The Amazing Race 9

It ended last week with BJ and Tyler winning the one million dollar prize by arriving first at the last pit stop.

It was the perfect ending for a show that strongly needed to redeem itself after its disappointing 8^th outing, the one with families of 4 instead of teams of 2 as participants, remember it? Me neither. I stopped watching it as soon as I started feeling like I was wasting my time, never a good feeling when watching TV.

Anyway, this season, Amazing Race was back to its roots and the show was back to being great. We enjoyed it as usual and in the end were both very, very happy to see a "cerebral" team win over a more "physical" one.

And for that, we have to thank whoever had the brilliant idea of inserting a final road block right before the pit stop, which increased the teams' nervousness and tension to the extreme. The task was both mental and physical, unlike the usual foot-race ending that always favors physically strong teams.

The winning team and the runner ups were both strong throughout the race (BJ and Tyler won 5 out of 13 legs of the race, Eric and Jeremy won 6) but the two were clearly different.

Although Eric and Jeremy weren't dumb, they clearly relied heavily on their physical fitness. BJ and Tyler, on the other hand, knew their strong suit was their ability to think.

And in the end, brains won over brawns.

The only sad thing was seeing gorgeously handsome Eric so disappointed...