amazing race season 26 episode 1

11 new teams who are either dating or just meeting at the starting line.

ally and steve dating 7 ounths

libby and cj dating 10 years

mike and rochelle dating 8 mounths

harley and jonathan dating 7 years (gay couple)

matt and ashley dating 3 years

jeff and lyda dating 4 years

and the blind date couples are

laura and tyler

jaylani and jenny

jeff and jackie

hayley and blair

bergen and kurt (gay couple)

no lessbian couples though.

there will be a race for tickets to tokyo with two flights only 8 teams get on the first flight. win the first leg you get the express pass and there is a double u-turn on the first leg. teams go through the mud to get tickets. matt/ashley jeff/jackie laura/tyler ay/stve harley/jonathon jeff/lyda bergen/kurt and jaylani/jenny are on the first flight the others are on the 2nd to tokyo. the first stop is tokyo and a shrine and a clue the double u-turn is blind. team are given a selvie camera more on that in the finale as its unusual. hayley/blair have dinner when they find out that harley/jonathan where in new kids on the block. the first flight has a 45 minute lead. most teams take the trains but some teams take taxis from narita. the taxi though is quicker and jaylani/jenny and jeff/jackie are first out the kisei skyliner is better than the narita express somehow. libby/cj get the taxi compared to the other teams behind and hayley/blair are last. the next clue is a detour that jaylani/jenny are 1st to choose “syncing steps” is learning a complicated japanese dance with world order “samurai sake” requries teams to remeber orders of sake and relay it to their partner and it is correct they get the clue. jaylani/jenny choose syncing steps jeff/jackie choose sake and it is the easier detour. jeff/jackie get it quickly pretty much. the world order detour is at shinjuku chou park.matt/ashley are doing the dancing in 3rd. laura/tyler and aly/steve do the same. harley/jonathan do the sake. hayley/blair are a bit lost. jackies brain is not good but get the clue in 1st sending them to wakaba hakashi park for the u-turn. the dancing is quite hard. jeff/lyda and bergen/kurt choose dance mike/rochelle now in9th choose dance as does libby/cj. harley/jonathan get the detour done quickly and are in 2nd getting a cab. libby/cj are already lost finding the park and take the train there. hayley/blair choose dance and are out of last place due to libby/cjs naviagtion. no one can figure out the dance why they don’t switch detours is beyond me. laura/tyler are doing ok at the dance unlike everyone else getting the clue in 3rd (annoying matt). jaylani/jenny get it next in 4th. none of the lead teams (jeff/jackie in 1st) use the u-turn the pitstop is in a parking space in tokyo. how many attempts the dance is taking would be exhausting. ally/steve are next to finish the detour. jaylani/jenny and laura/tyler don’t u-turn having passed harley/jonathan. jeff/jackie lose their lead to jaylani/jenny in the footrace for first (by figuring out its outside). jaylani/jenny win the express pass. it is now dark at the dance and no one is having an easy time. bergen/kurt get it next. harley/jonathan are lost but find the u-turn and don’t use it nor do ally/steve. matt/ashley finally get it after hayley/blair. bergen/kurt don’t u-turn. libby/cj are 9th out of the detour but get lost again. hayley/blair are also lost finding the u-turn. matt/ashley take the subway losing them time. libby/cj are quite lost in the middle of the night jeff/lyda may get the dance but are u-turned by mike/rochelle (who where 2nd to last out of the detour but had jumped to 7th so it wasn’t nesscuary). matt/ashley and hayley/blair don’t u-turn. jeff/lyda take over 4 hours at the dance detour before getting the clue to send them to the u-turn where they waste the u-turn on jeff/jackie (who where 1st to finish the other detour) but have a chance as libby/cj are in no where land finding it. jeff/lyda finish the sake quickly (proving they should have gone there first). libby/cj are quite lost and even asking the same person they asked 10 minutes ago (how crazy) but still finish 10th jeff/lyda are eliminated (not before another mistake).

  1. jaylani and jenny
  2. jeff and jackie
  3. laura and tyler
  4. ally and steve (best of the dating couples)
  5. harley and jonathan (bit of a drop)
  6. bergen and kurt
  7. mike and rochelle
  8. hayley and blair
  9. matt and ashley
  10. libby and cj
  11. jeff and lyda (eliminated)

next time a team misses a train for the stupidest reason ever and the race heads to nakano japan where the blind daters lead again.

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