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Having been an outcast for most of the adventure, Nina was voted off the island in Survivor: Worlds Apart Episode 3.

They try to explain to Will the reason for their dumb split vote, and he doesn’t believe them that he was not or at least is not the target.

Mike manages to catch a snake for dinner. At least for now, the people who were flipping out at him will pretend to be nice.

Their first challenge requires a caller to communicate to people who are blindfolded, navigating them through obstacles to collect various items. Reward is chickens and a rooster for the first tribe and 10 eggs for the second tribe. Tyler sits out for White Collar; Rodney and Michael sit out for Blue Collar.

One key part of this task is that after they collect the objects, they must raise them in a platform to the caller. This platform is very heavy and can fall very quickly. Probst repeatedly tells people to be careful. Eventually, a bleeding Kelly finds out just how dangerous this is. Despite the injury that will later require six stiches, she seems completely calm and wants to keep going after being bandaged.

So after the medical drama, No Collar places first, and White Collar comes in second.

They don’t waste any time killing their first chicken, claiming they are doing so because it’s Will’s birthday. Jenn does not understand why they need to kill to survive. Rather than stick around and watch, she instead goes to look for the hidden immunity idol, which she finds.

Lindsey and Rodney were fighting last week but then were on the same side. Now they get into another argument, this time with each other.

Shirin learned how to kill a chicken for Survivor. Somehow, Carolyn and Joaquin use this as an excuse to expand their negative opinions about her.

For the immunity challenge, they will be attached to a rope, must maneuver through a rope obstacle, and have someone navigate a ball through a maze while on a balance beam. Lindsey and Dan sit out for Blue Collar; Shirin sits out for White Collar as they had planned earlier. No Collar wins immunity as the other two battle to not lose. White Collar places second.

Rodney got confused at the challenge, which is as good an excuse as any for him to be the target. He admits to being a hot head, and that has been getting him in trouble.

Lindsey, who was fighting with him earlier, is the other potential target. She’s been just as hot headed as he is.

Votes
Rodney
Lindsey
Rodney
Lindsey
Sierra
Sierra

There is a three way tie, which will lead to a revote.

Votes
Lindsey
Lindsey

With 2 votes, Lindsey has been voted off the island. Between the two, I’d say they made the right choice.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Worlds Apart Episode 5, which airs next on CBS.

Harley & Jonathan were unable to book a flight until the next morning in The Amazing Race 26 Episode 3, leading to a predictable outcome where the only surprise was that they were not eliminated.

First: Mike & Rochelle – 3:26AM
Second: Hayley & Blair – 3:51AM
Third: Jelani & Jenny – 3:52AM
Fourth: Laura & Tyler – 3:54AM
Fifth: Aly & Steve – 3:58AM
Sixth: Matt & Ashley – 4:01AM
Seventh: Bergen & Kurt – 4:02AM
Eighth: Jeff & Jackie – 4:03AM
Ninth: Harley & Jonathan – 7:01AM

Matt & Ashley have changed from dating to engaged, so at least there’s a bit of variety among the team relationships now.

Teams must fly north to Bangkok, Thailand, keeping them within the same country for the time being.

Oh god. Is Hayley starting already? Does this chick ever stop complaining? We get it. He may need some lessons in listening. Pot, meet kettle. Talk less, listen more, or just don’t talk at all when it’s all negative. Give it a rest. It’s not even 4AM. I’m sure Blair doesn’t want to listen to this. He says he doesn’t care any more. Hard to blame him.

Harley & Jonathan are further behind than I thought, and the fallout from the last flight mishap continues. All the other teams get on the 6AM flight, putting them still hours behind. If they’re sticking to the same country, this just seems like a forgone conclusion that the end result will be the same as last time, except with an elimination.

The detour is a choice between water or wheel, and the main part of this detour is merely choosing which route they think will be faster, rather than which task. In wheel, teams must take a tuk tuk. In water, teams must take a longtail.

Before they can make their choice, Hayley & Blair must first argue about who is in charge. He told her she is in the lead because she won’t shut the hell up. She says she doesn’t want to take the lead because he won’t listen to her anyway. After instructing him to take the lead, she immediately interjects and takes over. They wander around for a while, and when he finally takes control back, they find the route marker.

