For the second straight time, a team of siblings has won "The Amazing Race". Sibling/lawyers Tammy & Victor Jih won "The Amazing Race 14" going away, arriving at the King Kamehameha Golf Club in Wailuku, Hawaii ahead of the Margie/Luke and Jaime/Cara teams to take the shared million dollar grand prize.
Victor correctly assembled a fence of surfboards on the final Roadblock representing the eleven race legs of "The Amazing Race 14" in correct order ahead of competitors Jaime & Luke.
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Originally, the final race leg had threatened to turn into a runaway win for mother/son duo Margie & Luke who earlier had passed both other teams while carrying a pig on a pole for luau preparation. Neither Cara nor Tammy could handle the sheer physical strain of lifting the weight of the 100+ pound pig, continually dropping the dead animal. Tammy & Victor in fact left for the surfboard fence site in last place.
By the time Margie & Luke had arrived for the Roadblock themselves, they had a commanding lead. From his longtime fandom of the show, Luke correctly deduced that the final task would be a retrospective based on the previous race legs and had already studied for the task in advance. It was exactly the kind of strategy that I would have done in the same position. I wished it had worked.
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Luke easily sailed through the Roadblock correctly assembling nine of the eleven designated surfboards in correct order. It was his inability to deduce the final two would-be surfboards, representing the final two legs, that cost his team TAR14. With each failure, Luke grew more frustrated, literally throwing down the incorrect surfboard choices. To put it quite frankly, the man lost his cool.
We saw the same thing occur earlier in the race in fact when Luke's inability to unscrambled the letters of the poet name Chekhov led him to grow flustered. When Victor arrived at the surfboard site in the second position, he took his time and never got emotional over the task. It was Victor's ability to maintain a clear head that allowed his team with sister Tammy to prove victorious.
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Ultimately, Margie & Luke would not even get second place. In a last ditch attempt to catch up to Tammy & Victor, Jaime and Luke ended up working together to complete the Roadblock. Luke provided Jaime with the info on her missing surfboard so Jaime & Cara could depart the site and eventually finish in second place. Margie & Luke completed TAR14 in the third spot.
Of course, there were simply no opportunities left for either team to catch up to Tammy & Victor. "The Amazing Race 14" was already theirs.
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