The Amazing Race 22 Winners

Joey & Meghan struggled with both detours as part of a double U-turn and were eliminated in The Amazing Race 22 Episode 10.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Max & Katie – 4:07PM
Second: Bates & Anthony – 4:15PM
Third: Caroline & Jennifer – 5:27PM
Fourth: Mona & Beth – 7:27PM

Teams must now travel by train and ferry to Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The ferry from Scotland departs at 7:30AM, putting all the teams together and giving Max the opportunity to laugh at the roller girls for being so far behind rather than 3 hours ahead like they originally thought.

Max & Katie, being followed by Bates & Anthony, have decided to turn around and go the other way, while the other two teams continue straight. It’s only a few minutes before they find out that Max & Katie were right, but the design of the road block (first come, first served) will separate them even further.

The road block is bog snorkeling (snorkeling in a pit of muddy water). Their challenge is to make it through the course in under 4 minutes.

Road block (in order of arrival): Anthony, Katie, Mona, Jennifer

When Anthony completes it in 2:18, he makes it look pretty easy. Nobody else is quite that fast, but despite much drama, two of the other teams make it through on their first try.

Only Jennifer has to do it again after she gets confused about where the course is. After two attempts and much talking about how she can’t do it, Jennifer ends up finishing, but it seems like a lost cause by now. Once they complete this task, they then get lost.

The detour is a choice between tray it or spray it. In tray it, teams must prepare and serve 5 courses of actual dishes served on the Titanic. Spray it requires them to finish graffiti art at a skate park.

Tray it: Max & Katie, Mona & Beth, Bates & Anthony
Spray it: Caroline & Jennifer

The first trick to the server task that most of the teams pick is to pay attention to the menus. Then they have to figure out what each dish is, and they will not be getting any help doing that. Once they do that, they’ll have to do a lot of running from the serving area to the dining area below.

Max & Katie smash it, only getting the color chartreuse wrong on their final course. Bates & Anthony struggle quite a bit more but remain competitive with the lead team, though still not close enough to prevent Bates from throwing a fit.

Mona & Beth, however, can’t even get the first course right after multiple attempts, even after Anthony tells them what to do, a move that could have potentially just sacrificed their allies. They continue to just go by the seating chart, not realizing that the large menu out front contains the course list. Eventually, they take the hint to listen to the team that already completed the task.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Ulster Hall.

First: Max & Katie (win a trip to Dominican Republic)
Second: Anthony & Bates
Third: Mona & Beth
Eliminated: Caroline & Jennifer

The drama at the detour almost makes things interesting, but the outcome here is obvious. Caroline & Jennifer have been eliminated.

Teams depart on the final leg in the order in which they arrived.

First: Max & Katie – 5:04AM
Second: Bates & Anthony – 5:05AM
Third: Mona & Beth – 5:47AM

Teams must travel by ferry to Liverpool and then London, England. From there, they will fly to the final destination city of Washington, DC. The ticket counter opens at 5:15, and all teams are on the same flight.

Max & Katie and Bates & Anthony each assume that they are each other’s biggest competition, which is exactly the point Mona & Beth have been making when they said it didn’t make sense for these teams to stick together in an alliance.

They first go the Lincoln Memorial and the spot where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his speech, then they get their picture taken with Obama (photoshopped into their individual photos). Going to the White House rather than the address provided (1100 Pennsylvania Ave) puts Mona & Beth in last.

The road block is a switchback. They must play the role of a spy and figure out which of 50 agents is carrying their next clue.

Road block (in order of arrival): Max, Bates, Beth

This is just dumb luck of who happens to run into the right agent first. Once they have the case, they must enter the code based on the order they finished in New Zealand, Indonesia, and Vietnam in order to open it. It so happens that Bates gets it right away, which will allow him to open up a lead over the other two teams. Beth is then able to leapfrog past Max by seconds, which lasts until Max runs ahead to catch the cab first.

They then head to Nationals Park. One team member is suspended over the stadium throwing balls to their partner. The other person’s task is to make a catch while dressed as a mascot, limiting both their mobility and vision.

The final task of the season is at Hains Point. One team member must search through a ball pit of globes and find highlighted countries they have visited, which they must then put in the correct order. Another dumb luck searching task, but it doesn’t seem to be difficult enough that it could alter the fact that Bates & Anthony have a lead.