Water: Laura & Tyler, Matt & Ashley, Aly & Steve, Bergen & Kurt, Mike & Rochelle
Wheel: Hayley & Blair (switched from water), Jeff & Jackie (switched from water), Jelani & Jenny, Harley & Jonathan

There are only five boats available, so the sixth team must either wait or switch detours. That sixth team happens to be Hayley & Blair. Great. We get to listen to her yell some more. He tries to ask for directions. She gets upset and continues her ongoing tirade. The trailing team must follow their lead, minus the one-sided bickering.

The good thing about the water detour is that there is no traffic, and they know for sure that the person knows where they are going. Knowing that, everybody wants to do that detour. Whether it’s faster or not, it should be less stressful and more relaxing. Along the way, each detour choice requires two stops.

Before their detour, Harley & Jonathan must perform their speed bump of making a grasshopper out of river reeds.

When they were winning, Jelani & Jenny were getting along very well. Now that they’re at the tail end of the pack, their communication is starting to break down.

The water detour is to eat a 1000 year old egg. Gross but only takes a couple minutes. The wheel detour is to sink a red ball in a game of snooker. Also simple. Not much point to either of these except to say that they have given them a task. Certainly not enough room here for Harley & Jonathan to regain any ground.

The second water detour task is to take part in a traditional Thai prayer. The second wheel task is to feed cats at a cat cafe. Both again interesting but neither very taxing. Except in Jenny’s case, as she is deathly afraid of kitty cats. Huh? At least Jonathan has a real problem, that he is allergic.

The road block requires teams to remove a transmission in an auto junk yard to search for a screwdriver. Half of them don’t even know what the transmission is, but it doesn’t really matter. The trial and error shouldn’t take long, and they all know at least they won’t place last.

Road block (in order of arrival): Tyler, Bergen, Steve, Matt, Blair, Jeff, Jelani, Rochelle, Jonathan

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Loha Prasat, a buddhist temple, which they must find based on the clue “Metal Castle”, which really is not as hard as they make it look. Find someone with a mobile phone and have them search for metal castle Bangkok Thailand. The cab drivers or other locals are going to determine the placement here. When it comes down to it, it does not seem the choice of water or wheel mattered too much. Although it doesn’t matter whether they place seventh or eighth, Jenny continues to turn on her partner, and she’s making enemies of other teams as well.

First: Bergen & Kurt (win a trip to Puerto Vallarta)
Second: Hayley & Blair
Third: Aly & Steve
Fourth: Laura & Tyler
Fifth: Jeff & Jackie
Sixth: Mike & Rochelle
Seventh: Jelani & Jenny
Eighth: Matt & Ashley
Eliminated: Harley & Jonathan

As pointless legs go, this was one of them. This was worse than last week. Never really having a chance to catch up because the tasks were so simple, Harley & Jonathan have been eliminated.

The next episode will not air until April 3 due to March Madness. Hopefully it is less pointless.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Amazing Race 26 Episode 4, which airs Friday at 8/7c on CBS.

Libby & CJ barely survived the first time, which led to a rather pointless The Amazing Race 26 Episode 2 in which they lagged far behind the others with no chance of recovery.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Jelani & Jenny – 4:35PM
Second: Laura & Tyler – 4:44PM
Third: Aly & Steve – 5:31PM
Fourth: Harley & Jonathan – 6:19PM
Fifth: Bergen & Kurt – 6:32PM
Sixth: Jeff & Jackie
Seventh: Matt & Ashley
Eighth: Mike & Rochelle
Ninth: Hayley & Blair

Jeff & Jackie happily share a room at the pit stop, while Bergen & Kurt acknowledge already that they are not going to be dating.

Teams must now fly south to Phuket, Thailand. There is no counter open at the airport, so everybody will wait until the morning, and they are all trying to get on the same flight, which is not going to be possible. Whoever arrives last to the counter is going to get screwed, which probably should be a lesson to not do that.

First flight (arrives 4:50PM): Matt & Ashley, Aly & Steve, Jeff & Jackie, Hayley & Blair, Mike & Rochelle
Second flight (arrives 9:10PM): Laura & Tyler, Jelani & Jenny
Third flight (arrives 11:59PM): Bergen & Kurt
Fourth flight (arrives 9:35AM): Harley & Jonathan

That’s a crazy big gap. Even if they get lucky with an hours of operation delay, they’re still behind the rest, which may not be entirely impossible depending on the tasks but still is very bleak.

