The Amazing Race -- All-Purpose Thread

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Results after the first leg of the two-part finale:










Wenders 83
*Drew Wilson 73
*IJAG 72
Jay Farrar 67
*Inky_Wretch 59
Liesl 34
* Huggy 22
* TigerVols 14
* MTM 11
* WolvEagle 9
* beanpole 1


Wenders is the winner, as no one can catch her in the finale. Congrats, Wenders! Who would have thought the little Texas couple would be there?

 

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YGBFKM

 

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Butbutbut ... SPOILER ALERT
















My team won the whole thing and yet I still don't win? Sonofabitch!

 

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Your team should have tried to not finish second-to-last in every leg.

 

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But for the first time EVER, I won and yet .... I lost.

Par for the course, I suppose.

Congrats, Wenders. I was certainly rooting for your team to win.

 

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If the rule were that the team that won the whole thing won the pool, I wouldn't have to total up points every week.

 

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Was anyone else a little put off by how the girls kept referring to the Beekmans as "the gays"?

It just seemed derogatory to me, maybe reading to much into it.

 

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I loved that ending.

 

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YES. OH MY GOD YES. I get it if you're doing it in the first few legs when you haven't learned each other's names yet, but in the final two legs? Please.

I have no idea how I did it (especially since I never come even CLOSE), especially with Lexi having so few brain cells. How does she not know who Houdini is? Or what the UN logo was? Seriously, when I saw what the final challenge was, I knew it had to be the Beekmans who would win because they're an intelligent pair who are good with things like languages and flags. I did like the final challenge though. Since it's gotten to the point where people expect to have an extremely cerebral final challenge, they all take good notes along the race. Then, it's fun to see them try to think things out and panic.

I was also happy to see whichever Chippendale it was get a car for his mom. He got a car for his mom, the Beekmans are going to be able to pay off their farm, Trey and Lexi won enough trips that they won't have to worry about tanning any time soon.

 

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I'm with you, Chet and Wenders. Thought the same thing.

 

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It seemed a bit mean-spirited, but that's pretty typical of those girls' character throughout the race. They got their comeuppance.

 

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Yeah, karma finally caught up with the twinnies. I agree with what was said above - they really showed their true colors.

That was a heck of an ending. Somehow, some way, the Beekman Boys won - simply amazing. The pizza challenge and the hello, goodbye challenge were cerebral - right up their alley.

I would have been happy with any of the final three winning. They all seemed like cool people. But the Beekman Boys? Score one for the underdogs of the world. How cool.

And, the clip from Monster Truck Rob about learning how to not be judgmental? That was cool, too.