Brooke & Robbie finished last in an entertaining but purely luck-based task in The Amazing Race 25 Episode 10 but were saved by non-elimination.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Misti & Jim – 9:01AM
Second: Amy & Maya – 9:02AM
Third: Adam & Bethany – 9:05AM
Fourth: Brooke & Robbie – 9:07AM
In what is already a close race, teams will be remaining in the local area. The transportation goes in a loop, and depending on which side of the road you catch the trucks, you may be going the longer way. The lead teams go the long way, and it takes them a while to realize it.
The detour is a choice between This or That with no explanation of what’s what. In This, teams must score 21 points in a game against a local basketball team. In That, teams must race a padyak (bicycle without brakes with attached car for a passenger) course in under 17:55. Each person will have to complete two laps.
For their speed bump, Brooke & Robbie must transfer a street vendor’s goods from one cart to another. They are still ahead of the teams that took the longer route by the time they complete it.
This: Adam & Bethany (switched from That), Brooke & Robbie
That: Misti & Jim, Amy & Maya
Adam & Bethany find out where their chosen task is and quickly switch.
The basketball task seems simple enough. You’ll get to 21 eventually, and it doesn’t matter how poorly you perform. The bike task is much riskier because it requires a restart if you don’t beat the clock.
I don’t understand why Misti & Jim and Amy & Maya are continuing to work and make decisions together in what is the last leg before the finale. It seems pretty certain one of them will be eliminated. In Misti & Jim’s case, Misti’s injured foot makes this seem to be a particularly poor detour choice, but they finish in time the first time anyway.
The road block requires teams to pick up and deliver two popular coconut products. The “trick” to this task is that they must actually read the posted information at the start of the task, which tells them where they need to go and with how much product.
Road block (in order of arrival): Robbie, Jim, Adam, Amy
Though they all struggle at first figuring out where to go, Amy’s disadvantage is that she is going against three strong injury-free men (she has an injured hip after having crashed during the detour) in what’s largely a strength task.
The pit stop for this leg of the race is Fort San Diego.
First: Brooke & Robbie
Second: Adam & Bethany
Third: Misti & Jim
Fourth: Amy & Maya
The final leg starts right now, so nobody is being eliminated after this exhausting leg. For the first time, four teams will compete in the final leg, though one team will be eliminated at some point during that leg.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 25 Episode 12, where we will find out who The Amazing Race 25 winner is, which airs Friday at 8/7c on CBS.