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Amazing Race 14, Episode 12

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

Episode 12 of the Amazing Race

The Realty TV Show Amazing Race starts out from the 10th Pit Stop in the race around the world. Tammy & Victor were the first team to depart at 9:15PM. Margie & Luke were the 2nd team to depart at 11:24 PM. Jaime & Cara were the 3rd and last team to depart at 2:04 AM.

Teams must now fly over 5,000 miles to the island of Maui, Hawaii. Once there, they will make their way to beach access 118, where they will find their next clue. As it turns out, all teams made it on the same flight to Maui.

At the beach access 118, teams must prep a pig for a traditional “Luau” (an elaborate Hawaiian feast or party). They must season it and carry it (145 pounds) for 200 yards along the beach to the Luau. Finally, using an example for reference, they must properly cover the pig to be cooked, in order to receive their next clue.

Margie & Luke finished this task first, as they carried their pig on their shoulders, using the traditional pole that was provided for them. The other teams carried their pigs waist high, and kept dropping it due to the enormous stress it put upon their hands and forearm muscles.

Teams must now make their way to a beach at McGreggor Point. Once there, they will take a one mile ride on water crafts to a marked buoy field where they will have to search among 100 buoys to find their next clue.

Margie & Luke finished this water task in first place, and received their next clue. Teams must travel along the highway by taxi until they find a fence of “surfboards” which is made of surfboards that will have their next clue waiting for them.

Margie & Luke were the first team to find the next clue, which was a Road Block. In this Road Block, one person has to overcome 3 weeks of physical and mental fatigue and remember everything they have done on the race. Teams must search through a pile of more than 300 vintage surfboards to find eleven of them that have pictures related to things they have encountered along the prior eleven legs of the race. Most of the surfboards have incorrect pictures on them. Once teams have found their surfboards, they must create a surfboard fence by standing the boards up in the correct order, according to their pictures. When they have succeeded, they will receive their next clue of where to find the finish line, and the end to this Amazing Race.

After three continents, nine countries, and 40,000 miles, Tammy & Victor finished in first place and are the official winners of this Realty TV show Amazing Race. They won the one million dollar prize. Jaime & Cara were the second team to finish. They were the only all female team that has ever made it this far in all of the Amazing Race seasons. Margie & Luke finished in third place, and Luke said he is proof that a hearing impaired person can do anything if one is determined.

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Amazing Race 14, Episode 11

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Episode 11 of Amazing Race

The Realty TV show of the Amazing Race starts out with Jaime and Cara, currently in first place, who must now take a taxi to find their next clue. Margie and Luke were the 2nd team to get their next clue. Tammy and Victor were the 3rd team, and Kisha and Jen, (Sisters), currently in last place.

Teams must now search the shops at the mall and find the Travelocity roaming Gnome for their next clue. Tammy & Victor found the Gnome first and received their next clue. Teams must now make their way to Gu Gong Xi Bei Jiao and find a popular Chinese mode of transportation, the electric bicycle. They then must ride the electric bikes to Dongdan Station to find their next clue.

Detour: Teams must choose between two local professions, Opera or Chinese waiter. In Opera, teams make their way to the Beijng opera house where they are to make each other up as a Chinese gentleman and princess. Then they present themselves to the master for their next clue. In Chinese waiter, teams make their way to a restaurant and choose a table of hungry patrons. The customers give their orders in their own language. Teams must recite these orders back to the chef. When they recite these orders correctly, in the same language as the patrons, the kitchen staff will prepare the dishes, and teams then serve them all before receiving their next clue.

Tammy and Victor moved up to first place, and chose to do waiter. Margie & Luke decided to do the Opera. Jaime & Cara chose Opera, as well as Kisha and Jen. Victor and Tammy, who know the language, got the orders wrong and had to go back to the customers to get them again. In Opera, Luke was having great difficulty painting his mom’s face.

Victor & Tammy were the first team to complete the Detour, and received their next clue. It was the 2nd and final U-Turn found along the race course. Teams have the opportunity to slow down another team, forcing them to back-track and perform the other side of the Detour. They also will be held accountable by posting their picture so that the team that they slow down will know who did it to them.

Victor and Tammy were the first to arrive at the U-Turn, so they decided to U-Turn Kisha and Jen, because they did not want to go up against them again with their superior athletic abilities of running (not swimming). Next clue was for teams to make their way to Dong Hua Men Yi Shi Market, where they will find their next clue.

Road Block: A task where only one person may perform, which is eat a plate of creatures (grasshoppers, larva, scorpions, and star-fish) in order to receive their next clue. Victor was the Team member who had to eat the plate, and complained the whole time while his sister cheered him on. No other teams were with them, and Victor finished the plate way ahead of the other teams. Their next clue directed them to Niao Chao, which is the Pit Stop for this leg of the race.

Tammy and Victor finished first, and are now number one out of three teams who will be racing for the one million dollar prize. Margie and Luke were the 2nd team to arrive. Jaime and Cara got up to Phil at the Pit Stop who said, “I’m sorry to tell you . . . you are going to have to keep racing because you are team number three.” The girls cried out with joy. There has never been an all female team to win the Amazing Race, so they now have a shot at it. Kisha and Jen finished in last place and were eliminated. Next week, this Realty TV show of the Amazing Race will be the Season Finale!