Following a to be continued leg in The Amazing Race 25 Episode 11, for the first time, the final leg will feature a final four instead of a final three.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Brooke & Robbie
Second: Adam & Bethany
Third: Misti & Jim
Fourth: Amy & Maya
So I got started watching this a little late, and I see we’re in a new country, back in the United States. I take it we’re in California now with all this talk of making movies.
There’s the hope that when you get into an English speaking country things will be easier, but for Brooke & Robbie and Misti & Jim, the self driving is proving to be a challenge because you’re not just relying on a taxi driver to know where he’s going.
The road block is to shoot a stunt scene. It’s an interesting task, but it’s not something that should make any difference in the standings.
Road block (in order of arrival): Maya, Adam, Jim
Following that, teams participate in a US Coast Guard search and rescue training exercise. If this is all that’s going to happen before the elimination, it again is not going to make any difference, so I think we can pretty predictably conclude the still lost Brooke & Robbie are gone. They haven’t pieced together any tasks where someone could make up some ground.
When Brooke & Robbie finally show up at the road block, Phil is there waiting for them. This is stupid. Here I was disappointed in the task creation, and they’re not even going to get to try, not that they had a chance anyway.
Brooke & Robbie have been eliminated. Lame. They may not have been the brightest team, but I would argue they were among the best three.
The next road block requires teams to find 9 specific containers in a shipping yard with labels (and corresponding numbers) representing 9 cities they have visited during the race, and they must put those cities in order by which they traveled to them. Now this is a task that might actually take some time. They have to find the containers, remember how the numbers correspond to the cities, then put them in order by city.
Road block (in order of arrival): Bethany, Misti, Amy
Amy & Maya are the weakest team left standing if we look at the past legs, including the last one where they should have been eliminated, but a memory task heavily favors a couple of scientists over dentists and surfers. There is no attempt to fake us out here and pretend someone else has a chance to win.
Point Vincent Lighthouse is the finish line for the race. The Amazing Race 25 winners are Amy & Maya. Misti & Jim finish second, and Adam & Bethany place third.
I was worried when this show went to Fridays, but it seems to be just barely performing well enough to stick around. It’s doing better than the tragic Sunday night lineup from where it was booted anyway. For starters, The Amazing Race 26 will air Wednesday February 25 following the Survivor premiere before returning back to Fridays.