Too Cold for a Sled Fight

## Subpages

**Too Cold for a Sled Fight** is the third episode of *TSM The Amazing Race 9: New Connection*.

## Story

Leg 3 (Based off Leg 4 of The Amazing Race 31)

The race resumes at Motu Tapu.

Peanut & Biggy will depart 1st at 3:45 AM.

**Route Info:** Teams must fly to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Once there, teams must make their way to SnowTown Saigon, where they must grab a sled and ride it down an indoor slope to a person dressed as a polar bear, who will give them their next clue.

**Peanut:** "We figured out the airport doesn't open the ticket counter till 6:00, meaning other teams will be here by the time we can start booking flights. So we just lost our entire lead."

All teams end up on the same flight

Flight lands.

**Soccer:** "I see the sleds in that igloo."

**Jenn:** "Me first!"

**White:** "Nope, bye."

White steals Jenn's sled.

**Jenn:** "I HATE YOU!"

**White:** "BYE LOSER!"

Jenn steals Zach's sled.

**Brittnee:** "Get another one and hold onto it!"

**Zach:** "I'm trying but they keep stealing them."

**Halcy:** "Give me that sled!"

Halcy steals Zach's sled.

**Zach:** "Was that really necessary?"

**Red:** "Ha, got a sled!"

**Abe:** "I'm going in."

Red hits Abe with the sled.

**Abe:** "OUCH! Watch it."

**Red:** "Then get out of my way!"

**Cloud:** "Are you okay Abe? I got a sled so don't hurt yourself."

**Abe:** "Nice, now let's get away from there, it's violent!"

**War:** "Everyone's fighting and I want no part of it... it's too cold for a sled fight."

**Peanut:** "We're not getting one until they step away."

**Biggy:** "They are just making enemies by fighting over sleds."

**Bena:** "We're staying out of that."

**Soccer:** "Ok, I just need a good song so I can film is sledding."

**Sonic:** "Let's go!"

Teams sled down and get their clues!

**Route Info:** Teams must fill a cooler with snowballs in simulated snowstorm conditions and deliver the cooler to College Transportation Central to receive their next clue.

Teams fill the coolers.

**Halcy:** "Taxi!"

**Jack:** "Where are there taxis!"

**Cloud:** "We're lost trying to look for a taxi, ugh."

**Ashley:** "There are so many teams struggling to find taxis, hopefully, it gives us a lead."

**Iconic:** "There it is! Here are your snowballs Mr. polar bear."

**Roadblock:** One team member must pass a Vietnamese scooter driving test. They must drive a scooter through a figure-eight and over a series of bumps without touching the ground or driving outside the yellow lines to receive their next clue.

Bena is doing the RB

Sonic is doing the RB

**War:** "Literally, where is there a taxi!"

**Abe:** "Oh wow finally! Took longer than it needed to."

**Brittnee:** “Is this a joke! Where are the cabs!"

Ashley is doing the RB

Sonic finishes thew RB currently in 1st place.

**Route Info:** Teams must make their way to Bình Quới Village to find their next clue.

Peanut is doing the RB

Bena finishes the RB currently in 2nd place.

Paul is doing the RB

Cloud is doing the RB

**Cloud:** "Oh no, why did I do this one?!"

**Abe:** "Just don’t think about it... you've got it!"

**Zach:** “I love when we're one of the last two teams.”

**White:** "Finally we got a cab. We're in second to last now so we gotta go!"

**Brittnee:** "There! We're in last place now so we've got some time to make up."

Red is doing the RB

**Ashley:** "I’m so clumsy."

Paul finishes the RB currently in 3rd place.

Soccer & Sonic find the clue.

**Detour:** Irritation or Irrigation?

**Choice A:** *Irritation*
Teams must paddle a basket boat 200 yards while avoiding people on boats and pick up a basket of fish. They must then paddle back to the start and exchange the fish and the basket for their next clue.

**Choice B:** *Irrigation*
Teams must assemble a bamboo water wheel to the satisfaction of a farmer and then use the water wheel to fill a pot with water to receive their next clue.

