There was no remember what you did on the race task this season... That task actually helps teams catch up!

Eric, Jackie's computer crashed on Thursday. She's back up and running now.

I thought all in all a good season. I liked the Las Vegas ending, where they ran around like chickens with their heads cut off. Also got VERY tired of Erica's Miss whatever routine and black/white crap. She always acted so perfect but showed her true color when bungy jumping for the flowers and lost it. If you paid attention it took some careful editing to almost hear her cursing, but not. She lost it for them. Brian was a good player, kept his cool and carried them through. When they watch this show, I hope he sees how transparent she is and leaves her. Her mother should be begging him to keep her, not having a problem with him. She's the problem.

If I am not mistaken, they have had a two hour finale in previous seasons.
I was really disappointed that they didn't have the traditional final challenge where the contestants have to remember details of the various adventures they have had over the season. These have always been entertaining and have made sure that the winning team was paying attention during all stages. (this would have eliminated the Globetrotters who couldn't put 5 letters together!
All in all a kind of boring season with wishy washy teams. I did't have a "hate" team or one that I was rooting for.

I know this is off-topic, but since Jackie writes both reviews, I was wondering how come there wasn't a review of Survivor this past week?

Very disappointing final leg. It was a very good and probably the most competitive season ever with all teams seemingly had a shot from the get go. But what a dull way to end it. The challenges were academic and it lacked the best way to end the show. All seasons should end with the recap of the season roadblock, remembering challenges or places visted etc with Phil standing not far off. The season of the flag ending was the most dramatic. But the finale only being an hour is also sad way to short, I think 2 hours would be great with 1 1/2 hrs for the show and a 30 minute chat with Phil and all the teams.

At first I wanted Brian and Ericka to win but by the time they got to "Love," I only wanted Brian to win.

I didn't think the finale was anticlimactic at all. yes, M/C dominated most of the race, but the finale itself it came down to the wire.

Actually this has got to be the one of the closest finales in a while. I mean think about it, in the course of the finale EACH team was first, second, or third. And M/C got to the poker thing third and still left first! The race was decided in that room. They kept their heads cool and carefully counted letting them beat the brothers and Brian/Ericka.

I was rooting for B/E myself because I like rooting for the underdog, but hey it's all good.

I have to agree that the 3 final pairs were annoying."Shane"(not using that pretentious spelling) with that hair and then use of the word gnarley,and Erica making a complete fool out of herself at the worst possible time,she cost herself the any chance at winning,and those 2 Wayne and Wendy Whiner brothers.

The last leg was ok but I agree as well that the finale should be longer and feature some sort of wrap up/reunion.As for teams not knowing common facts,that's part of the game using your knowledge or lack of it but it does highlight the failings of our educational system.

I could have taken any of the final 3 teams to win. Everytime has their moments when they have fighting and obviously some more than others. I do think Cheyne and Megan deserved the most to win since they were always finishing first and they were the last team to make to the casino to count out $1 million in chips and got out first. The brothers had a lot of time on both teams.

I also was thinking maybe they should consider having the final end in a foreign country so as not to be an advantage for one of the winning teams. They spent so long in Prague and then had to fly all the way to Vegas.