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Do check your P-TV inbox for the answer. :) As one of his compatriots, I'd like to know your Canadian take on Season 25 via PM, shok. ;)

More probable scenarios between Legs 3-9 in bold with explanations in italics (based on paradigms since TAR14):

The secret location between the Thai capital and the site of Goldeneye's Frigate stage happens to be...Bavaria: Thoughts on the complete route?

I was sadly mistaken since Mr. Lysakowski was allegedly Tweeting specific prospective contestants and urging them to apply, namely, "a team of Nova Scotian fishermen". Given the consecutive successes of the Tims and Mickey/Pete, one would think that fewer M/M teams need join the future TARCAN3 cast.

Contestant odds-and-ends: Lyla:

Yes, those would be "Gutsy Gr(o)annies" Peggy and Claire, whose moniker I put in parentheses given the inexplicably disproportionate hatred they garnered at the time alongside their immediate successors Heather and Eve. Coincidentally, the leg right after their elimination featured the same dunes shown in the Official Season Preview: it'll set the record for "(desti)nation with longest gap between revisits" until Zambia and/or Tunisia reappears.

Perhaps what Kel V. had in mind was terrains/biomes unavailable in the Great White North, e.g. chaparral (California) and tropical rainforest (Puerto Rico).

Have I got some good news for you and the spouse: And the town of Spitzkoppe.

No dice, alas: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HKNKjFjeuW8

Feasible Boot Order by Leg: Tokyo: Lyla/Jeff eliminated in 11th place Nagano: Tuskegee eliminated in 10th place Phuket: F9 NEL or Jonathan/Harley eliminated in 9th place Bangkok: F8 NEL or Jonathan/Harley eliminated in 9th place unknown destination: F8 NEL or one of Jeff/Jackie, Steve/Alyson, and male green team eliminated in 8th place Monaco and la Turbie: F7 NEL or one of Jeff/Jackie, Steve/Alyson, and male green team eliminated in 7th/8th place Swakopmund/Spitzkoppe, Windhoek, etc: F6/F7 NEL or one of Jeff/Jackie, Steve/Alyson, and male green team eliminated in 7th place Swakopmund/Spitzkoppe, Windhoek, etc: F6 NEL or one of Jeff/Jackie, Steve/Alyson, and male green team eliminated in 7th place or remainder thereof eliminated in 6th place Amsterdam: F5 NEL or remainder of Jeff/Jackie, Steve/Alyson, and male green team eliminated in 6th place Otuzco: NY Fitness team eliminated in 5th place Trujillo/Huanchaco: F4 TBC * Dallas: Finalists Mike/Rochelle, Hayley with BD-BF, Laura/Tyler, and Jenny with BD-BF * "This was taken on dec 5th almost midnight, they arrived from Trujillo at 23:00 pm, all of them were on the lobby [of LIM] and other places inside the airport waiting their flight, i left the airport almost 1:00 am." - Rocio Milagros, the local Peruvian source for these four photographs via Instagram

Again, unable to edit previous findings, so here's another mass up-to-date revision! ? ! ~ { }

Hooray for the Sweet Scientists not just making the F3 exactly a month after their UWisc classmate Meaghan Mikkelson-Reid (and fellow BigTen sister Natalie Spooner from OSU) accomplished the same feat at the time of filming, but for also keeping the "female team(s) dominating SoCal Finales" legacy 3-for-3 in the span of four years: that quartet of knowing grins belonged to none other than Nat Strand, Kat Chang-Worden, Brook Roberts, and Claire Champlin-Woolsey! P.S. Honorable mentions to Jill Haney, Bethany Hamilton-Dirks, and Misti Raman ~

Alas, not even the Memory Challenge got that "insular".

Nary so much as a parasol in the background at the time of filming (bravo to Amy D. for invoking a literal umbrella term as a metaphor for penultimate leg twists ~): P.S. Might she - and for that matter the Carnival lady atop the season's very first PitStop - be a secret pageant queen whose non-perspiration techniques elude all outsiders? (The Cyclists' "glistening" comment to Misti R. would take on a whole new meaning!)

Yes, though outside of CBS, Gary Busey accomplished the same feat earlier this year, not to take away from her triumph ~