Soccer & Sonic are doing Irritation

Peanut finishes the RB currently in 4th place.

White is doing the RB

Zach is doing the RB

Ashley finishes the RB currently in 5th place.

**Cloud:** "Ahh! This is hard!"

**Zach:** "This thing is impossible to drive."

Bena & Iconic are doing Irritation

White finishes the RB currently in 6th place.

**War:** "Way to go, dad!"

**Red:** "How did they do it that fast?"

Red finishes the RB currently in 7th place.

**Abe:** "We're one of the last two teams, which definitely isn’t good."

Paul & Jenn are doing Irrigation

Peanut & Biggy are doing Irritation

Zach finishes the RB currently in 8th place.

**Abe:** "Cloud, stay calm!"

Cloud finishes the RB currently in Last place.

**Cloud:** "Mom, sorry for even going on one of those."

White & War are doing Irritation

Halcy & Ashley are doing Irritation

Jack & Red are doing Irritation

Cloud & Abe are doing Irritation

Zach & Brittnee are doing Irrigation

Soccer & Sonic finish detour currently in 1st place.

**Route Info:** Teams must make their way to Tầm Vu Park on foot to find their next clue.

Bena & Iconic finish detour currently in 2nd place.

**War:** "Oh my gosh, Peanut you killing it!"

**Peanut:** "I'm doing so well sitting here in the boat. War your just mind blowingly amazing at this."

**Soccer:** "We're in first place Tik Tok and we're about to get the clue to the pit stop! Let's see where we are goi... A HEAD TO HEAD?!"

**Route Info:** Teams must play a game of badminton against one another. The first team to score three points wins the challenge and can head to the nearby Pit Stop. The team that loses must then wait for another team to compete against. The final losing team will be eliminated.

Soccer & Sonic make it to the head to head.

**Sonic:** "If we lose first place because of this..."

White & War finish detour currently in 3rd place.

Peanut & Biggy finish detour currently in 4th place.

Bena & Iconic make it to the head to head.

Soccer & Sonic vs Bena & Iconic.

**Soccer:** "For the win!"

**Bena:** "Woo, we win!"

**Sonic:** "Well, that failed... there goes our hard earned first place..."

Bena & Iconic, you are team number 1! You are going to Fiji.

**Jenn:** “I was freaking out since we realized we picked the wrong thing.

**Paul:** "If we switched, we would be in last so we couldn’t switch."

**Halcy:** “I was slow at paddling, so Jack & Red, like, full on passed us and then I just see Cloud & Abe in the distance and I’m like ok... you're terrible at this!"

**Ashley:** "How bad we are at this is kinda hysterical."

Peanut & Biggy make it to head to head

White & War make it to head to head

Soccer & Sonic vs Peanut & Biggy.

Soccer & Sonic win the head to head

Soccer & Sonic, you are team number 2.

Peanut & Biggy vs White & War.

Peanut & Biggy win the head to head.

**White:** "That game was racist!"

Peanut & Biggy, you are team number 3.

Paul & Jenn finish detour currently in 5th place.

**Jenn:** "We've got to go!"

Jack & Red finish detour currently in 6th place.

Cloud & Abe finish detour currently in 7th place.

Halcy & Ashley finish detour currently in 8th place.

**Brittnee:** "I just don’t get it, how did this day go so badly?"

**Zach:** "We're done!"

**Paul:** "Where are we supposed to go."

Jack & Red make it to the head to head.

White & War vs Jack & Red.

White & War win the head to head.

**Red:** "How did those flops beat us?"

**White:** "Cause we're kings."

White & War, you are team number 4.

Abe & Cloud make it to the head to head

Halcy & Ashley make it to the head to head

Zach & Brittnee finish detour currently in Last place.

Jack & Red vs Cloud & Abe.

Cloud & Abe win the head to head.

**Jack:** **Unfair!**

**Abe:** "That's what you get for hitting me with a sled Red."

**Red:** "SHUT UP!"

Cloud & Abe, you are team number 5.

Jack & Red vs Halcy & Ashley.

Halcy & Ashley win the head to head.

