You're My New Connection

## Subpages

**You're My New Connection** is the season premiere of *TSM The Amazing Race 9: New Connection*.

## Story

Leg 1 (Based off Leg 1 of The Amazing Race 20)

**Phil Keoghan:** "Welcome to the amazing race. This season, we have gathered twenty two racers, old and new, for a race like no other before it. They know they will be paired with someone, but what they don't know, is that they will be racing with someone they have never raced with before."

"Welcome to the amazing race! Before we begin, let me list off everyone who is here. We have Biggy, Bena, Halcy, Paul, Jenn, War, Ninjaz, Red, Phorix, Sonic, Psy, Jack, Abe, Cloud, Bean, Zach, Soccer, Peanut, White, Iconic, Brittnee, and Ashley. Now some of you know each other, some of you don't, some are new to the race, some are race veterans, but you all have one thing in common, you are about to race with someone you have never raced with in a past season. This is a chance to race with someone you've always wanted to race with, and possibly a chance to form a brand new connection. When I give the word, you will run in that fiend full of balloons in search of a clue, be quick because the quicker you are, the more likely you are to pair up with who you want. Get ready, GO!!!"

**Route Info:** Racers must search through 100 balloons with baskets for one of twenty two total clues to their next destination. The order in which they find their clues is the order in which they will pick their partners. Once the partner pick is over, they will be able to take one of the provided Ford Tauruses to Los Angeles International Airport.

The world is waiting for you, good luck, travel dangerously! Ready Stop!

**Soccer:** "Popping the balloons is the strategy but they don't allow it for some dumb reason."

Everyone is looking intensely!

**Zach:** "I found a clue!"

**Psy:** "Mine!"

**Soccer:** "This clue should go on my tik tok"

**Bena:** "This clue is ugly!"

**Cloud:** "Found one! Wow, how cool!"

**Peanut:** "This clue says if you're Peanut, remember to play the idol. How kind!"

**Ninjaz:** "Woo hoo!"

**Halcy:** "This clue told me I’m blind!"

**White:** "I got one. This is racist that I’m not first!"

**Bean:** "There are beans in the clue!"

**Ashley:** "This clue says Clara is a queen, which she is!"

**Brittnee:** "Finally!"

**War:** "This clue says Nemo is my dad."

**Iconic:** "This says I’m a flop but I’m a queen."

**Biggy:** "This says I’m small."

**Abe:** "You are being cut down. Gee, this is a great start..."

**Phorix:** "I got one. I’m using a fork."

**Paul:** "Gee, that took forever."

**Red:** "Rigged! I should have been first!"

**Jack:** "Wow that failed!"

**Jenn:** "Imagine being terrible at this."

**Sonic:** "Wow I lost! Not great starting out in last place."

"Alright, now it's time to pick your partners, Zach, you're up first."

**Zach:** "Queen Brittnee!"

**Psy:** "I pick Bean!"

**Soccer:** "Whoever I pick better have an amazing tik tok. I pick Sonic!"

**Bena:** "I pick Iconic, y’all are flat!"

**Cloud:** "I pick the Tree, aka Abe"

**Peanut:** "I pick Biggy!"

**Ninjaz:** "I pick Phorix you seem strong!"

**Halcy:** "I pick queen Ashley!"

**White:** "I pick my terrible son!"

**Paul:** "I guess I pick Jenn!"

**Red:** "Yes Jack, the only person to save me in eviction in BB6 literally king!"

"Okay, now that everyone has a partner, the world is waiting for you! Good luck! Travel Safe! Go!"

**Route Info:** Teams must fly to Santa Bárbara, Argentina. Teams must fly through Buenos Aires to Salta, the closest airport to Santa Bárbara, and drive to the entrance of the town to find their next clue. The first six teams to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport will receive the fastest flight to Salta, departing 30 minutes before the second flight. The winners of the leg will win the express pass which can be used as late as the 8th leg.

**Ashley:** "This is scary!"

**White:** "Fast as possible Son."

**Ninjaz:** "Alright, looks like you're my new connection, now let's win!"

Peanut & Biggy are on the first flight

Zach & Brittnee are on the first flight

White & War are on the first flight

Jack & Red are on the first flight

Ninjaz & Phorix are on the first flight

Soccer & Sonic are on the first flight

All the other teams are on the second flight

**Flight 1:** Peanut & Biggy, Zach & Brittnee, White & War, Jack & Red, Ninjaz & Phroix, Soccer & Sonic.

**Flight 2:** Psy & Bean, Bena & Iconic, Cloud & Abe, Halcy & Ashley, Paul & Jenn.

Flight 1 Lands

Peanut & Biggy find the clue currently in 1st place.