First departure (8:30AM): Matt & Ashley, Aly & Steve, Mike & Rochelle
Second departure (8:45AM): Hayley & Blair, Jeff & Jackie, Jelani & Jenny
Third departure (9:00AM): Laura & Tyler, Bergen & Kurt

Based on these times, Harley & Jonathan are at least an hour behind the others, which is not bad considering they were 17 hours behind.

The detour is a choice between ski or tree. In ski, teams must survive one lap around a wave park. In tree, teams must deliver a meal through the treetops.

Tree: Jelani & Jenny, Matt & Ashley, Mike & Rochelle, Bergen & Kurt, Laura & Tyler, Jeff & Jackie (switched from Ski), Aly & Steve (switched from Ski), Harley & Jonathan

Both of these tasks may require multiple attempts. In the wakeboarding task, they’ll be falling a lot. In the waiter task, they’ll be dropping a lot of stuff. The waiter task proves much simpler, however. Multiple teams are finishing in one or two tries, while even the Olympic athletes have to stop wasting time on the sporting task.

Then there’s Hayley & Blair. He continues to ignore her while she tries to do things correctly. Which she goes on and on and on about. Even after they complete the task pretty quickly and are in 2nd place, she’s still going on and on and on. Try to move on, or just quit now. As much as he needs to learn to listen, he does not need to learn to listen to whining.

Their next task is to dress up and perform a cabaret show (in drag for the guys). Even Mike & Rochelle get the dance in a few tries, so it’s not that difficult. More bad news for Harley & Jonathan, as there is no road block.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Baba Nest.

On their way there, Matt makes a crucial potentially game ending mistake of leaving his fanny pack behind, but they realize where it is quickly and go back and find it. As he talks about how supportive Ashley is no matter what, this is the perfect set up for what comes next, a pit stop proposal. Is this like the new thing now? I’ve seen this 3 times in the last several months.

First: Mike & Rochelle (win a trip to Prague)
Second: Hayley & Blair
Third: Jelani & Jenny
Fourth: Laura & Tyler
Fifth: Aly & Steve
Sixth: Matt & Ashley
Seventh: Bergen & Kurt
Eighth: Jeff & Jackie
Non-eliminated: Harley & Jonathan

The bad luck at the airport won’t end their journey yet, as Harley & Jonathan have been saved by non-elimination, but I suspect there were lessons to be learned from the process.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 26 Episode 3, which airs Friday at 8/7c on CBS.

Having made a poor detour decision in The Amazing Race 26 Episode 1 and refusing to switch, Jeff & Lyda were eliminated.

After sleeping in computer cubicles, teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Jelani & Jenny – 5:30AM
Second: Jeff & Jackie – 5:33AM
Third: Laura & Tyler – 5:45AM
Fourth: Aly & Steve – 6:14AM
Fifth: Harley & Jonathan – 6:52AM
Sixth: Bergen & Kurt – 7:10AM
Seventh: Mike & Rochelle – 7:15AM
Eighth: Hayley & Blair – 7:33AM
Ninth: Matt & Ashley – 7:36AM
Tenth: Libby & CJ – 8:20AM

Teams must catch the bullet train to Nagano, Japan. If they’re staying local, it doesn’t look good for the directionally challenged team that is way behind everybody else.

The blind date teams are all getting along for now. They are mostly just focused on the race, except for Kurt, who apparently came on the race to find his first boyfriend.

Rochelle views this race as a fast forward for their relationship of several months. That never ends well.

The road block requires teams to figure out how to open a trick box.

Road block (in order of arrival): Jeff, Tyler, Jelani, Aly, Mike, Harley, Bergen, Ashley, Hayley, Libby

Just what you need when doing a puzzle. Loud banging drums and gongs and whatever other instrument makes a lot of noise. There is certainly a skill to this task, but it’s something you could get in a few minutes or hours, though it doesn’t feel like it’s terribly complicated.

Before moving to the detour, one couple will pull a ticket for a date night at the pit stop. Ugh. This leg’s winners are Harley & Jonathan.

