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Sunday, June 21, 2009

TAR14 winners Tammy & Victor on Reality Check Radio

Excerpted from Reality Check Radio:

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On Monday, June 22, Reality Check Radio welcomes Victor and Tammy Jih, this season's winners of The Amazing Race, for a live on-air interview. The sibling team, both lawyers from California, will be taking questions from fans and discussing their experience on the hit CBS competition show.

Listeners can find Reality Check Radio at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/reality_check. The show begins at 11pm EST/8pm PST. To participate in the live web chat, listeners are encouraged to register for a user account at www.blogtalkradio.com.

Reality Check Radio is an online BlogTalkRadio show which highlights and discusses current reality television.

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Monday, May 11, 2009

Prelim "Amazing Race 14" finale ratings near average

The final episode of "The Amazing Race 14" did not bump upward in the preliminary Nielsen ratings, instead scoring near its season averages. TAR 14.12 drew a 3.0 prelim mark in the age 18-49 group with about 10.4 million overall viewers, reports PIFeedback.com.

As per usual this spring season, "The Amazing Race 14" had to work off of a poor demographic lead-in, doubling the "60 Minutes" preliminary rating (1.5) in the 18-49 age group. Even with no ratings bump, TAR14 still won the hour in both overall audience and 18-49s, defeating the first hour of "The Celebrity Apprentice" finale in the process.

While Mother's Day & Apprentice competition may have taken a sliver of the potential audience away, the simple reality is that "Amazing Race" finales just don't draw ratings bumps much above regular season episodes. The series is the reality show equivalent of "24" in that way, one has to already know and be invested in the characters and storylines already to appreciate an "Amazing Race" finale.
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"The Amazing Race" triumph of people over process

In the great CBS tradition, "The Amazing Race 14" champions Tammy & Victor Jih received their ceremonial $1 million grand prize check on the next day's live broadcast of "The Early Show."

Victor stated that the Romanian experience showed him that he couldn't win the race by himself. Tammy learned from the same debacle that she had to speak up to her big brother. Tammy & Victor had to unlearn their longtime unbalanced little sister/big brother dynamic in order to win TAR14.

Tammy later noted that she felt sorry for Jaime & Luke when watching the final telecast of the show since all of them had become good friends in the interim. For what it's worth, "The Amazing Race 14" completed taping just before Thanksgiving.

Host Phil Keoghan stated that "The Amazing Race 14" was something of a "spring cleaning" for the series as the program refocused on "people" instead of "process". He felt after watching the season that the program had actually become "born again". From my own readings of the Nielsen ratings charts, I would tend to agree with him.
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Tammy & Victor win "The Amazing Race 14"

For the second straight time, a team of siblings has won "The Amazing Race". Sibling/lawyers Tammy & Victor Jih won "The Amazing Race 14" going away, arriving at the King Kamehameha Golf Club in Wailuku, Hawaii ahead of the Margie/Luke and Jaime/Cara teams to take the shared million dollar grand prize.

Victor correctly assembled a fence of surfboards on the final Roadblock representing the eleven race legs of "The Amazing Race 14" in correct order ahead of competitors Jaime & Luke.

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Originally, the final race leg had threatened to turn into a runaway win for mother/son duo Margie & Luke who earlier had passed both other teams while carrying a pig on a pole for luau preparation. Neither Cara nor Tammy could handle the sheer physical strain of lifting the weight of the 100+ pound pig, continually dropping the dead animal. Tammy & Victor in fact left for the surfboard fence site in last place.

By the time Margie & Luke had arrived for the Roadblock themselves, they had a commanding lead. From his longtime fandom of the show, Luke correctly deduced that the final task would be a retrospective based on the previous race legs and had already studied for the task in advance. It was exactly the kind of strategy that I would have done in the same position. I wished it had worked.

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Luke easily sailed through the Roadblock correctly assembling nine of the eleven designated surfboards in correct order. It was his inability to deduce the final two would-be surfboards, representing the final two legs, that cost his team TAR14. With each failure, Luke grew more frustrated, literally throwing down the incorrect surfboard choices. To put it quite frankly, the man lost his cool.

