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The Amazing Racedown 2

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Team #1: Brook & Claire

Seven-and-a-half months, fifty-three rounds, and over twenty-eight hundred comments... Brook & Claire, you are the official winners of The Amazing Racedown!!!

u/AMeanMotorScooter:

“Brooke and I met working for… a national home shopping network.”

“I feel that our job has prepared us for the race, because we’re such great communicators, and we can manipulate and we can get what we want.”

“Brooke and I can sell ice to an eskimo.”

Man, that opening really sets them up to be villains, doesn’t it? Luckily the only manipulating they do is the manipulation of our hearts.

A comic relief team, Brooke and Claire are rather centre stage for the season, and actually perform quite well in it. While Andrew and Dan bumble their way through the season, and Oswald and Danny are shown to get through a race with as little work as possible, Brooke and Claire are shown to be surprisingly tough and resilient, and I think it makes them the most rootable of similar quality comedic teams.

There’s also a nice contrast to their personalities. Claire is the relaxed one, even when getting a watermelon catapulted into her face, while Brooke is bouncing off the walls excited for almost the entire duration of the race. I always love when teams have that distinction between them, and this team has it.

The problem is the same one as Andrew and Dan; because they’re set up as comic relief, there’s no major arc. The aforementioned resiliency is what puts them above Andrew and Dan for me though at 8th overall. What I would give for the team with patented “Brooke and Claire flair” to be the first F/F winners…

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Team #2: Colin & Christie

Colin & Christie, you are team number two! Congratulations!

u/AMeanMotorScooter:

“I think that Colin and I are two very stubborn… very aggressive leaders who are used to being in control.”

“I’m just a very intense person, and I think I could possibly be the most intense person that’s ever run this race.”

This is the highest (3rd) ranking team I have that is very expressly meant to be the villains of their season. And as villains, Colin and Christie just knock it out of the park.

They begin the season rather quietly, but as the show goes on they become more and more important until their bond and rivalry with Chip and Kim is the main driver of the season. Neither Colin nor Christie are rootable or even that likable on the show, and are pretty fearsome in how strong they are, making them a terrifying presence throughout the show.

And while it’s Chip’s U-Turn of them that sets off their spectacular downfall, it’s them not being able to accept it and keep a calm head that ultimately kills them in the race. It’s poetic justice for them. They also have many memorable moments and lines, particularly from Colin, and it all just makes them so fun to dislike through the season, and allows us to look back fondly at them like this.

u/PaleGummyBear:

These two have a lot of really good moments but I think the part that stands out to me is that they were SO into the Race. How much so? According to Jonathan of Jon and Victoria, the C&C Music Factory got to Egypt ahead of production. They were that on top of things. The footage you see in Egypt of the pair initially only from their cameraman. Apparently someone had to call and find a local fixer to get the sign up at the pyramid. The passion with which these two (and Colin in particular) play is inspiring and amazing to watch. And while I like Brook and Claire better as people, these two are by far the best overall package of personality and skill to ever have Raced.

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Team #3: Uchenna & Joyce

Uchenna & Joyce, you are team number three! Congratulations!

u/AMeanMotorScooter:

“Uchenna and I tried having a baby… and it didn’t work.”

“We’ve had two unsuccessful attempts in vitro. We’ve been laid off from several major corporations… and, uh, the financial burden has been enormous. We’re looking to the race to respark our relationship and really make a team of us again.”

“Hopefully, when we win the money, we can have the baby back we dream of having.”

It is so rare in TAR for the winning team to both be likable characters, and have a clear and strong story, yet Uchenna and Joyce manage it. It’s interesting that just two seasons after a cocky, villainous couple team is defeated by a married African-American team that the specific scenario would repeat again. And while I prefer the TAR5 version of the story, the problem for TAR7 more lies in the villains rather than Uchenna and Joyce, who I quite prefer over Chip and Kim.

While Ernie and Cindy remain my favorite winners, there’s just something so good-feeling about seeing Uchenna and Joyce hit that finish line first. They really fight for it throughout the season, are both so lovable along the way, and have such a good, emotional story to them.

They only get 2nd for me because they’re up against my favorite team of all time, but it’s hard to argue that there’s a lack of anything to be upset about with Uchenna and Joyce’s win, even if it turns out to be a bittersweet ending in the long-term.

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Team #4: Teri & Ian

Teri & Ian, I'm sorry to tell you that you've been eliminated from the Race.

u/AMeanMotorScooter:

“With age we have experience and knowledge… and therefore it’s working in our favor, not against us.”

“We’re the leaders, not the followers.”

The original surprisingly strong older team, and one of, if not the best. Teri and Ian have basically everything you want in a character. They’re both funny, strong, leaders who even get some emotional moments later in the show.

This team is absolutely hilarious to me, as Ian tries to be a strong leader for the team, but constantly says or does something funny, while Teri serves as a great balance to him, keeping him from being too much of an ass. They’re a great, lovable pair and honestly the best TAR3 finalist team by a lot, even with Ken and Gerard and Flo and Zach’s high scores. They’re really only this low (5th) due to their story not being the largest story in the season. That says a lot for an “older” couple.

u/PaleGummyBear:

They really annoyed me when I watched them in real-time. But on rewatches of Season 3, I grow to like them more and more each time I see them. They are a great example of knowing their strengths and weaknesses and how to capitalize on them. By the end of the Race, Teri and Ian start to let their guard down and really start to show (or the edit allows for) some humanity. Ian talking about his experience in Vietnam and his emotions going back is a perfect of example of what the modern Amazing Race has lost. The Race used to be more than just task, travel, task, travel. It was about the interactions between teams and the real, core reactions the teams had with the countries with which they travelled. Any reaction now seems best to be showing off a whiny American who can’t handle no one speaks English.

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Team #5: Joe & Bill

Joe & Bill "Team Guido", I'm sorry to tell you that you've been eliminated from the Racedown.

u/AMeanMotorScooter:

“Our name is Team Guido, and Guido is our dog.”

“You don’t have to be the strongest person, you don’t have to be the fastest one, but you do have to be the smartest ones.”

Between Frank and Margarita and Joe and Bill, it’s really a toss-up. I think Frank and Margarita have a clearer arc and story, but I can’t deny that Joe and Bill… just impact the season and franchise more than them.

I’ve always found it interesting how both Survivor and TAR both had older, gay male villains who influenced the show greatly in their first seasons. Joe and Bill showed that TAR isn’t all about physicality, although that helps, but about getting the minor stuff right. Basically every team since has emulated Joe and Bill in some way, shape, or form. And even though the show has moved away from giving more autonomy with travel, their presence can’t be denied.

They place 6th overall because Joe and Bill’s major episode 9 blunder puts them on life support for the rest of the season, even though their presence in the midgame is huge. Villains, but fun villains who were barely villains. Let’s hear it for Team Guido!

u/PaleGummyBear:

In TAR1, these Team Guido were exactly the antagonists that the season needed. Experienced enough to take charge when needed (ferry to Tunisia, anyone?) and look down on others. Oblivious enough to not care they left teams behind. I love the fact that Joe and Bill embrace their style and role so early on. We’ll be Team Evil. That’s fine. We’ll use teams if we need to. We’ll cut teams loose if it serves our needs. And we’ll talk up the fact we can still win when we obviously can’t. I can’t in good conscious rank them higher as they were too much caricatures of who they were. Great TV but feels a little one dimensional most of the time.

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