As the last team to depart from the singing road block in The Amazing Race 23 Episode 6, Tim & Danny were eliminated.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Nicole & Travis – 12:03PM
Second: Nicky & Kim – 12:09PM
Third: Leo & Jamal – 12:10PM
Fourth: Tim & Marie – 12:23PM
Fifth: Jason & Amy – 12:28PM
Sixth: Ally & Ashley – 1:00PM
Teams wil now fly to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. All teams are bunched together already, as the last leg seemed pretty simple.
First flight (arrives 5:50AM): Leo & Jamal
Second flight (arrives 6:00AM): Nicole & Travis, Nicky & Kim, Tim & Marie, Jason & Amy, Ally & Ashley
As the only team smart enough to book their own tickets before heading to the counter, Leo & Jamal have a 10 minute lead over everyone else, in addition to the fact that they speak some Arabic. Plus their first destination is a mosque, so of course this presents an opportunity to pray to god to ask about coming in first.
While at the airport, Jason and Tim kiss and make up, or at least they are keeping up the pretenses of doing so. Tim explains that dudes don’t stay mad at each other for more than 10 minutes.
The detour is a choice between sort it out or sew it up. In sort it out, they have to search through a variety of dates and create an elaborate display. Sew it up requires them to assemble a traditional fishing net. Unlike last week, both detours sound potentially difficult. The fishing task is outside in the sweltering heat, though, and that alone makes it seem the worse choice. However, this risk of suffering in the sun for an hour or two may potentially pay off as far as being the quicker task.
Sew it up: Nicole & Travis, Jason & Amy
Sort it out: Leo & Jamal, Tim & Marie, Ally & Ashley, Nicky & Kim
Nicky & Kim find the “secret” stash of other dates that nobody else is smart enough to notice. Leo & Jamal spot this and ask for their help, but they refuse. The reason they give for this is because Leo & Jamal have big mouths and will tell everybody, which is exactly what happens when they finally figure it out. Then they keep yelling and not shutting up the entire rest of the leg. Now that everybody knows, Nicky & Kim are left eating their dust. They are far enough behind that the other teams bail on them about 30 seconds before they reach the boat, putting them in last place by 15 minutes.
The road block requires teams to rapel 200 feet and get into a race car with a professional driver, keeping their eyes peeled for the name and time of the record holder. If they are incorrect, they will have to take another lap.
Road block (in order of arrival): Leo, Jason, Travis, Marie, Ally, Kim
The pit stop for this leg of the race is the champions podium at the race track, and based on the difficulty (or lack thereof) of this task, it seems Nicky & Kim will come in last, even though Ally does keep it a little interesting by being seemingly unable to understand the task for multiple laps. The good news for them is we’re about due for non-elimination.
First: Leo & Jamal (win a trip to Paris)
Second: Jason & Amy
Third: Nicole & Travis
Fourth: Tim & Marie
Fifth: Ally & Ashley
Non-eliminated: Nicky & Kim
Unsurprisingly, Nicky & Kim place last but are saved by non-elimination.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 23 Episode 8, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.