upon arrival at the our lady of manaoag church, teams have to ask the stalls in front of the church "may clue ka ba para sa akin?" if they ask the correct stall, they will be given the next clue. the next clue instructed the teams to get a car key from the store and go to the back of the church, they need to find the kia sportage car that will be opened by the key and memorize a prayer. once they memorized the prayer, they will recite it to a priest that will perform the blessing rite to the car.
the 2 charter buses arrived only minutes apart so the lead that the first five teams got was gone. it was chaos at the market stall but almost all teams quickly found the stall. once again, it was team juan direction that made another mistake of not reading the clue as they did not get the car key before going to the back of the church. i do not know if they are not reading the clue of they simply do not understand the clue. fortunately, team blondies saved them and told them to get the keys from the store.
at the task, most of the teams did not actually memorize the prayer. only a few of them did. but the priest was quite easy to please and still made the blessing and gave them the next clue.
the teams then faced their roadblock at the magsaysay fish market in dagupan city. one of the team members need to carry two large buckets of fish from a marked boat to a marked stall inside the market. they need to transfer the fish into another large container before they receive their next clue. this challenge is very similar to one of the detour task in amazing race season 21 leg 2 (fish by the barrel task) in indonesia. in this task, it was team magkapatid who did not read the clue correctly they went directly to the market and not to the port where the boats are. yna even dropped one of the buckets in the water. and also team juan direction only brought 1 bucket of fish and had to go back which affected their performance in the race.
the next clue instructed them to proceed to the giant clam statue at the dagupan city plaza where they need to perform a dance routine from the bangus festival. this is the 2nd performance task after the priscilla task in leg 1. most of the teams (even team mag-ama who had a difficult time in priscilla) got the approval of the mayor. surprisingly, it was the performers (team sexy besties, team blondies and team juan direction) who had to repeat the routine.
the teams were then instructed to proceed to the blue beach in bonuan and find the statue of douglas macarthur. once they get the clue, they need to find macarthur's old office in pangasinan. his old office is now the west central elementary school. most of the teams opted to use the internet to find this place but it was team mr. pogi who had a heated argument in their car that almost led into a fist fight. nut fortunately, they were able to control their temper and moved on.
once at the school, teams need to find macarthur and pick up 3 items on his desk that is not related to world war 2. this is a hard task, even for the nerds. the first 5 teams (dating couple, magkapatid, nerds, chefs and mag-ama) immediately decided to work together and tell each other once one of them get the correct answer. team magkapatid reiterated to not give the clue to the otehr four teams which team sexy besties overheard.
it was team dating couple who got the answer correct. unfortunately for the nerds, the couple went inside after them, relegating them to the back of the line. being friends with team juan direction, edward of team dating couple also gave them the correct answer, making them ahead of the nerds.
the detour was next and the teams was asked to choose between inspection or operation. in inspection, teams need to get 5 evidences correctly in a murder crime scene. in operation, team needs to give the doctor the correct medical instruments that he needs. both task have a mandatory lecture or briefing before proceeding to the task. some of the teams did not get the task on their first try and needs to repeat it. in the operation task, since the nerds already memorized the instruments, they went out of the briefing without finishing it. team sexy besties complained about this and the nerds were told they need to finish the briefing and were put into last place.
after the detour, the teams need to find the u-turn board before they can proceed to the next destination. and again, it was team mr. pogi who was u-turned. contrary to the fight that they had before the detour, they remained calm and positive and finished the task quickly.
the teams were then instructed to go to bella's calasiao puto factory where they need to find a marked base of the puto amongst trays of 100's. this is another challenge that needs a lot of patience. ost of the teams had a a hard time finding the marked base and had to do more than 5 trays. i think it was only team nerds and team mr. pogi who got it on their first tray.
the teams then needs to proceed to the next pit stop, the lingayen capitol center where derek and ritz azul is waiting on the mat.
the final team standings after this leg is as follows:
1st - team dating couple
2nd - team chefs
3rd - team magkapatid
4th - team mag-ama
5th - team nerds
6th - team sexy besties
7th - team mr. pogi
8th - team blondies
9th - team juan direction
it was sad to see the most relaxed racers go and eliminated.
it is laso good to note that team chefs has barged into the top 3 in this leg and team nerds are nowin 5th place. this is team dating couples' 2nd first place finish. i would also like to commend team mr. pogi because of finishing 7th despite the u-turn in back to back legs.
what is very striking in this leg is the talk of making alliances. the top teams and the bottom teams attempted to form alliances in this leg of the race. being a fan of the show, in its history, alliances do not work in the race. your alliances can help you but it can also slow you dow and can even lead to your elimination. in this case, team dating couple is stuck between their alliance with the top teams and their friendship with team juan direction. this will really make them a target in the next legs.
tempers are still flaring here and there in this leg. team mag-ama and team mr. pogi need to watch their tempers in the next legs. team chefs are also starting to bicker when they are driving. team blondies also needs to find a way to get out of the bottom pack, same as team sexy besties and team mr. pogi. team mr. pogi needs to convince the other teams that they are not the biggest physical threat in the game to avoid any more u-turns or yield.
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