CBS video: Preston & Jennifer
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South Carolinians Jennifer and Preston are closer to the kind of team that we've seen rise up on more recent races, daters on a relationship test. Of course, the first question on their "Amazing Racer 14" test should be to see if the daters can agree on why they're racing together in the first place.
While Jennifer wants to test the relationship, Preston is racing strictly for the million dollar prize. If Preston doesn't value the relationship aspect as much as Jennifer, that could be their real problem. My real problem of course is to find a way other than race to refer to the duplicate Jennifers on this season.
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The daters do have youth on their side plus Preston's work as a software engineer indicates a high level of problem solving ability which should help on tasks. Strangely though, the weaknesses seem to be more obvious than the strengths here.
Preston and Jennifer have broken up and made up several times. By their own admission, they have a tendency to bicker with each other. Plus, their travel experience is extremely limited. Until not too long ago, The native Alabaman Preston's biggest trip was to the largest city of South Carolina. Fireworks of all kinds could strike here.
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Jennifer has an interesting insight into the teams she feels do well on the race, the teams. She believes the teams that have fun together generally finish better overall than ones racing based on strategy. The latter group of teams are the ones she believes tend to plunge from first to last place on successive legs.
I'm not sure that I completely agree with her analysis but Jennifer's other strategic insight of "always read your clue" could well get the daters a top five finish all by itself. Aside from that, whether this team enjoys the time with each other or finds TAR14 only providing more fuel for infighting should determine this team's fate.
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