LAST EDITED ON 08-03-05 AT 11:55 AM (EST)

This time we're really racing real-time against the racers, so here we go!

Updated for the Costa Rica Travel Agency spoiler.

Image from GlobeXplorer. Wonderful site!

SOHO, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, USA
By Tribefan on Tarflies
Time: Morning, Thursday 7 July 2005
1. 3 families at Eastern Mountain Sports.
2. One of them black, other two white.
3. One with young child.
4. Each family in an SUV.
5. Car-plates from different states. One New Jersey, one Michigan.

Eastern Mountain Sports is located on 591 Broadway, at the intersection of Houston Street. The shop specializes in sport and outdoor apparel. TAR has had tasks making teams go to shops to pick up gear (TAR5 Calgary, edited out), so this may be a likely task. This information fits in with the Huntsville spoiler below, claiming that the race started on Thursday.

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY, USA
By various posters over several forums, including DingoDan on Tarflies
Time: Thursday 7 July 2005
1. Washington Crossing Bridge closed.
2. Information from New Jersey radio station 101.5FM.
3. Explicit mention of The Amazing Race filming.
4. Filming expected to end before 6pm.

Fits in nicely with the first and next spoiler, but why would a radio station get wind of this, and announce it publicly?

DELAWARE RIVER, NEW JERSEY & PENNSYLVANIA, USA
Can't find primary source, reported by Ecdubfan on Survivor Sucks
Time: Thursday 7 July 2005
1. Caravan.
2. Mention of cluebox and tasks.
3. Unhelpful staff and cordoned off areas.
4. Alleged filming of tourism video.
5. Rowing of 'George Washington' across Delaware.
6. Six teams of four seen.

The visitor's center is on the intersection of Routes 32 and 532. I'll try to get a satellite image to try to match the places mentioned.

VIETNAM MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON DC, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, USA
By 1963Mustang on Survivor Sucks, reported here by Nomipomi
Time: About 11am, Friday 8 July 2005
1. Team with man, woman and two girls running from Vietnam Memorial to Korean Memorial.
2. Talked to a ranger, who was asked to sign confidentiality papers.
3. Ranger says their excuse was a 'tourism video'.
4. Cameramen and sound men seen.

The evidence seems to be strong, but a die-hard fan will know about the way TAR works with two crew members, confidentiality papers and the 'video' alibi. Fits in really nicely with the Dulles spoiler below.

RONALD REAGAN AIROPRT, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, USA
By Beau_20 on Thread #1
Time: About 11 to 11.30am, Friday 8 July 2005
1. Team seen from metro line running out of car.
2. Cameraman spotted.
3. Car marked with yellow and black flag.

Thanks Beau_20! I'll go check up on whatever's nearby. Could it be Crystal City? (Is it even an attraction?)

DULLES, WASHINGTON DC, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, USA
By T2 on TWoP
Time: About 7.45pm, Saturday 9 July 2005
1. Phil checking into United flight.
2. Phil with three 'production-types'.
3. Group lining up for business-class seats.

Would make sense given the above Vietnam Memorial spoiler, and this throws Toronto into the out-of-sync category. Something suspicious is that Phil has mentioned several times that he travels by Economy class. Why the change now?

ALBERTA, CANADA
By Rothschild on Thread #1
Time: In the near future
1. This will be the 51st state!

Little more information is given, so I cannot certify the authenticity of this spoiler. Did you get the information your uncle, who is a White House correspondant's cameraman? Random polls on people in Alberta seem to suggest that not much political activity is going on in plain sight, could that be CBS keeping everything under wraps? Or could this be a decoy? Could it be Nunavut instead?

SOUTH CAROLINA, USA
By The Huntsville Times
Time: Monday 11 July 2005
1. Teams took a bus to Huntsville, Alabama.

This is rather credible information, read on for more of my two cents.

MOUNT PLEASANT, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, USA
By Scwriter on Thread #1
Time: Monday 11 July 2005

Despite the lack of information, this spoiler goes well with the one above. Date fits nicely too.

SPACE CENTER, HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, USA
By The Huntsville Times, reported here by Nomipomi; also by Ripley68 on TWoP; also by the New York Times
Time: Early Morning to Afternoon, Tuesday 12 July 2005
1. Teams arrived on two buses from South Carolina.
2. Teams headed to Huntsville-Madison County Convention & Visitors Bureau, 500 Church St on Tuesday morning from midnight to 4am.
3. 8 to 10 GMC Yukons left the parking lot for the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
4. There were tasks involving the Aviation Challenge centrifuge, running to rocket park and the computer station at the Space Center.
5. The Space Center is possibly the Pitstop.
6. The Huntsville Marriot is the Pitstop hotel.
7. Clueboxes put on display only when necessary.
8. Only one team has been eliminated since the start.
9. There are still eleven teams this time.

