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  1. Lew Crippen

    Amazing Race Season 9

    Also don’t forget, that while the airport waits and flights tend to reset everyone to the same point, ineptness with arranging flight schedules or late arrivals has often caused teams to lose. That is if there are five teams remaining and four manage to make the same flight (perhaps by...
  2. Lew Crippen

    Amazing Race Season 9

    They all do compete to try to find the best flights and best connections—but usually any time gained is more than made up for by the time equalizer waiting for flights and connections. But I think that you are missing the point Chris—the producers like the bunch-ups. They guarantee that the...
  3. Lew Crippen

    Amazing Race Season 9

    The ‘bunch-ups’ are intended to keep any one team from getting an almost insurmountable lead early—something that would ruin the ratings. And a key component of the ‘bunch-ups’ are airline schedules. A second (and perhaps more important) are that teams frequently have to wait for an...
  4. Lew Crippen

    Amazing Race Season 9

    By far the best final leg of the race. Being spared one of those, who can find a cab first and whose cab navigates the traffic fastest was always disappointing. I really liked the flag idea and found it interesting that neither the frat boys nor the hippies picked up on the Russian flag at...
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