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Tyler & Nathan win The Amazing Race Australia

Surfers Tyler & Nathan are the inaugural winners of The Amazing Race Australia, winning $250,000 cash.

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Surfers Tyler & Nathan have won The Amazing Race Australia.

The pair take home $250,000 as inaugural champions in the Reality series hosted by Grant Bowler.

Second place went to Models Sam & Renae.

Father and Son team Jeff & Luke took third.

The 90 minute episode saw contestants race from Sri Lanka to Singapore and finally to Perth.

Jeff & Luke, Tyler & Nathan were both on the final flight to Perth, but Sam & Renae had to board a flight 30 minutes later.

But the WA girls had a home-town advantage, knowing the fastest roads to get around local tourist spots including King’s Park and Fremantle Prison.

The final challenge required contestants to arrange flags from their destinations in chronological order on a beach at Cape Peron. It put all three teams on the same page in a three-way battle against the clock.

The final pitstop saw Bowler awaiting the first team at Heirisson Island. Tyler and Nathan headed back to Perth, but local girls Sam & Renae in hot pursuit knew the local terrain.

The Australian adaptation of the Reality series has been well-received by fans of The Amazing Race with plenty of interest in some of its contestants including Tracy and Anne-Marie, Joey and Richard and Anastasia and Chris.

Seven is already calling for entrants for a second season.

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  1. The guys had so much luck the entire episode. First with the fruit (95% luck, other 5% being the speed they got from protecting their hands), then 100% lucky with the wheel getting it before the others, and then also 100% luck with the jail getting it in four tries. Really should have been more based around skill and intelligence for the final episode, even the Big W ladies could have theoretically done exactly what the guys did except for the high wire/stairs challenge.

  2. Just to address the editing comments… A member on Whirlpool forums watched the finale last night with Mo & Mos (hlouey.zenfolio.com/img/v31/p629760045.jpg). The Mo’s (who were there obviously) said that the boys arrived at dusk and the girls came ‘about 20 minutes later’.

  3. 10 minutes into the show you knew Tyler and Nathan would win. They did deserve to win because they have been consistent perfomers all sason. But they were good challenges that they had to do last night and the singapore slinger would have just got boring if you had to keep going around and around.

    I liked how they finished in Perth. I just presumed they would finish the leg in sydney but Im glad they didnt do the obvious. Im looking foward to next season.

  5. i am so glad that the surfers and sam and renae made it into the last round i really liked watching the amazing race first i went for chris and anastasia but then i went for sam and renae i hope i get to watch it next year aslo i really liked the father and son they were a good team i recon if i get onto the amazing race i would go with my mum or my sister just like the reunited sisters.

  6. When Jeff & Luke checked in at Colombo airport to fly to Singapore, the agent handed Jeff a small Sri Lankan flag. Assuming all the teams got one, it looks like they were given a huge clue as to what was coming.

    If production didn’t take a little creative licence with the editing, the end of each episode would be awfully dull if it was obvious which team was going to get there first. I love the nail-biting finishes, both manufactured or real. More fun not to analyze it too much – just go with it!

    The sun was getting low even when the boys were still on their way to the finish line. It was obviously dusk not middle of the night, when the girls arrived.

  7. Also, with the editing: Sam & Renae arrived in Perth at 2:40pm, and sunset that day (November 29th 2010) was at 7:06pm. Google Maps has 25 minutes from the airport to Kings Park, 30 minutes from Kings Park to Fremantle Prison, 49 minutes to Point Peron, and 53 minutes from Point Peron to Heirisson Island. Even ignoring the tasks, just the driving alone would have gotten them to the Pit Stop at 5:17pm. I don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibility that (1) the two tasks in Perth, both of which they struggled with, could have taken them about two hours to finish, or that (2) they finished them quicker, but managed to get lost or take a slightly slower path and the editors just didn’t show it.

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