Having been behind the entire leg, Ernest & Jin were predictably eliminated in The Amazing Race 27 Episode 3.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Tanner & Josh
Second: Justin & Diana
Third: Kelsey & Joey
Fourth: Jazmine & Danielle
Fifth: Logan & Chris
Sixth: Denise & James Earl
Seventh: Cindy & Rick
Eighth: Tiffany & Krista
With knowledge there will be a double U-turn, Tanner & Josh have hatched a plan. They will use their express pass to skip the first task. Then they will U-turn Justin & Diana. The next team to get to the board will U-Turn Tanner & Josh to prevent Justin & Diana from U-turning anyone else, and in return that team will get the additional express pass. This is a decent plan with a shot at working, though it’s a little silly to go this far out of your way to eliminate someone based on personality conflict.
Teams must now fly across the Atlantic Ocean to Livingstone, Zambia. There are two flights separated by 15 minutes that can take four teams each.
First flight: Tanner & Josh, Kelsey & Joey, Jazmine & Danielle, Justin & Diana
Second flight: Logan & Chris, Denise & James Earl, Tiffany & Krista, Cindy & Rick
Road block (in order of arrival): Kelsey, Diana, Jazmine, Rick, Chris, Denise
The road block requires teams to spot their clue from the sky as they fly over Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. As planned, Tanner & Josh skip a task with their express pass. Aside from the heights thing, this is a pretty simple task to skip and one that doesn’t take very long.
From here, teams will cross the border into Zimbabwe.
Teams are questioning Tanner & Josh’s decision to use the express pass on the simple road block rather than on the likely much harder detour, and Tanner & Josh finally realize their mistake when they arrive at the next destination and find out that there is not another task today but rather they can select departure times that are 10 minutes apart, so their lead has now evaporated. Adding insult to injury, there are two 8AM departure times, and Justin & Diana get the second one. It’s not over yet, but this was a questionable plan poorly executed.
The detour is a choice between co-op and croquet. In co-op, teams must craft an animal out of wood. In croquet, teams must play croquet and score 5 points against a local player.
Croquet: Justin & Diana, Tanner & Josh, Kelsey & Joey, Denise & James Earl
Co-op: Cindy & Rick, Logan & Chris, Tiffany & Krista, Jazmine & Danielle
At least with the croquet, you don’t have to wait for it to dry, and there is no judge questioning whether it’s good enough.
The pit stop for this leg of the race is Rose of Charity, an orphanage. Before that is the double U-turn.
Justin & Diana don’t want to waste a U-turn this early in the race. Tanner & Josh have no motivation to use the U-turn now that they can’t use it on Justin & Diana, and since this is a to be continued leg, they must choose right now who to give the express pass to, forcing them to choose a favorite, contrary to their original plan to give it to whoever cooperated with them. The plan they proposed at the start of the leg just completely blew up in their faces.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Amazing Race 27 Episode 5, which airs Friday at 8/7c on CBS.