The Amazing Race

[imjustagirl]

I had NO idea it started tonight. Globetrotters!

 

[txsportsscribe]

when did bitchiness become one of the categories for the miss america pageant?

 

[imjustagirl]

I love that the lying poker players were called on it within like 20 minutes. :D

 

[sportsguydave]

Unfortunately, the lying poker players advance. :(

 

[zebracoy]

Part of me figured the yoga folks would be the first ones out, because you would have to probably base some of the commercials on them, right?

I'm surprised they didn't spend that much time in Japan, and not at all surprised they went to Vietnam. I bet India's on the itinerary as well. They love throwing people out of their element down there.

 

[schiezainc]

I liked the first episode, though there aren't many teams I'm rooting for right now.

I like the Globetrotter guys and think Zev has a chance to be a real good story but, other than that, I'm not too invested with these other dudes and dudettes yet.

Oh and the poker players are F-N annoying. Can't wait for them to get booted out.

One last note: Anyone else think the whole 'eliminated before the first leg' thing sucked? I like Survivor and TAR more when it seems the shows stay completely out of the way of who wins and loses. This felt cheap and I felt really bad for the first couple knocked out. All because they couldn't find a license plate? Really?

 

[bigpern23]

This is one reality show I would LOVE to be on (OK, I'd go on Survivor, too, but I think that show would be so much cooler if they actually had to hunt and/or gather their own food for real ... none of these food challenges every damn week).

My friend and I made a tape and sent it in a few years ago. I'm still awaiting in their call. :D

 

[BNWriter]

I thought eliminating a team before even leaving the starting point was an interesting twist.

 

[zebracoy]

I thought eliminating a team before even leaving the starting point was an interesting twist.

It kind of reminds me of when they eliminated the two devout Muslim folks in like, say, the fifth season, midway through the first leg.

They were pissed, as they probably should have been. But I really wanted to see how they would have gone about praying five times a day in the middle of the race as they said they would have.

 

[CUinthenewsroom]

Good first episode. Hard not to root for Zev, he's awesome.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I thought eliminating a team before even leaving the starting point was an interesting twist.

It was cool that a competition determined it, unlike the couple times they've done it on Survivor when it's been almost completely random.

 

[WriteThinking]

Unfortunately, the lying poker players advance. :(

Yeah, I'm sure homeless people everywhere would appreciate those highly successful girls who "make a lot of money" at what they do invoking them in the lie to make it sound like they're noble and doing something special on behalf of the homeless.

Makes me sick when/that people do things like that in the name of their own desire to win a million bucks for themselves, not to help anybody else.

 

[baskethead]

My 2-year-old son took one look at the yoga couple and said, "Two ladies."

 

[WriteThinking]

I thought eliminating a team before even leaving the starting point was an interesting twist.

I didn't think doing that really added anything much to the show, and I didn't like that they actually eliminated a team right off. In that case, it's like, what was the point of even bring them out there?

I would have rather seen the lost-out team get saddled with a task that only they had to perform on the first leg, a la the team that finishes last in a non-elimination week.

What I did like about that immediate first challenge, though, was the appropriateness of the message in it.

It was a last, devastatingly effective (I hope) reminder to the competitors to fully read, and pay attention to, the clues. We'll see if they take heed and do it, from here on out.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Unfortunately, the lying poker players advance. :(

Yeah, I'm sure homeless people everywhere would appreciate those highly successful girls who "make a lot of money" at what they do invoking them in the lie to make it sound like they're noble and doing something special on behalf of the homeless.

While they've both done well in the WSOP ME, they don't "make a lot of money" as they claimed.

After all, they're trying to split $1m by winning and it'll take them damn near a month to win it. If they were making "a lot of money" at the tables, they couldn't (and wouldn't) want to be away from the cards that long.

Sure, the TV exposure might help their endorsements. But when doing the ROI, a good professional poker player doesn't leave the game for a month.

 

[Peytons place]

So far Zev and his partner are my early faves. They're funny together and seem like a good team.

 

[bumpy mcgee]

Zev seems like a cool guy, will be interesting to see if the Trotters get any benefit overseas.
I too did not like the poker players.
I also don't like the "two hour penalty" that occurs before that days leg begins.
There's no point in having someone start two hours later due to travel delays and opening delays, put it at the end of the leg.
Also, what's a street lawyer and does TRA test for HGH?

 

[Dyno]

I like the Globetrotters. They're calm and having fun. Miss America's white thong was showing when she was herding the ducks. I think the pageant people would frown on that.

 

[DanOregon]

Only Jay Mariotti could root against the Globetrotters.
Funny how each team feels they have to have a "special attribute" that will make them successful - whether it's faith, attitude or physical skill - seems an ability to communicate isn't one of them.

 

[MTM]

Zev seems like a cool guy, will be interesting to see if the Trotters get any benefit overseas.
I too did not like the poker players.
I also don't like the "two hour penalty" that occurs before that days leg begins.
There's no point in having someone start two hours later due to travel delays and opening delays, put it at the end of the leg.
Also, what's a street lawyer and does TRA test for HGH?

I was wondering how the poker players served a two-hour penalty, but still arrived at the airport ticket window at the same time as two other teams.
And their speed bump was ridiculous. It cost them all of about two minutes.