Amazing Race: Leg 9

// April 17th, 2010 // fun

I’m sure there have been many teams on the Amazing Race that made me want to cheer wildly when they finally got eliminated by Phil at the end of a leg.

I never thought it would be Carol and Brandy, but they steadily lost all respect from me as the leg went on.

I am always amazed at teams that are shellshocked when they get U-Turned/Yielded. The girls’ one reason for it being “stupid” was because Brent and Caite should be getting rid of the “good” teams, not them. But all along, don’t they talk about how they are a pretty good team???

Obviously Caite made her own bed with that awful Miss America answer, but these two women were brutal on her about it and never gave her a chance. Once they were yielded, man…the bitterness was intense.

Either way, it was  a great move on Brent/Caite’s part.  And also a meaningless move for our little contest here on A Mike Life, because NO ONE had Carol and Brandy :)

Dan and Jordan finished first, having beaten the pants off everyone by getting the fast-forward (not to mention some big bonus points for those that have him!).

So I had a lot of funnier things to say about the leg, but I should have written the recap last Sunday night instead of waiting 6 days. On to the contest.

The Contest

So we had some crazy points going on this week. Negative for U-Turning someone, positive for the Fast Forward…good stuff.

Something kind of amazing about Brent and Caite. They are in the Top 4 now, but only have 4 total points for the season. They finally finish second (previous best was one 3rd place), but lose 10 points for U-Turning someone. Ouch. What a horrible pick.

Here are last week’s standings:

  • Tracy 71
  • Tyler 69
  • Dave 69
  • Kathy 59
  • Jina 56
  • Ryann 52
  • Nicky 49
  • Josie 39
  • Heather 36
  • Melissa 34
  • Mike 34
  • Adrian 10

And this week, Tracy flies ahead because of her Dan and Jordan pick. Not sure if she can be caught now! Also, so sad for Adrian to actually get to 10 points and then LOSE 5 this week! Love this game!

  • Tracy 99
  • Nicky 69
  • Tyler 67
  • Dave 67
  • Kathy 60
  • Jina 54
  • Melissa 54
  • Mike 54
  • Ryann 47
  • Heather 39
  • Josie 34
  • Adrian 5

4 Responses to “Amazing Race: Leg 9”

  1. nicky says:
    April 17, 2010 at 11:00 pm

    from 7th to 2nd?!?! AWESOME!

  2. Mike says:
    April 18, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    big move up nicky!

  3. Melissa Jill :) says:
    April 26, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    So what’s up with the negative points for u-turning? I know you said it’s not classy but then you said it was a good move in this post. Confused.

  4. Mike says:
    April 27, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    Hey MJ,

    Well, it was a good move for them now, but the scoring system was done before the season started :)

    Honestly, I was looking for ways to score different things to add a little variety, and the players in the game tend to look down on U-Turning someone, so I figured we’d reverse that and give the U-Turned team the positive points and the one doing the U-Turn negative.

    Just made sense at the time…next year, we may change it, I dunno.

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