Amazing Race 5 Contest

[rafala]

My neighbor went to NY friday evening and she went to the CBS store and she got me an amazing race buff she got herself a survivor one it is so cool. althought they dont wear them on AR it is still neat to have one. she knows how much i love the show. we are always talking about what happened. Just thought it was neat and would share

karen

[chippers21]

Here are our guesses for the final question: (Remember you get 6 points if you are completely correct, 4 if you get 2 correct and 10 if you get them all WRONG. Several people have a chance of winning. You do not get any points for 1 correct, and it is impossible to get 3 correct without getting 4)

4th place to 1st place order:
chippers: Linda/Karen, Chip/Kim, Brandon/Nicole, Colin/Christy
hattielee: Linda/Karen, Brandon/Nicole,Colin/Christy/Chip/Kim
kayjay: Brandon/Nicole, Linda/Karen, Colin/Christy,Chip/Kim
ShainaT: Linda/Karen,Chip/Kim, Brandon/Nicole,Colin/Christy
rafala: Linda/Karen, Brandon/Nicole,Chip/Kim, Colin/Christy
yankeechic:Chip/Kim,Colin/Christy,Brandon/Nicole,Linda/Karen
momof3girls:Brandon/Nicole,Linda/Karen,Colin/Christy,Chip/Kim

[chippers21]

Here are our final scores after the Sept 21 show:

chippers: 44
yankeechic: 47
momof3girls: 43
rafala: 55
kayjay: 25
shainaT: 43
Hattielee: 52
crazytimes: 40
kells3: 31

Hattielee was the only one that got the order completely correct and she got 6 points. Yankeechic was the only one who got them all wrong and she received 10 points. Momof3girls,kayjay, and rafala got 2 of the 4 in the correct order for 4 points each. A close call for Rafala, but in the end her lead was just a little too great and she got just enough to stay ahead and win our version of The Amazing Race 5. Congratulations to Karen/Rafala, the winner of our contest!!!
Thanks for playing everyone. Please keep me informed with great comments on Survivor while I am in Chile.


Anyone else very glad about who won Amazing Race??? I know I am. Quite possible the first winners who really deserved it and played well together instead of beating each other up every time something went wrong.

[Shainie]

I was sooooooooooo happy the Chip and Kim won. I really liked them.

Colin was a total jerk - IMO. They played hard, so second place suited them.

[mayor]

Great season!

[kells3]

I was also very happy with the outcome this time. The only bad thing was that everyone was asleep so I had to jump up and down all by myself being very quiet.

Liz have a great time at your sons wedding in Chile. You did another great job with the contest.

Kelly

[mayfly]

This is the very first time people I wanted to win actually won! WOOHOOOO!

[rafala]

woooo, great season again. I was soooo happy that chip and kim won. even though i had colin and christie coming in first i am sooo glad they didnt. i felt bad that the moms couldnt beat colin/christie on the climbing wall but that was tough and they did a great job getting as far as they did.

and thanks liz for such a great game, not just becuase i won I love playing these online games with you all. it makes it a lot more fun

have a great trip to chile.

onto survivor

karen

[kayemjay]

Congratulations on a great race Rafala.
Thanks Chippers for all your hard work. As usual, I enjoyed the contest.I'm glad Survivor has started, with two of our contests ending last night.

[ShainaT]

Congrats to Rafala!! Nice to see a fellow Marylander come in first!!

Almost Hattielee!! You can't win 'em all though girlie!! Good job though.

Thanks to the one and only Chippers for running an excellent contest. We appreciate you so much!

Awesome finale!! I got so into it I completely forgot to tape NYPD Blue. When I saw Chip and Kim win I was standing right in front of the TV with tears running down my face. I was so happy for them.

Goes to show you what a little luck and timing can do....either of the three of those teams could have won. I was pleased with the order though I was really rooting for the bowling moms to finish higher.

I read in the paper that since AR won another Emmy award they are not going to air AR6 on Saturdays. They are going to wait until Oct. or Nov. and try to put it back on during the week. Yay!!

[hattielee]

Congratulations Rafala!!! Great job!

Thanks Chippers for another super contest - we'll miss ya the next few weeks. Have a great time in Chile.

Fantastic finale. I'm so happy Chip and Kim won. The first time in awhile I've really liked the winning team.

I heard Colin proposed to Christie on the Early Show this morning. She accepted.

*****The new TV Guide (Sept 26-Oct2) has an article on the new AR6 Competitors****

[bonniejeanne]

Thought some of you might be interested in this article I found at TVguide online.


Wednesday, September 29, 2004

TAR's Colin and Christie: "We're Nice"
by Ethan Alter

Occasional tantrums aside, Colin and Christie were probably the strongest team to run this season of The Amazing Race, finishing first six times over the course of the contest. Still, certain unpleasant incidents (the "I'm packin' it!" comment, anyone?) overshadowed their achievements. Here, the newly engaged couple tries to set the record straight about their real life versus what you saw on reality TV.



TV Guide Online: Congrats on your engagement. How long had you been planning that stunt, Colin?
Colin: I planned it during the race because I knew we'd be doing The Early Show, either after we got eliminated or at the end. For a while, I was thinking about doing it at the finish line, but I didn't have the bling. You can't propose empty-handed. So I decided to wait, and it ended up being a blessing in disguise because proposing on national TV means you don't have to call the whole family — they all find out at once. The other nice thing is that everyone thinks we're in this crazy relationship, so at least it shows that we are in a very wonderful and loving relationship. And it's something we can tell the grandkids about.

