ball to her side as many times as possible", Ben
Teams leave the face off in the following order:
1(+2) Tyler & Kayleen win 3-1 against Ben & Anwar
2(-1) Ben & Anwar win 3-1 against Deven & Amanda
3(+0) Deven & Amanda win 3-1 against Ty & Kat
4(+0) Ty & Kat, had to wait, probably 10 minutes, after their loss
"The enemy is outside right?", Ben & Anwar to Deven & Amanda as they just won their match (and waiting outside are Ty & Kat)
"Just not our day", Kat after they lost their game
Route info: "This is beyond words"
Teams must now make their way to the Immersion Room (34km). Here they will have to star in their very own Sci-Fi adventure. They will have to memorize a script written entirely in Blergh... a fictional alien language. Once they have delivered a passing performance they will get to take a selfie using a sponsor phone.
The script starts:
--- Quote --- ALIENT ENCOUNTER
RACERS exit spaceship
Walk down ramp single file
Remove helmets and hold helmet under arms
Walk around the stage while ad-libbing reactions in English (ex: Oh my gosh - Where are we?)
Land on marks
ALIEN: WEE-A-GLEEP DEE A-GOOP-DONG BLERGH
(Welcome To Planet Blergh)
RACER 1: ZANK-GLOOP-BOOP JUB-JUB BUM A LUM DUM WIFF-NEE
(Thank you for having us)
RACER 2: MIM-SEE-SAW A LOP WICK WACK ZURF ZUM JEE
(We come in peace)
ALIEN: BOP-SEE-UM! DOM SEE PUR BLERGH?!
(Oh, great! You speak Blergh!)
--- End quote ---
And it continues in the same vein. All in all it looks like the racers have about 10 lines between them which they need to memorize.
"Oh man, it's not a language. It's a bunch of sounds put together in a made up alien language", Tyler
Tyler also tells us that his short term memory has become very bad after his skydiving accident. Tyler & Kayleen are the first to arrive and they quickly decide to make an attempt, just to see what it's like. This is usually a very smart move.
"Hopefully, this gets me the opportunity to go to space one day. If anyone's watching and has an extra seat on their spaceship, I will gladly come with you.", Anwar
And here we eventually get a big "To be continued..." sign. When the episode ends we have three teams learning the alien language. Tyler & Kayleen have failed twice and Ben & Anwar once. Ty & Kat are waiting for their taxi outside the Face Off.
Actually this demonstrates an editing technique used in all iterations of the race which is to often ignore the time it takes to travel from one task to the next. In reality it takes at least 30 minutes to get from the Face Off to the next task so when Ty & Kat are waiting outside Deven & Amanda are actually still in their taxi on their way to the alien task (unless the time penalty for coming last is more than 30 minutes, which sounds very unlikely).
This leg will conclude in the next episode.
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