The teams this year range from teammates from The Globetrotters, a former Miss USA, plenty of couples in varying ranges of their relationships, and some family ties.
Wow! The teams found out that one team would be eliminated during the first challenge and wouldn’t even get to leave the starting point. The first clue had the teams searching hundreds of license plates for only 11 plates with the correct Japanese symbol to get them to Japan.
Eric and Lisa, the married yoga teacher couple, came in last place and didn’t even make it on a plane to Tokyo.
Maria & Tiffany, professional poker players, decide that they are going to tell people that they work with a homeless organization in LA because they think people won’t help them if they know that they make a lot of money playing poker.
Nashville couple Mika & Canaan got to the Tokyo Tower first and found themselves on a Japanese game show!!! Haha, oh how stereotypically Japanese!
HAHAHA and they had to play a game called Sushi Roulette! The game required one player from each team to sit at a table and eat whatever dish of sushi was in front of them. But, some of the teams got a Wasabi Bomb which is basically just a roll of wasabi!!! And they needed to eat it in just 2 minutes. Once they ate a Wasabi Bomb, they get to leave the show and move-on. But they have to keep playing until they eat the Wasabi Bomb. Once the teams finished the game show, they had to take the flag in front of them and lead 20 Japanese audience members through Tokyo’s busiest city crossing.
Surprisingly, most of the teams did well with their Wasabi Bombs except for Maria. She failed during her first attempt, just barely missing the 2 minute time limit. The other teams were frustrated with her because she was taking away the chance for them to win. The Yellow team also had some trouble getting the Wasabi Bomb down.
San Diego couple Meghan & Cheyne were Team #1 on this leg! Aww, and all the Japanese women from the audience were loving the Globetrotters, especially Big Easy. He was just so big. But at the same time, they were having some trouble getting their team to the pit stop. In fact, so did some other teams who had been leading their teams much longer.
Mika & Canaan were the 10th couple to arrive and they were missing one of their audience members. Luckily, she was just around the corner. Maria & Tiffany also were missing two of their audience members and decided to check-in without them. Lucky for them it was a non-elimination leg so they just incurred a 2-hour penalty and they must perform a speed bump in their next leg.
For the next leg, the teams needed to go to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The teams seemed to be divided on their approaches to getting flights. Some chose to go to the hotel first to buy tickets online or go to the airport. Turns out there was no advantage to either way because all teams got on the same flight.
While at the airport, the other teams found out that Maria & Tiffany are poker players because someone else in the airport recognized them.
Once the teams landed in Vietnam, they had to get on a bus to Cai Be. There were two buses and the teams on the second bus paid extra for their bus to leave early and catch up with the first bus. Regardless of when they left, both buses missed the dock time so they had to wait until morning. Looks like those teams on the second bus paid extra money for nothing!
During their next challenge, the teams needed to gather mud to fertilize a tree on a fruit farm. Maria & Tiffany had to perform their Speed Bump of creating the traditional dish of Pho. They succeeded on their first try and then made their way to the mud. All of the teams were having trouble with the mud because it was so thick.
Meghan & Cheyne finished first and made their way to the Cai Be field for their next challenge. When Justin & Zev finished with their tree, Justin fell into the river and possibly lost his clue. This error made it possible for Maria & Tiffany to catch up.
During the Road Block, one member from each team needed to move a group of 100 ducks over a bridge and back in just 10 minutes. But if they didn’t make it during the time limit, they had to relinquish their space and wait for another team to finish first.
Brothers Sam & Dan, finished the duck challenge first and headed toward Masaac III, the boat that would be their next pit stop. Father-Son team, Gary & Matt, were Team #1 on this leg.
Jessica & Garrett came in last place on this leg. I think this couple has a lot of problems and I’m not so sure that this helped them in their quest to determine whether or not they are marriage material.
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