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6. NFL cheerleaders Jaime & Cara (Season 14) – Once again proving me wrong, this is the team that I thought would have fared better when not saddled in their alliance with Margie & Luke. Alas, the cheerleaders struggled more than I expected of them.

7. Father/Daughter Ron & Christina (Season 12) – Let’s repeat your earlier question about Margie & Luke. If it weren’t for Christina, Ron would still be standing on a street corner in China salivating over fish. Ron is not only the weak link on this team but he is an inadvertent saboteur. His fits of rage, likely stemming from low blood sugar, which explains his compulsion to eat nonstop, will undermine his team and eliminate them. But not before…

8. Goth couple Kent & Vyxsin (Season 12) – After misplacing their passports TWICE in a matter of a day and with a possible time penalty for missing their assigned flight in Japan (thank you, Magellan...er...Vyxsin), I don’t see a scenario that involves them surviving. Well, other than the producers once again clumping everyone on the same flight, bus or boat. Regardless of their proclaimed PMA, their lack of teamwork and race acumen will keep them from the final three.

Picking up where we left off, Vyxsin points out that Kent left their fanny pack, which has their passports and money in it, on the gondola. She is not sympathetic and appears to be ready to pull a Mike and quit. As they turn around for the gondola, Zev & Justin meet up with Phil and get the clue that send them back to Kunming China via train. And there is a double U-Turn waiting for the teams, which is not exactly good news for Zev & Justin who could easily be targeted as a threat.

Margie & Luke roll into the train station to find out there is exactly one train that is leaving for Kunming about seven hours later. This puts all the teams, including Kent & Vyxsin, back in the hunt, as well as setting up quite the scramble for the U-Turns.

Now that the viewers know they are still in the race, it’s time for a lovely montage of the Goths completing the Detour from last week after retrieving their pack, which is capped off with Phil delivering the good news that they are still racing but in last place. But Phil levies a 30-minute penalty to them for their Japan screw-up. It was smart for them to decide not to tell the other teams about the penalty but Vyxsin’s proclamation that they “are so smart” is a complete overstatement. In my view a team that is “so smart” wouldn’t have made mistake after mistake the previous leg.

Even though there wasn’t an official Pitstop, the teams use the downtime to actually relax and what better way than with playing basketball with two Harlem Globetrotters. A fun game of three-on-three commences with Jet, Kisha and Flight Time on one team and Cord, Jen and Big Easy on the other. It's fun to see the teams unwinding and not frantically trying to outrun one another. Just a friendly game of basketball or as the vertically-challenged cowboys described the game, “It was like playing basketball with trees.”

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