Welcome
to Leg 11! Last time, on Elephants
and Bullfrogs and Scorpions, Oh My!,
4 teams raced from Bahrain to Thailand. Teams had to either catch
bullfrogs or measure elephants, and then eat scorpions. And everyone
was fairly successful, except for Yale, who were slow and finished
last. But it was the last non-elimination leg, so they are still in
the race. Who will be eliminated. . . next? (click for more)
Arrival
at the pit stop last episode:
1st
– Alex and Conor, The Race Car Drivers, #TeamIndyCar
2nd
– Cody and Jessica, Team Reality Show YDC, #TeamBigBrother
3rd
– Kristi and Jen, The Freestyle Skiers, #TeamExtreme
4th
– Henry and Evan, Beauty and the Geek Take 2, #TeamYale
Wadi
Chedi Luang, Chiang Mai, Thailand
6:45
AM Alex/Conor (1st)
Clue:
Fly 1000 miles to the Pearl of the Orient, Hong Kong! Once there,
make your way to Victoria Peak and find the photographer at Lion’s
Pavilion to get your next clue.
6:47
AM Cody/Jessica (2nd)
7:15
AM Kristi/Jen (3rd)
7:44
AM Henry/Evan (4th)
So,
teams make their way to the airport. They arrive in the following
order:
1-
Alex/Conor
2-
Cody/Jessica
3-
Kristi/Jen
4-
Henry/Evan
All
teams get the same flight to Hong Kong (of course). So teams get on
their flights, and the Amazing Orange Line gets them to Hong Kong
International Airport in the following order:
1-
Kristi/Jen
2-
Alex/Conor
3-
Cody/Jessica – who force
their way in front to get a cab. (Toyouke: “Did
they push? I'm not saying they didn't, because they totally would, I
just couldn't tell what was going on.”)
4-
Henry/Evan
Teams
get taxis and make their way to Victoria Peak. They arrive at Lion’s
Pavilion in the following order:
1-
Alex/Conor
2-
Cody/Jessica
3-
Kristi/Jen – whose cab
driver tries to drive all the way up the peak, which doesn’t work.
So they run back to where they need to be to get to the top.
4-
Henry/Evan – who find a taxi
driver named Henry, and our Henry can speak Mandarin, so that’s
helpful.
Teams
arrive, and Henry and Evan find their Speed Bump. (Toyouke: “This
leg seems designed to screw whoever has the Speed Bump. But I guess
that's true no matter who is in that spot.”)
SPEED
BUMP:
A
Speed Bump is a task that must be performed by the last place team on
a non-elimination leg when the non-elimination leg is not immediately
followed by the next leg. Once they complete this task, they may
return to the place where the Speed Bump occurred and continue the
leg. In this speed bump, the team must light and hang forty paper
lanterns in order to continue racing.
Teams
complete the Speed Bump in the following order:
1-
Henry/Evan – and are cheered
on by Taxicab Henry.
After
much lantern lighting, they continue with the rest of the teams.
Teams
find the photographer at Lion’s Pavilion. He then takes their
picture with the Hong Kong skyline. (Toyouke: “This
is terrible. Also how did they manage to take a picture that is
clearly on the edge of a walkway but it looks like a crappy
backdrop?”) When the
pictures print, the teams get their clues in the following order:
1-
Alex/Conor
2-
Cody/Jessica
3-
Kristi/Jen
4-
Henry/Evan
Teams
are now instructed to travel by taxi to the Hong Kong Harbour and
find their clue on the Aberdeen Promenade. Teams arrive at the
Promenade in the following order:
1-
Alex/Conor
2-
Cody/Jessica
3-
Kristi/Jen
4-
Henry/Evan
Teams
search the Promenade and find the clue in the following order:
1-
Kristi/Jen
2-
Alex/Conor
3-
Cody/Jessica
4-
Henry/Evan
Teams
open their clues and we get the Detour Clue.
DETOUR:
Hairy
Crab OR Grub Grab
*Hairy
Crab: Teams must travel by water taxi to the Aberdeen Floating
Village where they must tie 50 hairy crabs to get them ready for
market. To make things harder, a fake typhoon will occur during the
challenge. Once all 50 hairy crabs are tied correctly, teams will
get their next clue.
*Grub
Grab: Teams travel by water taxi to Jin Bao Seafood Restaurant on Ap
Lei Chau Main Street. Once there, one team member must wait on a
table of eight and take their orders in Cantonese. They must then
relay the order to their teammate who must correctly fill the order.
Once all the orders have been received correctly, teams get their
next clue.
