Four Skating Rinks?

## Subpages

**Four Skating Rinks?** is the ninth episode of *TSM The Amazing Race 12: Second Chance*.

## Story

Leg 9 (Based off Leg 9 of The Amazing Race 26)

The race resumes at Klezmer-Hois.

Nemo & Abe will depart 1st.

**Route info:** Teams must fly to Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Upon arrival, teams must make their way to Jagershuis in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, where they will find their next clue.

**Caution: Double U-Turn Ahead!**

All teams will be on the same flight.

**Bash:** "It's so frustrating that not only was last leg a non-elimination, but we're all on the same flight. We are a huge uturn target and I would be shocked if anyone didn't uturn us."

**Exploit:** "I hold grudges and knowing that there is a team here that unturned us, I would not be sad to uturn them."

**Asia:** "We have a speed bump so we've got to knock it out. I would love to uturn Bash & Phorix and get them out, and hopefully our allies Bena & Charlotte can do that for us."

**Bena:** "We do not care for any of the teams. Our least favorites are gone so I just want to be safe."

**Abe:** "We have one of the best records of all the teams left, so we think there is a good chance that we could be the ones unturned. Bash & Phorix are the biggest threats, but also our shields so we think it might make more sense to uturn a team like Exploit & Hali that we know wants us out. Either way, we need to stay ahead."

**Eliov:** "A while back I told Nemo & Abe about what Exploit & Hali said, calling them the boring neutral team so they would go after Exploit & Hali."

Flight Lands

**Eliov:** "We need to be fast."

**Nemo:** "Wow! We're all here at the same time!"

**Speed Bump:** Asia & Jojo must pump up the tires of three different bikes before they can continue racing.

**Asia:** "We have to do this fast before we lose the other teams.

**Roadblock:** One team member must search a room full of hundreds of traditional Dutch clogs known as a *klompen* for one *klomp* that perfectly match a display to complete the pair. Once they have presented the correct missing pair to the cobbler, he will give them their next clue.

Abe is doing the RB

Hali is doing the RB

Charlotte is doing the RB

Swag is doing the RB

Phorix is doing the RB

**Abe:** "This design is complex."

**Charlotte:** "I can not tell the difference."

Swag (first try) fail

**Hali:** "Is it this?"

Hali (first try) fail

**Phorix:** "I got it!"

Phorix (first try fail)

**Abe:** "I wanted to study the shoes more before going out and guessing again."

**Asia:** "We've only got one more bike to go and we are done!"

**Swag:** "Is this it?"

Swag (fourth try) fail

**Abe:** "I think I got it!"

Abe (second try) success!

Abe finishes the RB currently in 1st place

**Route Info:** Teams must ride a bicycle along the Amstel river, crossing the river via the Pontveer ferryboat, to the Munttoren in Amsterdam, where they would find their next clue.

**Abe:** "Warning, The uturn is directly ahead."

**Nemo:** "We need to get to that uturn first."

**Jojo:** "Ok, please tell us we pumped these correctly!"

**Guy:** "Yes you did!"

Asia & Jojo finish speed bump.

**Jojo:** "You need to do the roadblock to make up time!"

Asia is doing the RB

Swag (Fifth try): Correct

Swag finishes the RB currently in 2nd place.

**Bash:** "Seeing them leave did not feel good because chances are we will not be one of the first two teams there and we will likely be uturned.

**Nemo:** "When we got onto the boat, the next teams had to wait for it to come back so we got on it early which gave us a huge lead."

**Abe:** "Off to the uturn, we've got to decide what's best for our game."

**Asia:** "Hmm...I need to look at this shape."

**Hali:** "Oh my gosh! I finally get it!"

Hali (8th try) success

Hali finishes the RB currently in 3rd place.

**Asia:** "I got it!"

Asia (3rd try) success

Asia finishes the RB currently in 4th place.

**Jojo:** "We can follow them!"

**Phorix:** "I am so frazzled and now we are screwed."

**Abe:** "Here is the uturn."

This is a double uturn where two other teams can uturn two other teams forcing them to perform both sides of the uturn.

**Abe:** "We're getting close to the end. We saw Swag & Eliov waiting so if they are going to do Exploit & Hali then we should do Bash & Phorix and take out the strongest team."

Nemo & Abe uturn Bash & Phorix.

**Detour:** Soak or Shuffle?

**Choice A:** *Soak*
Teams must ride their bicycle to Reguliersgracht, where they must search for a series of pictograph rebus signs pasted on the canal's walls, while operating a hot tub-boat known as a "HotTug". Once back at the dock, they must write their decoded word ("ice skating rink") on a small whiteboard to receive their next clue.

**Choice B:** *Shuffle*
Teams must ride their bicycle to Felix Meritis, where they must score a take turns playing a game of *sjoelen*, a Dutch variation of table shuffleboard. If they can score a combined total of at least 51 points on the same turn, they would receive their next clue.

