So last week was a heartbreaker, as we saw Kisha & Jen get eliminated due to urine. Very sad and a sad way to go out. This allowed the redheads, aka the Gingerbeasts to stay in it. The final three teams racing to the final pitstop in Hawaii are:
Luke & Margie (BOB)
Tammy & Victor
Jaime & Cara
Three pretty strong teams throughout the race, that on a whole, got along well and even had an alliance at one point (Luke and Bob and Jaime and Cara anyway).
Let's talk about the three teams, shall we?
Tammy & Victor - The Asian brother and sister team seems to have gelled thanks to an unbelievable advantage in that they had three legs of the race in CHINA! They just happen to be and know Chinese! They just happen to have traveled there recently! What an amazing advantage over the other teams! Was that really fair? Hmmmmm... Now that they came this far, they would seem to be favorites. At the final task, as it has been for the past few seasons, it will be a brainteaser/puzzle sort of task where teams have to remember where they have been, who got eliminated when and other things that happened in the race to that point and probably put them in order. You have to give them the advantage here, not to advance a stereotype, but Asians always do well at brainy things. So chalk up another big advantage for them. It pains me to say it, but they have a great chance to win.
Margie & Luke - Who would have thought that a 50+ year old mother and her deaf son would be able to make it this far? Margie is really something. She seems to find inner strength during grueling physical tasks which is quite amazing. Luke, though, the editing is weird with him. It seems they wanted to make him the handicap hero of the race, but his desire to win at any cost seems to have knocked the halo off his head. First, he initiates the first U-turn, which took out a very strong team. Then he has shown to be a bit bratty, even scheming and whiny at numerous times. Then we had the feud with Kisha & Jen. I don't know who to side with on that. It seems both teams did things. So, will the savvy and determination of this team pull them through to the finish line? Hard to say. I think it depends on who does the final task. Luke could implode on a brainteaser, he seems to get nervous and frustrated easily. Remember in Europe, when Luke had to figure out the Chehkov puzzle? He took a while to do that and almost started crying. If Margie does the final task, their chances will be better.
Cara & Jaime - The redheads have shown a lot of determination and tenacity as well. They don't give up easily, but they don't seem to have the confidence in themselves that they should have. The do have horrible luck with taxi drivers though and their tendency to yell and get angry at people around them, whether it be taxi drivers or locals helping with tasks seems to have made them the villains of the race. No doubt they are pretty good racers though, but will they have what it takes at the final task? Will they be the first female winners of TAR?
PREDICTIONS:
I'm going to do this SUCKS style, where I give my BRAIN/HEART/GUT predictions ---
BRAIN (what I believe will happen)
1st Place and WINNERS: Tammy & Victor :(
2nd Place: Luke & Margie
3rd Place: Care & Jaime
HEART (what I WANT to happen)
1st Place and WINNERS: Cara & Jaime
2nd Place: Luke & Margie
3rd Place: Tammy & Victor
GUT (what my intuition says will happen)
1st Place and WINNERS: Tammy & Victor
2nd Place: Cara & Jaime
3rd Place: Luke & Margie
As a bonus --- Celebrity Apprentice finale is tonight... here are my predictions for that --- ANNIE DUKE WILL WIN!!! and Joan will call her another nasty name on live TV. Book it.
I kinda hope Margie and Luke win. It was unfair that Tammy and Victor had an advantage over everyone else w/the last challenges. Maybe they should go somewhere that everyone has to use sign language?! I mean, just completely unfair. That's the only reason why they got really far and ahead in the last episodes because of that. But in the end, I hope that it's Margie and Luke to win because I think they have a very hard disadvantage with Luke being deaf and I am very shocked that they have made it this far but they have pushed through and have made it. Good luck to everyone! =)
So last week was a heartbreaker, as we saw Kisha & Jen get eliminated due to urine. Very sad and a sad way to go out. This allowed the redheads, aka the Gingerbeasts to stay in it. The final three teams racing to the final pitstop in Hawaii are: