Following a strong leg in their home country of Japan, Daichi & Sawaka stumbled and were eliminated in The Amazing Race Asia 2 Episode 6.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Rovilson & Marc (10:30am)
Second: Adrian & Collin (10:32am)
Third: Terri & Henry (10:43am)
Fourth: Vanessa & Pamela (10:46am)
Fifth: Paula & Natasha (10:47am)
Sixth: Ann & Diane (11:00am)
With the teams all being within half an hour of each other, it’s pretty tight already. Teams must drive to a soybean farm in Anseong, 80km south of Seoul. Rovilson & Marc get a police escort to the destination. The teams are having trouble adjusting to having to drive on the other side of the road. Marc comments, “I’m just used to driving in the Philippines, where you can drive on any side of the road.” The signs being entirely in Korean doesn’t help matters any. On the way there, Paula & Natasha get a flat tire. Ann & Diane, who had started off quite a ways behind the rest, spot Terri & Henry while heading there. Like Paula & Natasha, they hit (apparently) a curb, but they don’t get a flat from it. Not that it’s a news flash or anything, but Terri screamed at the top of her lungs as Henry drove.
The road block is to search through 1500 soybean jars. Some of the jars hide clues. One jar hides a $50 bonus in addition to the clue. Not a good task for the taller racers, as it means they’ll have to bend over more, leading to aching backs. Even though she doesn’t fall into this category, as usual, Terri needs to take time to pout.
Road block (in order of arrival): Rovilson, Pamela, Collin (gets the clue with the bonus), Natasha, Diane, Terri
The next stop is Woncheon Resort, an amusement park in Suwon, where they must find a flagged boat and paddle to a buoy to find their next clue. From there, they will head to the Korean folk village in Yongin, a living open air folk museum.
This seems to be a very good leg in terms of cooperative locals. From start to finish, multiple teams have been finding people willing to drive to the destinations and let them follow them.
Pamela does a remarkable impression of Terri on the way to the village. Vanessa makes a wrong turn, and they’re unable to get themselves to calm down and just keep yelling. Vanessa asks her to calm down and apologizes again and again, but Pamela just keeps harping on it. The (other) problem is that Vanessa keeps enabling this behavior, continuing to say she’s stupid and that it’s her fault.
The detour is a choice between too ho or too heavy. In too ho, teams must toss bamboo sticks into a cylinder from 4.5 meters away. In too heavy, teams must deliver 30 logs to a house using a traditional carrying device known as a jigei.
Too heavy: Adrian & Collin, Paula & Natasha, Ann & Diane (after trying too ho)
Too ho: Rovilson & Marc, Vanessa & Pamela, Terri & Henry
Surprising to see Rovilson & Marc opt for the task that’s not just sheer strength. Seems like a botched opportunity to gain some time, but regardless, they still manage to pass Adrian & Collin and take the lead. For some reason, Paula & Natasha choose to do the log carrying task, but that works out okay except for the few logs Natasha takes to the head. Despite this, though, she remains level-headed and doesn’t freak out.
At 8PM, as the other teams are either checked in or finishing up the detour, Terri & Henry are still looking for the boats. The good news is that, even though it’s dark, they still don’t run into an hours of operation problem.
The pitstop for this leg of the race is Peace Plaza Olympic Park in Seoul.
First: Rovilson & Marc
Second: Adrian & Collin
Third: Pamela & Vanessa
Fourth: Ann & Diane
Fifth: Paula & Natasha
Sixth: Terri & Henry (non-eliminated)
Toward the end of the episode, we get what’s apparently a goodbye video, but even with this build up, it’s still a non-elimination leg. There’s a montage of Terri yelling at Henry, then in the confessional, Henry starts crying, which is followed by her crying as well. When they’re given the news that this is a NEL, they’re probably the least excited team ever to not be eliminated. To make matters worse, mugging’s back. They got rid of it in the US version because it was a disgusting twist, but Terri & Henry will start the next leg with no money.
As usual, Rovilson & Marc get first, while Adrian & Collin get second. These two teams have to be in the finals.
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This 2nd season’s Amazing Race Asia team has been pretty boring and predictable so far. Marc and Rovilson as usual will be the first team to arrive, followed by the Singaporean team which is always a definate 2nd place behind since the last 5 leg of the race. I wouldn’t be suprised if their standing position will go on till the Finals too. It is ridiculous how Henry and Terri even got chosen for the race in the first place, perhaps they should spend more time working on their marriage instead of irritating the audiance with their constant never-ending bickering which OBVIOUSLY will get them eliminated soon enough. I think there is an overlap amount of “girl teams”, mostly just pretty faces, rather than the balace of both worlds. There is no feel of “competitive-ness” among the teams as each team seemingly arrives at the pit stop so far apart from each other. Let’s not forget how the last 2 previous eliminated teams were so way behind the operational hours of their required tasks that they are incapable of completing the entire leg. The Amazing Race Asia still has alot to catch up as compared to the orignial version of the Amazing Race which always promises us more of the real stuff that we look forward to.
What this season lacks is either a good strong male/female team or a good strong all female team. With that, the two all male teams are wiping the floor with everybody. However, Rovilson & Marc are so good at this that I suspect they’d be able to give most teams a run for their money, and Adrian & Collin as well seem to be a pretty strong team.
Terri & Henry were selected to be the Jonathan & Victoria of this season, and they’ve succeeded at that. They weren’t chosen to be serious competitors. Rather, they were chosen to bring drama to the screen. Eventually, it goes from worth talking about to too pitiful to watch.