CBS video: Amanda & Kris
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The annoyingly cute Californian dating couple Amanda & Kris come into "The Amazing Race 14" as one of its youngest teams, one of its most fit and one of its most unified.
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Unlike the other dater team, Amanda and Kris seem to be fully in the glow of their relationship, having few if any issues just yet with each other to be overcome. They don't seem to need TAR14 as a test of anything if their video is to be believed.
To the extent that team unity and youthful vigor play into the Race, Amanda and Kris have the obvious leg up on most other pairups. The pair also describe themselves as people persons. With both having communications backgrounds, they should be able to establish connections with other teams and with locals that could work to their advantage.
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The major weakness for Amanda and Kris would be in travel experience, neither one of these two have much experience at all. Whether their self-declared people skills can translate when their words don't translate is a key question. The two also have a self-described tendency to be stubborn, a tendency that would have to be overcome to succeed here.
I'm also not convinced that these two can compete with other teams on tasks requiring life or manual skills. Their ability to solve problems is a complete unknown. Other racers seem to have more intellectual or instinctual process than Amanda & Kris from my initial impression. These daters just seem like a blank slate with the details waiting to be filled in as we go along.
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