The Amazing Race 34: Blog Pool OPENS!

 

Come one, come all! The Amazing Race Blog Pool is now OPEN! The season premiere is Wednesday at 10PM EDT, following the season premiere of Survivor 43.

Okay, here's how the blog pool works:

*Names are matched up randomly with the teams.

*You get to cheer on your chosen team until they're Philiminated or win it all.

*If your chosen team is creepy, fights, fusses or cries a lot, we won't hold that against you personally.

*Not much, anyway.

*Heehee

*There is no wagering of monies.

*The winner(s) of the blog pool retain bragging rights until the premiere of the next season while we all bow to them and lament on what could have been.

How do I get involved? 

Sign up right here on this post! If you're posting anonymously, you need a sign off name on your comments. We don't care if you're a boy named Sue, we have to know something other than anonymous. The cut-off for entering is Friday, September 23, 3PM EDT, or noon PDT.

REMEMBER - YOU NEED TO SIGN UP ON THIS VERY POST YOU'RE READING! 

If you sign up on another post or Twitter or the Facebook page, your request might be missed.

The Stupendous SueGee (affectionately known as SqueeGee at times) will be the lifeguard here this season. Please don't test her patience by running with scissors around the pool!

Survivor 43: Blog Pool OPENS!

 

The Lovely Lifeguard Laurie is sitting this season out. Lifeguard SueGee has graciously offered to run the blog pool for the show. Both women rock!

I want in! What do I do?

If you want in on the blog pool, you need to sign up in the comments of this post and this post only! Please don't try signing up on any other posts -- we might miss your comment.

Is there money involved in this?

Of course not! You needn't pay anything to get into the pool. You don't need to buy a pool pass or anything! Mind you, you don't win any money either. What you do win is bragging rights until the next season and the smugness that goes with it.

How does it work?

Lifeguard SueGee makes random picks for the castaways and the blog folks. You cheer on that castaway all season until they either win or get their torch snuffed along the way.

When is the cut-off for entering?

All pool requests must be in comments to this here post and submitted by Friday, September 23, 3PM ET. No trying to climb over the pool fence after that time!

Big Brother: BB24 Live Feeds into Saturday Evening - Sept. 17

 

Needs a prize for listening to Brittany!

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Boring Bandicoots:

• Before we get started -- remember, the Sunday show will air 1/2 hour later at 8:30PM on the East Coast.
• Welp, that's it.
• That's the big news.
• Oh? What's happening in the house?
• Lots of napping and sleeping in.
• Tons of Brittany talk. She told them all that she isn't a toy tester and that she's a hypnotist.
• Then she talked and talked to everyone and put me in a trance!
• She mostly latches onto Taylor.
• However, she even talked to Turner for a while.
• She knows she will probably be the one leaving this week.
• Monte and Taylor are still a thing.
• He told her that he is a personal trainer, but also a former mechanical engineer.
• They got videos from loved ones yesterday.
• At least it gave them all something to talk about.
• Then they napped some more.
• Because they had to rush the noms and comps up to make Sunday's show with no Wednesday show this week, it's making this stretch until Thursday a total snoozefest, literally and figuratively.
• Ohh ... BB just gave them alcohol and they have the tie-dye shirt fun ahead!
• How exciting!

Brittany even talked at Turner.

She told all of them she's a hypnotist.

He told Taylor he's a former
mechanical engineer.

Survivor 43: Castaways and Tribe Breakdown

 Tomorrow morning the pool sign-ups go up for both Survivor 43 and The Amazing Race 34. Be there or be square! Due to overlapping with BB24 and my health issues, I haven't posted my usual casting introduction or even gotten the blog pools going early. My apologies! With the blog pools, we will be skipping the first out. We never get to know them anyway! Please do NOT sign up for the blog pool on this post! Wait for the sign-up post, please!

In my research I noted that there are discrepancies on how to spell the Blue tribe's name. I see it spelled both Coco and Koka. I'm spelling it as the latter in this post. However, I might be wrong. It just sounds better as Koka, right? 

Anyhow ... here's the tribe breakdown we can expect to see plus age, profession and where they currently reside:

Elie, Jeanine, Morriah

Mike, Owen, Sami

The Yellow tribe is named Baka. 

Elisabeth (Elie) Scott: Age 31, from Salt Lake City, Utah, psychologist.

Jeanine Zheng: Age 24, from San Francisco, CA, UX designer.

Morriah Young: Age 28, from Philadelphia, PA, content creator.

Mike Gabler: Age 52, from Meridian, Idaho, heart valve specialist.

Owen Knight: Age 30, from New Orleans, LA, admissions counselor.

Sami Layadi: Age 19, from Las Vegas, Nevada, recent high school grad.

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Geo, Jay, Ryan

Cassidy, Karla, Lindsay

The Blue tribe is named Koka

Geo Bustamonte: Age 36, from Honolulu, web designer.

James (Jay) Jones: Age 37, from Philadelphia, event curator.

Ryan Medrano: Age 25, from El Paso, TX, fitness trainer.

Cassidy Clark: Age 26, from Austin, TX, fashion merchandising student.

Karla Cruz Godoy: Age 28, from Newark, DE, educator.

Lindsay Carmine: Age 42, from Downington, PA, pediatric nurse.

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Cody, Dwight, Jesse

Justine, Nneka, Noelle

The Red tribe is named Vesi

Cody Assenmacher: Age 35, from Honolulu, account manager.

Dwight Moore: Age 22, from Collierville, Tenn., computer science student.

Jesse Lopez: Age 30, from Durham, NC, PhD student.

Justine Brennan: Age 29, from Marina Del Ray, CA, regional sales manager.

Nneka Ejere: Age 43, from Weatherford, TX. director of pharmacy operations.

Noelle Lambert: Age 25, from Manchester, NH, Paralympian.

The Amazing Race: TAR34 Preview Video and Cast List

What? No non-Philimination legs? The Amazing Race 34 makes its premiere Wednesday (September 21), at 10PM ET following a two-hour Survivor season premiere. BB24 is not on that evening and will air a special Friday show on the 23rd with its finale on Sunday, the 25th.

Have I confused you yet?

 

Here are the teams:

Aastha Lal (33) and Nina Duong (34), an engaged couple from Marina Del Ray, CA

Abby Garrett (24) and Will Freeman (25), childhood sweethearts from Birmingham, AL

Aubrey Ares (29) and David Hernandez (29), ballroom dancers from Los Angeles, CA

Derek Xiao (24) and Claire Rehfuss (25), a Big Brother reality romance living in Los Angeles, CA

Emily Bushnell (36) and Molly Sinert (36), long-lost twins from Ardmore, PA, and Palm Beach Gardens, FL, respectively

Glenda (41) and Lumumba Roberts (41), newlyweds from Norcross, GA

Luis Colon (34) and Michelle Burgos (34), a married couple from Miami, FL

Linton (50) and Sharik Atkinson (23), father and daughter from Brooklyn, NY

Marcus (38) and Michael Craig (30), military brothers from Richmond Hill, GA, and Alamogordo, NM, respectively

Quinton Peron (29) and Mattie Lynch (27), former Los Angeles Rams cheerleaders from Pasadena, CA, and Vista, CA, respectively

Tim Mann (40) and Rex Ryan (59), golf buddies from Brentwood, TN

Rich Kuo (32) and Dom Jones (35), motivational speakers from Huntington Beach, CA