“Rock Bottom” Episode Description: Racers leave no stone unturned while looking for a clue in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Episode Airdate: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 on CBS
In the penultimate episode 9, teams stayed overnight in a hotel of their choice in the area of Néa Kallikráteia in northeastern GREECE. Their first task of the day was to drive about 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) or so north to the city of Thessaloníki in search of the Forest Theatre (Theatro Dassous). The show furnished each team with a map of Thessaloníki and required teams to navigate with this map instead of a GPS, although this map centered exclusively on the city and did not include the surrounding area’s highways. As with teams in every season of The Amazing Race, teams in this episode had navigational difficulties. If finding Thessaloníki was not difficult enough based on the map provided, navigating within the city certainly proved to be a challenge for these English-speaking teams since much of the city’s signage is in Greek. Once they finally arrived at Theatro Dassous, teams encountered a…
● Roadblock (“Who Will Leave No Stone Unturned?”): At first, this Roadblock seemed to be an idyllic setting for the competitors. Kim mentioned the place “feels like a spa” mostly thanks to the serene harp music. Once realizing the herculean assignment of this Roadblock, Kim quickly changed her tune: “This is the worst spa ever.” As the Roadblock title aptly indicates, one member of each team was tasked with overturning practically every large stone — among thousands scattered on the outside amphitheater stage — until they found one of four gold coins stuck underneath a stone. He or she would then deliver the stone with the embedded coin in exchange for a clue handed out by a woman sitting on a throne: a cosplaying Oracle of Delphi. Raquel found the first coin, followed by Kim and then Arun. Dusty found the fourth coin after an excruciating three hours of searching as well as helpful motivation from Ryan, his teammate.
● Teams visited the Trigonion Tower to listen to the proverbial words of wisdom of a cosplaying Socrates. After the wise “Socrates” impersonator said, “there’s only one good, knowledge — and one evil, ignorance,” teams received the clue for this episode’s…
● Detour, choice between “Bring ‘em” or “Break ‘em”: this is one of the relatively rare Detours in which every team chose the same option (Break ‘em). If teams otherwise chose the first option, they would have brought 300 plates up the steps to Café Jasmine. Since they chose the second option, all teams smashed a towering pile of plates in search of a mini clue hiding in a random plate. The tiny clues were about the size of the slip of paper used in fortune cookies. Teams were allowed to smash plates while the music was playing but had to refrain when the music paused. If teams smashed plates without music playing, they had to switch to a new plate pile to smash — no teams had to switch. Kim and Penn completed the destructive duty first, followed by Cayla and Raquel, Arun and Natalia, and Dusty and Ryan.
● Pit Stop: White Tower (Lefkós Pýrgos) in Thessaloníki
● The two-hour season finale of The Amazing Race involves rowboating, piñata hitting, flag finding, mural painting, etc. and will be recapped and summarized in the GeoFact of the Day Blog’s next post.
Season 33, Episode 9 Results
1st — Cayla and Raquel
1st place prize — vacation to Kauai in Hawaii
2nd — Kim and Penn
3th — Arun and Natalia
4th — Dusty and Ryan
Eliminated from the competition? No; non-elimination leg
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