"A Race to Remember"

**"A Race to Remember"** is the finale of Sleepy's Amazing Race 8.

## Route Markers (Leg 12)

**Pit Start:** The order of departure from Marble Temple are as follows:

1. Deirdre and Morgan (11:18 pm)
2. Ingrid and Beau (1:21 am)
3. Clay and Eden (1:28 am)
4. Olwen and Brooke (1:32 am)

**Route Info:** Teams must fly to Toyko, Japan. Upon arrival, teams must get into one of the marked cars at Hotel Nikko Narita, drive themselves to Shibuya, park their car at Sakamoto Building, then make their way to Shibuya Crossing and search among the giant screens for one flashing their next clue.

**Route Info:** Teams must find the Statue of Hachikō, where a man in a yellow and red scarf would hand them their next clue.

**Speed Bump:** As a penalty for coming in last place on the previous leg, Olwen and Brooke must now perform a Speed Bump, which required them to clean the Statue of Hachikō.

**Detour:** Maiden or Messenger

For Maiden, teams must take a taxi to Hamarikyu Gardens to transport a young Japanese woman in a traditional Japanese palanquin for a third of a mile to a Japanese tea ceremony pavilion to receive their next clue. This task was chosen by Clay and Eden and Deirdre and Morgan.

For Messenger, teams must make their by foot to 200 yards to Sankusu Street and pick up a pair of foldable bicycles and messenger bags, each containing a parcel. They must then ride their bikes through the streets of Tokyo and deliver the parcels to Shinjuku Park Tower and Shinjuku Chuo Koen buildings in Shinjuku. Once they have delivered the packages, teams must return to Sankusu Street to receive their next clue. This task was chosen by Ingrid and Beau and Olwen and Brooke.

**Route Info:** Teams must make their way to the Capsule Land Hotel, where they will stay for the night. Their departure time the following morning would depend on the order they arrive. The first team to arrive at the park would depart at 9 am, with each succeeding team departing every 15 minutes thereafter.

**Roadblock:** *Who's ready to coast through their day?*

The team member assigned to perform this Roadblock must ride on three extreme rides at Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park in the following order: the Pizza, Dodonpa, and Fujiyama. While riding, they must look for a man holding a sign. Upon completion of their third ride, they would have to tell the park manager what was written on the sign to receive their next clue. If they did not see the sign, they would have to go on all three rides again.

The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:

* Clay and Eden
* Deirdre and Morgan
* Ingrid and Beau
* Olwen and Brooke

**Pit Stop:** Teams must drive themselves to Lake Yamanaka and pedal a swan boat to their Pit Stop aboard the *Swan Lake* boat. The winners of this leg won like phones or something idk. In the real episode they won some now super outdated T-Mobile phones lol

