The Amazing Race: Season 22

[Pappy Knuckles]

New season premieres tonight. I haven't read anything about this years cast, but I'm looking forward to it.

[SPTO]

Not really a spoiler because they've been advertising it but apparently.

Spoiler

3 teams quit on the first episode!

My GF is an avid watcher of the show so i'll be following along that way.

[ex carrabba fan]

Will be watching for sure after the All-Star game

[~LiverpoolRed~]

Just watched the premiere. Scratching my head at the firefighters who were first eliminated. Now they already knew they were in last place after they fell off their boat a few times. The two teams ahead of them were taking the 4 hour penalty. Why didn't they go back and try the sandcastles again? Surely they could have found the clue within 4 hours after already spending 3 there. They would know what area of sandcastles to avoid.

[Pappy Knuckles]

Quote: Originally Posted by ~LiverpoolRed~

Just watched the premiere. Scratching my head at the firefighters who were first eliminated. Now they already knew they were in last place after they fell off their boat a few times. The two teams ahead of them were taking the 4 hour penalty. Why didn't they go back and try the sandcastles again? Surely they could have found the clue within 4 hours after already spending 3 there. They would know what area of sandcastles to avoid.

I assumed that once you take the penalty that there's no going back to the last challenge. I could be wrong though. If that's not the case, I guess they were respecting the pact with the other team they made to take the penalty. It would've been smart for them to go back, but also kind of weak to me. If I was playing I probably would've just taken it as an L too.

[AUChase]

I forgot all about it.. do they do next day showings on Hulu+ or just the old episodes ?

[ex carrabba fan]

Jeez, what a good start compared to last season. That sandcastle challenge was so simple yet awesomely challenging. The canoe also wasn't as easy as it looked.

I was wondering the same thing about the firemen going back to the sandcastles, but since the other two teams reached the checkpoint first wouldn't that automatically eliminate the firemen? I was confused about that.

So far I haven't been too influenced to root for a team in particular...

[shugknight]

I thought the same thing, but then Phil tells the 2 teams that took the penalty "I understand that the 3rd team also took a penalty" which to me kind of interpreted that if they went back and found a clue, it wouldn't have technically been a penalty since they still completed the challenge.

And yes that sandcastle challenge was pretty well thought out. I wouldn't have thought that it'd be that hard, but I guess 3 hours under a hot sun can get to you.

I was scratching my head to one of the teams that said "I was going back to the sand castles the other teams went through in case they didn't dig deep enough" WTF? lol

My favorite would be the father and son duo.. just because they seem to be the only sane ones there. Surfer couple are really annoying as is the youtube team and the husband/wife team that took the penalty. Something about them annoys me.

Hockey players are funny..

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People say we sometimes finish each others...

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Sandwiches...

LOL