**Red:** "Rigged!"

**Ashley:** “Red, that's why I beat you in BB4."

**Red:** "SHUT UP!"

Halcy & Ashley, you are team number 6.

Zach & Brittnee get to the head to head

**Britnee:** "Paul & Jenn must be really lost!"

Jack & Red vs Zach & Brittnee.

Zach & Brittnee win the head to head

**Red:** “We're against Paul & Jenn... we're fighting for elimination."

**Jack:** "We will win this one!"

Zach & Brittnee, you are team number 7.

Paul & Jenn make it to the head to head

Jack & Red vs Paul & Jenn.

**Red:** "Alright, got a point."

**Jenn:** "Haha, we got this point."

**Paul:** "Hit there!"

**Red:** "Go!"

**Referee:** "Winner of this point wins the game!."

**Red:** "Go!"

**Paul:** "Woo! That's ours!"

**Jenn:** "I got it!

Jenn trips.

**Jenn:** "Ow, that hurts!"

**Red:** "YES!"

Jack & Red win the head to head

**Jenn:** "Ok, I’m actually mad!"

Jack & Red, by the skin of your teeth, you are team number 8.

Paul & Jenn, after a very close head to head, I'm sorry to tell you that you have been eliminated from the race.

**Jenn:** "It just sucks because we had it and a little rock is all it took to trip me and end it for us... Grrr!"

## Route Markers

* Pit Start
* Route Info 1
* Route Info 2
* Roadblock
* Route Info 3
* Detour
* Route Info 4
* Head-to-Head and Pit Stop
 The order of departure from Motu Tapu are as follows:

1. Peanut & Biggy (3:45 am)
2. White & War
3. Cloud & Abe
4. Soccer & Sonic
5. Jack & Red
6. Paul & Jenn
7. Zach & Brittnee
8. Bena & Iconic
9. Halcy & Ashley

Only Peanut & Biggy's departure time was shown. Teams must fly to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Once there, teams must make their way to SnowTown Saigon, where they must grab a sled and ride it down an indoor slope to a person dressed as a polar bear, who will give them their next clue.

 Teams must fill a cooler with snowballs in simulated snowstorm conditions and deliver the cooler to College Transportation Central to receive their next clue.

 The team member assigned to perform this Roadblock would have to pass a Vietnamese scooter driving test. They had to drive a scooter through a figure-eight and over a series of bumps without touching the ground or driving outside the yellow lines to receive their next clue.

The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:

* Bena & Iconic
* Cloud & Abe
* Halcy & Ashley
* Jack & Red
* Paul & Jenn
* Peanut & Biggy
* Soccer & Sonic
* White & War
* Zach & Brittnee
 Teams must make their way to Bình Quới Village to find their next clue.

**Choice A:** *Irritation*
Teams must paddle a basket boat 200 yards while avoiding people on boats and pick up a basket of fish. They must then paddle back to the start and exchange the fish and the basket for their next clue.

Bena & Iconic, Cloud & Abe, Halcy & Ashley, Jack & Red, Peanut & Biggy, Soccer & Sonic, and White & War chose this task.

**Choice B:** *Irrigation*
Teams must assemble a bamboo water wheel to the satisfaction of a farmer and then use the water wheel to fill a pot with water to receive their next clue.

Paul & Jenn and Zach & Brittnee chose this task. Teams must make their way to Tầm Vu Park on foot to find their next clue.

 Teams must play a game of badminton against one another. The first team to score three points wins the challenge and can head to the nearby Pit Stop. The team that loses must then wait for another team to compete against. The final losing team will be eliminated.

The battles are in order, with the winners in bold:

* Soccer & Sonic vs. **Bena & Iconic**
* **Soccer & Sonic** vs. Peanut & Biggy
* **Peanut & Biggy** vs. White & War
* **White & War** vs. Jack & Red
* Jack & Red vs. **Cloud & Abe**
* Jack & Red vs. **Halcy & Ashley**
* Jack & Red vs. **Zach & Brittnee**
* **Jack & Red** vs. Paul & Jenn

For checking in first, Bena & Iconic won a trip for two to Fiji, 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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 **9th place**