I'm Not Going to Come Last, I'm Just Going to Die on The Amazing Race is the sixth episode of The Amazing Race: Australia v New Zealand.
Story[]
Route Markers[]
The order of departure from Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood are as follows:
Since the previous leg was a No-Rest Leg, teams immediately departed from the Pit Stop to continue racing.Teams must make their way via Trans-Siberian Railway to Kostroma. Upon arrival, they must have to travel to the Museum of Wooden Architecture in order to find their next clue.
Teams must be divided into three teams by country where they must have to team up and select three matryoshka dolls and search among hundreds of other nesting dolls in five separate houses in order to find the four smaller pieces that belonged to each of the dolls that they had chosen. Once the three teams collected all twelve pieces, they all received their next clue.
Teams must make their way to Susaninskaya Square, where they found their next clue.
For both Detour options, teams must travel to Azumit Hotel Kostroma.
Choice A: Boil
Teams must have to fill a Russian outdoor bathing kettle with water and use wood and paper scraps to light a fire underneath it to a marked line. They then had to submerge themselves in the icy water in order to receive their next clue.
Ashleigh & Jarrod, Daniel & Ryan, and Sally & Tyson chose this task.
Choice B: Build
Teams must have to stack a pile of firewood within a marked area so that it matched a sample pile in order to receive their next clue.
Carla & Hereni, Cat & Jesse, and John & Murray chose this task."Who wants to go to the dogs?"
Teams make their way to the North Hope Sled Dog Center, where the assigned team member must have to ride a dog sled of Siberian Huskies and Alaskan Malamutes around a slalom course through the forest in order to receive their next clue.
The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:
Teams must make their way to confluence of the Volga and Kostroma Rivers, overlooking the Ipatiev Monastery to check in.
For coming in first place, Daniel & Ryan won a seven-night holiday for two to Phuket, Thailand and the Salvage Pass.
Leaderboard[]
First Place • Eliminated • Last placer on a Non-Elimination Leg or continue racing on a No-Rest Leg • Season winner • Season 2nd place • Season 3rd place • ► Used the Fast Forward• ϵ Used the Express Pass• ► Used the Salvage Pass• ⊂ Used the U-Turn • ⊃ Recipient of the U-Turn
Daniel & Ryan
Intensive Care Nurses |
Ashleigh & Jarrod
Newlyweds |
Sally & Tyson
Engaged Bodybuilders |
Cat & Jesse
Foster Parents |
Carla & Hereni
Fitness Mums |
John & Murray
Best Mates |
Trivia[]
- This episode contained much same tasks from seasons past:
- The Nation vs. Nation task was more resemblance to Scour Detour from the first half of the third leg in The Amazing Race 9.
- The Build Detour was identical to Stack Detour from the fourth leg in The Amazing Race 14.
- This leg's Roadblock was similar to Dog Power Detour from the thirteenth leg in The Amazing Race 1.
- This is the second time where the holders of Salvage Pass chose not to save the last team to arrive at the Pit Stop (following Marc & Kat who abstained Crystel & Mykey to save from elimination in The Amazing Race Philippines 1).
- This is the most recent English-speaking version of the Race visiting Russia.
External links[]
| The Amazing Race: Australia v New Zealand Episodes |
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"I Gotta Have Two Legs to Run the Race!" · "She's Got One Hell of a Body on Her and She Just Used It" · "Proper Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance" · "We Have a Lot of Experience with Poo" · "Right Now I Don't Care If He Pees in His Pants" · "I'm Not Going to Come Last, I'm Just Going to Die on The Amazing Race" · "There's a Lot of Bones in This, I Really Don't Wanna Die" · "I Can't Feel My Nadz!" · "Dude, We Don't Want to Go to Your House" · "At Least We Did Better Than the Bloody Kiwis" |