The local news from the CBS affiliate in Denver, Colorado interviewed Fran and Barry after they hosted a watch-party with family and friends for the first episode up in Breckenridge, Colorado. During the segment, Fran and Barry revealed that contestants were not allowed to speed on the way to Denver International Airport from the launching point at Red Rocks Ampitheatre. Contestants also must stay together and within 20 feet of their camera person at all times. The funny part of this rule is the camera person actually stopped and focused on the clue box on the bridge when Fran and Barry kept walking past it. You’d think that would have given it away, but it didn’t.

It’s great having the old format back in place and once again many of the learned lessons continue to prove their relevance. There seem to be two ways a team can almost guarantee a lost. Either their taxi gets them lost or they pull some sort of self-inflicted blunder.

Lake and Michelle did it first by failing to read all the rules on the very first clue. Pulling over to book a ticket only cost them time as this was not allowed. Fran and Barry were the second contestants to cripple themselves by missing the obvious clue box on the bridge.

And then both Fran and Barry and Dani and Danielle made the fairly stupid choice of assembling a motorcycle instead of flying in a helicopter. Both teams knew they had no experience as mechanics but somehow still concluded it would be easier than sitting in a helicopter and searching for a clue. I don’t get it.

John and Scott were the first to suffer death by taxi on the way to the bridge.

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They’ve got some interesting teams in the Amazing Race this season.