The Amazing Race: 3 Finalists Determined

The Amazing Race 2016 has determined the top 3 including Green, Red and Pink. All three teams will enter the final race with the final exciting challenges.

Overcoming a long journey from the first days in Yen Bai until now, the last 4 racing teams of the Amazing Race had a fierce and thrilling race in Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City.

The first mission location is at Cu Chi tunnels after the teams start at a marked point by vespa. Here, the team performs the mission right inside the tunnel. Both members will be blindfolded to find a flashlight and then transport sandbags weighing more than 30 kg from one tunnel to another to the designated point of the program.

The team must be blindfolded until they find the flashlight before they can remove the blindfold and continue transporting the sack. The task must be completed within 15 minutes.

Ha Viet Dung almost did Pha Le's work.

Because Tien Dat was the “boss” of Vespa, the Green team surpassed the Red team even though they started 5 minutes later and were the team that completed the mission first. The Green team continued to be calm racers, listening to each other, so when in the tunnel, Tien Dat and Lincoln split into two directions to quickly get the flashlights. When it came time to transport the sandbags, Tien Dat, because of his “short legs”, walked comfortably with a hunched back, while Lincoln was afraid of suffocation or hitting his head because the tunnel was too small, but they were still the first team to complete the mission.

Huong Giang and Criss’s team had already started arguing before they even stepped into the tunnel. When it came to transporting the sandbags, it was a real challenge for Huong Giang because the sandbags were very heavy. However, “necessity is the mother of invention”, Huong Giang showed her intelligence by coming up with the “spider-walking-in-the-tunnel” method to move the sandbags very quickly. When they got out of the tunnel, Huong Giang once again got angry and irritable because the rice bags were too heavy for her.

Carrying a 30 kg bag of rice is not easy for a female racer.

Nhan Phuc Vinh – Thuy Dung’s Red Team also did it in one go. The two members tried many ways and easily passed the task.

Team Orange of Pha Le - Ha Viet Dung, because they came in last in the previous leg, had to participate in a side game before starting the official Route. The side challenge took place in a tunnel in area B of the Cu Chi tunnels. Two players had to arrange bolts into a snail tower according to the supervisor's rules. Each person arranged a snail tower.

The team went to the starting point at the A Glimpse of Vietnam tourist area. Here, they had to knock two opponents out of the soap circle within 90 seconds. This task was not simple because their opponents were the two champion pairs Baggio – Thanh Phuc and Ngoc Anh – Nhat Anh.

Green regained the lead in the semi-finals.

The Green Team “clashed” with the two strongest and biggest racers, Nhat Anh and Baggio, but the two Green men were quick to use “tricks” to push the two strong opponents “dizzyingly fast” and completed the challenge on the first try. The Red Team had experience in the stick pushing game in the 3rd racing season, so they also completed the challenge on the first try. The Nhan Phuc Vinh – Thuy Dung team continuously slipped and fell, using all kinds of “tricks” but the two opponents were not affected. Perhaps their opponents were more cautious and careful after being “defeated” by the first two teams. The Pha Le – Ha Viet Dung team lost on the first try because in just a few seconds, Pha Le was pushed out of the circle. Both teams took 4 tries to pass the challenge.

With Dan, the team went to the bamboo forest in the A Glimpse of Vietnam tourist area and wove two complete trays. The Red team went an hour ahead of the Red team, but when the Red team arrived, the Red team was still sitting there weaving. This challenge was not difficult to do, but it could not be done quickly because many steps were very complicated, requiring meticulousness and caution. The Red team took so much time that when the Red team and the Orange team arrived, they saw that the Red team had not made any progress, so the two teams quickly moved on to Carrying - a physical challenge.

With Vac, the team moves to the lake shore to transport 25 bundles of straw and stack them into a mound according to the pattern. The Green Team chose the task from the beginning, but when they started, both members were sure that this would be a challenge that would take a lot of time and effort. The distance to transport the straw was very far, plus the straw was heavy, each member could only transport 4 bundles of straw at a time.

Pha Le and Ha Viet Dung stopped at the semi-finals.

The Red and Orange teams were even more confused after moving on to the Carrying challenge because the Green team was still there. The straw bundles were as difficult for the male racers as they were for the female racers. Thuy Dung said that the straw made it hard for her to breathe and was a real burden to carry on her back. When it came to the pile-up stage, Thuy Dung was even more discouraged because it took a lot of time and the straw often collapsed. She called this stage a "nightmare". However, this was a competition that required both members to divide their strength to complete quickly, so she tried very hard to coordinate with Nhan Phuc Vinh.

On the contrary, for the Orange team, Ha Viet Dung took on most of this challenge because Pha Le was not strong enough. Each time she only moved one bundle of straw or just followed behind Ha Viet Dung. Ha Viet Dung continued to show his manliness, he was silent, diligently transported the straw and took on the work for Pha Le.

It can be said that both Dual Choices of this Semi-Final leg were very hard and time-consuming. The teams were exhausted after passing this task.

The racing teams had the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the country through the task of matching place names to the map.

The final task of the race is a very interesting task that challenges them about the geography and space of Vietnam. They have to find pictures related to suggested landmarks and place the pictures in the correct position on the map of Vietnam. This task requires knowledge of geography, must understand clearly about their country for the team to reach the finish line.

The locations given are the race locations that have been through throughout the 5 seasons of The Amazing Race. This is really a challenge to review the places that the racers have been to with interesting suggestions related to the challenges they have done. The Green Team has an advantage because there are two racers who have participated in all 3 seasons. Through The Amazing Race, they have experienced and traveled to many places, learning about many unique cultural features of their homeland.

After a long race with difficult tasks, the teams found their way to the finish line at the Declaration area located in the A Glimpse of Vietnam tourist area. The Green, Pink, and Red teams finished first, second, and third respectively. They officially entered the Top 3 of the Amazing Race 2016 and had the chance to be crowned champion, winning a prize of 300 million VND from the program. Pha Le - Ha Viet Dung officially stopped at the top 4 - raising their achievements to a new level compared to the achievements they achieved in the Amazing Race 2013.

The final round of The Amazing Race 2016 will air at 9:00 p.m. Thursday, June 9 on VTV6 and VTV9, rebroadcast at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, June 11 on VTV8 and 10:00 a.m. Sunday, June 12 on VTV3./.

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