Amazing Race update - A hot time in Chile

Teams started out from Ecuador and need to make their way to Santiago, Chile. Before the flight, we're shown Drew suffering from altitude sickness and taking on some oxygen. Rob & Amber are shown checking in for the first flight to Chile and then Rob asks the agent not to tell the other teams about the flight.

What is the purpose of this other than to display Rob's typical annoying impishness? Oh, he's such a competitor. However, in a perfect karmic moment, his connecting flight is delayed and Rob & Amber are stranded with Oswald & Danny.

Once in Chile, it's a Roadblock and teams needed to search a boardroom for letters which, unscrambled, lead to the next destination. One of the Blondies defies stereotype and figures out the clue which leads teams to the largest open pit copper mine in the world ("Chuquicatama"?) Joyce seems oblivious to the other players checking the pictures on the wall which identify the next stop, driving Uchenna crazy as teams come and go. Does it matter? No: everybody's on the same flight to Chile anyway. Rob gets upset because Eric gets into a new line and even Amber is sick of Rob's double-standard silliness.

Once at the copper pit, teams face the Detour: By Hand or By Machine. Teams may either put lugnuts on the tire of a massive dump truck or use a front loader to pile up gravel. Rob & Amber finish first and have to head to the Valley of the Moon and the Pit Stop. David & Mary are last to leave from the Detour but Charla & Mirna ask for directions from a taxi driver and everybody passes them. They freak out like you won't believe, handing over every cent they have to the cabbie. But there's plenty of confusion to go around: Kevin & Drew don’t follow the speed limit rules, the Blondies turn around again and Charla & Mirna try to follow a cabbie yet again but get cut off. In the end, the exhausted team of Kevin & Drew couldn't take the heat and got out of the kitchen.

Final standings:

#1 - Rob & Amber, dammit
Eight other teams
#10 - Kevin & Drew - PHILIMINATED

Next week: Danielle doesn't like fish.

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