In a strange turn of events, I recently found a blog written by one half of the winners of Season 14 of the Amazing Race. Victor Jih! After the broadcast of the first episode, he gives a recap blog post on People.com. Awesome I say. I just wish I had found this blog while I was watching.
In hindsight, I think Victor was Kat's good luck charm. Victor and Tammy were the first Asians to become winners on The Amazing Race and than Kat follows it up with a win last week.
Amazing I say. Victor also predicts an all girl team will make the difference. From Victor's top 4 picks, three of them made it to the finals. Victor also rips Michael and KevJumba. Where I had hope, Victor already predicted the worst. You can see his recap of the first leg and the final leg.
I caught the full episode of Amazing Race Season 14, Leg 12, the finale. In Leg 12, the teams continued to Maui with 3 main challenges.
The first challenge was a swine roast luau task. They had to season a pig, carry it via a bamboo rod to the luau location, and cover it properly. Tammy and Victor got there first but were overtaken and finished the task second. The inability to carry the pig on their shoulders caused them the greatest time delay. I feel sorry for the people that have to eat that pig.
The second challenge was a water craft trip to a 100 buoy location to find a clue. They got there second, but finished the task last.
The third challenge was to rummage through a pile of 300 surfboards to find pictures of there 11 previous legs. On the way there, Tammy and Victor got stuck behind a slow car. Probably costing them a few minutes. But they got there second. Victor took the road block and had to dig through the surfboards to find 11 pictures. The pictures had to represent one of the activities of each leg. Due to the inability of the other 2 teams to get their last clue, Victor was able get all 11 and finish first.
In the end, Tammy and Victor became victorious at the end when the other two teams had trouble with the surfboards.
Reunion of all the pairs for Season 14.
I started watching Season 14 with Leg 6. I started again with Leg 9 and finished the rest of the season. Because of Tammy and Victor, I continued to watch and cheered them on. Congratulations to Tammy and Victor for representing the Asian American and Chinese speaking American community. And also for winning a million dollars!
I wish I had seen the Thailand episodes. I may end up watching them online one of these days (unlikely). Maybe future seasons will present a compelling pair like Tammy and Victor and locations I am interested in for me to watch again.
I actually caught the full episode of Amazing Race Season 14, Leg 11. In Leg 11, the teams continued competing in Beijing with 2 main challenges.
The first challenge was between dressing up in Chinese Opera make-up and cloths or to take orders at an restaurant. The second challenge was to eat some "Chinese" delicacies. Those delicacies include, grasshopper, larva, scorpion, and starfish.
Spoiler here, Tammy and Victor came in first after they found the bikes first. They had good command of Mandarin Chinese that made getting from place to place easier.
It was nice to see Beijing in the background. I've been to Beijing once in 2000 as part of a 3 week "Super Vaction" tour of China. We spent 4.5 days in Beijing and saw the most things there.
I hope to make it back to Beijing one of these days. Hopefully, my dad will be able to show me around this time.
Tammy and Victor's Chinese did shine again in this leg. But they didn't shine during the challenges. The challenge I started on was finding the foot massage parlor which they came in 3rd. And the last challenge of syncro diving or 400 meter relay. They came in 3rd too.
But there's a twist! No one was eliminated. Hopefully, Victor's leg cramps won't prevent him from running. Eat some bananas!
Looks like Leg 11 is again in China. But it doesn't mention the city, but the task looks like getting dressed up in Classic Chinese Opera gear and looking for stuff.
Drama too! However, the drama was barely on Tammy and Victor. Good Luck.
I've caught about 3 of the 9 episodes for Amazing Race Season 14 so far. I've enjoyed it so far because of Tammy and Victor. The sibling pair are Chinese American and in episode 9, let there Mandarin Chinese shine. Both are ABCs and proud to be Chinese American. I am hoping I can get my two daughters to speak conversationally in Mandarin Chinese when they get older.
For Leg 9, they landed in Guilin, China. When I saw they were headed to Guilin, it brought back fond memories of my 2 rain soaked days there on a "Super Vacation" tour back in June 2000. My father also happened to be born there as well.
Tammy and Victor basically carried the other 2 tag along teams this week. Leg 10 is going to have them trek to Beijing. Victor also happened to be at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Hope they do well and come out on top. Of the remaining 4 teams, Asian or not, I think they've shown the best attitude and respect for the other teams.