(Toyouke:
“Are you
serious. A fake typhoon. See, that HAS to be fake added difficulty.
Because no one is going to try to speak Chinese, so everyone is going
to take the crab side of the Detour, so they had to try to make it
harder. As if they could make it so hard people would choose to try
to speak Chinese.”)
1-
Alex/Conor choose Hairy Crab –
and quickly Bald Snark to Grub Grab, because apparently Conor can’t
tie crabs. And then one pinched him.
2-
Kristi/Jen choose Hairy Crab –
Jen: “I’ve always wanted this life skill!”
3-
Cody/Jessica choose Hairy Crab
4-
Henry/Evan choose Grub Grab –
because Henry speaks Mandarin. (Toyouke: “I
mean hopefully Henry can speak well enough. It may be a Goats/Ray and
Deana situation. Team Indy Car notwithstanding.”)
Much
crab tying and food serving ensues. So, teams complete the detour in
the following order:
1-
Henry/Evan
2-
Alex/Conor
3-
Cody/Jessica
4-
Kristi/Jen
Teams
are now instructed to make their way to the roof of Central Pier # 4
to get their next clue. Teams arrive in the following order:
1-
Henry/Evan
2-
Alex/Conor
3-
Cody/Jessica
4-
Kristi/Jen
When
they rip open the clue, teams get the eighth roadblock.
ROADBLOCK:
Who
wants to get smashed?
In
this roadblock, one team member must create “Rage Art” by using a
baseball bat to destroy electronics. Inside two of the electronics
are halves of a clue. Once roadblockers find the whole clue, they
throw a gallon of paint on the masterpiece to complete the challenge.
In the meantime, their teammates have a briefcase locked to their
wrists.
(Toyouke:
“I kind of
like how the Roadblock is relatively uncomplicated, compared to two
difficult Detour options.”)
The
following teammates take the Roadblock:
1-
Henry
2-
Conor
3-
Cody
4-
Kristi - who can’t really
smash things. And then forgets to read the clue and doesn’t look
for the halves until the very end.
After
much electronics smashing, teams complete the Roadblock in the
following order:
1-
Henry/Evan
2-
Alex/Conor
3-
Cody/Jessica
4-
Kristi/Jen
Teams
are now instructed to travel by taxi to Lan Kwai Fong. Once there,
they must search the busy street for clues to help them figure out
the code for the briefcase. The clues are signs with pictures that
remind them of various legs (1 – Washington Square Park Arch, 3 –
Fez, 5 – Bull). (Toyouke: “It's
early for a memory task.”) Once
teams have all three numbers, they must try all six combinations
until they find the one that works with their briefcase in order to
get the handcuff key and their next clue.
Teams
arrive at Lan Kwai Fong in the following order:
1-
Henry/Evan
2-
Alex/Conor
3-
Cody/Jessica
4-
Kristi/Jen
Teams
find signs, but most teams only find two of the three, and some of
the formatting seems odd to me (the fez is a neon sign, and not print
like the other two; the Washington Square Park sign is white and
green and not red and yellow). (Toyouke: “This
task is really poorly designed. There's nothing to indicate if
something is even a sign in the first place, let alone what leg and
what order the numbers go in. “) Anyway,
most teams figure out enough to open their briefcases in the
following order:
1-
Henry/Evan
2-
Cody/Jessica
3-
Kristi/Jen
4-
Alex/Conor – well, they
should have anyway. . . (Toyouke: “I
don't think helping Indy Car was a problem. "Go back up",
yelled as you run full speed in the opposite direction in first
place, really isn't hurting you at all. It's the last three teams
that need to not help each other.”)
Teams
find now that they must make their way to the intersection of
Johnston Rd. and Wan Chai Rd., the PIT STOP of the eleventh leg of
this racearoundtheworld. The last team to arrive WILL be eliminated!
1- Henry/Evan – who
win business class tickets to their final destination city.
(Toyouke: “OK
I still don't like this "on the last leg we'll just give you a
flight and upgrade you to business class". But that's because we haven't had
ANY airport drama this season and it's BORING. “)
2-
Cody/Jessica – who win
business class tickets to their final destination city.
3-
Kristi/Jen – who win
business class tickets to their final destination city.
4-
Alex/Conor
And
Indy Car has Phil visit them in Lan Kwai Fong to let them know that
they have been eliminated from the race. Conor: “It’s a shame to
go out like this.” Conor now has a month to move out.
ORDER
NOW:
1st
– Henry/Evan
2nd
– Cody/Jessica
3rd
– Kristi/Jen
Next
week: San Francisco! Kayaking! Plane Building! Jumping off
bridges! And a winner! Until next time!
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