## Story (Leg 12)

* This leg starts with all the teams talking about how intense this penultimate leg will be. Ingrid and Beau stress to their alliance how important it is to get Olwen and Brooke out during this leg.
* All of the teams fly to Japan, drive themselves to Shibuya Crossing, and begin searching for their clue in the sea of flashing screens.
* Ingrid and Beau and Olwen and Brooke spot their clues first and head off. Clay and Eden and Deirdre and Morgan, being in last, realize that they've been somewhat consistently outmatched by the other two teams during the whole Race. They decide that they'd be the most evenly matched teams to race against each other at the end and promise to work together to get there, even above their alliance with Ingrid and Beau. They also find their clue lol
* Meanwhile, Olwen and Brooke reach their Speed Bump and complete it before any other teams have the chance to pass them, allowing them to start the Detour in first place. Ingrid and Beau, on the other hand, get super lost.
* Deidre and Morgan and Clay and Eden work together to navigate to the Detour, but still end up getting lost.
* Eventually, all three trailing teams get there at about the same time, before Olwen and Brooke have finished.
* Clay and Eden actually end up finishing the task first and receiving the first check in time at the capsule hotel. Olwen and Brooke finish next, then Deirdre and Morgan, then Ingrid and Beau.
* The next day, the teams are all released from the capsule hotel in fifteen minute increments. Because the drive from the hotel to the amusement park is about an hour and fifteen minutes, eventually all the teams are released and navigating to their destination at the same time.
* Clay and Eden reach the Roadblock first and get started on their task! While Clay is riding his third of three roller coasters, he sees that Olwen and Brooke have arrived and misses the clue he was trying to spot! As such, he has to start over and ride all three roller coasters again, now on even ground with Brooke.
* Meanwhile, Deirdre and Morgan have gotten lost (as usual), so Ingrid and Beau pass them and reach the Roadblock first.
* Brooke, being a pilot, is pretty good at spotting things while moving in the air, so he spots the clue on his first try! Clay, unfortunately, has old man eyes and misses the clue AGAIN!
* Olwen and Brooke make their way to the Pit Stop and take first place for the fifth time! Despite finishing last on the previous leg, they are now one of the teams guaranteed to be racing to the Finish Line!
* Ingrid also fails to spot the clue on her first try, while Deirdre and Morgan finally get there.
* Clay FINALLY gets it on his third try and just straight up tells Deirdre, as part of their alliance.
* Clay and Eden and Deirdre and Morgan head to the Pit Stop as Ingrid and Beau fight for their lives to finish the Roadblock.
* Unfortunately, the Pit Stop is only fifteen minutes away from the Roadblock, leaving Ingrid and Beau without much time to catch up.
* Deirdre and Morgan reach the Pit Stop in second place, with Clay and Eden right behind them in third. Khil informs them that they are officially two of the teams that will race in the final leg!
* Eventually, Ingrid and Beau reach the Pit Stop, where Khil informs them that they are the last team to arrive...
* and they have been eliminated from The Race.
* They cry and lament all the work they put into racing and all the extra work they put into creating and maintaining alliances. They mention that they kinda want to root for the remaining members of their alliance in the finale, but they were also kinda betrayed by them and want the brothers to win.

## Leaderboard (Leg 12)

1st- Olwen and Brooke
Brothers
2nd- Deirdre and Morgan
Married Musicians
3rd- Clay and Eden
Married
ELIMINATED- Ingrid and Beau

## Route Markers (Leg 13)

**Pit Start:** The order of departure from Lake Yamanaka is as follows:

1. Olwen and Brooke (11:37 am)
2. Deirdre and Morgan (12:18 am)
3. Clay and Eden (12:20 am)

**Route Info:** Teams must fly to Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Upon arrival, teams must drive themselves to Mirror Lake, where they would find their next clue.

**Detour:** Drill It or Deliver It

In Drill It, teams must drill 10 holes in the ice, push an ice shanty to their holes, and properly position it over at least two of the holes. Once completed, the ice fisherman would give them their next clue. This task was chosen by none of the teams.

In Deliver It, teams must load a bush plane with medical supplies, fly with a pilot, whom they must navigate, over 75 miles to Girdwood to deliver the supplies, then navigate their pilot back to Mirror Lake to receive their next clue. This task was chosen by all of the teams.

**Route Info:** Teams must drive themselves to the chalet at Kincaid Park. Once there, teams must wear a pair of snowshoes and use a provided map to hike to their next clue.

**Route Info:** Teams must fly to Denver, Colorado. Upon arrival, teams must take a taxi to the town of Golden and search the grounds at Clear Creek History Park to find their next clue.

**Route Info:** Teams must make their way back to the Starting Line, Red Rocks Amphitheatre at Red Rocks Park, where they would find their next clue.

**Roadblock and Finish Line:** "*Who remembers the most about the places you've been?*"

The team member assigned to perform this Roadblock must search among a field of 285 flags for the flags of each of the nine foreign countries they traveled to during the race and place the flags in the order in which they visited each country. The other team member could guide their partner, but was not allowed to physically assist them. Teams were given a reference board with the flags of each destination country, with three decoy flags. Once they finished the Roadblock, teams must run along the flagged path to the **Finish Line**.

