12 ~ Tiffany Chantell and Krista Debono
The Amazing Race 27 (4th Place)
alol they just look like TIBB favorites purely on aesthetic don't they? They were actually pretty gr8 though thankfully!
Tiffany and Krista were a fantastic underdog team. They're NFL cheerleaders and almost got eliminated in the first leg and nobody really expected them to do that much. They weren't really that good of racers and were near the back of the pack for a lot of the time, but they actually had a pretty good social game! Like, Tanner and Josh were ready to fall on their swords for them and only got saved because it was an NEL, and they were able to turn Justin and Diana against Logan and Chris to the point where J/D U-Turned L/C.
I don't know, TAR isn't really a show with a lot of substance so it doesn't lend itself nicely to write ups, but Tiffany and Krista were just a lot of fun? I wish I had a gif of them doing double dutch in the Netherlands because that was a lot of fun. Also when they had to get 100 <Polish currency> in donations and they were aggressively hounding the locals
"you don't have a dollar? THEN YOU DID YOU PAY FOR THAT??? :\ :\ :\"
Tiffany also gets MAD respect for putting up with the creepy Indian locals that popped all of her balloons during the Roadblock and probably would have tried to do some other stuff if there weren't camera crews and security there.
I can't possibly talk about Tiffany and Krista without their final leg because holy **** what a FANTASTIC episode of television. It was the penultimate leg, final four, one team was going home, everyone wanted Justin and Diana OUT, etc. So the Roadblock called for one person from each team to perform in ~the House of Dancing Water~ which called for them to climb up some giant ship's mast thing as part of some show, dive 30 feet into a giant pool of water, search underwater for a golden fish, and deliver it to the fisherman on the raft. However, if the music stopped and the show finished before you found your fish, you had to do it all again and it was like a 20 minute affair just to reset everything. So Kelsey, Logan, and Krista all get there at the same time and go in the first show. Kelsey and Logan are able to find their fish but Krista is stuck and has to try again. Krista tries for a second time but fails and has to go again. Justin and Diana show up, and Diana is able to find the fish on her first try while Krista is still struggling
Tiffany gives Krista a fantastic pep talk and Krista eventually finds the fish on her fifth try (meaning that they were at the Roadblock for close to 2 hours) and they look doomed for elimination. HOWEVER, Justin and Diana broke multiple transportation rules and ended up having close to an hour's worth of penalties
they wait it out while Tiffany and Krista are trying to make their way to the Pit Stop, Justin cries about what a disaster everything is, etc. It ended up being SO CLOSE but unfortunately Tiffany and Krista got to the Pit Stop minutes too late and were eliminated right before the funale
it was tragic indeed, but the circumstances of their elimination were amazing and iconic and they're pretty much guaranteed to be on an All-Stars/Unfinished Business season so at least I can say confidently that this isn't the last time we've seen them?
and yeah this write up was pretty crummy and you probably have no idea what I'm taking about if you don't watch TAR but that's just the kind of show we're dealing with sorry!
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