Spoiler - TAR 9

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Monday, December 5, 2005

The Amazing Race 9
Amazing Race 9 spotted inside and outside the continental United States

Production began last month on The Amazing Race 9, and there’s good news for everyone who thinks this current season has been a North and Central America-centric catastrophe. (Stop reading now if you consider location information to be a spoiler.)

The race has been spotted outside the US, specifically in northern Australia. The Northern Territory News reports that “teams were rushed through Darwin airport to SkyCity hotel casino on Thursday night and yesterday morning they are believed to have filmed scenes at Darwin’s Crocodylus Park before being whisked to a secret location.” That would have been on Nov. 24, Thanksgiving, and Nov. 25, the day the rest of us were assaulting our neighbors so we could save 35 cents on a DVD player.

A team was later spotted in Adelaide on Nov. 27 on their way to Sydney. The team, “young, good-looking Americans carrying only backpacks, with a TV crew filming their every move,” was spotted at the airport in Adelaide “attempt[ing] to book a capacity Singapore Airlines flight,” according to The Advertiser. “They had boarding passes for a flight to Sydney, and after being told the Singapore Airlines flight was full, they ran back to the domestic terminal….”

Reader Andrew breaks down the dates and locations, using that funny backwards date notation thing non-Americans do:

23/11 - filming at Rottnest Island Prison (near Perth)
24/11 - arrived in Darwin, went to Skycity hotel
25/11 - went to crocodile park
28/11 - “desperate-looking” couple running around airport in Adelaide

Separately, the Salt Lake City Tribune managed to get Phil to confirm that the series was filming “somewhere near the Middle East,” although it’s not clear if the interview was conducted before or after the Australia sightings.

The race may have started in Denver, where the Denver Post ran a photograph of teams running through the airport on Nov. 7. A Reality TV World forum poster reproduced the photo and the caption from the paper:

“CBS cameramen for ‘The Amazing Race’ film two race participants Monday as they pass through Denver International Airport. The ninth installment of the reality TV show, which pits teams in an around-the-world race, starts in Colorado and is expected to air in the spring.”

Crowe, Kidman to film NT movie [Northern Territory News]
Amazing racers run through [The Advertiser]
‘Amazing Race’ scrambles across Utah tonight [Salt Lake City Tribune]
TAR9 starting location…. [Reality TV World forums]


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25. "The Amazing Race 9 Spoiler Locations"
LAST EDITED ON 12-11-05 AT 00:37 AM (EST)
A compilation of all the spoilers floating around in cyberspace.


Original map image from GlobeXplorer.
Although I've searched through many boards trying to locate the original posters, sometimes the credit isn't given where it's due. If you know of any corrections to this spoiler list or to the acknowlegements, please do contact me to change them. Thank you.

ADAMS MARK HOTEL, DENVER, COLORADO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
By Arcadia on Tarflies
Time: Friday 4 November 2005
1. Phil spotted holding clipboard, with possibly two assistants.

Fits in well with the next spoiler and those at the end of the race. The production crew and the teams do stay in the start city a few days before the start of the race. However, those races have started in Los Angeles, so this may be different.

DENVER INTL AIRPORT, DENVER, COLORADO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Reported by soccer16 on this thread
Time: Monday 7 November 2005
1. Reported on the newspaper, the Denver Post, on the 8th.
2. Photo included (see Post #16 by weecama).
3. Shows two cameramen and a double-female team.
4. Team is tagged #2.
5. Samantha Vano on RealityFanForum says that the two girls are Danielle and Danielle from Staten Island.

Photographs don't lie, do they? I'm not that sure about the Samantha Vano part, without much proof as yet, but Denver would very most likely be our starting line. Previous examples of sightings at the first airport include Los Angeles in TAR7.

"SOMEWHERE NEAR MIDDLE EAST"
Reported by weecama on this thread
Time: Before Tuesday 22 November 2005
1. Reported in the newspaper, Salt Lake Tribune, on the 22th.
2. Phil was contacted by phone.
3. He said he was "somewhere near the Middle East".

My educated guesses (above in this thread) would suggest Greece or Pakistan.

