Amazing Race 2/21 *SPOILERS* About This Page:

[LilMarcieMouse]

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1. Cody & Jessica (Big Brother)
2. Henry & Evan (Yale)– HiddenMickey
3. Kristi & Jen (Extreme) - cudfancplleen

Eliminated:

1. Dessie & Kayla (Ring Girls) – Luvsun
2. April & Sarah (Goat Yoga) – bonphil
3. Cedric & Shawn (Slam Dunk) – mamajab
4. Joey & Tim (Chomp)
5. Trevor & Chris (Well Strung)
6. Eric & Daniel (Firefighters) – DebbieDebbieDebbie
7. Lucas & Brittany (Ocean Rescue) – Luvsun
8. Kristi & Jen (Extreme) - cudfancplleen
9. Alex & Conor (IndyCar) - LilMarcieMouse

The teams head out to Hong Kong, all are on the same flight. Once there they head to Victoria Peak and must find the photo kiosk. Here they have their picture taken overlooking the Hong Kong skyline. They find their next clue printed on the photograph.

Speed Bump: Henry & Evan have to place candles into 40 paper lanterns and hang them before they can continue racing.

Now they head to Aberdeen Promenade to find the next clue.

Detour: Hairy Crab: teams have to properly wrap and pack 50 live hairy crabs in a basket, while subjected to simulated typhoon conditions, to receive their next clue.
Alex & Conor (switched after a crab almost took Conor’s finger off), Kristi & Jen, Cody & Jessica

Grub Grab: one team member has to take 8 restaurant orders in Cantonese, then relay it to their partner in the kitchen, who has to figure out the corresponding dishes, which were labeled phonetically. Once all the patrons were served correctly, they received their next clue.

Henry & Evan, Alex & Conor

Once again Cody did it all, Henry spoke Mandurian so it helped some. He crushed the challenge. The switch was good for Alex and Conor. Conor and Henry took the orders and Evan and Alex fixed the dishes. They left as team 1 and 2.

Central Pier #4 is the next destination.

Road Block: Who wants to get smashed? One team member had to suit up in protective equipment and smash a pile of old electronics with a baseball bat to find two containing half of a clue. Once the clue was complete, they then splattered a gallon of paint over the pile to create a work of "rage art". Meanwhile, the non-participating team member was handcuffed to a briefcase.

Henry, Conor, Cody, and Kristi

This is one that Kristi didn’t read the whole clue and this put them in last place. I would have loved to do this one. It looked like fun.

Now the go to Lan Kwai Fong a small square of streets in Central, Hong Kong.

They have to look for three signs depicting things seen in previous legs of the Race, and they have to recall the numbers of the legs where those things were seen (the Washington Square Arch from Leg 1, a fez hat from Leg 3, and a bull from Leg 5). These corresponded to the combination to open the briefcase still handcuffed to the wrist of the team member who did not perform the Roadblock. The correct order of numbers was different for each briefcase. Inside the briefcase was the key to the handcuffs and the next clue.

Pit Stop: They now make their way to Wan Chai District at Intersection of Johnston Road and Wan Chai Road.

1. Henry & Evan (Yale)– HiddenMickey
2. Cody & Jessica (Big Brother)
3. Kristi & Jen (Extreme) - cudfancplleen
4. Alex & Conor (IndyCar) - LilMarcieMouse


Henry and Evan pull a worst to first even with the speed bump. They are only the 2nd team to do this.

Then Cody & Jessica came in just seconds after them.

Kristi & Jen came in after the other 2 teams left, I think they just went to the airport they had no idea who was eliminated.

Alex & Conor had too much trouble figuring out the clues, even when someone told them about the Washington Square clue. Phil showed up to tell them they were eliminated. Conor hung his head. Phil told him to pick it up and that he should be ashamed of how it finished. Poor Conor had a grueling 24 hours starting with the elimination. He found out he lose his Indy Car ride and his manager dropped him. If you ask his manager should have been trying to find him a new ride. So right now he is out of a job.

We now head into the last leg as the 2 teams sit in the airport wondering who else will show up, The welcomed Kristi & Jen as the rounded the corner.

From Hong Kong they fly business class to San Francisco, when they arrived the head to the AT&T Park and have to find the “Say Hey Kid” Statue (Willie Mays) for the clue.

