TAR20, Recap Leg 12, 5/6/12

Welcome to Leg 12! Last time, on Bring That Chicken Home! teams raced across Asia from India to Japan. There were Japanese game shows and Sushi Bingo. And Vanessa and Ralph were eliminated. Who will be eliminated. . . next? (click for more)

Arrival at the pit stop last episode:
1st – Rachel/Dave , Team Free Ron Again!
2nd – Art/JJ, Team Patrulla Fronteriza
3rd – Brendon/Rachel, Team Sparkles

Osaka Castle, Osaka, Japan

4:15 PM Rachel/Dave (1st)
Clue: Fly to your final destination city: Honolulu, Hawaii! Once there, find Mauka and Makai, the Twin Towers.

4:47 PM Art/JJ (2nd)
5:05 PM Brendon/Rachel (3rd)

Teams arrive at the airport in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Art/JJ
3- Brendon/Rachel

There’s only one flight, so all teams get on it and take the Amazing Red Line to Honolulu. Teams arrive in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Art/JJ
3- Brendon/Rachel

Teams actually have to figure out that Mauka and Makai are buildings, and Art and JJ seem to fail at this (Toyouke: “Well, you should figure out where you're going. Also, karma for bitching so much about Brendon and Rachel following you.”), so teams arrive at the towers in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Brendon/Rachel
3- Art/JJ

Once teams arrive, they discover that they must use ascenders to climb to the top of the forty-five story tower and then spot their destination from above. Once they know where they are going, teams must do a face forward rappel to get down. Teams complete the tasks in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Brendon/Rachel
3- Art/JJ

Teams are now making their way to their next destination, Sand Island. Teams arrive in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Brendon/Rachel
3- Art/JJ

We then get the eleventh roadblock clue.

ROADBLOCK:

Who wants to shave ice?

In this roadblock, one team member must shave ice with a samurai sword and fill a bucket to a
specified line. Once complete, Hawaiian Actor Taylor Wily will give teams their next clue.

(Toyouke: “Shave ice? WTF final Roadblock is that!?”)

The following teammates take the Roadblock:

1- Dave
2- Brendon
3- JJ
After much ice shaving, teams complete the Roadblock in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Brendon/Rachel
3- Art/JJ

Teams are now instructed to travel by foot to the outfield and find the helicopters that will take them to their next clue. Teams arrive at the helicopters in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Art/JJ
3- Brendon/Rachel – who think they have to go to Aloha Stadium by taxi. I don’t know. (Toyouke: “ON FOOT. It is the LAST leg! Out of these three teams, that is the one that I would have expected to fuck that up.”)

Teams take their helicopters up the North Shore and arrive at their next clue in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Art/JJ – (Toyouke: “I will grudgingly give a "woo" for the Magnum P.I. reference.”)
3- Brendon/Rachel

Teams are now instructed to perform a rescue mission. One team member drive a waverunner, while the other team member rides a board behind the waverunner to rescue someone from the ocean. Once the team returns with the person they rescued, they will get their next clue. Teams rescue survivors in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Art/JJ
3- Brendon/Rachel

Teams are now instructed to make their way to the Coral Kingdom Gate of Hakipu’u Valley and follow the marked path to their clue. Teams arrive in the following order:

1- Art/JJ
2- Rachel/Dave – who, even though Hawaii is not a very big place, seem to make their way to the task at the END of the Coral Kingdom task, complete it, find the FINISH LINE, and Phil, and end up being told that they are not done, and have to backtrack to the task. Suspenseful no? (Toyouke: “They just put that there? No monitors or safety people? Written explanations that don't require any additional information? DESIGNED for a fuck-up just like this. OK, this HAS to go on the list of "Most Exciting Pit Stops Ever."  Especially because it's more exciting when everyone is all together like this.”)
3- Brendon/Rachel
We then get the twelfth roadblock clue.

ROADBLOCK:

Who wants to take a Papa Holua to an ‘Ulu Maika’?

In this roadblock, the team member that didn’t do the first Roadblock in the leg must slide 150 feet downhill on a Holua sled and then use an Ulu Maika to roll it fifty feet into a goal. Once complete, teams get their next clue.

(Toyouke: “This is a strange task. Where is my memory task?”)

The following teammates take the Roadblock, because they have to:

1- Art
2- Rachel B.
3- Rachel R.

After much sledding and throwing, teams complete the Roadblock in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Art/JJ
3- Brendon/Rachel

Teams now make their way to the Paddleboard dock via the provided ATVs. Teams arrive in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Art/JJ
3- Brendon/Rachel

Teams must now paddleboard across a lake without falling over. Teams complete the task in the following order:

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Art/JJ
3- Brendon/Rachel

Teams find now that they must travel to Secret Island, the FINISH LINE of The Amazing Race 20. The first team to arrive will be the winner!

1- Rachel/Dave
2- Art/JJ
3- Brendon/Rachel

Rachel and Dave, five continents, nine countries, 22 cities, 36000 miles, you are the winners of the Amazing Race 20, and holders of the new record for most legs won in a single race! Woo.

ORDER NOW:
1st – Rachel/Dave
2nd – Art/JJ
3rd – Brendon/Rachel
4th – Vanessa/Ralph
5th – Bopper/Mark
6th – Nary/Jamie
7th – Joey “Fitness”/Danny
8th – Kerri/Stacy
9th – Elliot/Andrew
10th – Dave/Cherie
11th – Misa/Maiya

Next time: TAR 21! See you then!