After having so many spoilers with minimal information, we finally chance upon a generous one. Two separate spoilers basically saying the same thing, with the Pitstop description, the hotel, and the buses. Newspaper reports have rarely failed us. (I can't recall a time when they have.) I'll reckon this is the most reliable spoiler by far.

TALLADEGA, ALABAMA, USA
By The Huntsville Times, reported here by Nomipomi
Time: Tuesday 12 July 2005
1. Teams arrive from Huntsville.

From the same article as the Huntsville spoiler, so their reliability is linked.

POMP'S PILLAR, BILLINGS, MONTANA, USA
By FlamingCactusIT on Thread #1
Time: Unknown

Too little information to tell, but the locations mentioned (including the two below) are all local attractions, and are in line with the type of places that TPTB would send teams to.

CM RUSSELL ART MUSEUM, GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, USA
By FlamingCactusIT on Thread #1
Time: Unknown

Please read above.

UNDERGROUND MALL, HAVRE, MONTANA, USA
By FlamingCactusIT on Thread #1
Time: Unknown
1. Location has purple squares on sidewalk.

Please read above. Havre seems to be the most famous, if not only, place in Montana with purple squares on the sidewalk. It's for ventilation in a historical underground mall.

BARRO COLORADO, PANAMA
By Antennapedia on TWoP
Time: Saturday 16 to Sunday 17 July 2005
1. Americans spotted in white vans.
2. One team speaks French.
3. Cameras abound.
4. Teams were looking for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's boat dock.

As the racecourse veers south, one wonders why they cut through the entire Eastern coast and skips the entire western half of the United States. It's a second-hand source and descriptions are quite generic, there is a possibility that it's a hoax. Also, the witness sounds like an American ('doing field work'), so he should probably know about the race and how it works. Anyway, the Institute is on Barro Colorado Island, off Colon (where the Panama Canal ends) and not that really far way from Panama City.

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA
By SWALoveField on Airliners.net
Time: Wednesday 20 or Thursday 21 July 2005
1. Phil spotted with female companion.
2. Phil claims he is on vacation.
3. Phil seemed guarded and sly.

Not impossible, given the other locations spoilered in Central America. Costa Rica remains a popular holiday destination for Americans. The excuse sounds real enough, and we do know that Phil travels with Bertram and Elise, who could be the female companion. Timing is also just right.

COSTA RICA
By Amazing_Racer on Metropolis Forums
Time: Unknown
1. Travel agency says teams booked a bus into jungle.
2. Teams did a Roadblock or Detour in the jungle.

Not much weight on this, since it did come after the believable Phil-sighting in Costa Rica. Also, I'm not sure if the travel agency will leak out such information out of the blue. People racers talk to have to sign release papers too, don't they?

BELIZE
By Evening on TWoP
Time: Unknown
1. Producer comments 'they will be here in July'.
2. When asked about Survivor: Guatemala, producer says 'the other one'.

Filming production leaks seem to be the most reliable. That's where I got information for the Singapore leg of TAR3 as well. If it's a personal contact, all the more likely it will happen. However, we don't know if it's another production that will film in Central America in July. However, some credance is added to the spoiler when rumours about the race being halted states racers being held in Belize.

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA
By Bubbles442 on this board; also by ACGuy on Thread #1
Time: Afternoon, Saturday 30 July 2005
1. Crew sighted.
2. Teams rumoured to be around for the weekend.
3. Bubbles442 got some news from his/her supervisors.
4. There are five teams left at this point.
5. A team flew in from Chicago on NW1792, departing 9.00am and arriving in St. Paul at 10.34am, then departing again at 1.32pm and arriving 4.58pm in Montreal.
6. Other teams flew in through Toronto, on AC418 departing 4.00pm, arriving 5.10pm in Montreal. Not much difference there.
7. Flight from Toronto urged to leave on time as "crew was on board".

Fits in great with the Toronto spoiler! And we still have time to catch them in action. The problem: which came first, Montreal or Toronto? Also, ACGuy, are you ACCargo on this page? You seem to posting the exact same things.

QUEEN'S QUAY AND REES ROAD, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
By Romahnator on this board
Time: 11.30am, Saturday 30 July 2005
1. Team escorted by Romahnator to the Toronto Harbourfront to find the schooner Kajama.
2. Crew was around and Bertram appeared later.
3. No other team arrived for the next few hours.
4. CN Tower and Montreal overheard as later destinations.
5. Kids spotted.
6. Kajama cruises were affected by the race.

Strange to see the race pop back so close to where it started. It could mean a circular route though, and it's about time the race wrapped up. It's almost confirmed now, with the detailed descriptions, several sightings and the wonderful picture from BuffaloNY; this could potentially be a Final Five team. Some crazy spitballing, but why does this remind me so much of the fisrt leg of the Fantasy Race I had after TAR4, where the teams visited the Harbourfront, CN Tower and Niagara Falls?

DOWNTOWN, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
By Dave on TARflies
Time: Unknown
1. Teams approached an ice-cream stand.
2. Four girls and a family of four spotted.
3. Teams directed to Boston.

