After racing in 23 cities on five continents, Kisha and Jennifer Hoffman won the $1 million grand prize on “The Amazing Race: Unfinished” season finale Sunday after biking seven miles to the Florida finish line. The win definitely made up for the team’s fourth place finish in season 14, which occurred because Jen needed to use the restroom right before the Pit Stop.
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The team was overjoyed by the win and immediately thought of all they could give back to their mother thanks to the prize money.
Kisha and Jen are the second all-female team to win “The Amazing Race.”
Check back later in the week for my interviews with the final four teams …
Rio de Janeiro and Florida Keys
In the final leg of “Unfinished Business,” the teams traveled from Rio de Janeiro to Miami, Fla. The teams departed at separate times but all left Rio on the same flight.
Once in Miami, the teams traveled to a local marina, where one person on each team had to place a boat in dry dock using a giant forklift. Gary and Mallory quickly fell behind when they got stuck with a cab driver who didn’t know where he was going. He spent a lot of time searching his phone for directions, be viewers never saw him call another person for help, which was incredibly frustrating for the team. Later, the cab driver had trouble finding another location, but the team never changed cab drivers.
The final Road Block took place under the water. At Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, one person from each team donned scuba gear and used an underwater scooter to find a clue buried in a treasure chest in the water. Kisha and Jen were in first place after completing the challenge, but Flight Time and Big Easy were not far behind; Gary and Mallory had just finished the first challenge.
A third challenge had the teams creating “the ultimate Florida trailerhood” at a trailer park in town. The challenge consisted of the teams setting up their trailer lot to match the photo of a trailer lot they were given with the clue. This was much tougher than the teams anticipated, as their trailer layouts had to be a PERFECT match. Also, the wind was less than corporative; but, hey, what do you expect from Florida weather?
To get to the finish line first, Kisha and Jen and Flight Time and Big Easy biked neck-and-neck across the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys.
Final results
- Kisha and Jen
- Flight Time and Big Easy
- Gary and Mallory
- Zev and Justin – ELIMINATED
- Kent and Vyxsin – ELIMINATED
- Jet and Cord – ELIMINATED
- Ron and Christina – ELIMINATED/ Interview: Ron says wrong street threw him for a loop, cost team time
- Margie and Luke – ELIMINATED/ Interview: Luke Adams says ‘Unfinished Business’ in his last race
- Jaime and Cara – ELIMINATED/ Interview: Jaime and Cara understand Kent and Vyxsin U-turning them
- Mel and Mike – ELIMINATED
- Amanda and Kris – ELIMINATED
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