We saw the same thing occur earlier in the race in fact when Luke's inability to unscrambled the letters of the poet name Chekhov led him to grow flustered. When Victor arrived at the surfboard site in the second position, he took his time and never got emotional over the task. It was Victor's ability to maintain a clear head that allowed his team with sister Tammy to prove victorious.

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Ultimately, Margie & Luke would not even get second place. In a last ditch attempt to catch up to Tammy & Victor, Jaime and Luke ended up working together to complete the Roadblock. Luke provided Jaime with the info on her missing surfboard so Jaime & Cara could depart the site and eventually finish in second place. Margie & Luke completed TAR14 in the third spot.

Of course, there were simply no opportunities left for either team to catch up to Tammy & Victor. "The Amazing Race 14" was already theirs.
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

"The Amazing Race 14" - leg 11 results

The following are the results for the eleventh / final leg of "The Amazing Race 14."

(START: Niao Chao - Beijing, China.)
(FINISH LINE: King Kamehameha Golf Club - Maui, Hawaii, USA.)

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#1	Tammy & Victor	siblings/lawyers	won "The Amazing Race 14" $1 million grand prize
#2	Jaime & Cara	ex-cheerleaders	-
#3	Margie & Luke	mother/son	-

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Jaime & Cara results compilation

Jaime & Cara
Relationship: former NFL cheerleaders

leg	result	pit stop	info	LPA
#1	7th place out of 11	Stechelberg, Switzerland	-	40
#2	6th place out of 10	Salzburg, Austria	-	44
#3	7th place out of 9	Bran, Romania	-	25
#4	5th place out of 8	Krasnoyarsk, Russia	-	43
#5	3rd place out of 7	Novosibirsk, Russia	-	67
#6	5th place out of 7	Jaipur, India	-	33
#7	2nd place out of 6	Phuket, Thailand	-	80
#8	2nd place out of 5	Bangkok, Thailand	-	75
#9	4th place out of 5	Guilin, China	-	25
#10	3rd place out of 4	Beijing, China	-	33
#11	2nd place out of 3	Wailuku, Hawaii, USA	-	50
				47

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Margie & Luke results compilation

Margie & Luke
Relationship: mother/son

leg	result	pit stop	info	LPA
#1	1st place out of 11	Stechelberg, Switzerland	leg win #1	100
#2	4th place out of 10	Salzburg, Austria	-	67
#3	4th place out of 9	Bran, Romania	-	67
#4	4th place out of 8	Krasnoyarsk, Russia	-	57
#5	1st place out of 7	Novosibirsk, Russia	leg win #2	100
#6	4th place out of 7	Jaipur, India	-	50
#7	4th place out of 6	Phuket, Thailand	-	40
#8	1st place out of 5	Bangkok, Thailand	leg win #3	100
#9	3rd place out of 5	Guilin, China	-	50
#10	2nd place out of 4	Beijing, China	-	67
#11	3rd place out of 3	Wailuku, Hawaii, USA	-	0
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Tammy & Victor results compilation

Tammy & Victor
Relationship: siblings/lawyers

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leg	result	pit stop	info	LPA
#1	2nd place out of 11	Stechelberg, Switzerland	-	90
#2	1st place out of 10	Salzburg, Austria	leg win #1	100
#3	8th place out of 9	Bran, Romania	-	12
#4	3rd place out of 8	Krasnoyarsk, Russia	-	71
#5	2nd place out of 7	Novosibirsk, Russia	-	83
#6	1st place out of 7	Jaipur, India	leg win #2	100
#7	1st place out of 6	Phuket, Thailand	leg win #3	100
#8	3rd place out of 5	Bangkok, Thailand	-	50
#9	2nd place out of 5	Guilin, China	-	75
#10	1st place out of 4	Beijing, China	leg win #4	100
#11	1st place out of 3	Wailuku, Hawaii, USA	leg win #5 TAR14 title win	100
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"The Amazing Race 14" finale is complete.

"The Amazing Race 14" finale is complete. Results for the final leg of TAR14 are now posted here. SPOILERS for the finale if you haven't seen it yet.

Since I already did a live blog, the recaplette will be delayed until Monday. The live blog compiled during the episode (also constituting SPOILERS) can be reached here.

The "grade the episode" poll plus a few more polls are already up as I post this tonight. More final wrapup polls will be up Monday.
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