Nemo & Abe are doing Soak

**Bena:** "I think I finally got it...oh my gosh! That make sense!"

Bena (25th try) success

Bena finishes the RB currently in 5th place.

**Phorix:** "Ugh! Please be it!"

Phorix (22nd try) fail

**Phorix:** "I can not do this anymore!"

**Bash:** "We are so screwed!"

**Eliov:** "Our boat just made it and we're off."

**Asia:** "We're currently waiting with Exploit & Hali for the boat to come back and were hoping no other teams make it on."

**Hali:** "That's annoying that they followed us here."

**Charlotte:** "I see them! We can make it!"

**Asia:** "Woo! We're off!"

**Bena:** "Dang it! We just missed it. This sucks!"

**Exploit:** "Oh my gosh! Are Bash & Phorix finally in last?!"

**Jojo:** "That would be amazing, they can finally go home."

(cf) **Eliov:** "Part of me wanted to use the uturn on Exploit & Hali, but the other part of me was like let's take out the strongest team still in the race!"

Swag & Eliov uturn Nemo & Abe (no effect)

**Swag:** "Now the uturn can not be used and they are the only team uturned."

Swag & Eliov are doing Soak

**Nemo:** "We saw most of the clues but we had a hard time putting them together."

**Abe:** "We put together skating rink but we did not know what the first thing was."

**Charlotte:** "So our boat is leaving and no sign of Bash & Phorix."

**Phorix:** "This shoe looks wrong, but why not take it."

Phorix (36th try) success

**Bash:** "Ok, we've got to book this bike ride!"

**Asia:** "Oh my gosh! That uturn board looks so nice. Wai! where are Exploit & Hali?! Swag & Eliov messed up a good board!"

Asia & Jojo are doing Shuffle

**Exploit:** "We tried getting our own directions and got lost so now we do not know where we are."

(cf) **Bash:** "Phorix felt defeated, but we are a strong team and I knew that we are not getting taken out like this."

**Eliov:** "Hmm...this detour is interesting; maybe we can work together."

**Nemo:** "I said the word rink but tried acting confused."

**Eliov:** "Maybe that means ice!"

Bena & Charlotte are doing Shuffle

**Hali:** "Oh my gosh! How did they pass us?!"

**Charlotte:** "Let's go! We're ahead of them."

Exploit & Hali are doing Soak

**Asia:** "Woo! This game is fun."

(cf) **Asia:** I always try picking fun challenges because it gets my spirits up and makes me competitive."

**Jojo:** "Oh, just 5 points away, but we got this!"

**Eliov:** "Ice Skating Rink?"

**Judge:** "Correct."

Swag & Eliov finish detour currently in 1st place.

**Route Info:** Teams must ride their bicycle to the Museumplein ice skating rink to check in. The last team to check in may be eliminated.

(cf) **Bash:** "We got to the uturn board and my worst nightmares had come true. Not only were we uturned, but no other team was uturned with us."

Bash & Phorix are doing Soak.

**Abe:** "Maybe that means ice."

**Nemo:** "Oh my gosh! we were over thinking that!"

**Nemo:** "Ice skating Rink!"

Nemo & Abe finish detour currently in 2nd place.

**Charlotte:** "Ugh! we are not good at shuffleboard."

**Asia:** "Jojo got us ⅖ of the way there but I can bring this home. Last point!"

**Jojo:** "Yes!"

Asia & Jojo finish detour currently in 3rd place.

**Swag:** "Where are we going? We don't know the full directions. Ugh! I want first!"

**Phorix:** "Oh my gosh! Exploit & Hali are still here; that's a good sign!"

**Exploit:** "I am good at riddles so the clues came together, we got ice and rink, so i figured it would be skating or roller."

**Asia:** "I think we're close."

**Swag:** "Is that it?"

**Nemo:** "Oh my gosh! I see Phil, let's run Abe!"

**Eliov:** "Run!"

**Jojo:** "Come on Asia!"

FOOT RACE

Nemo & Abe, you are team number 1! Asia & Jojo, that would make you team number 2! Swag & Eliov, you are team number 3!

Nemo & Abe, as the winners of this leg of the race, you have won a trip for 2 from travelocity and you are going to Quebec!

(cf) **Abe:** With that foot race win and three first places under our belt, we are getting more and more confident."

(cf) **Asia:** We nailed today even with a speed bump! Now we've just got to steal first place next time."

**Eliov:** "First was stolen from us which sucks but we will bounce back."

**Hali:** "Ice skating rink!"

Exploit & Hali finish detour currently in 4th place.

**Bash:** "Four skating rinks?"

**Judge:** "No!"

**Phorix:** "Huh...the I’s, five of them. Ugh! I do not get it!"

Exploit & Hali, you are tea number 4!

**Hali:** "Awesome!"

**Bash:** "Our brains are just frozen, I guess."

**Charlotte:** "Just gotta get this in for the point!"

**Bena:** "YES!"

Bena & Charlotte finish detour currently in 5th place.

