Yep, my post again is about The Amazing Race. I've been watching this show continuously for 2 weeks and completed 4 seasons so far (13,14,16,22). So, I will briefly summarize the race in those 4 seasons in chronological order as I watched them started from season 16. Of course this summary will be based on my perspective. If you want to read the unbiased summary of the race, you can click the link in title below which will direct you to Wikipedia page of related season or click this
wikia link.
The Amazing Race 16
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| The Amazing Race 16 Route |
This is the first season I watched in my past two weeks. In this season I didn't really have favorite team, but I had some teams that I didn't want them to be the winner and I admired the pretty
Caite Upton despite of her past "
sin" hehe...
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| Challenges in Germany. (Left) Eating a plate of sauerkraut. (Right) Sharing a boot of beer |
In this race they start from U.S.(L.A.)-Chile-Argentina-Germany-France-Seychelles-Malaysia-Singapore-China-U.S.(San Francisco), made this season's route to be one of my favorite routes in this show. Chile and Argentina challenges weren't too fascinating for me, I already mentioned some challenges performed in Chile and Argentina in my
previous post. However, starting from Germany leg the race become more fascinating. In Germany they had to bungee jump, choose between playing football or eating
sauerkraut (non-spicy-German version of
kimchi), which I believed is very sour and not delicious hehe... The next challenge was sharing a
boot of beer (approx. 1.2 L). The next leg was held at France which had classic and wine theme. In the wine theme, the challenges included looking for a marked bottle of wine inside a wine warehouse and choosing between harvesting the marked grapes over one square kilometer farm or constructing a pyramid of
champagne coupes and pour champagne from the top of pyramid without breaking the coupes.
The next leg was continued to
Seychelles, which was the first time I heard about it when I watched this season. Apparently it is one of tropical paradise located in Indian Ocean near to Africa, and soon be listed in my ideal honeymoon destination. After that the race went to 2 countries in South East Asia (Malaysia and Singapore), which I believed if I had joined the race I would have benefited, since I came from Indonesia hehe... In this South East Asia countries they performed the challenges related to the local Chinese people's tradition. One amazing thing happened during the race in Malaysia, where the
runner up of this season (
Jet & Cord) started from the last place, completed a
speed bump and finished first and the end of the leg, leaving
Steve & Allie who started first in the beginning of the leg to finish last at the end of leg resulted in their elimination. This was marked as the first to happen during The Amazing Race's history and also referred to a passage in the
NIV Bible,
Matthew 20:16,
So the last will be first, and the first will be last.
In Singapore challenge, the tension between two teams (
Brent & Caite
with
Carol & Brandy) got intense. Their problem initially sparked
since the first leg by the involvement of the actual winner of the
season (
Dan & Jordan) who first made fun of Caite because of her "
sin"
in their conversation with Carol & Brandy. Carol & Brandy who
were slightly arrogant, ever since always made fun of Caite and
underestimated her, resulted in not so good relation between two teams.
Finally, in the Singapore leg Brent and Caite got chance to
U-Turn
Carol & Brandy which later eliminated Carol & Brandy from the
race after finishing last on the leg. This matter disappointed Carol
& Brandy and they never forgave Caite and it continued until the
finish line, where they confronted Caite because of her decision to
U-Turned them, making this finish line one of the memorable finish lines in
The Amazing Race. Actually I was happy when Carol & Brandy were
eliminated, because in my opinion both of them are arrogant b*tches
(sorry, this is only my opinion after observing their move during the
race).
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| Challenges in China. (Left) Making la mian noodle. (Right) Solving giant puzzles. |
Departing from Singapore the race continued to China. This is one my favorite The Amazing Race destination (the others are Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and New Zealand). In China they had challenge to make 1 kg of
la mian noodles under cold weather and had opportunity to meet the the "extreme" two men from China,
He Pingping world shortest man and
Bao Xishun world tallest man. The la mian noodles was an extremely difficult task, knowing that since then I appreciate every noodle that I eat. This episode was also dedicated to He Pingping, since he passed away several months after the race and before the episode was aired. May he rest in peace. The other challenge including solving a giant puzzle. After solving the puzzle, they distributed they 96 pieces of puzzle into 96 people who later flipped the puzzle and revealed their next clue.
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| Challenge in last leg in LDAC |
The final leg, the top 3 teams flew from Shanghai to San Francisco. At Shanghai airport, initially the first two teams who came were Brent & Caite followed by Jet & Cord. However, while waiting for the ticket counter to open, Dan & Jordan came and put their backpacks between Brent & Caite and Jet & Cord backpacks without known by Jet & Cord, because they were sleeping while waiting in front of the ticket counter. It made Dan & Jordan to be the second team to get the airplane ticket. It actually pissed Jet & Cord, but due to their good personality they didn't confront Dan & Jordan. Moreover, during the flight Dan & Jordan played some dirty trick by persuading the flight attendant to promote them into the first class for free so they had better access from the airplane exit. Later this gave Dan & Jordan advantage during the final leg and made them the actual winner of this season. Honestly, I hate them to be the winner, since they were the dirtiest player in this season, started by igniting the heat between Carol & Brandy and Brent & Caite, followed by the tricks they played during the final leg. Since those things weren't prohibited by The Amazing Race's rules, they were still the legitimate winner of this race. Fortunately, this made Jet & Cord to have one more chance by participating in
The Amazing Race 18: Unfinished Business. In this final leg, team had a memorable task which was experiencing to produce an visual effect animation in
Letterman Digital Art Center (LDAC), which previously produced
Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Cool right, isn't it?
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