From Sri Lanka to Laos to start off this episode of The Amazing Race with all teams on the same flight. Ann-Marie and Riley are the first to arrive at the detour with two choices. Something To Taste which has teams collecting ingredients and preparing food to be approved. Nothing To Waste which has teams collecting crates of bottles and transferring them to another location to load to get a clue. Most teams go for the crates. Matt & Michelle and Anuar & Andrea both decide to go for the food. This leg of the race starts in full chaos for Matt and Michelle as they can’t find the start to even get going on this detour. They are getting help from locals who they say were very helpful in wanting to help them but the communication barrier was making it a struggle. Matt and Michelle decide to ultimately switch detours and go for the crates. Speaking of the crates, Conner and Garrett complete that in first place. They figured out the pattern right away comparing it to stacking Legos. The rest of the teams are shocked when they see Matt and Michelle arrive showing that they are now behind all the other teams. Ann-Marie and Riley are second finishing the crates followed by Erin and Javi in third. Daisha and Dalton have a setback when they realize that they have been doing the crates wrong and not locking them in place. They basically have to start their whole stack over giving Matt and Michelle some breathing room to make up some ground next to them. Here comes the big twist of the episode as the Double U-Turn makes another appearance. Erin and Javi arrive at it first followed immediately by Ann-Marie and Riley. Erin and Javi double U-Turn Matt and Michelle. Ann-Marie and Riley double U-Turn Daisha and Dalton which is a full repeat of the last double U-Turn. Ali and Joanna complete the crates and we go over to the food detour with Anuar and Andrea talking of how they are the only ones doing this task making them nervous cause they have no idea how they are doing compared to the other teams. Daisha and Dalton rebuild and finish the crates. They run to the Double U-Turn seeing they’re one of the teams. They see that Matt and Michelle are the other team and say to not tell them if they see them. Ali and Joanna are happy surprised that they weren’t one of the teams chosen for the U-Turn. Matt and Michelle arrive and see the results of the U-Turn. This puts them back in the bad spot that they were in to begin with as they weren’t able to find the start of the food to begin. They switched to the crates as a result and now they’re back to having to solve this again. Daisha and Dalton arrive at the cooking where they see Anuar and Andrea telling them the story of the U-Turn. They help Daisha and Dalton with giving them a head start on the things they had done to help themselves with gathering recipes so it would help eliminate Matt and Michelle. Matt and Michelle arrive at the market where Daisha and Dalton are but they still can’t find the starting point of where this task begins. Anuar and Andrea finish their cooking and are now running 5th place. Matt and Michelle arrive just as Anuar and Andrea are leaving. Up at the front of the group, Ann-Marie and Riley arrive at the route info where they learn they will have to learn a kickboxing style choreography fight and perform it correctly. Erin and Javi leave the route info in first place as they do their fight performance on the first attempt while it takes Ann-Marie and Riley two attempts. Daisha and Dalton finish the cooking and are on their way to kickboxing. Conner and Garrett have a blast doing the kickboxing and are in full power completing it leaving in 3rd place. Ali and Joanna finish behind them. Daisha and Dalton complete theirs on the first attempt. This gets us to the Road Block. One person from each team will have to count buddha statues in rows on multiple walls. They can’t take notes doing math. They have to count in thier head and then tell a count for final approval. There are 582. Riley and Javi decide to work together and take turns trying to get the number right. Riley ends up getting 582 and she tells Javi the answer with the promise of if I tell you, you let her and Ann-Marie finish first at the mat to which Javi agrees. They both complete the task. Andrea, Joanna, and Conner are there after that and decide to work together. Daisha and Dalton arrive and Daisha is going to do it for them. The question turns to do the other three help Daisha or do they let her figure it out on her own. Funny moment when she’s asking questions while the others are counting which you know messes you up when you’re counting something. LOL. They all decide to bring Daisha into the group and work with her with the common ground of let’s eliminate Matt and Michelle. Back at the front, Ann-Marie and Riley do finish first at the pit stop for this leg of the race with Erin and Javi right behind them. Back to the counting, Conner gets the number right and all the teams leave heading for the pit stop. They’re all gone before Matt and Michelle arrive to do their counting. All four of the teams arrive at the pit stop excited knowing that they have taken out Matt and Michelle. Michelle is the one doing the counting by herself and I thought it was mighty impressive that she got it right on the third attempt doing that solo. They do arrive at the pit stop in last place eliminating them from the race. As the episode went along, it did feel like they would be the teams going home cause their interviews for this leg of the race were full gloom and doom sounding. No energy in their interviews which made me think it was probably them. The Double U-Turn takes them out on this round.
Standings after this leg of the race.
1 – Ann-Marie and Riley
2 – Erin and Javi
3 – Conner and Garrett
4 – Daisha and Dalton
5 – Ali and Joanna
6 – Anuar and Andrea
7 – Matt and Michelle (Eliminated)
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