PERTH, WEST AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
Reported by icarus1502 on Survivor Sucks, then reported by weecama on this thread
Time: Morning till Noon, Wednesday 23 November 2005
1. Reported in the newspaper, The West Australian, on the 24th.
2. Teams visited Rottnest Island just off the coast of Perth.
3. Businesses were involved in the filming.
4. Rottnest Island Authority declined to comment.
5. Hints at Americans with backpacks shouting and running with cameras.
6. Teams arrived at 3am to find the main lighthouse.
7. The bike hire shop was also involved. Employees refused to comment.
8. The Rottnest Tearooms served lunch to 'the... visitors', with biscuits, drinks, meat and salad rolls.
9. A 'spy' reported a team running to the back of the tearoom asking the head chef where Fremantle Prison was.
10. Public notices of Fremantle Prison declared it closed on Wednesday for filming.

I guess, no doubt about this one, when looked at together with the following two spoilers?

DARWIN, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA
Reported by rochford on Survivor Sucks
Time: Evening, Thursday 24 November 2005
1. Reported in the newspaper, The Northern Territory News, on the 26th. (The timestamp says 25th November, 4:34, which is the 26th in the +9:30GMT timezone.)
2. Teams arrived at the airport at night, heading to the SkyCity Hotel Casino.
3. They headed to Crocodylus Park.
4. A flight arrives in Darwin from Perth at 7.10pm.

Since the timing of the flight coincides with the spoiler, I would think this spoiler correct. If the teams ended at the night of the 23rd for the Pit Stop, they would make it just in time for this one to happen. TAR also favours southern-hemisphere locations in the northern winter, which might explain the extended exposure in Australia.

ADELAIDE INTL AIRPORT, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
Reported by various posters on seaprate boards, including on this thread by weecama
Time: Sunday 27 November 2005
1. Reported in the newspaper, The Advertiser, on the 29th.
2. Good-looking Americans with backpacks being filmed in the airport.
3. Team had boarding passes to Sydney.
4. They tried to get on a Singapore Airlines flight which was overbooked.

Singapore Airlines only operates flights back to Singapore from Adelaide. And I'm pretty sure no team can get on that flight. It's peak school holiday season in Singapore, and flights are pretty much sold out around September. Poor racers. On another note, this may suggest a visit to Ayers Rock! A very likely long and lonely drive to the centre of the country, then a train back to civilisation in Adelaide. Not sure if there will be any tasks there, as this is the closest international airport to the central regions. But before I get ahead of myself, this spoiler appeared five days after the Perth one, giving people plenty of time to conjure up stuff. I believe in journalistic integrity, though.

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
By Golden_Arrow on RealityFanForum
Time: Thursday 1 December 2005
1. Phil spotted on a flight from Japan to Seattle.

Fits in well with the Anchorage Spoiler below. A very large percentage of flight options from Asia to Alaska pass through Seattle, also witnessed in TAR1 and TAR2.

ANCHORAGE INTL AIRPORT, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
By thatmillerkid on TWoP
Time: Friday 2 December 2005
1. Team of two men with camera crew.
2. Team was running through airport trying to get a Northwest Airlines flight.
3. They were heading to Denver.
4. Team wore matching grey sweaters and blue Adidas shoes.
5. They were in their mid-twenties.

This happened to be a live spoiler discussed on boards while the team was still at the airport. However, the flight option does not seem to match what the fastest flight would be at that time (discussed in detail on RealityFanForum), putting a little flaw in the theory.

RED ROCKS PARK, DENVER, COLORADO, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Found on Wikipedia
Time: Saturday 3 December 2005
1. No additional information given.

I have no idea where this came from. Any clues?

RIDEAU AND SUSSEX, OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA (Out-of-Sync)
By Melesse on TWoP
Time: 3.20pm, Saturday 5 November 2005
1. Man wearning a trench coat walking onto the road against the light.
2. Man was also wearing a brown leather hat with a side turned up.
3. The man held the yellow and black clue envelope.
4. No backpacks.

The timing puts it before the beginning of the race, rendering it impossible unless it was a preparation race. However, these preparations take place months before the start of the event, not just five days before. Given that he's alone and without a backpack, this can only be a clue-giver. But why would he be walking around (suggesting that teams are suppose to look for him) with a clue in sight?

LEGOLAND, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Out-of-Sync)
By fit4life777 on this thread
Time: Weekend of 12th/13th November 2005
1. Man said he was from The Amazing Race.
2. He picked up a package at Legoland Guest Services.

The date is off, and that's a strange place for TAR isn't it? Could it be a former racer, then?

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12-10-05, 10:29 AM (EST) --Message edité par CanelleEtPruneau le 2006-01-16 23:54:32--