Typically, you watch a actuality competitors present and suppose to your self, “Oh, I might try this.” Race to Survive: New Zealand isn’t a kind of reveals. That is severe enterprise, and Season 1’s race throughout Alaska proved that. The truth that the USA Community might discover folks prepared to take part in Season 2 is barely mind-boggling.
In Race to Survive: New Zealand Episode 1, “Water and Ice,” we’re launched to 9, brand-new groups as they set out for a wild journey, competing for a grand prize of $500,000. They are saying cash will make you do loopy issues, however these groups genuinely appear to get pleasure from placing themselves by this type of distress. Let’s meet the groups and see how everybody fared within the first leg of this epic race.
Meet the Groups
There are 9 units of groups with some fairly distinctive backgrounds. Some folks convey survival expertise, others convey elite athleticism. There’s a divorced couple, a father/son-in-law duo, and two potty-mouthed Rhode Island “fitness center rats.” It’s a combined bunch, however all of them have the identical aim in thoughts: dominating the 40-day, 150-mile race. Listed here are the groups up for the problem:
- The River Guides, Oliver and Corry
- The Brooklyn Climbers, Mikhail and Steffen
- The Divorcees, Creighton Paulina Peña
- The Hunters, Bronsen and Ryan
- The Cool Mothers, Rhandi and Ashley
- The Ultramarathoners, Donald and Coree
- The Rhode Islanders, Emilio, and Heather
- The Smokejumpers, Ethan and Tyrie
- The Oil Riggers, Nik, and Kennedy
Race 1, Day 1
Their first race is named “Hearth and Ice.” It’s a 40-mile course with 5 distinct zones. They need to canoe throughout a lake, hike uphill by a forest, climb throughout a cliff, traverse a chasm, after which canoe down white water rapids. On the end line, they’ll discover a chest with a medallion incomes them entry to Survival Camp the place they’ll await the subsequent race. The quickest groups additionally get particular rewards to assist them make it by the downtime between races.
It’s exhausting even attempting to consider all of that, and these individuals are purported to do it in 20 hours or much less. One other impediment: the racers aren’t given any meals firstly of the race. It’s a deviation from the primary season, which rewarded groups with meals rations in the beginning of every race. As an alternative, there are meals caches scattered all through the course. The racers have to find out whether or not they wish to prioritize meals or their tempo towards the end line. As if this present wasn’t brutal sufficient, they in some way discovered a strategy to make it worse.
Three groups emerge on the entrance
The race began like that scene within the Starvation Video games when everybody sprints in the direction of the cornucopia of provides. Solely on this sport, there wasn’t a trove of provides and weapons. As an alternative, they bought maps for the 5 zones within the race and the upsetting details about any potential meals being scattered throughout the 40-mile course.
Maps in hand, the groups took off working by what gave the impression to be an innocuous area. Instantly, they realized the onerous means that the whole lot isn’t because it appears in New Zealand. They began dropping into random holes within the floor as a result of apparently, that’s a factor in New Zealand. They’re fortunate no one twisted an ankle.
After that first little impediment, the groups bought into canoes and took off in a race throughout the lake. Instantly, frontrunners began rising. The Hunters, the Smokejumpers, and the River Guides had been neck and neck as they paddled by the waters.
As soon as they made it previous the primary zone, these three groups continued to determine themselves as the pinnacle of the pack. Specifically, The River Guides made straightforward work of trekking up the maze of timber and into the subsequent part of the race. Clearly, they’re those to look out for.
The again of the pack
Whereas three groups jetted to the entrance and accomplished a number of zones on Day 1, just a few different groups struggled to realize momentum on the primary day. The Divorcees, who discovered they’d been solid on the present simply 4 days after calling it quits, bickered their means by every zone. They weren’t lifeless final, nevertheless it’s clear their fractured relationship goes to be an enormous consider how they carry out this season. Let’s hope they stick round for so long as attainable only for the juicy divorce drama.
In the meantime, the Brooklyn Climbers discovered themselves in the back of the pack together with the Rhode Islanders. All through this whole episode, they had been each combating to remain out of final place. They wound up taking barely totally different paths because the race bought underway. The Brooklyintes pressed ahead within the race whereas the Rhode Island “fitness center rats” determined to detour for a meals cache.
As soon as the primary day’s race clock ends, they need to arrange camp inside 50 yards of their present place. That may be a superb or unhealthy factor, relying on how effectively you navigated up till that time. On the finish of the primary day, seven of the 9 groups managed to get their fingers on meals.
Race 1, Day 2
The Brooklyn Climbers and the Oil Riggers opted to forgo meals for the sake of conserving a gentle tempo. When Day 2 began, you possibly can instantly see them regretting that call. The Brooklynites had been particularly struggling. They woke as much as frost on the bottom and the daunting problem of attempting to climb throughout a mountain and go over a river. Doing that with zero energy is simply the bitter icing on a rotten cake.
Miles and miles forward of them, the River Guides, Smokejumpers, and Hunters moved into the ultimate components of the race. First, they needed to traverse a slender chasm. At one level, they needed to squeeze by a niche that was solely 11 inches large. Most of us watching from residence might by no means.
Then, the groups approached the ultimate stretch of the race: an 11-mile paddle down rocky rapids. Thus far, the River Guides had been in first place, which appeared becoming. Nevertheless, with rocky rapids standing of their path and the opposite groups proper on their tail, Race 1 might nonetheless go in anybody’s favor. Subsequent week, we’ll see who makes it to the end line and who comes up brief.
Race to Survive: New Zealand airs on USA Community, Monday nights at 11/10c.
TELL US – WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS ON RACE TO SURVIVE SEASON 2, EPISODE 1 WATER AND ICE? IS THERE A CERTAIN TEAM YOU’RE ROOTING FOR? WHO DO YOU THINK WILL BE THE FIRST TEAM ELIMINATED?