Racing report
Amazing Race Canada Season 6, Episode 8, "The Zombies are honing in on us"
Film date: 2018-05-10 - 2018-05-11
The last pit stop was in the Leo Mol Sculpture Gardens, Winnipeg. Teams are released from the corner of Portage avenue and Main st the next day in the following order:
1. | Taylor & Courtney | 09:41 | |
2. | Martina & Phil | 10:22 | +0:41 |
3. | Leanne & Mar | 10:40 | +0:59 |
4. | Dylan & Kwame | 11:40 | +1:59 |
5. | Courtney & Adam | 11:54 | +2:13 |
6. | Nancy & Mellisa | 12:07 | +2:26 |
The first clue tells teams to fly to Prince Edward Island.
At the airport we learn that Taylor & Courtney made an alliance with Martina & Phil back in the first leg. The teams are also surprised when Nancy & Mellisa turn up after their non-elimination.
"
Nancy & Mellisa are super nice. I like to chat with them. I don't like to race with them, because they're good at it", Courtney (police) is not happy it was a non-elimination
Teams fly via Toronto to Charlottetown. At the airport teams collect their sponsor car and make their way to the Beaconsfield Historic House.
Teams find the clue box by the Beaconsfield Historic House (7.4km 17min) in the following order:
1. Leanne & Mar, right in front of #2
2. Dylan & Kwame
3. Taylor & Courtney
4. Martina & Phil
5. Nancy & Mellisa
6. Courtney & Adam
Here Nancy & Mellisa find their speed bump. They must make their way to the Humble Barber (600m). There they will find two persons waiting to donate their long hair to the Canadian Cancer association. The task is to collect the hair.
This speed bump turns very emotional when we learn that Nancy was diagnosed with breast cancer five years ago, and her mom died of the same disease.
The other teams can grab the next clue from the box.
Route info: "Have a mice day"
In this task teams must search Charlottetown for statues of Eckhart the mouse. There are 9 statues and three of them hold part of the next clue. Each team must find all three pieces to continue racing.
The statues are quite small, but well known. And there are maps which have all the locations marked.
"
Think before we run", Dylan & Kwame have a motto
Courtney & Adam and Nancy & Mellisa are smart and go into a hotel to get a map of the mouse locations.
"
I wish I lived here because these people or my kind of people, they are good hearted, they're willing to help", Adam find the locals helpful
"
This challenge is kicking my ass", Courtney (police) has trouble finding the last mouse
Taylor & Courtney run into Martina & Phil and get told where mouse holding the final clue piece can be found.
Teams get all pieces in the following order:
1(+0) Leanne & Mar
2(+4) Courtney & Adam
3(+2) Nancy & Mellisa
4(+0) Martina & Phil
5(-2) Taylor & Courtney
6(-4) Dylan & Kwame
The three clue pieces read:
* Search for your next clue near the corner of Route 6...
* and Grahams Road, but first...
* say goodbye to Charlottetown!
At the indicated corner (48km 47min) teams find an old church which has been converted into a restaurant called The Table. Teams arrive here in the following order:
1(+1) Courtney & Adam
2(+1) Nancy & Mellisa
3(-2) Leanne & Mar
4(+0) Martina & Phil
5(+0) Taylor & Courtney
6(+0) Dylan & Kwame
Road block: "Who has a way with words?"
In this challenge each racer will be handed an individual menu of a four course meal. The problem is that all words are scrambled. For example it says ODFESAO instead of SEAFOOD. Racers must unscramble each dish, say the name to the chef and the serve it to one of the waiting guests.
As Taylor is done he sits down quickly with Paul, his fresh eyes soon spots that GREBECURESHE should be CHEESEBURGER.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
1(+0) | Courtney* & Adam | (4-5) | |
2(+0) | Nancy* & Mellisa | (5-4) | |
3(+2) | Taylor* & Courtney | (5-4) | |
4(+0) | Martina & Phil* | (4-5) | |
5(-2) | Leanne & Mar* | (4-5) | |
6(+0) | Dylan & Kwame* | (5-4) | |
DETOUR
Detour: "Suds" or
"Spuds"
Suds: Collect goat milk
for soap by traditional
means, then correctly
identify 10 bars of soap
using your sense of
smell.
Spuds: Prepare the soil
then plant 4 rows of
potatoes the old-
fashioned way, by hand
Suds take place at the Great Canadian Soap co (29km 24min).
Spuds takes place at Blue Bay Farms (22km 19min). Teams must till the soil, cut the potatoes and plant the pieces 4-5 inches apart.
All teams select the potato planting. And they all discover that it is hard work.
"
Physical labor is my jam", Adam
"
Farming is not for the faint of heart", Courtney (police)
At the potato planting we see a small flight between Nancy & Mellisa. Nancy thinks she knows how to plant potatoes and does not want to check the clue.
