"Ay, I Smash-A the Plates!"

**"Ay, I Smash-A the Plates!"** is the seventh episode of Sleepy's Amazing Race 8.

## Route Markers

**Pit Start:** The order of departure from Fonte Aretusa are as follows:

1. Olwen and Brooke (10:33 pm)
2. Leo and Tristan (10:34 pm)
3. Janelle and Sable (10:35 pm)
4. Milania and Rex (10:45 pm)
5. Deirdre and Morgan (10:47 pm)
6. Ingrid and Beau (11:01 pm)
7. Clay and Morgan (11:47 pm)

**Route Info:** Teams must fly to Athens, Greece. Upon arrival, teams must find the Ancient Agora, where they would find their next clue.

**Fast Forward:** The Fast Forward instructions were given to teams after finding their clue at the Ancient Agora. Teams must make their way on foot less than a mile to Stamatopoulos Taverna and take part in a traditional Greek method of dispelling mischievous spirits, plate breaking. Teams must break plates and find a little yellow and red flag that was baked into only one of hundreds of plate. Once the team found the flag, they would win the Fast Forward.

**Roadblock:** *Who wants to hear the sound of their own screams?* The team member assigned to perform this Roadblock must bungee jump 240 feet (73 m) into the Corinth Canal. Once they have complete the jump, they would receive their next clue from the bungee master.

* Clay and Eden
* Deirdre and Morgan
* Ingrid and Beau
* Janelle and Sable
* Leo and Tristan
* Milania and Rex
* Olwen and Brooke

**Detour:** Herculean Effort or It's All Greek To Me

For Herculean Effort, teams must drive themselves to the ancient stadium in Nemea, where they would compete in three events from the Ancient Olympic Games. One team member would compete in the discus throw, while the other would compete in the javelin throw. Finally, both team members would have to participate in Greco-Roman wrestling and must successfully push their opponent out of a 20-foot circle. When all events are completed, they would receive their next clue. This task was chosen by Janelle and Sable, Milania and Rex, and Olwen and Brooke.

For It's All Greek To Me, teams must drive themselves to the ancient stadium in Nemea, where they would enter an archaeological site and search a specific section for nine pieces of pottery containing Greek letters. They must then ask the nearby bystanders for help in translating the letters from Greek to English and unscramble them to order the spell a location on a provided Greek map, Dimitsana, to receive their next clue. This task was chosen by Clay and Eden, Deirdre and Morgan, and Ingrid and Beau.

**Pit Stop:** Teams must drive themselves to the town of Rio and find the Pit Stop at the Fortress of Rion. The winners of this leg won a trip to the red carpet premiere of some movie or something. The actual episode had a The Da Vinci Code sponsorship but I'll just let you fill in what movie sponsored this version lol

## Story

* This leg starts with all teams on the same flight to Athens.
* Once teams retrieve their first clue, they find the opportunity to go for the Fast Forward, which allows the first team to complete it to skip all other tasks in the leg. However, the only description of the task in the clue is that it is a traditional Greek ritual for dispelling mischievous spirits.
* Both Milania and Rex and Leo and Tristan decide to go for the Fast Forward.
* Meanwhile, the other teams head to the Roadblock, which requires one team member to bungee jump 240 feet into a canal.
* Eden, Olwen, and Beau complete this task quickly for their teams, even before the Fast Forward has been completed. Olwen boasts that they'll win the leg even without the Fast Forward, while Beau asks their mom why she always makes them do the heights-based tasks.
* At the Fast Forward, the two teams there discover that they must break plates until they find one with a clue inside. It's a tense and noisy battle as the teams destroy these dishes, but Leo and Tristan find the plate with the clue in it first and win the Fast Forward! They celebrate and go straight from there to the Pit Stop, winning their first leg!
* Milania and Rex are far less happy with how that all went down, even taking extra time to throw plates at each other before leaving to find the Roadblock.
* Janelle and Sable finish the Roadblock, while Morgan *struggles.* I don't know why there are so damn many heights-based challenges this season but Deirdre and Morgan are definitely not happy about it.
* At the Detour, Olwen and Brooke decide to go for the more physical task, while Clay and Eden and Ingrid and Beau decide to go for the more mental task.
* Ingrid and Beau get Clay and Eden to work with them, saying that they love helping out the teams that are couples and that Olwen and Brooke are big threats that warrant working together to beat.
* Working together, these two teams are able to complete the task quickly and start heading to the Pit Stop.
* Olwen and Brooke, Janelle and Sable, and Deirdre and Morgan are now all at the Detour, with Milania and Rex just getting there.
* Deirdre and Morgan are able to get some locals to help them complete It's All Greek to Me, and finish the task in fourth place. Olwen and Brooke finish shortly after them, leaving only Janelle and Sable and Milania and Rex at the Detour.
* Both of those teams chose the more physical task, resulting in a brawn-off, baby!
* Janelle and Sable finish first, but get lost looking for the Pit Stop! Milania and Rex finish soon after and it's sure to be a close finish.
* Eventually...
* Janelle and Sable reach the Pit Stop. Khil tells them that they are team number six.
* Milania and Rex reach the Pit Stop and Khil tells them that they are the last team to arrive...
* and the have been eliminated from The Race.
* They have a big ol' argument in the middle of public that causes a nearby baby to start crying. Don't worry though, they'll have plenty of opportunities to continue arguing as they're sequestered together for the rest of The Race!

## Leaderboard

1st**►**- Leo and Tristan
Boyfriends
2nd- Ingrid and Beau
Mother/Child
3rd- Clay and Eden
Married
4th- Deirdre and Morgan
5th- Olwen and Brooke
Brothers
6th- Janelle and Sable
Friends
ELIMINATED- Milania and Rex
Separated Couple

**►** The team used the **Fast Forward** pass