Monkey Dance
Last week the teams raced in Indonesia and Brodie & Kurt found themselves in a position they have never been in before, at the back of the pack, barely edging out Zach & Rachel who ended up going home.
This week the teams remain in Indonesia and we find out there is a U-Turn ahead, with Brodie & Kurt starting out in last place. Korey & Tyler, in first place, see this as their opportunity to take the Frisbee boys out and give the other teams (by which they mean themselves) a chance at winning.
Phil tells us there are so many islands in Indonesia, if you visited a new one every day it would take 50 years to see them all (seriously?).
Tyler & Korey are the first team out and they get the route info which takes them to a certain bay where they will have to dive down to retrieve their next clue from clue boxes floating underwater. Both team members had to get in the water and the clue boxes only held two clues each which were in plastic cylinders instead of the envelopes they usually see - this was a little confusing for some of the teams but they figured it out quickly, unlike Dana & Matt who allowed the Frisbee boys to pass them because they were second guessing the cylinders as the clues. (They are definitely dancers, not rocket surgeons.)
-One thing I did notice was how sunburned everyone seemed to be this leg - I think the Indonesian sun has not been kind to the very pale indoor kids on this Race.
-The clue told them to head to mushroom beach, there they got into marked taxis and headed to the stairway to the temple, where they had to put on a sarong (Tyler said they were actually sa-right) and run up the stairs looking for the dancing monkey (which was actually a man moving like a mischievous monkey, playing keep away with the clue - ha - not so funny.)
The clue is to the DETOUR: Haul or Harvest:
In Harvest - they must choose a traditional canoe, propel themselves along a marked course and collect enough seaweed to completely cover a tarp to get the next clue.
In Haul - they have to haul, by hand, 50 coconuts and 4 chickens from one point to another to get their next clue. (Sounds easier, but it is not.)
-Absolutely every team chose Haul, which was good for everyone to know what position they were in, especially with the U-Turn looming. If they could catch two chickens at once, moving the chickens wasn't such a big deal - it was the coconuts with no baskets or means of carrying them other than their arms, there were a lot of coconuts dropped on the ground that day - plus they have to run across a bridge and if other teams ran by it shook... this was a very labour intensive task, took a lot of trips since the most coconuts any one person could carry at a time was about 5 or less.
-And Dana could not do two chickens at a time - Matt was told to shut up a couple times this task... fun times with Dana when she's in last place.
-Tyler & Korey were the first team finished and they got the clue to the U-Turn board - when they got to it, they were surprised to see it was a double U-Turn and they hesitated because if they U-Turned Kurt & Brodie and then the boys were able to U-Turn another team, they could survive the U-Turn and then hang around hating on Tyler & Korey - but in the end they knew it had to be done, so they U-Turned Brodie & Kurt. They headed out to the paddle-board place to get the next clue... but had some panic moments about the U-Turn until Korey realized that Burnie & Ashley could be smart enough to U-Turn them (Tyler & Korey) which would save anyone else from being U-Turned and pretty much screw Brodie & Kurt... and that is exactly what happened. Burnie is a gamer and the U-Turn is part of this game, he is a strategist and had that worked out very quickly. Now if only they could get a first place instead of eternally second place.
-In the hauling task, Brodie & Kurt did make up another spot by passing Sheri & Cole, but once they saw they had been U-Turned and blocked from U-Turning anyone else, they knew they really had to crank out the seaweed to stand a chance.
-Tyler & Korey, first team to the paddle-board shop, get the clue to the ROADBLOCK - Who's feeling blue? And it is not paddle-boarding, oh no, they have to jump off a cliff. (OMGodupus!) So, who took the plunge? Tyler, Ashley, Cole, Matt & Brodie - the big question mark in this one was whether Cole would master his crippling fear of heights and actually jump off the cliff... Sheri kept apologizing to him and I was yelling at her to cut the apron strings, he needs to put on his big boy pants and earn his place on the Race.
