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Toggling between Okies’ Miles and Beardo’s Tiles, we get to see Adam expertly handle the tile puzzle but it’s still more time-consuming of a task. Then OK-Tim misses the mileage guess by 10,000 miles because he forgot to place a zero at the end. A dramatic eyeroll from “Magellan” is given but so is the clue. They are heading to the Roadblock with just a bit of a lead on Brandon & Adam.

At Phil, Nicky & Kim are checked in as number three and I am officially wrong for underestimating them on the strategic side of game play. I just didn’t anticipate that the airport would splinter teams off this much and it worked in these girls’ favor in a major way.

Danny is attempting the Roadblock for his team while Leo & Jamal and Ally & Ashley are struggling with the Miles tasks. First, the cousins guarantee they will get it on the first guess. They don’t. Then when Ashley questions their measuring that had him sailing across continents, they concede that’s a good point. We get another eyeroll from our on-scene Magellan when Jamal suggests that he sailed through the Panama Canal and that nautical miles aren’t the same as regular miles. Several very poor guesses later and they both switch to Tiles.

Danny is now done and Team Okies is off to the Pitstop with Team Beardo in their rearview mirror, thanks to Adam being a one-and-done with the Roadblock arrow. OK-Tim & Danny beat them to Phil as number four with the Brandon & Adam as number five.

The Ice girls show up at Tiles before Leo & Jamal and get to work. Once the Afghanimals arrive, Jamal admits that Ashley was right about choosing this task over the other one. Peeved, Ashley scolds her Race husband to “Next time, listen to the blonde girl.”

As the girls are nearing completion of their tile puzzle, nobody’s favorite team shows up at Tiles – Exes Tim & Marie. The girls get their clue and move along to the Roadblock. Jamal then tries to plant the seed of doubt in the mind of Marie that they have been there for two hours and the girls were there even longer. While Marie stays focused on just doing the task and not using the Express Pass, Tim is thinking they should.

Alas, after Leo & Jamal get their next clue, Marie wins out and basically pushes Tim out of the way since he wasn’t helping anyway. Marie explains in their interview that she is glad that she took the lead on this task and that Tim will have other tasks more suited for him. This earns a confused expression from him and then she admits that she was just saying that for the camera because she doesn’t think there is anything he can do better but wanted him to not seem like a horrible partner. Wow…this woman is devoid of self-awareness and how she presents herself. Amazing and disturbing.

At the Roadblock, Ally and Jamal are the ones up for their team and they both get it done relatively fast but the guys are just ahead of them. But doing the Roadblock actually faster is Ex-Tim. He only needs one shot to get the shield and they are now all heading to Phil, unaware that Chester & Ephraim are the true last place team.

The alliance hits the mat together with Leo & Jamal as number six and Ally & Ashley as number seven. Thankfully Phil pulls a “You’re the last team to arrive….except for one” on Tim & Marie, just to scare them. Of course, she claims she wasn’t scared.

In a very rare move, Phil greets Chester & Ephraim at the Lisbon airport. As Chester immediately states, “Uh oh…that’s not good.” Phil breaks the news to them and seems genuinely disappointed for them to not be able to compete on this leg. The guys suggest they’ll now just try to get another flight home. Phil brilliantly says, “Good luck with that.”

I am sad to see them go and this may be the most disappointing very early elimination to me since Zev & Justin on their first time around.

Next week could prove to be a great one with Tim & Marie having to give someone the Express Pass and Nicole not playing their game. The preview shows Nicole offer them vital directions to a location but they have to hand over the Express Pass first. Marie says to tell them first. Nicole’s response to Travis, who is driving? “Okay…we’re leaving.” I like them even more now.

Until next week, have a good one.

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