User blog:Thebiggesttdifan/Dyna's TAR17 Rankings

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So I watched The Amazing Race Number 17. It was great. It was fantastic. It was average. It was sad. It was okay. It made me feel things. Like how cool some teams were and interesteingly I didn't really have that many negative feelings which was nice. I knew the winner at the beginning but I was still pleasantly surprised by the end. So let's talk about it yeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaah

WARNING: THERE ARE SPOILERS YEAH

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Let's start like worst to best I guess?

Team #11
Chad & Stephanie So this one should be fairly obvious I think to anyone who's either heard me in chat or watched TAR17. I did not really like these dudes very much. Chad was particularly a douche, yeah, generally overly-competitive with way too much cockiness and a tendency to want to humiliate people for no reason. And sometimes it can be funny but with them it just came off as particularly rude most of the time. Unnecessarily so. But that's not really the main reason they're here--it's because of how Chad specifically bullied his own teammate and girlfriend/fiancee Stephanie, who certainly made an effort to actually compete with him and try to assert him that she was right but generally just failed. Chad liked to rub things in. It was not a very enjoyable ride to watch them cruise overhead of most better, more benign teams in the race simply primarily because of their physicality and general drive. That's just me speaking as a not-very-competitive person.

But all that said there were some genuinely sweet moments they had throughout this season. Chad proved to be surprisingly thoughtful a few times, and Stephanie had a couple of funny moments, and oh they were also the first team to ever get engaged within the race which I thought was cool. I don't want to look up their relationship post-race but despite my repeated gripes they do clearly love each other like a couple within the race, even if they don't seem like it. I dunno I'm new to this. But yeah, even the worst team wasn't very hateable, and even when they were it was just fun to hate them. Good jaaaab