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[Paron Xanthis]

Hi. We're (apparently fraternal) twins.

[Lamb18]

I think they are identical but Elliot has longer hair and a beard to help tell them apart. It would be funny if he had a haircut and shaved his beard before filming. Also I think Elliot should have been named "Lloyd".

[jessied112]

They're kinda adorable. I love how different they seem and it's good that I'll be able to tell them apart (at least better than Andy and Tommy...who weren't even twins!). We'll see about these two. I think I could like them.

[Imonrey]

Well, at least I can tell them apart.

[BDArizona]

So, Elliot's a musician in uptight, snooty Scottsdale? Ugh. Can't think of a worse place to be from if you're a musician. I think this guy will bug me.

[Viajero]

I wonder what team Andrew plays for. Does anybody know their last names?

[FrogsRule]

A little annoyed by this: http://www.facebook.com/enovamusic

According to that, Elliot is part of a band called ENOVA. Per their FB page: ENOVA's first single "Counterpart" produced by Micah Wilshire ... will be premiered on the upcoming CBS reality show "The Amazing Race" on February 19th 2012. Elliot is also a contestant on the show with twin brother.

ENOVA's Web site shows that they have a whopping 54 fans, with a total of 671 visits, including mine. I'm betting that they're counting on TAR to boost those numbers.

Here's hoping they're the first ones gone. What's wrong with having regular, normal people who don't give a damn about show biz in things like TAR and Survivor? Tired of wannabes.

The twin evidently plays (or played) for the San Diego Earthquakes.

PS: While I'm not thrilled about TAR promoting Weber's band, I have to say I was relieved that it was a plain old secular rock band. Scottsdale is home to at least two super-evangelical music publishing houses that I know of, and a very strong stream of that sort of music. When I saw "Scottsdale" I was afraid we had our season's Godbotherers.

[Viajero]

The twin evidently plays (or played) for the San Diego Earthquakes.

Found him. Back-up goalkeeper for the Earthquakes for the past three seasons. Only started a couple of MLS games during that time, both back in 2009. He''s currently in pre-season camp with the Seattle Sounders as an unsigned player, trying to latch on as their backup keeper. He made it through the penultimate cut. One more cut to go and he makes the squad.

When was this race actually filmed? While the Quakes didn't make the playoffs last year, the regular season ran until October.

Edited by Viajero, Feb 14, 2012 @ 6:06 PM.

[TDI Ashley]

This race taped from mid-to-late November to late December. So he would've been running during the off-season.

[danheaton]

I wonder if we'll hear lots of soccer references following the grand model of Marcus from last year. I'm not super excited about this team, though I do expect them to last for a decent amount of time.

[graytex]

I wonder what team Andrew plays for.

Am I the only one whose mind went to sexual orientation upon reading this?

Edited by graytex, Feb 15, 2012 @ 2:50 PM.

[auntlada]

No, you're not, graytex. I only just realized after reading your post that wasn't the question. (Yes, I feel stupid now.)

[jessied112]

No, you're not, graytex. I only just realized after reading your post that wasn't the question. (Yes, I feel stupid now.)

Nope, I immediately thought the same thing. Whoops.

[Chyna]

We didn't see much of them in this episode, but that may be because they didn't make any grievous errors or say anything obnoxiously sexist, so I may like them anyway.

[TDI Ashley]

One of the few alpha-male teams in the show's entire history I actually find myself liking early on.

[FrogsRule]

graytex's comment seems a bit prescient after their bizarre self-introduction!

[ribboninthesky1]

One of the few alpha-male teams in the show's entire history I actually find myself liking early on.

Wait, do we know they're alpha-males? Or them being young, relatively fit, and male automatically makes them so? It's just tough for me to see a member of a rock band as alpha.

[TDI Ashley]

Man, for an alpha-male team, these two are terrible racers, which surprises me after their good start last week. They're lucky Danny helped Andrew at that Roadblock, or else they'd have been toast.

And next week's preview with them at that harp task doesn't seem to do them any favors, either.