-The rest of the teams were also nervous about whether or not Cole would find the fortitude to actually make the jump - they did not U-Turn the Frisbee boys in order for them to be able to pass Sheri & Cole due to his fear of heights.
-In the end Cole jumped quickly with no problems - other than a salt water enema he wasn't expecting (hello!)
Pit Stop was the Bajra Sandhi - Phil said, "the last team to check in here may face elimination." (Whaat? He's never phrased it that way before, does that mean something? Am I reading too much into it? Maybe.)
Here's How They Finished:
1) Tyler & Korey - won an Alaskan Cruise- including Empress tea in BC (they'll be in Victoria at some point.) Tyler said they chose to U-turn the Frisbee boys because in order for anyone else to have a chance, they can't be in the finals.
2) Burnie & Ashley - it was a foot race to the mat - but they made this their fifth second place in a row.
3) Dana & Matt - ran in right behind the other two teams and immediately were thanking Burnie & Ashley for the U-Turn because it saved them being U-turned by the Frisbee boys.
4) Sheri & Cole - all teams were still at the mat when Sheri & Cole came in and just wanted to clear out before the frisbee boys got there.
5) Brodie & Kurt - **ELIMINATED** They've lost their fair share of games but this was a little bit harder because it felt like they didn't have control, especially with Burnie & Ashley making sure they couldn't U-Turn another team. (The Frisbee boys got to the U-Turn board in third place, so had Burnie & Ashley not burned their U-Turn on a team ahead of them, the boys could have saved themselves by U-Turning someone else.) Brodie doesn't seem too broken up though, he's looking forward to spending some time in LA and going on a date with Blair. (Blodie rides again!)
With Brodie & Kurt's elimination, that took Ethan G., Brandon L., Rachel R., Kim B., and Elaine R. out of the pool - in a way you were all robbed, but then again, it is a game and Burnie showed some very strategic game play - now it's anyone's Race to win.
Next Episode: looks like they are heading to Paris, oh wait, I think that was just a replica Eiffel Tower, they are somewhere in Asia and it's still a Race to make the finale.
Have a great rest of your week,
Coleen
Last week the teams raced in Indonesia and Brodie & Kurt found themselves in a position they have never been in before, at the back of the pack, barely edging out Zach & Rachel who ended up going home.
This week the teams remain in Indonesia and we find out there is a U-Turn ahead, with Brodie & Kurt starting out in last place. Korey & Tyler, in first place, see this as their opportunity to take the Frisbee boys out and give the other teams (by which they mean themselves) a chance at winning.
Phil tells us there are so many islands in Indonesia, if you visited a new one every day it would take 50 years to see them all (seriously?).
Tyler & Korey are the first team out and they get the route info which takes them to a certain bay where they will have to dive down to retrieve their next clue from clue boxes floating underwater. Both team members had to get in the water and the clue boxes only held two clues each which were in plastic cylinders instead of the envelopes they usually see - this was a little confusing for some of the teams but they figured it out quickly, unlike Dana & Matt who allowed the Frisbee boys to pass them because they were second guessing the cylinders as the clues. (They are definitely dancers, not rocket surgeons.)
-One thing I did notice was how sunburned everyone seemed to be this leg - I think the Indonesian sun has not been kind to the very pale indoor kids on this Race.
-The clue told them to head to mushroom beach, there they got into marked taxis and headed to the stairway to the temple, where they had to put on a sarong (Tyler said they were actually sa-right) and run up the stairs looking for the dancing monkey (which was actually a man moving like a mischievous monkey, playing keep away with the clue - ha - not so funny.)
The clue is to the DETOUR: Haul or Harvest:
In Harvest - they must choose a traditional canoe, propel themselves along a marked course and collect enough seaweed to completely cover a tarp to get the next clue.
In Haul - they have to haul, by hand, 50 coconuts and 4 chickens from one point to another to get their next clue. (Sounds easier, but it is not.)
