LAST EDITED ON 02-12-12 AT 05:49 PM (EST)

Since there is no spoiling going on here, I thought I'd go snoop over at Sucks and see what has turned up so far.

- The biggest news is that Brendon/Rachel make it to Hawaii (final leg)

A poster there (van slyker) also writes that
- Dave/Rachel make it to Japan (leg 11)
- Mark/Bopper make it to Italy (leg 5)
- Nary/Jaime make it to Buenos Aries (leg 2)

-They think Joey/Danny OR Art/JJ make it to Hawaii (final leg)
-They think Eliot/Andrew make it to Paraguay (leg 3)
-They think Vanessa/Ralph make it to Paraguay (leg 3)

Assuming a team gets eliminated in the first leg, they say it has to be either Dave/Cherie, Misa/Maiya, Keri/Stacey, Art/JJ or Joey/Danny (depending which M/M made it to Hawaii).

Another poster (Sterry0) added:
Brendon Villegas & Rachel Reilly > Hawaii final 3
Danny H & Joey LaSalla > Hawaii final 3
Dave & Rachel Brown > Osaka 11
Andrew & Elliott Weber > Azerbaïdjan 10
Dave & Cherie Gregg > Azerbaïdjan 10
Art Velez & .J. Carrell > Azerbaïdjan 10
Bopper Minton & Mark Jackson > Italy 5
Ralph Kelley & Vanessa Macias > Paraguay 3
Jamie Graetz & Nareman Ebeid > BuenosAries 2

Maiya & Misa Tanaka > Unknown
Kerri Paul & Stacy Bowers > Unknown

• RE: State of the Spoiling,Estee, 09:00 PM, 02-12-12
  • RE: State of the Spoiling,AyaK, 04:28 PM, 02-13-12
• RE: State of the Spoiling,KwietOne, 02:17 AM, 02-20-12
  • RE: State of the Spoiling,Max Headroom, 08:56 AM, 02-20-12
• RE: State of the Spoiling,weltek, 02:26 PM, 02-27-12
  • RE: State of the Spoiling,PepeLePew13, 06:41 PM, 02-27-12
    • RE: State of the Spoiling,michel, 07:44 PM, 02-27-12

I've been paying attention to the mapping of the course -- at this point, the overall route is known, at least as far as countries involved (if not every possible city) -- but compared to other seasons, people are having a tremendous amount of trouble pinning down the teams. You say Rachel & Brendon made F3: I'll say they made it far enough to at least be a decoy pairing and everything else we have to determine as it's broadcast. The show seems to have done a very good job at keeping the majority of Pit Stops out of public sight...

I'm not claiming Neurosis Junction didn't make the finals: I just think the use of extra runners complicates things in the last stages. They were out there long enough to potentially be used as false targets -- that's all we've solidly got.

Estee, you're exactly right. TAR has become much better in just a couple of seasons about hiding their activities outside of the U.S. and hiding their boots.

It was just four editions ago that we knew for certain who the final three teams were before the race started. Each edition since then has become significantly harder to spoil.

Off the RFF website, there's a twitpic in Hawaii with Dave/Rachel & Brenchel, rappelling off a building.

From CBS' website, it does mention legs in Germany and Tanzania.

The yellowish castle shown early in the previews looked like Hohenschwangau, lesser known than the nearby Neuschwanstein (the castle that Disney's Cinderella's castle was patterned from). Based on this, I suspect the teams have a leg in Bavaria (southern Germany).

I have a "Rachel/Dave" win from the rumor mill at my sister's workplace (a health club where they are/were? members) from a few weeks ago. But yeah, we know the couple can't disclose, and my sister is disinterested enough to not press for details. *shrug* not enven really worth sharing, but the outcome the first two episodes have certainly made this look plausible.

-Handcrafted by RollDdice

Then again, the original post also had the clowns lasting until episode 10, so take what you will from these posters quoted in Michel's post.

One poster had the clowns as an early boot, possibly the first boot so that one is still viable.