TAR17, Recap Leg 3, 10/10/10

Welcome to Leg 3! Last time, on Who You Ghana Call?, teams raced from England to Ghana, where teams experienced crowds! Poverty! Markets! Brook and Claire sold their way to first place, while Andie and Jenna suffered from not enough time together and fell to last place. Who will be eliminated. . . next? (click for more)

Arrival at the pit stop last episode:
1st – Brook/Claire, Team Infomercial
2nd – Katie/Rachel, Team Jersey Shore
3rd – Michael/Kevin, Team Internet
4th – Chad/Stephanie, Team Neverland
5th – Jill/Thomas, Team Who?
6th – Connor/Jonathan, Team Glee
7th – Nat/Kat, Team ER
8th – Nick/Vicki, The Geniuses
9th – Gary/Mallory, The Hillbillies

Kaneshie Market, Accra, Ghana

(Auburnium0513: “So are they not doing the 12 hour thing anymore?”)

7:34 AM Brook/Claire (1st)
Clue: Take a taxi to Jamestown on the other side of Accra and find the Akotoku Boxing Academy to get your next clue. You have $146 for this leg of the race.

(Toyouke: “SHUT UP BROOK.”)

7:35 AM Katie/Rachel (2nd) – (Toyouke: “I didn't realize how close second place was.”)
7:45 AM Michael/Kevin (3rd)
7:52 AM Chad/Stephanie (4th)
7:58 AM Jill/Thomas (5th)
8:01 AM Connor/Jonathan (6th) – (Toyouke: “OK, the singing isn't as entertaining as I thought it would be.” Auburnium0513: “It was better than nothing. It made me smile a little.”)
8:02 AM Nat/Kat (7th)
8:04 AM Nick/Vicki (8th)
8:06 AM Gary/Mallory (9th)

Teams take their taxis across town and some get lost in the process. Teams arrive at Akotoku in the following order:

1- Brook/Claire
2- Chad/Stephanie
3- Katie/Rachel
4- Connor/Jonathan
5- Michael/Kevin
6- Jill/Thomas
7- Gary/Mallory
8- Nick/Vicki
9- Nat/Kat

And teams come to the third roadblock.

ROADBLOCK:
You’ve got a Rocky road ahead
In this roadblock, one team member must wrap their hands as someone training to box would. Once the wrapping is approved, the roadblocker must get into training gear and complete 60 seconds on a training bag and 60 seconds of jump rope without stopping. Once complete, the trainer will give them their next clue.

(Toyouke: “Wait, they don't actually have to box anyone? How are you having a Roadblock at a boxing academy with no actual boxing? Lame.”)

The following team members complete the Roadblock.

1- Brook
2- Chad – who decides to show off.
3- Katie – (Kmanpat: “Can they please go away so that I can stop having to decipher who is who?”
4- Connor – and he fails at jumping rope. (Toyouke: “Connor, don't be a dumbass.”)
5- Kevin
6- Thomas
7- Gary
8- Vicki
9- Nat

After much boxing training, teams complete the Roadblock in the following order:

1- Brook/Claire
2- Katie/Rachel
3- Chad/Stephanie
4- Connor/Jonathan
5- Michael/Kevin
6- Gary/Mallory
7- Nick/Vicki
8- Jill/Thomas
9- Nat/Kat

Teams are then instructed to take a taxi to the village of Tema in the Dodowa District and find the Supply Company.

So, teams arrive at the supply company in the following order:

1- Connor/Jonathan
2- Brook/Claire – who get slowed down by a “herd of very large beasts”. (Toyouke: “Those are "cows", Claire.”)
3- Michael/Kevin
4- Katie/Rachel
5- Gary/Mallory
6- Jill/Thomas
7- Nick/Vicki
8- Chad/Stephanie
9- Nat/Kat – after dealing with their taxi overheating.

Teams are now instructed to choose a PAIR (Toyouke: “"Pair" = two.”) of wheelbarrows and load them with construction supplies. Once the supplies were loaded, teams took them to the Asebi D/A Primary school and deliver them to the foreman to get their next clue. They arrive at school in the following order:

1- Connor/Jonathan
2- Brook/Claire – on the second try, after leaving a wheelbarrow behind. Brook: “Ghanaian kids go to school in shacks and schools in the states are beautiful.” (Toyouke: “That doesn't look like a shack, but OK.”)
3- Gary/Mallory – who move forward because they read the clue.
4- Michael/Kevin – also on the second try due to a missing wheelbarrow. (Toyouke: “No! Read the clue!”)
5- Jill/Thomas
6- Chad/Stephanie
7- Katie/Rachel – Katie: “We need a wheelbarrow.” Rachel: “No, it says a pair.” Katie: “But the Asians only have one!” Rachel: “Well, they’re idiots.” Well played. But then they forget the trowels. (Toyouke: “Why isn't anyone reading the clue?”)
8- Nick/Vicki – who have and extra bag of concrete. And Nick starts to lose his cool. I think it’s the heat. (Toyouke: “You can read the clue too, asshat.”)
9- Nat/Kat

(Toyouke: “Oo, free manual labor for the school!”)