Now they head to McCovey Cove a section of San Francisco Bay beyond the right field wall of AT&T Park, paddle kayaks around McCovey Cove and find three numbered baseballs corresponding to the digits in the number of career home runs hit by Willie Mays, leaving them to figure out the correct number (660), while Giants mascot Lou Seal threw more balls into the water from the ballpark. Once they had the correct numbers, they would receive their next clue from an umpire.

You gotta love a good mascot. It was fun watching him chuck the balls at the teams.
This clue was in pictures, a gold bar, gate, cookie, and factory. They had to find the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Company.

Here they have to properly make 102 fortune cookies, 51 per team member. Once approved, they received a giant fortune cookie to break open for their next clue.

San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge is the next destination.

Road block: One team member has to use jumars to pull themselves up 200 feet (61 m) to the top of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge center anchorage. They then have to enter the structure and put on a harness and covered with bright lights before free falling from a plank to receive their next clue.

Cody, Evan, and Kristi

Off to the USS Hornet: Here is the final pit stop but before they can check in they have to choose a fuselage of a large model airplane on the flight deck, then search the entire aircraft carrier for twelve parts of matching color (two propellers, four wings, four horizontal stabilizers, and two vertical stabilizers) with which to complete the model. Each part had different pictures depicting something encountered on a leg of the race. After finding all twelve parts, the team member who did not perform the previous Roadblock had to assemble the airplane with the correct combination of six parts (one propeller, two wings, two horizontal stabilizers, and one vertical stabilizer) that would fit correctly on the fuselage and represent all 12 legs without duplication (solution below). Once approved, the team member had to push the airplane to their partner.

Jen, Jessica, and Henry

1 Iceland Off-road helmet
2 Belgium French fry
3 Morocco Fish
4 France Rudder
5 France Knight
6 Czech Magnifying glass
7 Zimbabwe Canteen
8 Zimbabwe Microphone
9 Bahrain Scale
10 Thailand Elephant
11 Hong Kong Handcuff
12 United States Oar


This was a big challenge and they really had to work for the win, it the hardest finish challenge yet. At one point Henry had it correct and changed a piece before having it checked. That was frustrating as a viewer. I don’t know how Jessica pulled it off, but she did and they won. Henry & Evan came close in second place and Kristi & Jen in third.

It was a good season but man I really didn’t want Cody & Jessica to win.
Congratulations to Cody & Jessica and we had no winner for this team. I heard they are getting married, that’s when I figured out they had won. I saw a post from Conor about their elimination so I knew they were out. I couldn’t even get the Fuel
To have him come shoot the puck. Since he doesn’t have a ride.

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See you next season Racing Peeps.

[mamajab]

I wonder how poor Henry feels looking at the episode and realizing he had it won, and then changed it?

[HiddenMickey]

Really good ending to a good season. (Not real happy with the winners though).

I agree that Henry must be kicking himself about that huge mistake.

Jessica and Cody at the crabs...you knew she wouldn't do them...

I was actually kind of amazed that any of them got the pictures for the three legs. That was tough tough tough, since you didn't really have any idea of what you were looking for. Case in point, Alex and Conner mentioning several other things that looked like they could be it. And then to have Jessica and Cody get the code without really knowing the code, just by trying some numbers? Lucky Lucky.

So I looked up to see how much 2nd and 3rd get....
$25000 and $10000. So none of them go home without a cash payout.

[cubfancolleen]

I wonder how angry Evan was with Henry when they realized he had it all right at one point, then changed it?!
I didn’t realize the 2nd & 3rd pace teams also win some cash.
I was sorry to see the Indy guys go. It was so frustrating when they were convinced the Washington Square symbol was the Arc d’Triumphe.
I was hoping to the end that my team would win, but they played a good game. Smart that they figured out Willie Mays’ record before getting in the kayak. Although my DH was disgusted that everyone didn’t just know the number, as he thinks that’s something ‘everyone knows’ (and was shocked when I said I didn’t know).

Thanks as always Marcie! Looking forward to another season in the fall.

[Luvsun]

Well....I am glad I didn't watch the finale show.....I was afraid that Jessica and Cody might win and I just couldn't stomach that!
I am glad the other two teams get some prize money.
Thanks Marcie!