If nothing else, mother/son team Margie & Luke would have to be getting used to fourth place finishes by this point. While not winning legs two through four, Margie & Luke remain strong racers.
The duo was the first team from the second flight of racers to complete the Detour task, doing the log stacking without incident. Where there was a struggle was on the Roadblock as Luke's lack of advanced educational background hurt him in unscrambling the last name of the Russian playwright.
Margie raised an interesting point as English is already a second language for her son, understanding Russian names would be doubly difficult. At any rate, the issue didn't hurt the team as they were still well ahead of four other teams for the leg finish.
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What remains the most impressive aspect of this team is that they are incorporating a real strategy to their game play. Whether one agrees with their decision to use the Blind U-Turn, the argument for using it to eliminate a threatening team and preserve an alliance is a sound one.
The one thing that I still don't understand though is what exactly Margie & Luke have gotten out of their loose alliance with Jaime & Cara. The team's only first place leg finish to date was achieved pre-alliance. While keeping a weaker team as opposition may be a good idea, this blogger would like to see Margie & Luke get some real help from Jaime & Cara for the alliance to actually mean something.
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