Teams are then instructed to find an open classroom and join a village class in their geography lesson about Africa. All teams need to do is locate Ghana on a map. (Toyouke: “They only had to pick out Ghana? That's it? This whole episode has the lamest tasks!!”) Once complete, teams receive their next clue from the kids. Teams complete the quiz in the following order:

1- Connor/Jonathan
2- Gary/Mallory – (Toyouke: “Why did Mallory get all patriotic all of a sudden? That was weird.“)
3- Chad/Stephanie
4- Jill/Thomas
5- Brook/Claire
6- Katie/Rachel
7- Michael/Kevin – (Toyouke: “Yeah Asians! Asians are good at school!”)
8- Nick/Vicki – (Toyouke: “How do you expect to locate Ghana if you don't know what a battlement is?” Kmanpat: “Don’t forget that London is a country.” Auburnium0513: “And if they can’t find Ghana with every other country filled in for them, that is some serious stupid.”)
9- Nat/Kat

And we get the Detour Clue.

DETOUR:
Bicycle Parts OR Language Arts
*Bicycle Parts: Teams must go to a nearby soccer field and play a game that Ghanaian children play by using a stick to roll a bicycle rim down the length of the field and back. Once both team members complete the task, the children will give them their next clue.
*Language Arts: Teams must choose a proverb and find the eight highlighted phrases. Then using a key from the Adinkra Symbol alphabet, teams must find the symbols in order on a large piece of fabric amongst a word search grid of symbols. Once completed, the children will give them their next clue.

(Toyouke: “Never mind, the Detour is cool.”)

1-Connor/Jonathan choose Language Arts – (Toyouke: “That is EXACTLY how I look for symbols, in Myst or whatever. "Clover sun squiggly flower lightning bolt!"”)
2-Gary/Mallory choose Bicycle Parts
3-Jill/Thomas choose Language Arts – and Bald Snark to Bicycle Parts when they can’t find the Adinkra key. Cue Amazing Cameramen!
4-Brook/Claire choose Language Arts – and Bald Snark to Bicycle Parts when they can’t find the Adinkra key. But not after Claire tries to circle the children, and then get copied by everyone else. (Oh Claire. Seriously? You aren't even the blonde one.) Cue Amazing Cameramen!
5-Katie/Rachel choose Language Arts – and Bald Snark to Bicycle Parts when they can’t find the Adinkra key. Cue Amazing Cameramen!
6-Chad/Stephanie choose Language Arts – and Bald Snark to Bicycle Parts when they can’t find the Adinkra key. Cue Amazing Cameramen! And then Chad gets all misty about the children and their awesomeness. (Toyouke: “How is Chad getting all this stuff about children and how they view the world and whatever just from watching kids run around a field?”)
7-Nick/Vicki choose Bicycle Parts – (Toyouke: “Nick, you can't throw your hoop and sulk and then yell at Vicki about how she's not doing it either.”)
8-Michael/Kevin choose Language Arts - and Bald Snark to Bicycle Parts when they can’t find the Adinkra key. Cue Amazing Cameramen! (Toyouke: “I'm not sure why it's so hard for everyone to find the key, when the boys had no problem.”)
9-Nat/Kat choose Language Arts - and Bald Snark to Bicycle Parts when they can’t find the Adinkra key. Cue Amazing Cameramen! Can’t ANYONE read the clue?

Teams complete the detour in the following order:

1- Connor/Jonathan
2- Gary/Mallory
3- Chad/Stephanie
4- Katie/Rachel
5- Nick/Vicki
6- Brook/Claire
7- Jill/Thomas
8- Nat/Kat
9- Michael/Kevin – after Michael got medical attention for heat exhaustion. (Toyouke: “Kevin is very supportive...but I am confused by the commercial break. Does that mean it's a non-elim?”)

Teams get their clue and find that they must follow the marked path to the Home of Awusa Ntso, the PIT STOP of the third leg of this racearoundtheworld. The last team to arrive MAY be eliminated!

1- Connor/Jonathan – who win $5000 each.
2- Gary/Mallory
3- Chad/Stephanie
4- Katie/Rachel
5- Nick/Vicki
6- Brook/Claire
7- Jill/Thomas
8- Nat/Kat
9- Michael/Kevin

First we find out at the mat that all the teams will be helping do some improvements on the school with all of the construction supplies that they carried. (Toyouke: “Oo, they ARE going to be free manual labor!”) Then, Michael and Kevin get the bad news that they are last. HOWEVER, this is the first of three non-elimination legs, and they are still in the race, but will have to complete a Speed Bump in the next leg.

ORDER NOW:
1st – Connor/Jonathan
2nd – Gary/Mallory
3rd – Chad/Stephanie
4th – Katie/Rachel
5th – Nick/Vicki
6th – Brooke/Claire
7th – Jill/Thomas
8th – Nat/Kat
9th – Michael/Kevin

Next week: Arctic Circle! Snowmobiles! Dogsleds! Until next time!