**Bena:** "Ok, now we need to get the location."

**Bash:** "We need to take the boat again."

**Phorix:** "Oh, maybe it's for ice, THE I!"

**Bash:** "WE ARE DUMB!"

**Charlotte:** "We do not know where we are going."

**Bash:** "Ice Skating Rink!"

Bash & Phorix finish detour number 1!

**Bena:** "Ugh! we are so lost, hopefully this guy we are asking knows where we are going."

**Phorix:** "One time! This shuffle board! We got this!"

**Bash:** "Ugh! Just missed it!"

**Charlotte:** "It's right here!"

Bena & Charlotte, I have something to tell you. You are team number 5 and you are still in the race!

**Charlotte:** "Yes! We survived again!"

**Bena:** "We have earned our spot here and no one can take that away from us!"

**Phorix:** "Today we just fell apart. No way around it, we did it to ourselves."

Bash & Phorix finish detour number 2

**Bash:** "I came into this race all afraid and I am overall happy we did the race because it made us both stronger and I am very proud of my partner because I know how hard we both worked to get where we are now."

**Phorix:** "With being such big targets, I am impressed we made it this far and could not be any prouder."

**Bash:** "Hello Phil!"

Bash & Phorix, I am sad to say I have bad news. I think you know where you placed.

**Phorix:** "Yeah, not cute."

**Bash:** "At this point, even without the uturn, we were far behind and that was just salt on the wound."

I'm very sorry to tell you that you are the last team to arrive. And you have both been eliminated from the race.

**Phorix:** "I am honestly kind of bitter especially with how dominate we were. But I can not help but feel responsible."

**Bash:** "I do not hold things to heart nor do I play a blame game. I had fun which is what matters. We were dominate, and Phorix might hold some feelings but I am happy. We ran 9 legs, who can ask for anything more!"

## Route Markers

* Pit Start
* Route Info 1
* Speed Bump
* Roadblock
* Route Info 2
* U-Turn
* Detour
* Route Info 3 and Pit Stop
 The order of departure from Klezmer-Hois are as follows:

1. Nemo & Abe
2. Bash & Phorix
3. Exploit & Hali
4. Bena & Charlotte
5. Swag & Eliov
6. Asia & Jojo

Nobody's departure times were shown. Teams must fly to Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Upon arrival, teams must make their way to Jagershuis in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, where they would find their next clue.

 At Jagershuis, Asia & Jojo would receive their clue for their **Speed Bump.**
Asia & Jojo must pump up the tires of three different bikes before they can continue racing.

 The team member assigned to perform this Roadblock must search a room full of hundreds of traditional Dutch clogs known as a *klompen* for one *klomp* that perfectly matched a display to complete the pair. Once they have presented the correct missing pair to the cobbler, he would give them their next clue.

The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:

* Asia & Jojo
* Bash & Phorix
* Bena & Charlotte
* Exploit & Hali
* Nemo & Abe
* Swag & Eliov
 Teams must ride a bicycle along the Amstel river, crossing the river via the Pontveer ferryboat, to the Munttoren in Amsterdam, where they would find their next clue.

 At the Munttoren, teams would have the option to **U-Turn** a team, with two slots available. Nemo & Abe used the first slot of the U-Turn on Bash & Phorix. Swag & Eliov attempted to use the second slot of the **U-Turn** on Nemo & Abe, however, Nemo & Abe already passed the U-Turn before Swag & Eliov, thus having no effect on them.
Since Bash & Phorix completed the *Soak* Detour, they would be forced to backtrack and complete the *Shuffle* Detour before continuing.

**Choice A:** *Soak*
Teams must ride their bicycle to Reguliersgracht, where they must search for a series of pictograph rebus signs pasted on the canal's walls, while operating a hot tub-boat known as a "HotTug". Once back at the dock, they must write their decoded word ("ice skating rink") on a small whiteboard to receive their next clue.

Bash & Phorix, Exploit & Hali, Nemo & Abe, and Swag & Eliov chose this task.

**Choice B:** *Shuffle*
Teams must ride their bicycle to Felix Meritis, where they must score a take turns playing a game of *sjoelen*, a Dutch variation of table shuffleboard. If they can score a combined total of at least 51 points on the same turn, they would receive their next clue.

Asia & Jojo and Bena & Charlotte chose this task. Teams must ride their bicycle to the Museumplein ice skating rink to check in.
For coming in first place, Nemo & Abe won a trip for two to Quebec, Canada, provided by Travelocity.

## Leaderboard

**Legend:**
     First Place •      Eliminated •      Last placer on a Non-Elimination Leg•      Saved from elimination by the Salvage Pass or The Save •      Season winner •      Season 2nd place •      Season 3rd place • **►** Used the Fast Forward • **ϵ** Used the Express Pass• **⊂** User of the first Double U-Turn slot • **⊃** Recipient of the first Double U-Turn slot • **⋐** User of the second Double U-Turn slot • **⋑** Recipient of the second Double U-Turn slot

 **1st place**

 **2nd place**

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 **6th place**