Monday, 9 March 2009

Christie/Jodi in first, Amanda/Kris U-Turned and eliminated.

Sorry for the delay, I had school today. So, the teams race to Siberia, in Russia. All of the teams leave Romania to get a flight to Siberia. It was eight teams on four different flights to there. However, Kisha/Jen Christie/Jodi, and Mark/Michael were fortunate enough to get the earliest and best flight. So, they were the first teams to make their way to the hydroelectric dam, where they would be given their next clue. Christie/Jodi took the lead, and Mark/Michael made third. Next, They were told to make their way to the Saint Innokenty Church. Once there, all three of the teams were given their next detour: Stack logs or construct window shudders. All three, Mark/Michael, Christie/Jodi, and Kisha/Jen chose Stack.

During the detour, all of the teams made it about half way stacking the logs, until Mark/Michael lost balance with their logs, and knocked their’s over. Mark/Michael decided to do switch detours. Then, the teams behind arrive, and make their way to the hydroelectric dam. Meanwhile, Mark/Michael struggle to find the marked house. Then, Kisha/Jen and Christie/Jodi finished the detour, and then arrived to the U-Turn, which was a twist that allowed one team to (for the first time) anonymously force another team to turn around to complete the detour. Neither Christie/Jodi or Kisha/Jen chose to U-Turn anyone. So, they receive their next clue.

Finally, once all of the other teams arrive, Amanda/Kris, Tammy/Victor, Margie/Luke, Cara/Jaime, and Mel/Mike all chose to stack logs. Then, Mark/Michael are seen struggling to find the marked house, and appear to now be a mile away from where they need to be. Then, Christie/Jodi and Kisha/Jen arrive to the roadblock: One person must ride a bobsled and spot seven letters to spell the name of a famous Russian playwright. Christie and Kisha opted to do this roadblock, and Kisha went again, after failing to catch all seven letters. Meanwhile, the five teams on the second flight are all still working on the log stacking, and we also get to hear a few Russians playing music drunk off of Vodka and smoking cigarettes. Then, it was Tammy/Victor and Margie/Luke who excelled in the detour, while Cara/Jaime, Amanda/Kris, and Mel/Mike lost their stack. This is where Mel/Mike and Amanda/Kris decide to switch detours. Meanwhile, Mark/Michael are still stuck, and lost in the village, looking for the right place.

Finally, Luke/Margie arrive to the U-Turn. It was then revealed that they have chosen to U-turn Amanda/Kris. Tammy/Victor arrive, and by default, choose not to U-Turn anyone, so they move on. Meanwhile, Christie and Kisha are working on hard on the roadblock, and are basically putting letters together, hoping something is right. Finally, Christie is right, and they receive information on the next clue, the pit stop. Then, Kisha is right, and her and Jen move along. Then, Tammy/Victor and Margie/Luke arrive, where Luke and Victor volunteer to do this roadblock. Victor immediately knew the answer to the roadblock, which was Chekhov. Victor was instantly right, moving him and Tammy to third. However, Luke struggled with the entire roadblock, and looked frustrated.

In the detour, Amanda/Kris and Mel/Mike catch up with Mark/Michael, and the three teams decide to all go and look for the marked house together. Meanwhile, It was a race for first between Kisha/Jen and Christie/Jodi. It was Christie/Jodi who snatched that first place, winning a motorcycle for their pit stop prize. Kisha/Jen takes second place. Back at the roadblock, Luke was frustrated with the spelling, which made Margie look frustrated. Finally, after five tries, Luke finally got it right, moving along to the pit stop. Back tat the log stacking, Cara/Jamie finally finish, and one of them says they’re proud they did that detour without any help from any boy. Then, this put Amanda/Kris, Mel/Mike and Mark/Michael behind. So, Tammy/Victor arrive to the pit stop (Which was really a Theatre of Musical Comedy), and were told they were team number three. Margie/Luke arrive, and were to be team number four.

Cara/Jamie arrive to the detour, where one of them works to completer it. Meanwhile, the three teams working on the detour together, all finally got each other lost. Then, Mel spots the house, and all three teams begin working on their window shudders. Finally, Cara/Jamie finish the detour, where they arrive to the theatre and are told they’re team number five. Back at the detour, all three teams finish, where they learn Amanda/Kris are U-Turned. They are to go back at complete the log stacking while Mel/Mike and Mark/Michael got a lucky break. At the roadblock, Mark/Michael finish, where Mel/Mike got sixth place, and Mark/Michael take seventh. Amanda/Kris’s unfortunate turn forced them into last place, where they were eliminated from the race. Seven teams remain, who will be out next?

This leg was very good, except anyone who would’ve found the house would make the detour choice look obvious to me. I never t\would’ve thought that Christie/Jodi would get first place, but they did, and now this could be anyone’s game. I believe that Amanda/Kris being a strong team who got eliminated over the U-Turn would easily make this a race for Margie/Luke or Tammy/Victor to win. I really thought Mark/Michael, a couple of stuntmen would be doing well, but they’re not well with directions and aren’t very entertaining right now. I thought the U-turn was genius for Margie/Luke to do, simply because it’s all a game, which now enables teams to hinder their competition. I love the idea of a Blind U-Turn, simply because it makes for an interesting plot. The roadblock was best to watch, and was a lot of fun too. I’m really glad to see Tammy/Victor getting along ,and doing the leg with no blunders. Tammy/Victor are still very good racers, and I’d still like to see them win. There’s no teams I hate, which is good.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wow! good leg :) , bye amanda and kris :(

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