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This order of "arrival to completion" is tossed out the window by Beefcake Jaymes and his aggressive fallopian tube sucking ways. There is no way to not make that descriptor sound family-friendly. Team Beefcake is out the door and Amy has powered through to put her and Daniel in fourth. Blonde Brittany is retching and struggling and retching some more. Thankfully, she finishes before the twins arrive and start up. I have to retract my earlier conclusion about Nadiya. Based upon the chant that Natalie leads the restaurant-goers in to help her sister, the twins are equally annoying but at least Natalie isn’t abrasive.

Team Longhorn shows up at the first Roadblock all alone; so Trey doesn’t have to wait for other teams to take a turn. He simply takes his turns back-to-back and gets the next clue without any stress.

At The Bund, too many years of headbanging has apparently damaged James & Abba’s peripheral vision has they stroll right one by the lady with the abacus. That’s too bad for them too because now Abbie & Ryan are on the scene looking for the same lady. Checking in at the second Roadblock, Nadiya is making good progress on the food and Natalie is making excellent progress in making me want to mute the TV when she comes on screen.

Monster Trucker Rob is taking a seat as the twins dine and dash to The Bund. Speaking of Robs, our lumberjack friend Rob who was on the second flight has completed the first Roadblock. The fact that he is a lumberjack makes me really wish that heavy metal James had been the bassist for Jackyl because it would have been some nice symmetry.

Then there’s an oopsie for Monster Trucker Rob who picks up the papaya to make short work of eating it and then proceeds to spew out a mouthful. That messing with the rules has got to bite him in the butt.

More ping pong action as Gary scores his point and substitutes of the world rejoice as Team Beekman shows up last and Josh takes the Roadblock. Surprisingly, Josh is the only one to get his point on the first attempt. This could be a byproduct of the girl finally wearing down or just realizing that the quicker the last person is done, the sooner she can get back to playing actual other table tennis players. Either way, Josh is elated.

You know who’s not elated? Monster Truck Rob, who is denied his clue and two more servings of frog reproductive organs are presented him. Begrudgingly, Rob grabs the chopsticks and starts again. Kelley promises that from now on they will read the whole clue. Probably a wise move but based upon your performance thus far, you may not have many more clues to read in their entirety.

Team Beefcake is wandering The Bund looking for the abacus lady as are the divorcees and headbangers.

With her stomach churning at the realization that she has to eat the delicacy, Longhorn Lexi takes a seat as trucker Rob finishes up. Pretty much all the teams that have completed the second Roadblock are lost on The Bund. Based upon my prediction earlier, imagine my satisfaction that Amy & Daniel are the first to find the abacus lady and get pointed to the first Pitstop, which is the Bund Observatory that they must go to on foot.

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