The detour is a choice between chair or share. Share requires teams to feed each other noodles using chopsticks. Chair requires teams to push each other around an Olympic speed skating track in 3:55 or less.

Share: Laura & Tyler, Jelani & Jenny, Jeff & Jackie, Harley & Jonathan, Bergen & Kurt, Libby & CJ, Mike & Rochelle (switched from Chair)
Chair: Aly & Steve, Matt & Ashley, Hayley & Blair

Share is clearly the better one because the other one you have to do over and over again until you get it within the time limit. It’s not like they’re eating a gross food here either. Who could have trouble eating noodles? Kurt. Apparently.

Of course, if you’re a winter Olympian like Aly & Steve, picking the other task makes sense. Then again, the gold medal hockey stars took forever on the hockey task last season on TAR Canada, but in that case skating was not the only skill required. It does not make as much sense for Mike & Rochelle, as she reluctantly gets pushed into switching by her partner after she falls and goes to see a medic.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Patio Daimon, a storage facility turned restaurant complex.

First: Jelani & Jenny (win a Fitbit wellness kit, a very lame promotional placement, and some other stuff)
Second: Laura & Tyler
Third: Aly & Steve
Fourth: Harley & Jonathan
Fifth: Bergen & Kurt
Sixth: Jeff & Jackie
Seventh: Matt & Ashley
Eighth: Mike & Rochelle
Ninth: Hayley & Blair
Eliminated: Libby & CJ

Well, that was a pointless leg. The editors tried to make it seem like Libby & CJ had a chance, but they were so far behind the others with tasks that would not have made enough difference for them to be able to catch up. The outcome was pretty obvious from the time when all nine other teams were on their train rides and Phil announced where they were going without bothering to wait for the final team to depart.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 26 Episode 2, which airs Friday at 8/7c on CBS.

The 11 teams that make up The Amazing Race 26 cast for some reason this time consist of half that are dating and half that are just random strangers who are blind dating. Weird. At least it won’t be any worse than the Family Edition.

The single men line up on the starting line, where they will meet their partners for the first time. This will not end well. That’s probably the plan. Let’s find a way to manufacture drama and get more screaming pairs.

From the starting line, they immediately end up crawling through the mud. This is typically reserved for a challenge in some far off country, but they’re throwing them into it right away. There are eight tickets for the earlier flight and three tickets for the later flight (departing 45 minutes after the first) that will presumably be battling for last.

And they have selfie cams this year. Just what the world needs more of.

Hayley & Blair, Mike & Rochelle, and Libby & CJ end up on the second flight bound for Tokyo, Japan.

The detour is a choice between syncing steps or samurai sake. In syncing steps, they will join a techno pop group and learn their choreography. In samurai sake, teams must memorize 10 drink names from a large selection and deliver orders accordingly.

Syncing Steps: Jelani & Jenny, Laura & Tyler, Matt & Ashley, Aly & Steve, Jeff & Lyda, Bergen & Kurt, Mike & Rochelle, Libby & CJ, Hayley & Blair
Samurai Sake: Jeff & Jackie, Harley & Jonathan

Almost everybody opts to do the dancing, except for those who don’t feel comfortable, Jeff and New Kids on the Block member Jonathan. I’m not sure you could really call this dancing, though. In any case, it seems like the harder of the two tasks, in some cases by far.

We’re already on a blind double U-turn. Jeff & Jackie do not U-turn since they think they are in first. Jelani & Jenny and Tyler & Laura do the same. Harley & Jonathan also decline, as do Aly & Steve. Bergen & Kurt pile on. Having struggled with the detour to the point of just about having a breakdown, Mike & Rochelle U-turn Jeff & Lyda, the only team they know are behind them. Seeing this, nobody else needs to use the second one.

After nearly 4 hours and 23 attempts, Jeff & Lyda finally finish the detour. They’re going to kick themselves when they figure out how easy the other one is. They decide to U-turn the long ago finished Jeff & Jackie rather than the once again lost Libby & CJ.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is… a parking space. The lawyers are quicker to figure out what the term “vicinity” means, allowing them to leapfrog the lead team.