-Absolutely every team chose Haul, which was good for everyone to know what position they were in, especially with the U-Turn looming. If they could catch two chickens at once, moving the chickens wasn't such a big deal - it was the coconuts with no baskets or means of carrying them other than their arms, there were a lot of coconuts dropped on the ground that day - plus they have to run across a bridge and if other teams ran by it shook... this was a very labour intensive task, took a lot of trips since the most coconuts any one person could carry at a time was about 5 or less.
-And Dana could not do two chickens at a time - Matt was told to shut up a couple times this task... fun times with Dana when she's in last place.
-Tyler & Korey were the first team finished and they got the clue to the U-Turn board - when they got to it, they were surprised to see it was a double U-Turn and they hesitated because if they U-Turned Kurt & Brodie and then the boys were able to U-Turn another team, they could survive the U-Turn and then hang around hating on Tyler & Korey - but in the end they knew it had to be done, so they U-Turned Brodie & Kurt. They headed out to the paddle-board place to get the next clue... but had some panic moments about the U-Turn until Korey realized that Burnie & Ashley could be smart enough to U-Turn them (Tyler & Korey) which would save anyone else from being U-Turned and pretty much screw Brodie & Kurt... and that is exactly what happened. Burnie is a gamer and the U-Turn is part of this game, he is a strategist and had that worked out very quickly. Now if only they could get a first place instead of eternally second place.
-In the hauling task, Brodie & Kurt did make up another spot by passing Sheri & Cole, but once they saw they had been U-Turned and blocked from U-Turning anyone else, they knew they really had to crank out the seaweed to stand a chance.
-Tyler & Korey, first team to the paddle-board shop, get the clue to the ROADBLOCK - Who's feeling blue? And it is not paddle-boarding, oh no, they have to jump off a cliff. (OMGodupus!) So, who took the plunge? Tyler, Ashley, Cole, Matt & Brodie - the big question mark in this one was whether Cole would master his crippling fear of heights and actually jump off the cliff... Sheri kept apologizing to him and I was yelling at her to cut the apron strings, he needs to put on his big boy pants and earn his place on the Race.
-The rest of the teams were also nervous about whether or not Cole would find the fortitude to actually make the jump - they did not U-Turn the Frisbee boys in order for them to be able to pass Sheri & Cole due to his fear of heights.
-In the end Cole jumped quickly with no problems - other than a salt water enema he wasn't expecting (hello!)
Pit Stop was the Bajra Sandhi - Phil said, "the last team to check in here may face elimination." (Whaat? He's never phrased it that way before, does that mean something? Am I reading too much into it? Maybe.)
Here's How They Finished:
1) Tyler & Korey - won an Alaskan Cruise- including Empress tea in BC (they'll be in Victoria at some point.) Tyler said they chose to U-turn the Frisbee boys because in order for anyone else to have a chance, they can't be in the finals.
2) Burnie & Ashley - it was a foot race to the mat - but they made this their fifth second place in a row.
3) Dana & Matt - ran in right behind the other two teams and immediately were thanking Burnie & Ashley for the U-Turn because it saved them being U-turned by the Frisbee boys.
4) Sheri & Cole - all teams were still at the mat when Sheri & Cole came in and just wanted to clear out before the frisbee boys got there.
5) Brodie & Kurt - **ELIMINATED** They've lost their fair share of games but this was a little bit harder because it felt like they didn't have control, especially with Burnie & Ashley making sure they couldn't U-Turn another team. (The Frisbee boys got to the U-Turn board in third place, so had Burnie & Ashley not burned their U-Turn on a team ahead of them, the boys could have saved themselves by U-Turning someone else.) Brodie doesn't seem too broken up though, he's looking forward to spending some time in LA and going on a date with Blair. (Blodie rides again!)
With Brodie & Kurt's elimination, that took Ethan G., Brandon L., Rachel R., Kim B., and Elaine R. out of the pool - in a way you were all robbed, but then again, it is a game and Burnie showed some very strategic game play - now it's anyone's Race to win.
Next Episode: looks like they are heading to Paris, oh wait, I think that was just a replica Eiffel Tower, they are somewhere in Asia and it's still a Race to make the finale.
Have a great rest of your week,
Coleen
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