The finish line is George Washington’s Mount Vernon, and the end result, determined by the agent task, is already blatantly obvious. Bates & Anthony are The Amazing Race Season 22 winners, followed by Max & Katie and then Mona & Beth.

Big Brother Canada Winner Determined by Voting Mistake

The first season of Big Brother Canada concluded with drama the producers couldn’t possibly have predicted. During 14 seasons of Big Brother US (and 25 seasons of Survivor US), this has never happened as far as I’m aware. A contestant ignoring the rules emphasized by the host immediately before voting (apparently) inadvertently voted for the wrong person. In what was otherwise a 3-3 tie on a very emotional and bitter jury, this one vote proved to be the deciding factor in determining the winner for the season. Then she proceeded to ambush the host and insist someone must have switched her vote. Imagine someone doing this to Chenbot? Never happen.

Conspiracy theories abound that perhaps Topaz’s vote was not a mistake, but I’m not convinced by that. She was one of the more emotional players, and I can’t see a way in which she would vote against her best buddy just for the sake of honoring the person who beat her fair and square. Perhaps more convincing is the concept that she wanted people to talk about her, and now people aren’t so much talking about who won but who caused that person to win.

At the end of the day, the right person ended up winning. Jillian MacLaughlin may have been an over the top liar with an excessive amount of blood on her hands, but she was personally responsible for the eviction of the majority of the jury, who in turn took it personally that she outsmarted them. Particularly bitter was The Sheyld, an alliance I really liked in the house, but who proved in the end to be unable to overcome the fact that they got beat because they made idiotic moves.

Regardless of what Jillian did, at least that an unsequestered jury member who was allowed to chill in the jury house for a few weeks, returning to the game with full knowledge of what everybody in the jury was thinking and being dropped back into the final five with no effort required, did not win. Hopefully if they do a twist like this again, they are smarter about it. I don’t mind one of the first five evictees coming back or something like that, but to set someone up to come back into the house with just two weeks left is the kind of shameful manipulation we see from the US producers.

Survivor: Caramoan Episode 12

Malcolm’s poor but nonetheless very interesting game came to an end in Survivor: Caramoan Episode 11.

They wake up the next morning to find out it’s already time for another immunity challenge. They will balance on a triangular platform in the water. In addition to immunity, they are playing for reward: information in the game.

The first temptation is donuts and milk. Erik takes it, which is lame, but I can sort of understand. However, he’s joined by the guy near the top of the chopping block, Eddie. After 15 minutes, those who remain move to the next perch on the platform. Three hot dogs and a soft drink are enough to tempt Cochran, a move that receives no love from anybody else. After 30 minutes, they move to the top of the platform.

Dawn drops. Then Sherri. Reynold makes a couple big recoveries, but it’s obvious that the person with the biggest feet isn’t going to win this. He eventually falls. Neither Andrea nor Brenda want to deal despite their goal now having been accomplished. They stay there for 3 hours and then agree to make up their own rules about standing on one leg only. That lasts a few seconds before Brenda falls. Andrea wins immunity and reward.

Part of their deal was to share the information, not surprisingly a clue to the hidden immunity idol, with each other. Andrea decides to tell her whole alliance. Erik is the one who finds it, but he just hands it over to Andrea. He’s probably the only one who would do that.

Andrea begins discussing Brenda as a possible target. That immunity challenge scared her, and she wants to see some blindsides start happening to someone else before it happens to her. Although there are a lot of people pulled into these conversations, it doesn’t seem to get back to Brenda.

Makes more sense to me to just follow the original plan. If you want to use someone for a vote, make it Eddie or Sherri next time. 8 is an unusual time to flip.

Votes
Erik
Sherri
Reynold
Eddie
Reynold
Eddie
Reynold
Reynold

With 4 votes, Reynold has been voted off the island. What was the point of him voting against Erik? Eddie at least made a smart throw away vote rather than one of the Favorites.

Immediately after Tribal Council, Andrea returns to talking about blindsides. She mentions Brenda again and also now Dawn. Since she’s mentioning Cochran’s biggest ally, now he’s concerned, and he tells both of them. Dumb move, Andrea. Going after Brenda probably made sense, but pick a target and stick with it.

Once again, immunity is back up for grabs. They will push a buoy through obstacles along a rope then complete a ladder puzzle. Erik takes an early lead. The others, except the hopeless Sherri, are roughly tied for second when they get to the knot untying. Erik retains his lead, but Andrea has pulled within seconds of him. Cochran and Dawn join Sherri at the back of the pack. Erik loses his lead on the puzzle for the first time, but he regains it before long and takes a huge lead. Erik wins immunity. He says he won’t give it away this time.