TVGO: Considering you started the final episode in last place with no money, a second-place finish is pretty good.
Colin: You can't really say we started from fourth place, though, because on every leg, everyone matches up. So as soon as we were on equal footing again, we went from first place to second place. Really, the leg was running Canada. We had a roadblock [task] that was completely cut out, where we had to build a teepee.
Christie: And all that clothing you saw us put on before climbing the mountain? We had to pick those up at three different stores in Banff. It was a scavenger hunt to find those stores.
Colin: First, we had to go from a bus in Calgary and sign up for different bus charters. We were the first ones to the bus and then we were first to the three stores, first to complete the teepee roadblock, first to the top of the mountain, first to complete the Detour and first to the airport. That's a leg of The Amazing Race right there; the Calgary airport would legitimately have been the finish line. If it were a normal leg of the race, we would have beaten Chip and Kim by three hours getting into the airport and that ended up being the key thing for them.

TVGO: Do you regret your decision to go to the hotel instead of waiting at the airport?
Christie: The thing is, you're not allowed to sleep in the airports in Canada. That's why we went to the hotel. And at the time we were there, the American Airlines flight was the obvious choice. United left three hours later and it had a layover in Denver. And if there is going to be a delayed flight, you're assuming it's going to happen to all the airlines. You're just not thinking about it.
Colin: I should have been.
Christie: Don't beat yourself up. Even though Chip assumed that Colin would think about it, why would you really? The American flight was the obvious choice. Of course, hindsight is 20/20. And the truth is, if the flights were closer together, we would have [booked both]. It would have been the natural thing.

TVGO: You reached Dallas only 10 minutes behind Chip and Kim. Did you ever get close to catching up to them?
Colin: We probably could have made that time up, but what they don't show is that we got a flat tire on the way to the stockyards. So that held us up for about 20 minutes.
Christie: We made up time on the maze and in traffic because our driver drove on the shoulder. Unfortunately, he got the blowout — and that's probably what did us in, not the delayed flight. It was kind of anticlimactic running to the finish line, because we knew that we were in second place. They would have had to make a major mistake for us to end up beating them.
Colin: We knew we were 35 minutes behind them at least. We made up probably 20 of that, so I think we came in 15 minutes behind them. It just wasn't meant to be. But if we had won, I don't think we would have gotten that edit. I'll say it — we were the nicest team on the race. We helped every single team, but they don't show it.
Christie: We constantly shared information with the other teams and helped them — we were buying people's tickets! You wouldn't know this from watching TV but Colin is very naive in the sense that he is very trusting. He would be horrible on Survivor. I think the smartest thing Chip and Kim did was realize Colin was that way. We could have screwed over teams so often, because they were putting all that vulnerability in our hands.

TVGO: When did you realize that you'd be portrayed as the villains?
Colin: In the first episode, when they make it look like we took Dennis and Erika's cab. We were actually in a complete alliance.
Christie: We called [a production person] and asked why they did that. And that's when we learned that we'd be getting a very skewed edit — especially Colin. I think that, in the beginning, they were expecting us to be that alpha-male team they didn't have this season. When they didn't get it, they had to start getting creative. And Colin can blow up. That's why it was so easy for them to pick on him. Other teams get frustrated, but once you get to the point where you're saying, "I'm packin' it!" [they] can take out everything else leading up to it and make you look like a total psycho.

TVGO: What other moments didn't quite mirror reality?
Christie: I'll give you an example with me. In the second-to-last episode, just after we were yielded, we get in a car and you see me say, "It's OK, run them over." And then there's a shot of random pedestrians on the side of the road. I'm actually saying this to a production car that's in front of us. The guy driving our jeepney didn't understand — he's actually slowing down. So I'm getting frustrated and I say, "They'll follow you, you don't need to slow down. Ignore them. It's OK, run 'em over if you have to." Next thing you know, I'm saying it about innocent people on the side of the road and it's the name of the episode!

TVGO: Has it been difficult to watch yourselves on the show?
Colin: The last 12 weeks have been the hardest 12 weeks of all the time we've been together.
Christie: It's kind of sad because the five weeks of running the race was the best five weeks of our lives. And, of course, first impressions are so powerful and everybody believes what they see on TV. All of our friends and family think it's funny, because they're not influenced. My mom is never going to think I'm a submissive girl. I've already had two boyfriends calling me and going, "Uh, that's not the Christie I know." But you get all these pity eyes and it gets tiresome at the end of the day. It's one thing to explain things you did do; it's another to be trying to take up for yourself and your best friend for things you didn't do.

TVGO: Colin, have you patched things up with Mirna? It looked like you were getting along at the Emmys.
Colin: I'll tell you, that was the first time I've seen or spoken to her since the show. It's not like we talk. But I'm not one to harbor a grudge. I get over stuff so fast. I still wouldn't pick her to be the person to go to dinner with, but I can be civil.

TVGO: Finally, is there anything you would do differently if you were to run the race over again?
Colin: I wouldn't do anything differently. Except that I just wouldn't speak. [Laughs]

[rafala]

hey bonniejeanne, thanks for the article. that was really interesting. I knew they had to portray them poorly, there can't always be an evil team. an how could they portray 2 teams that are always praying for help as bad???

my dh noticed when they were in canada that chip and kim had on canada hats and he said they must have bought them there. also no one had big enough packs to carry all that cold weather gear. thought it was interesting to hear that there were other unseen legs. i would love to see the other legs challenges.

thanks again.

karen

[kayemjay]

Thanks for the update on Colin and Christy. I really felt that they deserved to win. But then , any one of the teams deserved it, going through all the extreme things they had to do. I have a lot of admiration for them all.
It sounds like the series could have run for two or three more weeks.

[jeradlol]

is any one on