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"Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 05-13-16 at 08:22 PM
LAST EDITED ON 05-14-16 AT 09:22 PM (EST)

Fly to US, then you go to a tall building and do a running jump to get the tag containing the clue of where to go next.

First team gets on their first try, the next two teams do not make it and have to retry.

The clue is moved a little closer letting the second team make it on the second try.

But the third team needs three tries to get it.

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"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 05-13-16 at 08:24 PM
Teams must find a particular boat in a large marina museum, and get their next clue.
"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by LTLer on 05-13-16 at 08:28 PM
That task was a little scary. Surprised they did it is so few tries. Hope the last two teams have trouble finding the boat.
"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 05-13-16 at 08:33 PM
I think I could do it if did not wait around and just made the run, if I spent too much time thinking I would chicken out.
"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 05-13-16 at 08:28 PM
Team in the lead finds their boat and the clue, but they did not tell their taxi to stay. So they are losing their lead time as they try to find one.

Meanwhile, the second team is almost at the marina in their taxi, I wonder if that is the one the lead team takes.

"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by LTLer on 05-13-16 at 08:53 PM
Good ending. Wasn't too fond on them at times, her especially, but they did well at the end.
"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 05-13-16 at 08:37 PM
Teams at Gibraltar Rock, one team member travels a zipline to get half a clue, the other team member must repel down and up the rock face for the second half.
"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 05-13-16 at 08:41 PM
Boy, the website is slow today, I am always behind on my postings.

Team in the lead is going to a winery, second team is having problems pull the member on the cliff up.

Thirsd team has just arrived.

"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 05-13-16 at 08:48 PM
At the winery, to have to get the hashtags to spell on the barrels all the cities they had gone to.
"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 05-13-16 at 08:50 PM
Team member yells at the taxi driver to drive past the slow car in-front of them.

First, team finishes that cities correctly and is running for the pit-stop. But they are not sure where to go.

"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 05-13-16 at 09:12 PM
First team wins!

Other teams are quite a time behind.

"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by featherfish81 on 05-13-16 at 11:31 PM
Yeah, the time to reset from that first task must have been really long. The second and third teams certainly weren't perfect, but it looked like they were making up time at each task, and they still hadn't even arrived to the last task before the first team finished.

While there have been a few seasons where the first team was passed, it seems like it happens a lot that the first team out of the first task ends up winning it. I wish there were more opportunities to catch up.

"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by Earl Colby Pottinger on 05-14-16 at 09:25 PM
I thought is was a short race in terms of tasks to be done.

There should have been more tasks closer together to increase the chances that someone could pass the first team.

On the other-hand I did really like the first task, the fact that the first team got in just one try was not expected especially after you saw the trouble it caused the other teams.

"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by featherfish81 on 06-02-16 at 04:14 PM
Yes, I did enjoy the first task, and the fact that there was a goal and not just a jump, which we'd already had at least twice this season (including the water slide). Like I said, I just wish that there had been more of an opportunity for other teams to catch up. More tasks, or longer tasks, would have helped.

I also like final tasks that are a little more complicated than just memorize stuff from the race. At first that worked, but now teams expect it. And when you have a social media theme, figuring out that the hashtags would be important wasn't difficult.

"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by kingfish on 05-17-16 at 08:59 AM
At the end I was rooting for the Mom and her son, even though the son was a bit over the top and hard to take.
"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by featherfish81 on 06-02-16 at 04:15 PM
He was hard to take, and yet kind of endearing as well. I just kept reminding myself that he was young and that helped.
"RE: Amazing Race May 13 Final leg"
Posted by kidflash212 on 07-10-16 at 03:44 PM
Hated this finale. A complete bore. Race was won in first fifteen minutes.