**Route Info:** Teams must drive themselves to Aerodromo Gilberto Lavaque to find their next clue.

**Peanut:** "Ok, navigate me well, I’ll drive very fast."

**White:** "You flop, navigate me!"

Ninjaz & Phorix find the clue currently in 1st place.

**Roadblock:** One team member must use a provided map to navigate to a skydiving drop zone. Meanwhile, the other team member that did not perform the Roadblock has to board an airplane and tandem skydive to that location. Once the team is reunited, the jumpmaster will give them their next clue.

Ninjaz is doing the RB

Brittnee is doing the RB

Flight 2 Lands

White is doing the RB

**Soccer:** "I think it's this way."

**Sonic:** "No the map says this way."

**Soccer:** "You suck! My tik tok viewers won’t be pleased."

Brittnee finishes the RB currently in 1st place.

**Route Info:** Teams must drive themselves to Patios de Cafayate Winery and search the grounds for their next clue.

**Abe:** "Cloud, do you know where we're going?."

**Cloud:** "No, Mega made me navigate since he was scared of me driving. And I can't navigate!"

**Abe:** "I don’t blame him, you're practically in the middle of the road."

Peanut is doing the RB

**Peanut:** "We got a little lost back there."

Ninjaz finishes the RB currently in 2nd place.

Abe is doing the RB

Bena is doing the RB

White finishes the RB currently in 3rd place.

**Route Info:** Teams must make 120 empanadas, 60 filled with meat and 60 filled with cheese, both having different crimping pattern. Once the proper quantity of empanadas are made correctly, the empanada champion will allow them to search the grounds to check in. The last team to check in will be eliminated!

Zach & Brittnee start the empanadas currently in 1st place.

Jack is doing the RB

**Red:** "Wow we got really lost! I hope we're not the last team from the first flight."

**Sonic:** "Ugh where are we."

**Soccer:** "Tik Tok fam, wouldn’t the race look good on my account."

Peanut finishes the RB currently in 4th place.

Jenn is doing the RB

**Ashley:** "Where are we!"

**Halcy:** “Um, I thought we went right."

**Ashley:** "No left!"

**Hacly:** "No Straight!"

White & War start the empanadas currently in 2nd place.

Abe finishes the RB currently in 5th place.

Bena finishes the RB currently in 6th place.

Bean is doing the RB

**Ninjaz:** "We're lost, and don’t know where to go."

Halcy is doing the RB

Jenn finishes the RB currently in 7th place.

Peanut & Biggy start the empanadas currently in 3rd place.

**War:** "Is it good?"

**Judge:** "No!"

**War:** "You literally did the wrong thing the whole time White... seriously!"

**White:** "This is racist and against my culture... Shut up!"

**Abe:** "Cloud, your practically driving on the side!"

**Cloud:** "I'm sorry, should I navigate?"

**Abe:** "I’d rather not get in a crash so sure."

**Cloud:** (cries) "I'm sorry, I'm just not a good partner in general, I don't even know how me and Mega won."

**Abe:** "It's fine, we literally just started, we'll be fine."

Jack finishes the RB currently in 8th place.

Zach & Brittnee finish their empanadas. They may now check into the pitstop.

**Zach:** "I don’t see it."

**Brittnee:** "Let's go that way. Maybe it's nearby and not directly in it."

Bena & Iconic start the empanadas currently in 4th place.

Halcy finishes the RB currently in 9th place.

Soccer is doing the RB

**Bean:** "ugh where!"

White & War finish empanadas.

**Brittnee:** "Where is he? I literally can't even see him!"

White & War, you are team number 1! You win the express pass!

**White:** "YESS!"

**Zach:** "UGHHH IT'S RIGHT THERE!!! WE PASSED IT LIKE THREE TIMES!"

Zach & Brittnee, you are team number 2.

**Zach:** "We had it..."

**White:** "Haha, losers"

Cloud & Abe start the empanadas currently in 5th place.

**Abe:** "I suck already, see, this is something you're good at."

**Cloud:** "This makes me feel better."

Bean finishes the RB currently in 10th place.

Soccer finishes the RB currently in Last place.

**Soccer:** "Tik Tok, wasn’t this maze cool?"

**Sonic:** "Soccer shut up, we actually need to focus."

**Phorix:** "We literally just got directions, and we were driving in the wrong direction for like an hour."

**Ninjaz:** "We need to catch up."

Jack & Red start the empanadas currently in 6th place.

Peanut & Biggy finish the empanadas.

Peanut & Biggy, you are team number 3

Cloud & Abe finish the empanadas.

Cloud & Abe, you are team number 4.

**Abe:** "Not bad for the second flight."

Paul & Jenn start the empanadas currently in 7th place.