"
Tell me what to do because that is what you like to do", Mellisa to Nancy
"
Where did you get your potatoes", Martina fails to spot the mountain of potatoes in the back of the barn
The only team having any problem with this task is Dylan & Kwame who get rejected in the first check because they have placed their potatoes to close.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+1) Nancy & Mellisa, potatoes
2(-1) Courtney & Adam, potatoes
3(+0) Taylor & Courtney, potatoes
4(+0) Martina & Phil, potatoes
5(+0) Leanne & Mar, potatoes
6(+0) Dylan & Kwame, potatoes
The next clue sends teams to the town of Cavendish where they must find Crossfire Paintball.
At the paintball place (15km 16min) teams will come under fire from a bunch (i.e. 5) of other paintball players dressed up as and behaving like zombies. Teams must search the play-field for the next clue, which is hidden in an ammunition box.
The racers will be unarmed but the zombies are not. The players will also be penalized with 1 minute for every hit they take. They get a short piece of rope which they both must hold on to so that they stay together the whole time.
"
The zombies are honing in on us", Mellisa
"
Specially since somebody is screaming", Nancy
"
Paintballs don't hurt that much", Adam tries to cheer up Courtney
"
I'm a lover not a fighter", Courtney (nurse)
Leanne gets an anxiety attack on the field. She is claustrophobic and feels enclosed in the mask they have to wear. She can not keep the mask on so they choose to forefeet the challenge.
"
I need to take off this mask off", Leanne
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Nancy & Mellisa, were hit 15 times
2(+0) Courtney & Adam, were hit 16 times (3:12 after #1)
3(+0) Taylor & Courtney, were hit 23 times
4(+0) Martina & Phil, where hit 19 times
5(+0) Leanne & Mar, gave up
6(+0) Dylan & Kwame, were hit 14 times
ROUTE INFO
Drive yourselves to
Cavendish Beach and
search for Jon at your
next Pit Stop.
Warning! The last team
to check in may be
eliminated.
Teams reach Jon at the beach (4km 8min) in the following order:
1(+0) Nancy & Mellisa, win a trip to Istanbul
2(+0) Courtney & Adam
3(+0) Taylor & Courtney
- Leanne & Mar, have to serve a 2h peRacing report
Amazing Race Canada Season 6, Episode 8, "The Zombies are honing in on us"
Film date: 2018-05-10 - 2018-05-11
The last pit stop was in the Leo Mol Sculpture Gardens, Winnipeg. Teams are released from the corner of Portage avenue and Main st the next day in the following order:
1. | Taylor & Courtney | 09:41 | |
2. | Martina & Phil | 10:22 | +0:41 |
3. | Leanne & Mar | 10:40 | +0:59 |
4. | Dylan & Kwame | 11:40 | +1:59 |
5. | Courtney & Adam | 11:54 | +2:13 |
6. | Nancy & Mellisa | 12:07 | +2:26 |
The first clue tells teams to fly to Prince Edward Island.
At the airport we learn that Taylor & Courtney made an alliance with Martina & Phil back in the first leg. The teams are also surprised when Nancy & Mellisa turn up after their non-elimination.
"
Nancy & Mellisa are super nice. I like to chat with them. I don't like to race with them, because they're good at it", Courtney (police) is not happy it was a non-elimination
Teams fly via Toronto to Charlottetown. At the airport teams collect their sponsor car and make their way to the Beaconsfield Historic House.
Teams find the clue box by the Beaconsfield Historic House (7.4km 17min) in the following order:
1. Leanne & Mar, right in front of #2
2. Dylan & Kwame
3. Taylor & Courtney
4. Martina & Phil
5. Nancy & Mellisa
6. Courtney & Adam
Here Nancy & Mellisa find their speed bump. They must make their way to the Humble Barber (600m). There they will find two persons waiting to donate their long hair to the Canadian Cancer association. The task is to collect the hair.
This speed bump turns very emotional when we learn that Nancy was diagnosed with breast cancer five years ago, and her mom died of the same disease.
The other teams can grab the next clue from the box.
Route info: "Have a mice day"
In this task teams must search Charlottetown for statues of Eckhart the mouse. There are 9 statues and three of them hold part of the next clue. Each team must find all three pieces to continue racing.
The statues are quite small, but well known. And there are maps which have all the locations marked.
"
Think before we run", Dylan & Kwame have a motto
Courtney & Adam and Nancy & Mellisa are smart and go into a hotel to get a map of the mouse locations.
"
I wish I lived here because these people or my kind of people, they are good hearted, they're willing to help", Adam find the locals helpful
"
This challenge is kicking my ass", Courtney (police) has trouble finding the last mouse
Taylor & Courtney run into Martina & Phil and get told where mouse holding the final clue piece can be found.
Teams get all pieces in the following order:
1(+0) Leanne & Mar
2(+4) Courtney & Adam
3(+2) Nancy & Mellisa
4(+0) Martina & Phil
5(-2) Taylor & Courtney
6(-4) Dylan & Kwame
The three clue pieces read:
* Search for your next clue near the corner of Route 6...