[Zach808]

Holy crap, this team is TERRIBLE at racing. By the look of the departure times, they seem to have taken a lot longer than the other first bus teams to finish the previous leg, and they just BARELY survived this leg. I'm pretty sure these two are goners.

[BettyPoz]

Wait, do we know they're alpha-males? Or them being young, relatively fit, and male automatically makes them so? It's just tough for me to see a member of a rock band as alpha.

yeah, I don't seem them as "alpha-male" at all - at all! Brendan and the Border Patrol guys are more alpha-male than these two.

And next week's preview with them at that harp task doesn't seem to do them any favors, either.

Which surprised me since one of them is in a band - and of course I'm assuming that he plays a guitar haha! Which is probably totally wrong.

[Yyy]

Seriously, did these guys insult a producer's mother or something? They've really gotten the shaft in the editing.

[Chyna]

Right? And they're such nice eye candy!

[FrogsRule]

To me, there's something a little "off" about these two. They don't seem very bright, nor particularly good at anything.

CBS's extra TAR clips had one of them - at the end of the first leg, they left their car keys on the table where they had been eating. When they started this leg, they had to find the car keys before they could leave (and one of them remembered having them last while eating, so it didn't take forever). Just not horribly responsible.

Guess it's more that I don't get a sense that they really care. They're just sort of ... there.

[NYC2007]

Seriously, did these guys insult a producer's mother or something? They've really gotten the shaft in the editing.

I always got the impression that if you don't get much air time in the beginning it's because you hang around for a while. I can see these two in the middle of the pack for a while. Either that, or they're really boring and the editors are using time on drama instead.

It was fun to see the soccer brother - Andrew?? Hit the ball around with the greeter.

[NotPatrick]

It's so annoying to see these two get the Invisibility Edit, because I get the impression that they're hilariously inept, and I never don't want to see that.

[SirDigbyPollo]

Early days. The twins are probably not getting much air time because there are just too many teams to cover at this stage of the race. Also, Team BB is sucking up a lot of the air time because they're "controversial", which is why TAR cast them to begin with. That leaves less time for the middle-of-the-pack teams.

For the first four or five legs, I always feel like there are teams that don't get enough air time, but the only way to fix that would be to have the show run for 1.5 hours until a third of the teams were gone, and then cut back to one hour episodes. I think that would be awesome, but the network probably wouldn't like it.

[TDI Ashley]

NYC2007
I always got the impression that if you don't get much air time in the beginning it's because you hang around for a while.

However, it could also be the other side of the coin -- that they're going out early and the editors don't feel like they should get much attention until their boot episode. Teams like Kate & Pat, Marianna & Julia, Anthony & Stephanie, Brad & Victoria, Marcy & Ron, Monique & Shawne, Katie & Rachel, and Kaylani & Lisa, all of whom got the chop pretty early in their respective seasons, can all attest to that.

I like these two, so I hope it's the former scenario, but the latter is always possible, too.

Edited by TDI Ashley, Mar 4, 2012 @ 11:20 PM.

[ribboninthesky1]

I have to admit, I really didn't see the hotness of these two until the end of the episode, during their final THs. They were yummy, but to no surprise, eliminated. When you have one team member who strings up guitars, I'm really not understanding why there was so much trouble with a harp. Different instrument, yes, but...still. Strings. You would think Elliot's (I think?) experience would have given them a bit of an edge. Ah, well.

[Yyy]

Holy crap, I really overestimated them in the preseason. What terrible racers.

[TDI Ashley]

It was definitely Elliot who was the musician, so I really thought they'd do better at the Strung Out Detour. You don't tout your experience with anything, deliver almost nothing, and hope to survive. They needed to go after that.

Shame, though. They were one of the few alpha-male teams in the show's entire history that I actually liked. But they were poor racers, which is a fairly refreshing change for an alpha-male team.

But man. Twin teams have very rarely done well. I think only Derek & Drew and Kami & Karli have gone far. Shola & Doyin, Liz & Marie, and now, Elliot & Andrew have all been early boots.