Kelda, did you leave a team off the list? I don't see Big Easy and Flight Time up there.
Hey David.. Big Easy & Flight Time's real names are Herbert and Nathaniel - I'll change it to the names being used on he show...
Gil, it's great to see you! Are you living in Montreal now?
I loved the part with the ducks. But I hated the beginning. I thought it was just plain mean for the producers to eliminate one couple before they could even get on a plane. Are we supposed to think they're tough and cool for crushing someone's hopes before they're even out of the gate? Not! 
I would have been totally gutted had that been me. GUTTED. I knew even before the episode sarted that one team was going to be eliminated on the starting line and from the spoilers I knew that the yoga folk were the ONLY ones not spotted later in the race - the whole cast (minus them) were photographed in LAX so it was easy to guess it was them that went out.
I'm glad they did a NEL right on the first leg. I was worried because again via spoilers I knew the poker girls got further than Japan.. and I like the brothers so I was like NOOOOOOOOO!!!! They have done that in The Amazing Race Asia on 2 consecutive seasons the NEL on the first leg and it works well becasue sometimes it takes a few legs for people to get into their stride. Also becasue the gameshow was pure luk it seems fair that it was a NEL. There was no skill in waiting to be chosen and no way to really get ahead. Sure folk did got lost on the way to the Pit Stop, but for example there was no way that the first out of that oulette thing were likely to get THAT lost that they'd be lost and there was and no way that the brothers & brian and erica were ever going to get first.
So far not loving any of the couples apart from maybe Brian & Erica.
Like Zev & Justin - Zev is doing amazing.. he could have freaked out a whole lot so far and he was brill with those ducks.
Like the brothers - they're fun!
and I also like the father and son and the Harlem Globetrotters.
Gil, I also dont like the lawyer guy. And while I can understand the poker girls not wanting to reveal what they do, the fact that they chose to pretend they worked for a homeless kids charity was cheeky. They got found out pretty quick tho!!!
The way they did the graphics during the Japanese Gmaeshow - hilarious - that was a brill start!!
