(Season 13, Episode 11 – “You Look Like Peter Pan” – Season Finale)
Most of this race, it’s been a contest between three teams. Dominating have been Nick & Starr, with Ken & Tina performing better early on and having to settle for nipping at Nick & Starr’s heels the rest of the way. The third team that performed consistently well was Toni & Dallas, but this pair was nowhere to be seen this episode. And I do mean nowhere.
Eliminated last week due to Dallas leaving their money and passports in a cab in Russia, they weren’t on the final mat for the end of the race either. Considering that Dallas and Starr were forming that special little bond throughout the race, I’m sure she was saddened not to see him. Phil didn’t say anything about it, but the Wiki says they weren’t able to get out of Russia in time due to waiting for their passports to be turned into the US Embassy. It also states that Dallas & Starr have been long-distance dating for six months now.
In the end, it was a two-team race for the finish, which was a bit disappointing — another reason to want Toni & Dallas there. Andrew & Dan are, I’m sure, great guys. They’re probably fun to party and drink with, but they are the unluckiest luckiest duo I’ve ever seen on this race. And they bumbled through this episode so badly that we abandoned them at the sea of clue boxes and never saw them again until they crossed the mat.
Somebody from the staff probably went and picked them up telling them it was over. Come on guys, let’s just go to the mat. All in all, I didn’t think this season’s challenges were nearly as difficult as challenges of the past, specifically in the area of physical difficulty (mostly running around finding things). The teams were a little more tame than we’re used to, but that’s more due to the pain-in-the-ass teams getting eliminated early. Of the final four teams, only Tina was prone to emotional outbursts.
While they kept it competitive right through to the end, it was Nick & Starr who came out on top of Ken & Tina in the end. When Phil was congratulating the winning duo he looked off to the side briefly, which could have been when Ken & Tina arrived at the scene. That would make this one of the closest victories in race history, inasmuch as we can tell these sorts of things.
And it looks like we don’t have to wait a year for the fourteenth run. It will kick off the day after Valentine’s Day on Sunday, February 15, 2009. No details yet, but I can tell you that I won’t be running it. Apparently you’re supposed to go to them. I thought they were going to come find me. Maybe 15.
Clacked by Jason Hughes 
on Dec 08, 2008 @ 11:00 EST5EDT
