Welcome
to Leg 2! Last time, on But
Both O’s Are in the Right Positions, Except Not,
11 teams started Amazing Race 30, the Most Competitive Season Ever!
There was a romp in a fountain and then a flight to Iceland. Team
Big Brother made good time, and Goat Yoga got into fights. Slam Dunk
got a penalty, the Skiers finished first, and in the closest finish
ever, Dessie and Kayla were eliminated. Who will be eliminated. . .
next? (click for more)
Arrival
at the pit stop last episode:
1st
– Kristi and Jen, The Freestyle Skiers, #TeamExtreme
2nd
– Cody and Jessica, Team Reality Show YDC, #TeamBigBrother
3rd
– Henry and Evan, Beauty and the Geek Take 2, #TeamYale
4th
– Trevor and Chris, Team Classical Rainbow, #TeamWellStrung
5th
– Alex and Conor, The Race Car Drivers, #TeamIndyCar
6th
– Joey and Tim, Team Bring On the Food Challenge, #TeamChomp
7th
– Lucas and Brittany, Team Baywatch, #TeamOceanRescue
8th
– Eric and Daniel, The Wondertwins, #TheFirefighters
9th
– Cedric and Shawn, Team Globetrotters Redux. #TeamSlamDunk
10th
– April and Sarah, The Southwest Moms, #TeamGoatYoga
Reykjavikurtjorn,
Reykjavik, Iceland
8:08
AM Kristi/Jen (1st)
Clue:
Travel to Antwerp, Belgium! First, fly to Amsterdam, Netherlands, by
booking the only flight out of Reykjavik at a nearby travel agent.
Then, take the train to Antwerp. Once there, make your way to Paleis
op de Mer, a chocolate shop that opens at 9 am to get your next clue.
You have $272 for this leg of the race.
Kristi
thinks she has to throw up due to the Brenniyin from the last leg.
Then she doesn’t. They make their way to the travel agent.
8:16
AM Cody/Jessica (2nd)
8:18
AM Henry/Evan (3rd)
And
because the TAR producers don’t like me, they stop showing
departure times.
Trevor/Chris
(4th)
Alex/Conor
(5th)
Joey/Tim
(6th)
Lucas/Brittany
(7th)
Eric/Daniel
(8th)
Cedric/Shawn
(9th)
April/Sarah
(10th)
So
teams make their way to the travel agent. (Toyouke: “I
don't like this spoon-feeding of travel arrangements.”) Teams
arrive (we assume) in the following order:
1-
Kristi/Jen
2-
Cody/Jessica
3-
Henry/Evan
4-
Trevor/Chris
5-
Alex/Conor
6-
Joey/Tim
7-
Lucas/Brittany
8-
Eric/Daniel
9-
Cedric/Shawn
10-
April/Sarah
Once
there, teams all make it on the 3:10 pm flight to Schiphol. Teams
arrive at Keflavik International Airport in the following order:
1-
Kristi/Jen
2-
Cody/Jessica
3-
Henry/Evan
4-
Trevor/Chris
5-
Cedric/Shawn –
who plan on still racing, even after the penalty.
6-
Eric/Daniel
7-
Joey/Tim
8-
Alex/Conor
9-
April/Sarah –
who admit they had issues on leg one. You think?
10-
Lucas/Brittany
Anyway,
we board, and we magically end up outside Paleis op de Mer, because
there apparently were no issues whatsoever on the airplane or the
train. 9 am happens, and teams get their clues from Stan (Toyouke:
“WAIT
how many chocolate makers employ little people?! There can't be more
than one. Also I wanted that to be a Switchback.”)
in the following order:
1-
Joey/Tim
2-
Cedric/Shawn
3-
Kristi/Jen
4-
Eric/Daniel
5-
April/Sarah
6-
Cody/Jessica
7-
Henry/Evan
8-
Trevor/Chris
9-
Alex/Conor
10-
Lucas/Brittany
When
they rip open the clue, teams get the second roadblock.
ROADBLOCK:
Who’s
ready to get high?
In
this roadblock, one team member must participate in the SkyClimb, a
crane with four ladders that rises 100 feet above the city.
Roadblockers had to climb the ladders to retrieve a clue at the top
before the end of the ride. Once complete, teams could move on.
The
following teammates take the Roadblock:
1-
Shawn –
who drops the clue. Which, apparently, doesn’t matter. (Toyouke:
“This
is a poorly designed task if you can knock the clue loose in the
normal completion of the task.”)
2-
Chris
3-
Jessica
4-
Joey –
who also drops the clue.
5-
Evan
6-
Sarah –
(Toyouke: “Oh
look, Goat Yoga got lost again.”)
7-
Lucas
8-
Kristi
9-
Alex
10-
Eric
After
much ladder climbing, teams complete the Roadblock in the following
order:
1-
Trevor/Chris
2-
Cedric/Shawn
3-
Cody/Jessica
4-
Joey/Tim
5-
Kristi/Jen
6-
Lucas/Brittany
7-
April/Sarah
8-
Henry/Evan
9-
Eric/Daniel
10-
Alex/Conor
And
we get the Detour Clue.
DETOUR:
Old
Print OR Diamond Glint
*Old
Print: Teams must travel to the Plantin-Moretus Museum and use an old
printing press to set up and print their clue using traditional
printing methods. Once the letters have been arranged properly, the
printmaker will give them their printed clue.
*Diamond
Glint: Teams travel to the ADC Building in the Diamond Quarter to
evaluate three diamonds and find their values. Then teams add those
values to the value of an unfinished necklace to find the final
value. Once complete, the appraiser will give them their next clue.