Placing second again, Brenda gives Andrea even more ammo.

Cochran doesn’t like being the number three person on Andrea’s totem pole behind Eddie, so he is working to get rid of her.

Now both of them are competing for Erik’s vote, which may well be the deciding vote if they decide to split the vote between Andrea and Eddie.

Why does Reynold have a moustache?

Votes
Brenda
Andrea
Eddie
Eddie
Andrea
Brenda
Andrea

With 3 votes, Andrea has been voted off the island. The tribe played this really dangerously, but they’re lucky she did not play that idol. Eddie just lost his only hope of an ally.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Caramoan Episode 13, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 9

Gary Busey’s team keeps winning in spite of him, so Trump is being given few opportunities to fire him, which he’s squandering anyway. In All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 8, Brande Roderick was the latest victim to fall to Penn’s winning streak.

It’s 3 against 3 now, which Lisa views as putting her team saddled with Gary at a disadvantage.

Ivanka and Joan Rivers (perhaps the worst winner ever) are the advisors for this week. The task is apparently to create a video for LG (electronics, mobile, and appliances). They will be judged on creativity, integration of product knowledge, and overall presentation. Lil Jon and Gary are the project managers.

Gary doesn’t understand any of what’s going on, and he doesn’t want to try either. When he goes to another planet, he usually takes instructions with him.

Penn and Lisa attempt to pitch some ideas, but Gary doesn’t want to hear any of it. Then he starts barking like a dog. This is a trainwreck waiting to happen.

While Gary talks about LG making mechanical dogs, Trace and Marilu propose a video that shows that the products are so easy to use that anybody can use them. The mom (Marilu) will be showing her college kids how to operate her new gadgets.

Joan criticizes Lil Jon for wasting time when he’s directing the video. She wants him to just get it done and stop worrying about quality.

Meanwhile, Gary is telling his actors (both wife and daughter are about the same age) about his out of body experiences. Then he says Lisa used to be as smart as a bag of hair.

Lisa reads what LG wants: a sense of warm optimism, confidence, and a sophisticated premium quality tone. No chance of that. They’ve made multiple attempts to talk to and help Gary, but he keeps snapping at them. The other team seems to be doing a really good job, but it doesn’t matter when they have no competition.

Regardless of the outcome of the task, each charity will be receiving a full suite of LG Smart products, for a total value of over $100,000.

Trace thought Lil Jon was great, but if they lose, it should be the project manager going home.

Gary felt abandoned, which he should have felt, and was pretty much by his design. He would fire Lisa because she yelled and was confrontational, which she dismisses as incorrect. Penn counters that Lisa was never allowed to give any input throughout the day.

Joan and Donald are both confused by Gary’s video. After seeing both videos, Gary says it looks even.

They’re not even going to bother drawing this out any further by telling us the pros and cons of both presentations because there is no contest. Lil Jon has won $40,000 for his charity, American Diabetes Association, plus up to an additional $35,000 at $1 per view of his team’s video.

Now we get to hear the positives and negatives about Gary’s team. The executive liked that they all seemed very authentic and that Penn said he’s an early adopter, their target demographic. The phone was prominently featured, but most of the other products were not. He also did not like or understand the mechanical dog.

Gary accepts responsibility for the dog, though he says the problem is that he did not have any support for the dog (because it as a dumb idea). He then proceeds to say Lisa yelled, but Lisa said she does not and did not yell. So then Gary starts yelling.

So now we’re just going to keep going around in circles for the next 10 minutes. Trump, just put Gary out of his misery already, which should have happened long ago or at the very least when Stephen Baldwin was dismissed.

After much needless discussion, Gary has finally been fired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 10, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Amazing Race 22 Episode 10

After getting lost and then falling victims to Anthony & Bates’ strategy to just follow them and then beat them in a footrace, Mona & Beth came in last place in The Amazing Race 22 Episode 9, but they were saved by non-elimination.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Max & Katie – 2:02AM
Second: Joey & Meghan – 2:49AM
Third: Caroline & Jennifer – 3:44AM
Fourth: Bates & Anthony – 4:20AM
Fifth: Mona & Beth – 4:21AM

Teams will now fly across the North Sea to Edinburgh, Scotland. The airport ticket counters don’t even open until 5AM, which should put all the teams together.