The Roadblock performers per team are und

* Clay and Eden
* Deirdre and Morgan
* Olwen and Brooke

## Story (Leg 13)

* Going into the final leg, all three teams get a bunch of confessionals talking about how they're gonna win and they won't hold back and whatnot.
* All teams end up on the same flight to Anchorage and are equalized one final time.
* The teams touch down and instantly Clay and Eden get lost lmaoooo
* Olwen and Brooke reach the Detour first and, with Brooke literally being a pilot, decide to Deliver It.
* Deirdre and Morgan arrive not long after and also decide to Deliver It. This task takes a bit, but Olwen and Brooke get it done and receive their clue just as Clay and Eden finally get there.
* The brothers head to their next task, while Deirdre and Morgan get lost in a little airplane LMAO. Clay and Eden finish loading up their plane and get in the air.
* Olwen and Brooke arrive at Kincaid Park and get ready to start hiking for their next clue.
* Clay and Eden finish the task as Deirdre and Morgan are still lost and forced to land at a random place to refuel, losing them even more time.
* Olwen and Brooke find their clue in Kincaid Park and get tickets on the first available flight to Denver.
* Clay and Eden reach the park and receive their clue next, but find that there are no available tickets on the same flight as the brothers. They end up on a flight that arrives thirty minutes later, instead. Despite being super far behind, Deirdre and Morgan eventually catch up and receive tickets on the same flight as their allies Clay and Eden.
* Wow, this leg is really boring so far, there has been pretty much no change in positions lol. I'm sure that'll change in the rest of the leg tho, right? ...right?
* The first flight touches down in Denver and Olwen and Brooke get driving to Clear Creek History Park.
* The brothers reach the history park and find their clue as the other two teams land. They get driving to Red Rocks Amphitheater where they're faced with their final challenge right next to the Finish Line!
* This final Roadblock requires them to remember all the flags of all the places they've been on The Race in the order that they visited them. As such, it's pretty hard and eventually Clay and Eden and Olwen and Brooke find themselves neck and neck!
* Both Clay and Eden and Olwen and Brooke are making good progress with just a few mistakes to work out. Clay and Eden know they need to finish this with a lead over Olwen and Brooke, as they wouldn't be able to beat them in a foot race.
* Deirdre and Morgan aren't that far behind, but they got a little lost and had trouble finding their clue at Clear Creek lol. Eventually though, they end up at the final Roadblock at the same time as the other teams.
* After multiple failed guesses from all three teams, Clay and Eden are confident in their answer and call for a check.
* "You are...
* incorrect" their judge tells them. Little do they realize, all they did wrong was that they switched the places of two of the flags. Clay and Eden try not to panic, though, and keep trying to get their flags in order.
* Now, Olwen and Brooke ask for a check.
* "You are...
* correct! Please make your way to the Finish Line!" The brother celebrate and run as fast as they can up the marked path to the Finish Line!
* "Olwen and Brooke, over five continents, nine countries, and more than 59,000 miles, you are the official winners of Sleepy's Amazing Race!" Khil announces! All the eliminated teams waiting at the Finish Line erupt into a cheers and applause as the brothers celebrate and hug so hard they fall to the ground.
* An ambiguous amount of time later, Clay and Eden reach the Finish Line. Khil informs them that they are officially team number two. They hug and smile, though obviously they're disappointed not to have won. They talk about how they still love each other and they're happy for this experience and all the friends they made along the way.
* An even more ambiguous amount of time later, Deirdre and Morgan cross the Finish Line in third place. They also talk about how they had a good time, even though they weren't the strongest team. They sing a lil congratulations song to Olwen and Brooke for winning and the season officially ends! Thanks for coming on this journey with me y'all :))

## Leaderboard (Leg 13)

1st- Olwen and Brooke
Brothers
2nd- Clay and Eden
Married
3rd- Deirdre and Morgan