Amazing Race 19 Pool#1 (Starts Sunday!)

[3 Justin 3]

I've missed the last 3 episodes as I find myself bored as well. I like the show, but it's getting repetitive (it has been 19 seasons though) and there seems to be less 'big #### ups'.

[Komskies]

It seems like the teams are rolling through the challenges too easily. They need to bring back some of the more difficult challenges. I know there were some on previous seasons that teams could spend several hours completing.

[Arsenal14]

There do seem to be a lot of easier challenges this time. There have been a couple of "memorize and repeat this sentence" and a couple of "memorize and repeat this sequence of steps/poses" challenges which aren't interesting to watch. Maybe they felt the needed less physical challenges in order to keep more teams competitive. This season it looks like the snowboarders would likely run away with it if it was more physical while the older couple is staying alive this way (not that they've done poorly on the physical side either).

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by Arsenal14

There do seem to be a lot of easier challenges this time. There have been a couple of "memorize and repeat this sentence" and a couple of "memorize and repeat this sequence of steps/poses" challenges which aren't interesting to watch. Maybe they felt the needed less physical challenges in order to keep more teams competitive. This season it looks like the snowboarders would likely run away with it if it was more physical while the older couple is staying alive this way (not that they've done poorly on the physical side either).

They need some of those "needle in a haystack" type challenges where a team can start it late afternoon and it's pitch dark by the time they finally finish.

[CaptainCrunch]

Or key in a pit of syringes

[CaptainCrunch]

Someone needs to make a reality show based around the Saw movies.

[3 Justin 3]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Someone needs to make a reality show based around the Saw movies.

I would pay to watch that.

[Cheese]

Andy and Tommy make what was really their first mistake and get eliminated just before the final 3....not sure who I want to win it all now. Boring final 3.

[CaptainCrunch]

The one thing that tends to make this show a little more exciting is that one mistake can totally kill you even if you're the best team in the game.

Andy and tommy literally made one mistake and looked incredibly stupid doing it.

That would burn me for a lot of years.

[d_phaneuf]

They were filming this in Vancouver yesterday, people were spotted on the Canada line going from the airport to downtown

kinda cool

[getbak]

Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf

They were filming this in Vancouver yesterday, people were spotted on the Canada line going from the airport to downtown

kinda cool

Probably the final (or second to last) leg of the next race (or possibly the first leg, but I wouldn't think they'd be shooting over Christmas, and a race takes about a month to shoot).

It's about time they came back to Canada. I believe the only time they've had a leg in Canada was when they came to Calgary in Race #5 (I think they went to Niagara Falls during the crappy family edition, but that doesn't count), and the next race will be #20.

[D to the iddy]

What really sucks for Andy and Tommy is that other teams were going to make the same mistake that they did, but got lucky when all the cabbies talked it out and brought all three teams to the pit stop together. But that's why TAR is fun to watch, part of it is based solely on luck.

[Aegypticus]

Originally Posted by D to the iddy

What really sucks for Andy and Tommy is that other teams were going to make the same mistake that they did, but got lucky when all the cabbies talked it out and brought all three teams to the pit stop together. But that's why TAR is fun to watch, part of it is based solely on luck.

Does that make it fun? I was watching every week for the first time this season and that disgusted me so badly I might never watch again. Not coincidentally, this is the first time I've watched since that team actually got a plane to return to the gate for them. That kind of bull#### just turns me off the show entirely.

[Otsy]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

The one thing that tends to make this show a little more exciting is that one mistake can totally kill you even if you're the best team in the game.

Andy and tommy literally made one mistake and looked incredibly stupid doing it.

That would burn me for a lot of years.

Maybe the 4 or 5 trips, cash and mustangs they won will help ease the pain........

[d_phaneuf]

Originally Posted by Otsy

Maybe the 4 or 5 trips, cash and mustangs they won will help ease the pain........

plus the invitation next time there is an all-stars

[Cheese]

Final Race is on tonite....

Marcus and Amani, Jeremy and Sandy and Ernie and Cindy left.

diane_phaneuf, Halifax Drunk, Aeneas, Regulator75(favorite) and 3 Justin 3 are left from our pool.
Regulator is still standing with both picks which makes him odds on favorite to win it all.

[Bigtime]

Just caught up on the last two episodes, of the final 3 I will root for the comeback kids. They have made a lot of mistakes, but never take it out on each other and they race hard.

The avgeek in me can't wait to see the flight simulator portion!

[Cheese]

A lackluster season...a boring finale....hope the next season is much better.

[CaptainCrunch]

I love the concept of Amazing race, but that had to be the worst season ever, there was just nothing to it, and for the most part of the character held no interest. The Challenges were too east.

Not to sound racist but they should have made the Chinese girl drive the plane, she would have landed at 10kmh with the left blinker going.

[Cheese]

and...Regulator75 wins the pool having both the 1st and 2nd place winners left....

good job, cheque is in the mail.