(Toyouke:
“Printing
press! It makes me think of that weird musical we listened to that
time that was like a Whose Line game! Hey, but the Detour choices
rhyme. Also, I would need to know how lenient the diamond rating is
to know how hard that side of the Detour is. The math part doesn't
bother me.”)
1-
Cody/Jessica choose Old Print
2-
Cedric/Shawn choose Old Print
3-
Henry/Evan choose Old Print
4-
Kristi/Jen choose Old Print
5-
Joey/Tim choose Diamond Glint
6-
Alex/Conor choose Diamond Glint
7-
Trevor/Chris choose Diamond Glint
8-
Eric/Daniel choose Old Print –
but somehow struggle with this choice, and make our first Bald Snark
of the season to Diamond Glint. (Toyouke: “Oh,
Bald Snarking is probably not a great idea. But that's a perfect
example of what I mean about the Head-to-Head. In a normal leg, those
boys would suffer from their poor decision and possibly come in last.
But here, as long as they are faster than whoever is stuck waiting
for them, they don't suffer from their poor decision making.“)
9-
April/Sarah choose Diamond Glint
10-
Lucas/Brittany choose Old Print
Much
printing press running and diamond appraising ensues. (Toyouke:
“Either
Goat Yoga or the twins should go home for sucking at the Detour.”)
So,
teams complete the detour in the following order:
1-
Cedric/Shawn
2-
Kristi/Jen
3-
Cody/Jessica
4-
Henry/Evan
5-
Trevor/Chris
6-
Alex/Conor
7-
Joey/Tim
8-
Lucas/Brittany
9-
April/Sarah
10-
Eric/Daniel
Teams
are now instructed by their clue in Dutch to travel to City Hall and
find the Silvius Brabo Statue at the Grote Markt. Teams arrive in
the following order:
1-
Cedric/Shawn
2-
Cody/Jessica
3-
Henry/Evan
4-
Kristi/Jen
5-
Trevor/Chris
6-
Alex/Conor
7-
Lucas/Brittany
8-
Joey/Tim
9-
April/Sarah
10-
Eric/Daniel
And
teams find the new task: the first Head to Head of the Race!
Because, these are the Most Competitive Teams Ever! (Toyouke: “Can
we please stop calling these teams "the most competitive"
because the more you say it the less I believe it.”)
HEAD-TO-HEAD
In
this Head to Head, teams must don French fry costumes. (Phil:
“Belgians love their frites, as they call French fries. And
sometimes they get so excited that they dress like them!”) Then,
teams must wait until at least two teams are at the task. Once
there, each team picks one person to race an obstacle course with a
dolly filled with eight bags of frites. The winner moves on to the
next task. The loser stays behind to compete until they win. Teams
may switch competitors between races.
(Toyouke:
“I
don't know if I like this twist. It's not like legs are never won or
lost based on task performance, but I don't like making it so direct,
I guess. Let's say you were a slower team, physically. You
could stay in the Race for ages based on good navigating and good
Detour selection. And being smart. But then you get to this and now
your elimination is based on how fast you are, and how tired you are.
You could arrive first and get stuck there losing to everyone and be
eliminated, and I don't think that's a reflection of how good you are
at the Race. I know things like bad cabs aren't a reflection of your
skill either, but the risk of things like that are more equal across
the teams, as opposed to a physical task. Are there going to be other
Head-to-Heads that aren't physical? Because then why not just make
all your tasks physical and let an alpha male team win and quit
screwing around.”)
Team
members compete in the Head to Head in the following order:
1)
Cedric VS Cody –
Cody wins, so Slam Dunk switches partners and races again. Also,
Phil gives us his play by play. (Toyouke: “Also
unrelated, I HATE this Phil play-by-play.”)
2)
Shawn VS Henry
– Shawn wins, and Yale switches partners.
3)
Evan VS Kristi –
Kristi wins, so Yale switches partners again.
4)
Henry VS Chris –
and Chris wins, making Yale switch again.
5)
Evan VS Alex –
and Alex wins, so Yale switches again.
6)
Henry VS Lucas –
and Lucas wins, as Yale gets more and more tired. (Toyouke: “If
Yale goes home because they're too tired to win a foot race against
teams who can't navigate and did a shitty job at choosing a Detour,
that's BS. Why have any mental tasks at all? Just cast all meatheads
and quit pretending to value intelligence.”)
7)
Evan VS Tim –
and Tim wins, so Yale races for the seventh time.
8)
Henry VS April
- and because it’s Goat Yoga, Henry finally wins.
9)
April VS Daniel
- (Toyouke: “It's
one thing when it came down to a footrace last leg. This is way
different.“)
Teams
find now that they must travel a few feet to the Silvius Brabo
statue, the PIT STOP of the second leg of this racearoundtheworld.
The last team to arrive WILL be eliminated!
1-
Cody/Jessica – who
win $2500 each.
2-
Cedric/Shawn
3-
Kristi/Jen
4-
Trevor/Chris
5-
Alex/Conor
6-
Lucas/Brittany
7-
Joey/Tim
8-
Henry/Evan
9-
Eric/Daniel
10-
April/Sarah
At
the end of race 9, Eric and Daniel win the race, so April and Sarah
are eliminated at the mat. Sarah: “We gave it a shot. It’s just
another crazy thing we did.”
ORDER
NOW:
1st
– Cody/Jessica
2nd
– Cedric/Shawn
3rd
– Kristi/Jen
4th
– Trevor/Chris
5th
– Alex/Conor
6th
– Lucas/Brittany
7th
– Joey/Tim
8th
– Henry/Evan
9th
– Eric/Daniel
Next
week: Off to Morocco! It’s Travelocity Gnome time, and someone
forgot theirs! And Cedric gets tired. Until next time!
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