Race Across the World series 2

[IsabelleSE19]

I loved this show last year and was very excited to see a trailer yesterday that seemed to show series 2 was coming soon and was located in the Americas? But Googling it has revealed absolutely nothing! I thought I'd start this thread so that fellow fans have a place to comment when we have more info.

If it is the Americas, it will stop the contestants just copying last year's journeys, although I must admit I think the Europe/Asia route will prove more interesting as there's such a great variation in cultures as you travel east. But I don't know much about South America so looking forward to being wrong, and I'm sure it will be just as exciting as the last series. It'll be the people that make it - loved Darron and Alex from last year and their changing relationship/bond!

I actually warmed to Jen towards the last couple of episodes, but it did make her look like a bad loser at the finish line. And the winners had their own health issues re the sprint. Jamal was struggling with his asthma..

Have any of you seen the American version? They have these things called road blocks every episode, where the contestants have to choose either a physical or mental challenge to be allowed to leave. It gives an interesting twist - some challenges are really hard, but the mental option can take ages.

I wish the couple that dropped out early had been in it longer, although I’m not sure that they’d still be together!

Winners on Bbc breakfast now

I don't really get why crying made her a bad loser, she wanted to win and she was exhausted and ultimately so close so I'm not surprised she cried.

I’m not as anti-Jen as all the rest of you - I’m far from sure I’d have behaved any better in similar circumstances, and would certainly not like to compare my own likely coping strategies with Saint Jo. On the other hand I found it hard to root for Jen and Rob to win once she’d said what they’d spend it on. “Gosh I do hope that poor couple get the money and no longer have to live with dated decor!”. I mean bless her for being honest, and there’s nothing wrong with doing it, but it’s stretching the definition of “life-changing”

When Rob and Jen dumped their luggage I just thought "OMG that lovely wrap dress!". (I was impressed with how well it travelled )

I preferred the route for Series 1 but didn't warm to any of the couples like I did with Series 2. I was even quite fond of Dom and Lizzie by the end of this series.

I will miss it.

Re the race at the end - I didn't like it - all that way and it came Downton who was fittest - those dissing Jen how would you feel if things had been different and Jo & Sam were the ones having to run to the top ?

I get the tears - 20 seconds - I'd be looking back at all the opportunities where I could have changed my decision and perhaps therefore would have won - hindsight is a great thing

I wish the couple that dropped out early had been in it longer, although I’m not sure that they’d still be together!

I think they'd have been highly entertaining but for all the wrong schadenfreudian reasons.

but it did make her look like a bad loser at the finish line.
Why?
50+ days, they finally took the lead then lost it in a literal race up a mountain which she found physically hard. Perhaps you think you wouldn't be emotional and would have just sauntered up the hill with a huge smile, completely complacent about whether you won or not but Tbh it's hardly in the spirit of the show to not care if you win or not

Of course I’d have been upset. But I’ve have still congratulated the winners, not stood their howling. And I’m a emotional massive cryer, who used to compete a lot. I may have gone round the corner and discreetly cried, but I’d not have wanted to pee on the winner’s parade. I’m probably more likely to have cried if I’d won feeling sorry for the ones that had just come second.

I think if jo had lost in the final stage, against a sprint with people half her age, we'd have found that much more unfair.
I wanted the couple to win as they managed their budget better, they had money spare for if The final bit needed another expense (like last year) it seemed playing the game best. Shame all round.

I very much doubt it bothered them that Jen was upset, she's clearly a heart on he sleeve kinda of woman hence all the comments about pants up her bum, wearing dirty knickers etc. Considering the magnitude of what they'd achieved I'd doinfind it worse the loser being super happy and then sobbing in a dark corner alone as if they're ashamed of their emotions.

That last sprint I wasn't sure who I wanted to win but I'm glad it was the boys and I hope it's helped mend the rift and that he will come back into the family with his wife

I didn’t perceive Jen’s tears to be down to being a sore loser, I felt it was down to exhaustion, frustration and sheer emotion of reaching the end of a long, tiring and emotional journey for her.

Jo cried when they dropped out of the race but no-one is saying she is a poor loser, just understanding that she was upset and frustrated to not be able to complete the race.