**Ashley:** "Oh my gosh, I read the map wrong, that left 10 minutes ago was a right."

**Halcy:** "Yay, we're getting eliminated, woo hoo!"

**Bean:** "Was it a left?"

**Psy:** "I don't know."

Soccer & Sonic start the empanadas currently in 8th place.

Psy & Bean start the empanadas currently in 9th place.

Bena & Iconic finish the empanadas.

Bena & Iconic, are you are team number 5.

**Iconic:** "Man, we did terrible at that task lol!"

**Bena:** "It's a work in progress but we will move up."

Halcy & Ashley start the empanadas currently in 10th place.

**Halcy:** "Ok, what team is missing? there still... is one more clue."

2 minutes later.

Ninjaz & Phorix start the empanadas currently in Last place.

**Red:** "How did they get so far behind? What flops!"

**Phorix:** "I heard that!"

**Soccer:** “Tik tok looks like I’m staying alive.”

**Sonic:** "Can you stop with that? How do you even have a phone on the race?"

**Soccer:** "I cleared it with my lawyers backing me up."

**Sonic:** "Great... Check!"

**Judge:** "Not correct."

Paul & Jenn finish the empanadas.

Paul & Jenn, you are team number 6.

**Ashley:** "Judge!"

**Red:** "They haven’t been here that long. There's no way they're done."

**Judge:** "You're all good!"

**Red:** "WHAT... THAT'S RIGGED!!!"

**Jack:** "UM HOW!"

**Ashley:** "YES, WE ICON QUEENS!"

**Halcy:** "LET'S GO!"

Halcy & Ashley, you are team number 7.

Jack & Red finish the empanadas

Jack & Red, you are team number 8.

**Red:** "Not first out this time! But we should have beaten Blindsy and Sheeply!"

**Soccer:** "Stay in this, for tik tok."

**Ninjaz:** "If we get eliminated due to navigation, I’m going to choke myself."

**Psy:** "I think we got this!"

**Bean:** "Judge!"

**Judge:** "That is wrong!"

**Psy:** "Ugh, those weren’t placed properly."

**Soccer:** "Is it good?"

Judge: "NO!"

**Sonic:** "I hate this!"

**Sonic:** "Oh I see it. Check!"

Soccer & Sonic finish the empanadas.

Soccer & Sonic, you are team number 9!

**Soccer:** "Alright tik tok, we're still alive!"

**Sonic:** "..."

**Ninjaz:** "Can we have it checked please!"

**Psy:** "Please be wrong, be wrong!"

**Judge:** "That is correct!"

**Psy:** "Judge!"

**Judge:** "That is correct."

**Ninjaz:** "They just finished, GO GO GO!"

Foot Race!

**Bean:** "Is it that way?!"

**Phroix:** "It's over there!"

Ninjaz & Phorix, it's been a tough day, but you are still in the race and you are team number 10!

**Phorix:** "PHEW, long day!"

Psy & Bean, you are the last team to arrive, I'm sorry to tell you that you have been eliminated from the race.

**Psy:** "That hurts that we were so close."

**Bean:** "Inches, just inches, that's tough to take."

## Route Markers

* Starting Line
* Route Info 1
* Route Info 2
* Route Info 3
* Roadblock
* Route Info 4
* Route Info 5 and Pit Stop
 The race begins at Bridlewood Estate Winery in Santa Ynez, California, United States of America.

 Racers must search through 100 balloons with baskets for one of twenty two total clues to their next destination. The order in which they find their clues is the order in which they will pick their partners. Once the partner pick is over, they will be able to take one of the provided Ford Tauruses to Los Angeles International Airport.

 Teams must fly to Santa Bárbara, Argentina. Teams must fly through Buenos Aires to Salta, the closest airport to Santa Bárbara, and drive to the entrance of the town to find their next clue. The first six teams to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport will receive the fastest flight to Salta, departing 30 minutes before the second flight.

 Teams must drive themselves to Aerodromo Gilberto Lavaque to find their next clue.

 The team member assigned to perform the Roadblock would have to use a provided map to navigate to a skydiving drop zone. Meanwhile, the other team member that did not perform the Roadblock has to board an airplane and tandem skydive to that location. Once the team is reunited, the jumpmaster will give them their next clue.

The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:

* Bena & Iconic
* Cloud & Abe
* Halcy & Ashley
* Jack & Red
* Ninjaz & Phorix
* Paul & Jenn
* Peanut & Biggy
* Psy & Bean
* Soccer & Sonic
* White & War
* Zach & Brittnee
 Teams must drive themselves to Patios de Cafayate Winery and search the grounds for their next clue.

 Teams must make 120 empanadas, 60 filled with meat and 60 filled with cheese, both having different crimping pattern. Once the proper quantity of empanadas are made correctly, the empanada champion will allow them to search the grounds to check in.
For coming in first place, White & War won the **Express Pass**.

## 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**

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