The Amazing Race -- All-Purpose Thread

I'm in, too, please. One of the few TV shows I watch.

 

will be happy to take a team. thanks for running the pool again!

 

We have a few spots left, if anyone else wants in the pool. I'll post teams tomorrow, then the show premieres Wednesday!

 

Good story about a team from metro Detroit: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/e...-amazing-race-dreams-do-come-true/9077219002/

 

The Pool!

TigerVols - Akbar & Sheri
WriteThinking - Anthony & Spencer
MTM - Arun & Natalia
Wenders - Caro & Ray
Huggy - Connie & Sam
WolvEagle - Kim & Penn
nietsroob17 - Lulu & Lala
bumpy mcgee - Michael & Moe

Extra teams: Raquel & Cayla, Ryan & Dusty, Taylor & Isaiah
(If anyone checks in and wants to join before the show starts tomorrow, I'll add - we have 3 empty spaces. If not, we'll trade off when teams get eliminated. Not sure if @Inky_Wretch is going to be watching.)

 

Phil on season 33:

Phil Keoghan says new 'Amazing Race' is a 'mystery tour' due to COVID

 

I don't check this side of the board often enough. I'd still play if it's possible.

 

I put you in with Ryan & Dusty, Pilot! Welcome to the pool.

An interesting mix of teams here. Also, an interesting start where they all started from different locations? I'm really gonna miss the singing cops, they seemed fun. The flight attendants are a good mixture of dumb and lucky. There's a lot of strong all-male teams.

Clearly, no one reads enough British lit or watches British TV, because how could they not know a Bobby is a policeman?!?! Also I cannot believe Penn and Ray wasted ALL THAT TIME sorting the damned mail when they had already found the clue. Also, I can vouch as a short girl trying to play darts, it's very hard when you are not eye level with the dart board to hit the bullseye.

Pool update:
Pilot - Ryan & Dusty | 30
WriteThinking - Anthony & Spencer | 25
Raquel & Cayla | 16
WolvEagle - Kim & Penn | 14
Huggy - Connie & Sam | 14
Wenders - Caro & Ray | 12
MTM - Arun & Natalia | 11
TigerVols - Akbar & Sheri | 9
Taylor & Isaiah | 6
nietsroob17 - Lulu & Lala | 3
*bumpy mcgee - Michael & Moe | 1

*Team has been eliminated

I'm not running the pool on the number of times:
- Ryan mentions being wrongly convicted
- The two dudes train escapade
- Kim & Penn are super wholesome
- Caro & Ray mention barely knowing each other (no way this ends well)

bumpy, would you like Raquel & Cayla or Tayler & Isaiah?

 

The dude released from prison is this guy

New story on murder of Kent Heitholt, Columbia (Mo.) Trib sports editor

 

I will take Tayler & Isaiah. Glad to extend my streak of having the first team eliminated in the pool. I give kudos to every team and everyone here for not making a 'Mail Rail,' joke. I wish I were a more mature person.

 

My God. I don't remember that story but reading up on it now, holy shit, what a clusterfuck. Good on him for making something of his life. I'd be so mad at the insanity of it all I'm not sure I'd ever function again.

He's very welcome on Team Pilot for this adventure!

 

Did anyone else get the impression a few of those teams thought they were actually meeting the queen? The giddiness was comical.