Not too reliable or concrete information, and the Boston clue does not fit well with all the other spoilers we've had so far.

TERRAPIN POINT, NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO, CANADA
By BuffaloNY on this thread; also by DrEmphy on Survivor Sucks
Time: 1.30pm, Saturday 30 or Sunday 31 July 2005
1. Clue box, with photographic evidence, sighted next to Horseshoe Falls.
2. Two teams are neck-and-neck, a third team is behind.
3. Team with two daughters is the last team to arrive.
4. After reading a Route Marker, the last team ran up a steep hill.
5. Cluebox was removed after the last team arrived.

I won't argue with photographs, this one looks really authentic! All the shadows are in the right places, and the dimensions are definitely correct. The hours of operation sign (Opens at 9.00am) do seem out-of-sync with what we have seen before, they usually are more professional-looking. SurvivorSucks posters claim that the sign has always been there. This spoiler pretty much backs the Toronto and Montreal sightings. Dates are all over the place though.

JOSEPH DAVIS STATE PARK, NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK, USA
By DrEmphy on Survivor Sucks
Time: Saturday 30 or Sunday 31 July 2005
1. Crew overheard to be going there.
2. Park heavily barricaded and guarded by cops and guards.

Since this goes with the previous few spoilers, I wouldn't put too much doubt on it yet. It seems logical for the race to head back to the United States to end off. There is a big possibility that this is a decoy, though.

TEAM SPOILERS
Nomipomi has raised the issue about Palpatine on Survivor Sucks claiming to have his son's family on FART (Family: Amazing Race, The). If we see a heavily-tattooed man, that's our guy, according to Palpatine.
1963Mustang suggests there is a team of a white man, woman and two girls in the race in Washington DC. They wore matching orange outfits on that day.
DrEmphy from SurvivorSucks says that the Final Three teams consist of three white families, each with two children. One contains a couple (light-haired woman) and two daughers, one about 17, the other about 12.
Dave of TARflies has seen a normal family of four and a group of four girls.

DISNEYWORLD, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, USA (Out-of-Sync)
By Codeqazplm on Forumsnet
Time: Friday 3 to Wednesday 8 June 2005
1. Teams wet.
2. Backpacks with tags.
3. Team with 'father, mother and two kids'.

Extremely vague information and incoherent with the bulk of the rest of the spoilers. Also, the start of June seems to early for the race with holiday differences in various states.

AIRPORT, DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA, USA (Out-of-Sync)
By Boxsir on Survivor Sucks
Time: Unknown
1. Cover-up people leaking information.

The lack of information on the date and source of information make this spoiler not as reliable as we hope it to be. However, this will link well with the Disneyworld start.

VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (Out-of-Sync)
By BBear on this board
Time: Friday 1 to Sunday 3 July 2005
1. Cluebox spotted on Fan Tan Alley.
2. No cameras nor racers spotted.
3. Cluebox removed within a few hours.

Canada holds a lot of local mini-races, so this may be part of one of them. Although the timing doesn't fit in, anything can happen. There are several attractions in the vicinity of Fan Tan Alley, and no Amazing Race watcher (enough to know about bickering couples and cameramen) will mistake the green box and flag design. Any comments?

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA (Out-of-Sync)
By Zuezueze on TWoP
Time: Night, Thursday 7 July 2005
1. Cluebox on square in downtown Toronto.

This spoiler seems to have been refuted by Bassoon291 on Survivor Sucks, whose e-mail reply from Dundas Square suggested that the filming on July 16 (huh?) was for the Samsung Race for the Torch. Very unlikely now that very reliable spoilers have appeared for Toronto at a later date.

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, USA (Out-of-Sync)
By MisterMcGee on TWoP
Time: Tuesday 12 July 2005
1. Filming was limited to the airport.

Very strange that filming only takes place in the airport. Is it a place for a charter flight, or anything else that can only take place in an airport? Biggest problem with this is that it takes place as teams are supposed to be in Alabama, based on the Huntsville spoiler, and teams took buses from S Carolina there, ruling out a connecting flight.

FERRY TERMINAL, THUNDERBIRD PARK, VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA (Out-of-Sync)
By Desertte on TWoP
Time: Night, Saturday 30 July 2005
1. Woman guarding locked cluebox.
2. Stand was red and yellow.
3. Woman replies to questionning that it is TAR.

This spoiler directly conflicts with the Niagara Falls one, with the flag colours being different. Also, the woman giving the game away so easily isn't in line with what we've had in the past. Plus, how do you combination lock a cluebox? My guess? It's another local race.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA (Out-of-Sync)
By Dave on TARflies
Time: Unknown
1. Teams were directed here from Toronto.

The timing just doesn't fit well. It's almost certain that the teams were in Toronto the weekend of 30th July. If the Toronto part is true, teams will then head to either Montreal or Niagara Falls, and Boston's just a stretch for now.