Max & Katie are the only ones smart enough to stop at a business center first before heading to the airport. Even though they are the first ones to arrive despite having departed 47 minutes later, Joey & Meghan don’t suspect anything.

Even worse news for some of the teams is that even the second flight only has a limited number of seats. Now it’s time to find out if anyone who did not get on that flight can scramble for better seats, or if they get stuck 3 hours behind.

First flight (arrives at 10:40): Max & Katie, Bates & Anthony, Caroline & Jennifer
Second flight (arrives at 1:00): Joey & Meghan, Mona & Beth

There’s all this talk about the U-turn, but I don’t think it matters any more. The two alliances are both on different flights.

At the road block, they will learn to play the bagpipes. This has great potential to sound really obnoxious.

Road block (in order of arrival): Max, Bates, Caroline, Mona, Meghan

The first two teams blow right through the task, but Caroline gets stuck for 7 tries, though still not enough for the others to catch up. In a battle for last, Meghan falls behind Mona, despite her trumpet experience.

The detour is a choice between tasty puddin’ or whisky rollin’. In tasty puddin’, teams will fill an ox’s intestines with assorted organs, seasonings, and oats. In whisky rollin’, they must deliver eight barrels uphill and then down the street.

Before they can proceed to the detour, Mona & Beth must play skittles, which is more or less bowling, until they get a strike.

Whisky rollin’: Bates & Anthony
Tasty puddin’: Max & Katie, Caroline & Jennifer, Joey & Meghan, Mona & Beth

The hockey players are the only ones really qualified to take advantage of the strength task, which it would seem extends their lead. That leaves the other teams to make and eat haggis.

Bates & Anthony U-turn Joey & Meghan. Then Max & Katie U-turn Mona & Beth. This seems somewhat pointless since both of these teams are hours behind. Based on the lead that Mona & Beth built up over the first detour, it doesn’t seem like Joey & Meghan have a chance, unless Mona & Beth get lost again.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Niddry Street South.

First: Max & Katie (win $10,000 each)
Second: Bates & Anthony
Third: Caroline & Jennifer
Fourth: Mona & Beth
Eliminated: Joey & Meghan

After falling behind on both detours, Joey & Meghan have been eliminated.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 22 Episode 11, where we will find out who The Amazing Race 22 Season 22 winner is, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

Survivor: Caramoan Episode 11

Falling victim to the fact that hidden immunity idols are now pretty much just falling out of trees, Phillip was voted out in Survivor: Caramoan Episode 10 after Malcolm burned both his idols to keep his alliance alive for one more week.

Now it’s time for Brenda to have her breakdown. She says she’s afraid they lost control of the game. Don’t you still have a 6-3 advantage?

It’s the Survivor auction. Reacting in about 1 second, Malcolm buys beer and nuts (plus a surprise of 2 more beers and pretzels) for $20. He immediately chugs his beer that he potentially just threw the game away for.

Multiple people are interested in the covered item, which Reynold wins for $180. He can trade it for one of two other covered items, but he keeps the one he bought originally, a slice of pizza. Better than the rotten coconut but not as good as the rest of the pizza he gave up. Sherri offers $500 for the rest of the pizza. Can she do that? Apparently she can.

Dawn opens the bidding for a roasted chicken at $500.

Malcolm bids $480 for information in the game, which luckily for him nobody else wants to top. He gets directions to a hidden idol, as if that’s really necessary.

Andrea really wants the next covered item, and she wins it for $280. Spaghetti, meatballs, bread, and wine. Plus a dilemma. Not a real hard decision, though. Either her meal or a sack of rice and beans for the tribe. She takes the rice and beans.

Cochran wins an advantage in the next immunity challenge for $340.

Brenda has been wondering whether she should take a risk this whole challenge. So she does it now with a $300 opening bid for a covered item: pig brain. She takes a bite then remembers she doesn’t eat pork.

Letters from loved ones are $20, which means Malcolm, Sherri, and Dawn are left out. Then they start crying. Surely anybody who watched and/or played this game before knows that letters from home are one of the prizes. If a letter is more important than food or safety, just don’t bid on anything else.

Eddie buys a covered item for $200, and the entire tribe will share a giant bowl of peanutbutter.

