2nd Episode of Amazing Race 14
In the opener of the second episode of the realty tv show Amazing Race 14, we find our teams waking up at their pit stop and racing off to the airport to catch the earliest flight to Munich, Germany. From there, they drive themselves to a village where they need to find Ruhpolding cable car ride. They take the car to the top of the mountain and find their next clue.
Here it becomes a bit tricky for the teams. They must decide which member of their team will meet with an instructor who will paraglide them off the mountain to the ground, a 6,000 foot drop. The other teammate must ride back down the cable car and await their arrival at the designated landing area. Upon landing, the teams will receive their next clue.
But the Kisha and Jen team find themselves lost while driving to the cable car, and tempers start to flare.
Next, the first team is told by the instructor that they cannot fly now. They can either wait or walk down. They are told the wind is too strong, making it dangerous to paraglide. The hike down the mountain will take 60 minutes.
Mel and Mike have a problem. Mel, the father, has to wait for the wind to die down. He has a groin injury so he can’t run down the mountain. But all of the other teams decide to hike down the mountain. But then the wind changed, and Mel said, ‘it was a mircle.” So he got to sky dive down and beat out several teams in the process. But on the hike down the mountain, Linda (Steve & Linda) who was alone got lost and came down the wrong side of the mountain. As she was crying, a van came by and offered to drive her to where she was to be (no mention of a penalty for this, but it turns out it didn’t matter).
The teams now must drive themselves 25 miles to Schonau Am Konigssee where they will find their next clue.
This next clue was a Detour, where teams must choose between two different tasks where success depends on precision. The choices are riding a balancing dolly or the Austrian Folly (throw pies at each other’s face until one reveals a cherry filling). This proved to be the most fun for the spectators, who laughed and laughed at the pie throwing task (or maybe the spectators were just acting silly because of all the beer they were drinking!).
After completing a road block, the teams must move on to a wood cutter where a man will stamp it with their next clue. And it was the blondes (Christie & Jodi) who got lost finding the wood cutter in the dark. Jodi said “we are acting like dumb blondes.”
The teams then must drive themselves to find Shloss Hellbrunn, which is the pit stop for that leg of the race. The last team to arrive would be eliminated.
Tammy and Victor (brother & sister) arrive in first place, and each won a hybrid go-cart. Mel and Mike, team 2, Amanda and Kris finished 3rd place. Kisha and Jen argued again in the car, while stopping for directions. We heard her say, “this is the most frustrating experience of my life and wearing me down mentally.
Christie and Jodi, are lovely blondes, barely finished in 9th place, and are still in the race. This is the second time that they were both able to barely stay alive in the game. Steve and Linda finished in last place, and were eliminated from the race (some what predicable for this realty tv show, although we were thinking they would be eliminated in the previous week). Overall, we the viewers got to see some great sites and the beautiful country of Europe!
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Yes, love will make anyone do crazy things, and as if it wasn’t enough to conquer the world of Survivor, the unstoppable Rob and Amber entered another stressful competition, The Amazing Race. They came into the competition not just as boyfriend-girlfriend, but as a fiance-fiance, and was strong, conniving and devious enough to finish the race in second place. Despite losing the prize money, they did win a number of prizes for arriving first at several pit stops.
The show is similar to Survivor in the way that people work together to survive in situations that range from extreme physical stunts and tests of endurance to coping with small food and supply rations. The teams are made up of individuals with prior ‘real world’ relationships — including married and dating heterosexual couples, homosexual couples, family units, and friends. During most shows, the minimum age is 21; however one season allowed members as young as 8. Each team is given a finite amount of money and a checkpoint at which all teams need to meet up at their individual accord. The last team to arrive at the destination is eliminated. The race always starts in the US, but sends teams on a scavenger hunt of sorts that winds through remote locations around the globe. Language barriers, weather threats, direction challenges, and dwindling funds threaten to weaken teams and throw off their timing, causing progressive eliminations.
At the end of each leg of the race, there is a mandatory pit stop at which all teams stop to eat, rest and socialize. Most interviews are filmed at this time. In some legs, the first team to arrive wins a vacation or some other prize such as equipment. The last to arrive is eliminated from the duration of the race.
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