Dayum! I just watched 8 episodes of this season...Nick/Starr won like all but one of those legs.
On the reverse end, those frat boys are the luckiest team ever to make it to the F3. Worse than Charla/Mirna or Ray/Yolanda. Just awful, awful mistakes on a consistent basis, but they always had somebody else foolishly going for a fast forward or losing their money/passports, etc.
All in all, it wasn't a great season. Mildly entertaining but there just really wasn't a single team of big characters when there's usually at least three or four (and in the case of TAR2/TAR3, like ten). I fell behind early because I'm just getting kind of tired of the format...it's so "on the rails" whereas the drama and course of a show like Big Brother or Survivor is dictated by the actual contestants. I also wish they would get rid of NELs entirely. They only had two this year since the season was a meager 11 episodes. If they bulked up and gave us like twelve teams at the start, they could have knocked it down to one or none.
All said, I'm glad Nick/Starr won it. There's been a lot of seasons, if not most, where the most consistent team pretty much always finishes in second place via some misfortune (or another team's great fortune) on the final leg. That sibling duo probably has the best leg-to-leg record in the show's history and I'm glad to see they were justly rewarded. What really killed the competition this year was the New York couple going for the fast forward...had they not done as such, Dandrew would've been eliminated then and we'd have had four strong teams racing in the last two episodes, including one more contender.
What was
really stupid was how nobody decided to call Portland in advance and acquire a snazzy taxi driver. They had hundreds of dollars and could've got themselves a fast, knowledgeable one well in advance. If any of those three teams had done as such, they'd be sitting on a million dollars right now.