"...the black couple who had been idiots for most of the race won."
First of all let me say that part did look a little suspicious, and that I certainly hope the fix wasn't in.
However, these two certainly could not have been idiots for most of the game, as they were indeed in the final three couples.
Secondly, the white couple did not lose because the black couple was on the same flight, obviously both couple were "even" when the plane landed, so they lost due to whatever happened after that.
Thirdly, I thought they did a great job of begging money to pay off their cab driver, they were stalled for a long time doing that, but they still won anyway.
And finally, although we didn't see every episode of this year's race we watched quite a few of them. I thought Uchenna and Joyce stood out from the others in their supportive behaviour to each other, and the sporting atittude they had towards the other players. You see a lot of anger and back-stabbing between couples on this show, and these two were never like that, not that I saw anyway. For that reason I was happy they won.
I was very surprised the Rob and Amber messed up on the bridge jump. I am not sure how the editing played into that but that is why they lost.
Yes. They're nice. But that's totally irrelevant to winning or losing the race. Who are we, the distant bystanders, to say who "deserves" to win?
I have to agree. I was impressed that they waited to make sure they had begged enough money to pay the taxi. I thought thwy could have stiffed the taxi . They took a chance to make sure they begged enough money. Plus they were nice to the old couple when they lost all their money and gave them some in earlier episodes. The couple that were the worse was the ones that came in third. They were ruthless, mean called people names etc. I did not want them to win.
I though Rod and Amber were classy about the loss.