Rob & Corey

Rob McArthur and Corey McArthur are a Father/Son team on The Amazing Race 35.

The father-son team maintained a great relationship throughout the race. Although Rob is deaf, his son Corey, who is fluent in sign language, was able to communicate well with his dad. Rob and Corey were moderately consistent throughout the race, slightly struggling on performance based tasks, although still racing consistently well. In leg 8, they won an Express Pass in a tense battle to complete and finish the task against Todd & Ashlie and Greg & John. Rob and Corey used their Express Pass in Leg 10 to skip the Roadblock; however, after this, they ran into navigation issues and their Express Pass didn't give them a great advantage as they hoped. In the penultimate leg (because Rob reached his Road Block maximum), Corey successfully completed all the tasks, leading them to the final leg. In the final leg scramble challenge, Corey and Rob took a different route than the other teams. This decision later contributed to them falling behind, in addition to them having navigation issues on their way to the final challenge, leading them to a 3rd place finish.

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Retrieved from Parade.com^[1]

Relationship: Father & son
Age: 48 & 25
Occupation: Teaching assistant and assistant football coach & Senior manager of client strategy and analytics
Current Town: Riverside, CA & New York, NY

What do you think is the most important skill required to win The Amazing Race?
Corey McArthur: I think communication with your teammate is going to be so crucial. We've seen time and time again. Youth and youthfulness will help. But with past winners like Kim and Penn, they're successful in their communication, and their ability to really be on the same page at all times. And that's something I think my dad and I are trying to really adapt and put into our guidebook. And something I think we have a leg up on and that we have a 25-year relationship. We have multiple languages that we can communicate in. We can communicate further apart than some of the other contestants might be able to. And we could even do so underwater if we had to.
Rob McArthur: Not only that, but he talks really well. I can sign no problem with other people in other countries. If I need I can communicate with other people in different languages, well, I can communicate using gestures and such. We're going to be fine. We're going to be perfectly fine. We're going to have really good communication. We are prepared.

What previous Amazing Race team does your dynamic remind you of the most?
Rob: There's too many; I can't pick one. I like the Globetrotters. They're funny. They like to banter with each other. And I feel like we're very similar to that.
Corey: I think one thing that we've talked about is trying to pick out a lot of traits that we found to be really successful in teams that have come back. Soe, like you said, the Globetrotters. I'd even say the Cowboys are really similar in that the whole time they kept such a positive mindset and always wanted to have fun, joke around with each other. And that's rule number one. If you're looking at our notebook in my backpack right now, we wrote down, "Rule number one is F. U. N." We're here to have some fun. At the end of the day, there'll be stressful moments. But we need to tell each other, "We're here to have some fun." That's the goal at the end of the day.

What is one trait your partner possesses that you don't?
Corey: I think my dad is a lot more of a patient builder. And he's a lot better at working on puzzles that take a longer period of time. I think I might get a little impatient sometimes. And that's something that he'll be able to really sit down with and figure out.
Rob: I feel like he's really good with words. Playing around with words, he's really good at puns and such. That's really his strength. It's not my strength. [Laughs.]
Corey: These interviews are going really long. Are you sure you haven't had your "Phil"? [Laughs.]

The Amazing Race 35[]

Race History[]

Rob & Corey's Race History
Episode	Leg	Destination(s)	Detour Choice (underlined)	Roadblock Performer	Placement	Notes
1	1	United States → Thailand	Sword Play / Spa Day	Rob	2 of 13
2	2	Thailand	Stock Up / Scoop Up	Rob	2 of 12
3	3	Thailand → Vietnam	Paper / Plastic	No Roadblock	3 of 11
4	4	Vietnam	Stand / Deliver	Corey	5 of 11
5	5	Vietnam → India	All Dolled Up / The Big Picture	Corey	6 of 10
6	6	India	Bundles / Bricks	Rob	2 of 9
7	7	India → Germany	Just for Kicks / Matter of Taste	Corey	4 of 8	^[1]
7	7	India → Germany	Just for Kicks / Matter of Taste	Rob	4 of 8	^[1]
8	8	Germany → Austria → Slovenia	Field Work / House Work	Rob	3 of 7
9	9	Slovenia	Scrape Off / Swap Out	Corey	4 of 6
10	10	Slovenia → Sweden	Sort / Serve	Rob	3 of 5ϵ	^[2]
11	11	Sweden → Ireland	No Detour	Corey	1 of 4
11	11	Sweden → Ireland	No Detour	Corey	1 of 4
12	12	Ireland → United States	No Detour	No Roadblock	3 of 3
				Average	3.17
Legend: The team finished in first place The team finished in last place and was eliminated from the race The team finished in last place in a non-elimination leg The team that won The Amazing Race The team that crossed the Finish Line second The team that crossed the Finish Line third ϵ The team used the Express Pass somewhere during the leg ⊂ The team used the U-Turn ⊃ Recipient of the U-Turn ⋐ The team that used the second slot of the "Double U-Turn" ⋑ Recipient of a second U-Turn due to the "Double U-Turn" twist
Notes: 1: Leg 7 featured two Roadblocks. The team member who sat out the first Roadblock was required to perform the second one. 2: Rob & Corey used their Express Pass to bypass the Roadblock on Leg 10. Before using the Express Pass, Rob elected to perform the Roadblock, and this is reflected in the total Roadblock count.^[2]

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Rob is the second deaf contestant after Luke Adams in The Amazing Race 14, The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business, and The Amazing Race: All-Stars, as well as the second deaf contestant to placed in 3rd place after Luke Adams (in The Amazing Race 14).