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I think their logic was sound. They had to use it on this leg, so it was really a decision to use it on the Roadblock or the Detour.

Without knowing what's to come, it does make sense to use it on the Roadblock for a couple of reasons.

With a Roadblock, only one person can do the task, so it puts extra pressure on that person. If the person doing it struggles, there's nothing the other partner can do to help. We've seen it in the past where a person is missing an important step and the partner knows what is wrong, but can't tell their partner what they need to do to fix it.

If something goes wrong on the Detour, they can both take equal blame for it. Also, if one partner starts to melt-down, the other partner can talk to them to try to calm them down.


Also, there is a requirement to keep the number of Roadblocks each teammate performs balanced, which can become important at the end of the race if one person has reached the maximum. By skipping this Roadblock, it allows Corey to do the Roadblock on each of the remaining legs if they're physical tasks.


Keep in mind that they were the last team to arrive at the Roadblock and Anna Leigh was already mostly done putting the greenery on her wreath before Rob & Corey had even read the clue. While it didn't give them a huge lead, it did significantly improve their position.

Their real mistake on this leg was leaving the Opera House and running around trying to find a different entrance. If they hadn't messed that up, they would have likely been on the subway before Steve & Anna Leigh even got to the Opera House and Steve & Anna Leigh would have taken that bus the wrong way and who knows what would have happened.