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Thats me done with amazing race


Bunch of weak teams doing super easy task. basically taxi ready to move them place to place. no real challenges anymore.

always hated u-turn but atleast double u-turn cancelled each other out.

no reason to watch anymore since its farce when one team go out without their own fault.

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Their accumulated faults in the past two legs lead to this elimination.

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My thoughts exactly! I said to my flatmate as we were watching it, the Frisbee boys downfall pretty much started when they used the Express Pass for the letters in the liquid task.


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This is exactly how i felt for the leg in the Alps - driven everywhere and led everywhere, very little opportunity for classic TAR game changers!

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While I agree with the poor leg design (at least for this leg), Kurt and Brodie have no one to blame but themselves. First for wasting the Express Pass, and then for poor choices on the roadblocks on the previous leg.

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Lots of teams make poor choices. Probably every team still there has made a poor choice or 2 during the race.

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Yeah but none of them had as large a target on their back as Brodie and Kurt. Sucks for them, but that's the way the race goes. It's happened before and I'm sure it'll happen again.

Watch it backfire when Sheri and Cole or Matt and Dana win the whole thing.

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That's what bothers me. You have a team like Sheri and Cole that have been last twice I think, they were just non elimination legs of the race.

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Watch it backfire when Sheri and Cole or Matt and Dana win the whole thing.

So what you are proposing is that they should not have used the express and left the most dominate team of Kurt & Brodie in the race? Even if by some miracle Sherri & Cole or Matt & Dana won it all, that does not negate the fact that eliminating the frisbee bros was a sound strategic decision.

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I guess backfire is the wrong word to use since at the moment it was definitely the best strategic thing to do. I guess it would just be ironic.

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Even if by some miracle Sherri & Cole or Matt & Dana won it all


Something like that. I really can't imagine one of those teams winning, especially with those edits.

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The Express Pass had to be used in the 9th leg, or sooner, I believe. Isn't the most recent leg the 10th leg, or higher?

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If they'd kept it for the kite challenge they wouldn't have been back of the pack for this leg and would most likely have made it to the u turn board first.

I know it's editing, but the way Brodie just appeared to give up so easily on the letters in liquid task was ridiculous. I'd have been telling him I'm sure there's tougher road blocks and detours to come that we need it for so don't be beaten by what's essentially a child's puzzle.

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I'm sure he was there a bit but they dropped it as soon as another team showed as he was easily frustrated and they wanted first. They used it to win the leg, not keep themselves safe. And it came back to haunt them.

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super easy task


The coconut/chicken one was difficult for many of them, because of all the traffic on the bridge, the awkwardness of carrying the coconuts, and just generally how far it was and how much they had to bring.

The Roadblock, though... a complete waste of a task.

basically taxi ready to move them place to place.


A bad taxi driver could easily screw anyone over. It just didn't seem to happen in this leg. The boat rides were more of an issue though, because they seemed to be provided by the show.

always hated u-turn but atleast double u-turn cancelled each other out.


Why is 2 people getting U-Turned better? Then it's just the second team getting screwed over, especially since you've already complained about the "super easy" tasks, so there'd be no room to pass someone.

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It's Bali and they were going to very famous places, there's zero chance of getting a bad taxi driver! Maybe someone who drives a bit slower but it's not a big place, everyone knows everywhere!

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