Reynold starts talking to Sherri. Is she really going to join them? She never trusted them to begin with, and she clearly can’t beat them in challenges (not that she can beat anyone else).

Malcolm’s idol is actually hidden. This one is 6 inches deep. He heads to the well early in the morning, but it’s not early enough to prevent Andrea and Cochran from busting him digging. Cochran goes to the bathroom, but she’s going to just sit there and wait him out. As the sun comes up, he realizes she won’t be leaving him alone any time soon.

At the immunity challenge, they will hold on to a rope connected to a very heavy log (1/3 of the body weight they started the game with). Cochran’s advantage is moving the knot up two knots at any time. After 5 minutes, they move to the second knot, making things more difficult. Then the third, and Cochran uses his advantage. After half an hour, everybody (but Cochran) moves to the final knot. Brenda is out. Then Erik. The final position is no knot, except for Cochran, who will have a knot the whole time. Sherri is out. Then Malcolm somehow. And Andrea. Dawn puts up a strong effort, but she eventually slips. Reynold is next. Eddie drops. Thanks to his advantage, Cochran wins a strength challenge. He tells us this win that was handed to him (though in his defense, he earned it by buying something nobody else wanted) makes him the biggest challenge threat in the game.

Malcolm tells Sherri he has an idol, and he makes a final three deal with her. He wants to get rid of Andrea.

Erik also agrees to vote with them. They’re both wishy washy about which way they go, and they both fancy themselves all powerful.

Cochran doesn’t want to split the vote in order to avoid a disaster (Andrea being voted out and a 4-4 tribe split), but Andrea argues it’s safer to split. She asks how dumb Erik would have to be to flip right now. Did you see his first season? He is considered by many to have made the dumbest mistake in the history of Survivor.

Tonight the power begins to shift, as Tribal Council will be viewed by first jury member Phillip.

Despite putting fear into Malcolm that she’s going to haunt him if he goes looking, Andrea still says she’s 80% sure he has an idol.

As the voting begins, we can tell that they split the vote, banking on nobody flipping.

Votes
Reynold
Malcolm
Andrea
Reynold
Malcolm
Andrea
Reynold
Andrea
Malcolm

The three way tie proves that everybody kept their word, a lucky break I’d say, and now they can get rid of who they really want, Malcolm

Votes
Malcolm
Malcolm
Malcolm
Malcolm

With 4 votes, Malcolm has been voted off the island. He didn’t play a very good game, but he certainly kept things interesting.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Caramoan Episode 12, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 8

Stephen Baldwin was fired in All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 7 because, well, I’m not entirely sure why. In typical Trump logic, he latched on to one word that he said and wouldn’t let it go, despite the fact that it had nothing to do with anything.

Lisa and Penn aren’t happy to see Gary return. They’re outnumbered because everybody was moved to the other sucky team, and now they have to deal with him.

Bret Michaels, who is responsible for picking one of the worst teams ever assembled, is back, this time on the other side of the table along with George.

Their task is an interactive South Africa travel expo. Brande and Penn are the project managers. They will be judged on creativity, feedback from travel professionals, and overall presentation.

They can choose between romance or adventure, and both teams pick adventure. The decision comes down to a coin flip (not one of Penn’s coins), and Brande’s team wins the toss.

They’re happy. They figure they can focus on safari, and after all, who goes to South Africa for romance? What they find, though, is that the task has set limitations preventing them from promoting safaris because they want to promote things that people don’t know about. They realize they might have gotten the harder task, particularly considering that they need to do all this in a small room.

While meeting with the execs and discussing romance, Gary talks about his experience in South Africa. He heard people being murdered. So begins Penn’s and Lisa’s frustration with him. They’d be better off doing this on their own or at least with Stephen.

Penn wants to show he deserves to win this. He manages to get zulu dancers, Paul Simon’s drummer, and a 5 star South African chef.

The other team plans to get a guy in the shark suit and to push people around in a chair to simulate ziplining. Trace fears the juvenile direction they seem to be going.

When George comes, Gary again mentions murder in Johannesburg after discussing how killing a lion is his idea of romance.

Trace thinks Brande did pretty good under the challenging circumstances.

Lisa says Penn rocked it, but she declines to give a useful opinion about Gary. Penn provides a similarly pointless opinion about Gary, but he does later say he didn’t do everything he was asked.

The execs and travel experts felt transported back to South Africa by Penn’s team. But they did not offer specific locations for travel information.