* and Grahams Road, but first...
* say goodbye to Charlottetown!
At the indicated corner (48km 47min) teams find an old church which has been converted into a restaurant called The Table. Teams arrive here in the following order:
1(+1) Courtney & Adam
2(+1) Nancy & Mellisa
3(-2) Leanne & Mar
4(+0) Martina & Phil
5(+0) Taylor & Courtney
6(+0) Dylan & Kwame
Road block: "Who has a way with words?"
In this challenge each racer will be handed an individual menu of a four course meal. The problem is that all words are scrambled. For example it says ODFESAO instead of SEAFOOD. Racers must unscramble each dish, say the name to the chef and the serve it to one of the waiting guests.
As Taylor is done he sits down quickly with Paul, his fresh eyes soon spots that GREBECURESHE should be CHEESEBURGER.
Teams complete this road block in the following order (* denotes team member doing the roadblock):
1(+0) | Courtney* & Adam | (4-5) | |
2(+0) | Nancy* & Mellisa | (5-4) | |
3(+2) | Taylor* & Courtney | (5-4) | |
4(+0) | Martina & Phil* | (4-5) | |
5(-2) | Leanne & Mar* | (4-5) | |
6(+0) | Dylan & Kwame* | (5-4) | |
DETOUR
Detour: "Suds" or
"Spuds"
Suds: Collect goat milk
for soap by traditional
means, then correctly
identify 10 bars of soap
using your sense of
smell.
Spuds: Prepare the soil
then plant 4 rows of
potatoes the old-
fashioned way, by hand
Suds take place at the Great Canadian Soap co (29km 24min).
Spuds takes place at Blue Bay Farms (22km 19min). Teams must till the soil, cut the potatoes and plant the pieces 4-5 inches apart.
All teams select the potato planting. And they all discover that it is hard work.
"
Physical labor is my jam", Adam
"
Farming is not for the faint of heart", Courtney (police)
At the potato planting we see a small flight between Nancy & Mellisa. Nancy thinks she knows how to plant potatoes and does not want to check the clue.
"
Tell me what to do because that is what you like to do", Mellisa to Nancy
"
Where did you get your potatoes", Martina fails to spot the mountain of potatoes in the back of the barn
The only team having any problem with this task is Dylan & Kwame who get rejected in the first check because they have placed their potatoes to close.
Teams complete the detour in the following order:
1(+1) Nancy & Mellisa, potatoes
2(-1) Courtney & Adam, potatoes
3(+0) Taylor & Courtney, potatoes
4(+0) Martina & Phil, potatoes
5(+0) Leanne & Mar, potatoes
6(+0) Dylan & Kwame, potatoes
The next clue sends teams to the town of Cavendish where they must find Crossfire Paintball.
At the paintball place (15km 16min) teams will come under fire from a bunch (i.e. 5) of other paintball players dressed up as and behaving like zombies. Teams must search the play-field for the next clue, which is hidden in an ammunition box.
The racers will be unarmed but the zombies are not. The players will also be penalized with 1 minute for every hit they take. They get a short piece of rope which they both must hold on to so that they stay together the whole time.
"
The zombies are honing in on us", Mellisa
"
Specially since somebody is screaming", Nancy
"
Paintballs don't hurt that much", Adam tries to cheer up Courtney
"
I'm a lover not a fighter", Courtney (nurse)
Leanne gets an anxiety attack on the field. She is claustrophobic and feels enclosed in the mask they have to wear. She can not keep the mask on so they choose to forefeet the challenge.
"
I need to take off this mask off", Leanne
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+0) Nancy & Mellisa, were hit 15 times
2(+0) Courtney & Adam, were hit 16 times (3:12 after #1)
3(+0) Taylor & Courtney, were hit 23 times
4(+0) Martina & Phil, where hit 19 times
5(+0) Leanne & Mar, gave up
6(+0) Dylan & Kwame, were hit 14 times
ROUTE INFO
Drive yourselves to
Cavendish Beach and
search for Jon at your
next Pit Stop.
Warning! The last team
to check in may be
eliminated.
Teams reach Jon at the beach (4km 8min) in the following order:
1(+0) Nancy & Mellisa, win a trip to Istanbul
2(+0) Courtney & Adam
3(+0) Taylor & Courtney
- Leanne & Mar, have to serve a 2h penalty for skipping a task
4(+0) Martina & Phil
5(+1) Dylan & Kwame
6(-1) Leanne & Mar, are eliminated
"
We know we're going to be friends for a long time, this has brought us so much closer", Mar
nalty for skipping a task
4(+0) Martina & Phil
5(+1) Dylan & Kwame
6(-1) Leanne & Mar, are eliminated
"
We know we're going to be friends for a long time, this has brought us so much closer", Mar