The Amazing Race: Power Rankings

The Amazing Race: Power Rankings

By Daron Aldridge

April 21, 2013

Riding the river to easy street. Or something like that.

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4. Joey & Meghan: Team YouTube tried their damnedest to get eliminated last week by WALKING to the Pit Stop instead of taking a cab. And if not for the clue-reading flub by the Mullets, they would have successfully screwed themselves over. Alas, they are still here and, amazingly, I don’t think they will be gone next. That conclusion is based solely on the Internet denizens having a lower potential for internal team combustion. The friends get along and have resisted any inner team turmoil, which typically serves teams well, but it’s their own navigational ineptitude that keeps hindering them. I believe they have been lost or confused when trying to locate a clue box 127 times*. Unless the Race producers give them a car that drives itself from clue box to clue box (which would probably be a Ford), then I don’t see Joey & Meghan overcoming this issue.

*This figure is an approximation and may actually be lowballing the actual number.




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5. Max & Katie: Oh Team Cape Fear…if only you were as awesome as you think you are. Then you would have already finished the entire Race three legs ago and have spent a chunk of the money on paying off Katie’s student loans. Because...as you may recall, Katie is only 24 years and already has her PhD. I just wanted to make sure you remembered this because they have gone at least one leg without reminding us how smart Katie is. Intelligence (whether high or just purportedly high) aside, I am still waiting for the collapse of this team upon itself. The frequently unhappily ever after newlyweds are by far the one team with the greatest risk for team self-destruction. It may be Katie’s inability to let it go when Max makes a mistake coupled with her gleeful belittling of him in those situations or the short fuse that seems to just be boiling below the surface for Max. It doesn’t matter why or how it will happen. But rather that it simply will happen. They are their own worst enemy…for better or worse.

Another Sunday, another Amazing Race episode. Enjoy your day and see you tonight as teams depart the mountains of Switzerland for a freaky-looking maze challenge in Germany.


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