First: Jelani & Jenny (win express pass)
Second: Jeff & Jackie
Third: Laura & Tyler
Fourth: Aly & Steve
Fifth: Harley & Jonathan
Sixth: Bergen & Kurt
Seventh: Mike & Rochelle
Eighth: Hayley & Blair
Ninth: Matt & Ashley
Tenth: Libby & CJ
Eliminated: Jeff & Lyda

Having struggled on the detour perhaps more than I have seen on any previous one, Jeff & Lyda have been eliminated. They made a very critical mistake. They refused to switch from a futile detour, possibly viewing doing so as quitting. But that’s the point of a detour, that you have a choice.

It was interesting to see the blind daters take the top three spots. It won’t last, but some of them could continue to work well together.

This was a great night of reality TV. Alas, The Amazing Race moves back to Friday nights after this.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 26 Episode 2, which airs Friday at 8/7c on CBS.

The Amazing Race 26 cast consists of 11 teams of 2 each with a pre-existing relationship. Oh, wait. This time, there are 6 dating couples and 5 single blind date couples. Meh. This is not The Amazing Race I know, but I guess they get points for being different.

The Preexisting Dating Couples:

Name: Aly Dudek
Age: 24
Hometown: Milwaukee, Wis.
Occupation: Olympic Athlete *won bronze at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics in short track speed skating

Name: Steven Langton
Age: 31
Hometown: Boston, Mass.
Occupation: Olympic Athlete *won 2 bronze medals at the 2014 Sochi Olympics in bobsledding

Length of relationship: 7 months

Name: Harley Rodriguez
Age: 41
Hometown: New York, N.Y.
Occupation: Group Fitness Trainer

Name: Jonathan Knight
Age: 46
Hometown: New York, N.Y.
Occupation: Entertainer (New Kids on the Block member)

Length of relationship: 7 years

Name: Jeff Magee
Age: 57
Hometown: McCall, Idaho
Occupation: Airline Pilot

Name: Lyda Grawn
Age: 49
Hometown: Scottsdale, Ariz.
Occupation: Flight Attendant

Length of relationship: Known 20 years, dating 4 years

Name: C.J. Harris
Age: 26
Hometown: Tuskegee, Ala.
Occupation: IT Technician

Name: Lebya Simpson
Age: 25
Hometown: Tuskegee, Ala.
Occupation: Medical Support Assistant

Length of relationship: Known for 15 years, dating for 10

Name: Matt Cucolo
Age: 30
Hometown: Scarsdale, N.Y.
Occupation: Hairstylist

Name: Ashley Gordon
Age: 28
Hometown: Scarsdale, N.Y.
Occupation: Hairstylist

Length of relationship: Known 10 years, dating 3 years

Name: Rochelle Nevedal
Age: 29
Hometown: Kalkaska, Mich.
Occupation: Contract Engineer

Name: Michael Dombrowski
Age: 26
Hometown: Traverse City, Mich.
Occupation: Truck Stop Manager/Pro Wrestling Promoter

Length of relationship: 2 years

The Blind Date Couples:

Name: Hayley Keel
Age: 28
Hometown: St. Petersburg, Fla.
Occupation: Registered Nurse

Name: Blair Townsend
Age: 31
Hometown: Jacksonville, Fla.
Occupation: Navy Physician

Name: Jackie Ibarra
Age: 27
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nev.
Occupation: Professional Dancer

Name: Jeffrey Weldon
Age: 26
Hometown: Tampa, Fla.
Occupation: Account Executive/Sales

Name: Laura Pierson
Age: 29
Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif.
Occupation: Talent Booker

Name: Tyler Adams
Age: 26
Hometown: Santa Monica, Calif.
Occupation: Mobile App Developer

Name: Jenny Wu
Age: 32
Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif.
Occupation: Blogger and Lawyer

Name: Jelani Roy
Age: 32
Hometown: New York, N.Y.
Occupation: Lawyer

Name: Bergen Olsen
Age: 23
Hometown: Sunnyvale, Calif.
Occupation: Human Resources Project Manager

Name: Kurt Jordan Belcher
Age: 24
Hometown: Butler, Ky.
Occupation: Pageant Consultant

The Amazing Race 26 premieres Wednesday February 25 at 9:30/8:30c on CBS before moving back to Fridays.

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.

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.