They loved that they included the wine, tea, and spas, and thought the brocure was a really great take away to make people remember the big five experiences. However, they seriously lacked unique experiences, and their exhibit was juvenile.

It was pretty obvious where this was heading. Despite never having been to South Africa and not really knowing much about it, Penn through is connections managed to tap into a South African community in New York, creating an authentic experience that would have been tough to beat. Penn has won for his charity, Opportunity Village, and Gary survives yet again.

Brande can’t say who she thinks should be fired. She will let Lil Jon go free because she feels loyal to him, despite Trump making a big deal about how he wanted adventure (like everybody else on both teams). Trump gives her a second chance to change her mind, but she declines. That was a setup anyway, as one of Trump’s greatest pet peeves is disloyalty.

The thing the executives liked the most was the handout, which was designed based on the logo. Since this was Marilu’s idea, she should be safe.

Brande agrees she’s with two people who probably don’t deserve to be fired, and with that said, Brande is fired. Before she goes, Trace asks for her to be given some money for her charity, Promises to Kids. Trump agrees to give $20,000.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of All Star Celebrity Apprentice Episode 9, which airs Sunday at 9/8c on NBC.

The Amazing Race 22 Episode 9

Chuck & Wynona were finally put out of their misery in The Amazing Race 22 Episode 8 after incurring a 30 minute penalty.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.

First: Bates & Anthony – 2:50AM
Second: Mona & Beth – 2:57AM
Third: Max & Katie – 3:01AM
Fourth: Caroline & Jennifer – 3:28AM
Fifth: Joey & Meghan

Teams must now travel by train to Dresden, Germany. All teams are on the same train.

Caroline & Jennifer foolishly want to go to the final three with Bates & Anthony. It will help to ride their coattails for a while, but it won’t help so much when they stomp you in the end.

Bates put his bag on the seat across from him. It is now missing, but at least he was smart enough to keep his passport on him.

They must answer 3 multiple guess questions in their commercial for Ford leading up to a clue to their next destination, Brandenburg Gate, where Reagan told Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

The country girls see the hockey players arrive, and rather than giving them the answers, they just drive off. As simple as this task is, though, it’s not long before the boys catch them on the Autobahn. Once in the city, the girls use the boys as their guide, which doesn’t work out too well for them when the get separated at a light.

They go to the top of the Park Inn Hotel. There are not very many reasons why you go to the top of a 37 story hotel, and all of them involve something scary. In this case, they are going to base jump face first off the hotel. Scary but simple enough if you can get over that. Though there is a fair share of screaming, nobody left seems terribly scared of heights.

The detour is a choice between train trials and font follies. In train trials, they must lay model train tracks on a platform and keep the train on track for one complete circuit. In font follies, they must transport two giant letters through the city streets to a museum.

Font follies: Max & Katie, Mona & Beth, Caroline & Jennifer
Train trials: Joey & Meghan, Bates & Anthony (switched from font follies)

The danger in the train building is getting it wrong and having to start over, which is not a problem with carrying the letters unless you break one. Joey & Meghan have repeated problems getting their train setup to work, but the bigger issue turns out to be when Bates & Anthony leave a letter sitting on its own, and it gets blown over by the wind. They opt to just switch detours at this point, and Caroline & Jennifer, who are travelling with them, wisely choose to just continue with what they are doing.

After 9 attempts and now finding themselves in dead last, Bates & Anthony just hope somebody screwed up. Mona & Beth driving around in circles provide them their only hope, and the two teams arrive at the club not far apart, ending up working together on the road block.

In the road block, they will crawl through a creepy haunted house maze underneath a dance club after first identifying that John F Kennedy said “Ich bin ein Berliner,” which somebody in the club will know the answer to if they don’t (I didn’t, nor did a couple of the teams).

Road block (in order of arrival): Katie, Joey, Jennifer, Beth, Anthony

Bates & Anthony decide to follow Mona & Beth in an effort to just win a race at the end.

The pit stop for this leg of the race is Kurfurstendamm, known as the 5th Avenue of Berlin.

First: Max & Katie (win a 2013 Ford Fusion each)
Second: Joey & Meghan
Third: Caroline & Jennifer
Fourth: Bates & Anthony
Non-eliminated: Mona & Beth

The strategy that Bates & Anthony employed worked out well, but in the end it is moot because it is a non-elimination leg.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 22 Episode 10, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.