She did congratulate them; when she was being hugged by Emon, she said then well done, it was mumbled into his chest but I'm certain I heard her. Sometimes you can't just 'go around the corner' to have a discreet cry. There was no corner and to me that just seemed like her dam burst and her emotions flooded out.

She was an emotional person anyway, very much a 'heart on her sleeve' type person and I don't think she could actually contain herself. I don't think she did anything wrong. To get that close makes it all the worse I think.

I really liked how much more of a couple Jen and Rob seemed this episode; they were affectionate and just seemed so much more together, and he really stepped up at the end, pushing her on to the finish when previously he appeared more of a passenger on Jen's journey.

Emon and Jamuil though were deserved winners. They seem like genuinely lovely blokes and I enjoyed their journey, both in reconnecting with one another and the encounters they had along the way. Also Jamuil was rather beautiful.

She definitely said well done as she was hugging them. I think she was exhausted.

I suppose it could easily have just been a race into a hotel as opposed to a race up a steep hill so guess it wasn’t as unfair as I initially felt.

Must have been so frustrating for them, Jen and Rob will always be thinking if they’d been able to run that bit faster, etc. I sometimes think it’s better to lose by quite a margin rather than be so close!

Ok we saw it differently to you guys then. She was the same on the hill in my eyes, screaming that she couldn’t do it. She’s a bit over emotional for me, although lovely once she’s calmed down. I didn’t like her at first, but she actually was alright underneath. I think winning the money wouldn’t be my reason for going on the programme though, it would be more for the experience.

I don't think the tears at that point would be about losing the money so much as losing the race. And agree, I'd rather lose by a bugger margin so those 20 seconds didn't haunt me.

Definitely would be easier to be Lizzy and Dom and have lost by a decent margin than by 20 seconds!

If the taxi hadn’t needed water, they would have won! If they’d have dropped their bags a few minutes earlier, they would have won!

I'm quite happy that Emon and Jamil won but completely understand Jen's struggle up the hill and then reaction at the end. Completely normal emotional reaction. Such a shame for Jen and Rob they made a few iffy decisions during the last leg.

I wodner what Dom and Lizzie would have spent the 20k on?

I’d like to think that they all loved the experience anyway.

Aw I liked Jen! She was very aware of her own weaknesses I thought. I liked her honesty about the strains their marriage had gone through too. I didn’t see the tears as being a sore loser just a genuine release of all th eemotions

I loved last night. Can't be eager all that time of came down to 20 seconds - there's so much editing and you think yeah yeah its not really that closer, but that time it actually was.
I'm pleased they won and know if I was Jen I'd have been crying too from sheer exhaustion. Going to see if I can watch the winners on iplayer.

Wow, what a finish! I absolutely sympathised with Jen – that was such a natural reaction. She had just given every ounce of energy she had and was pipped to the finish line by 20 seconds. The tears were just an explosion of exhaustion and emotion, not sour grapes.

Other things: Was pretty humbled by Jamil and Emon's decision to give away so much of the prize money - I can't say I'd have done that and it shows what worthy winners they were, having appeared to be the weakest team back in episode 1. Top blokes.

Felt for Jen and Rob with their lead going into this leg. Their 'reward' for finishing first was to leave the hotel at 1.30am presumably after no sleep that night, just to spend hours in the bus station and then see Jamil and Emon there at the same time as the ticket office opened I'm not sure why they worked - it didn't seem like they needed to and it cost them probably £20,000 as they would have won if they hadn't taken the detour!

I think the close finish this time might have been because there were less options of how to reach Ushuaia - Singapore is a massive transport hub with multiple ways of arriving, so the competitors in last year's final were unlikely to get the same bus/train. But there was only one bus a day onto Tierra del Fuego so the chances are they were all going to be on it! Leading to the crazy sprint finish.

That hotel at the end looked amazing! Wallowing in that infinity pool with a drink must have felt like heaven.

I'm going to so miss this programme but will definitely watch next week for the reunion show. I'm also hoping for a bit more detail of what the crew does - presumably when contestants sleep in a bus station they have to too? And when they buy tickets for a busy bus, they actually need four, not 'dos'?

They did mention applying for series 3 at the end (that's the non-celebrity version), but unless things change quite radically I don't see how they could film it this year

Is there going to be a Celeb version then?

I saw Jen's tears as all her different emotions spilling out, certainly don't think she was a sore loser. Loved the winners.