I've released my Amazing Race Responsibilities due to personal obligations. Good news though, a fellow examiner, Robin Gormish, has taken up this position and can be visited by clicking right here!
The first 6 stops for #TAR15 (Photo: CBS)
The exciting 2 hour premier of The Amazing Race on CBS was last night bringing two eliminations to elimination station! To begin the show each team had small segments giving the audience a brief background of them. As mentioned previously the crew is very diverse and these segments brought up some interesting bits of information. But the real meat of the matter was the start of the race in which Phil warned the contestants that one team would have a very short Amazing Race experience for when they ran down to their bags and recieved their first clue, they were immediately put into their first challenge.
Eric and Lisa reading the first clue (Photo: CBS)
The first challenge began within seconds of the contestants beginning the race! What they were to do was find a license plate on a wall of plates which was from the Shinagawa ward in Tokyo, Japan. This was to be the first pit stop. Unfortunately for one unlucky team, there would only be enough correct plates to give 11 of the 12 starting teams a chance to continue on with the Amazing Race. The clue had the Japanese symbol at the top of the card but most of the teams failed to recognize this until they had incorrectly brought Phil different plates. Eventually there was only two teams left, Eric and Lisa, and Lance and Keri. Of these teams, Eric and Lisa were the first team eliminated from the race this season. The couple was embarrassed and humiliated but had some zen words to leave in the end saying how they had to be eliminated to set the others free.
Mike struggles with wasaabi bomb (Photo: CBS)
The first team out was Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle but once to Tokyo they got in a small spat each girl trying to fill the dominant role. In Tokyo teams had to work their way to the base of the Tokyo tower which awaited them none other then the Japanese Game Show! There the teams each had to down a huge wasabi bomb which was just a handful of rice surrounding a tone of wasabi. This was tough and an extremely good time watching! If you missed this episode you will certainly want to find some clips of this part! The teams eventually struggle through with Maria having to eat two bombs one after the other which she did and from there the teams had to venture on to the Hachimangu Shrine bringing along 20 locals with them. This proved to be a tough task for the girls who lost some of their locals along the way finally arriving to the pit stop without their full group. Lucky for them this was a non elimination stop!
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