Thanks for your views CTgirl. That's a nice thought about why the Back Bus Alliance was created. My view was that the first bus had the real competitors and some in the back bus felt overmatched. David and Mary might have suggested it, the male and female teams of cheerleaders may have sealed it. Will it affect the outcome? I think it already has. If Duke and Lauren had been in the alliance, someone would have called out to them while going throught the maze, not left them alone. At this stage of the game, being alone is the worse thing. Stay with the group and beat one team in the end. A team alone against a group of 3 or four teams is faced with 2 outcomes: Finishing first or last since the group will come in close together. The reward for first in these legs does not compensate the penalty for last!

I've been asked why the visual of Peter and Sarah is an editing killer. To explain briefly, if they were to win, I think that first, Peter's audio would have been cut off and then the camera would have been up close on Sarah's effort. That way, we would simply cheer at her determination not jeer at Peter. What we saw was agony. That leaves them 2 words short of elimination.