I don't have a problem with bunching up if it happens naturally. For example, if there is only one flight out of a city, and during the time waiting for the flight, everyone ends up together, then so be it. What is CBS going to do, take over the airport and demand they have more flights? Of course not. However, if they are only giving teams a certain number of options, as the last paragraph above suggests, then that is pretty lame. I think they should be able to use their wits to get from point A to point B any way they choose, not allowed to get only on either Flight A or Flight B.

REmember, no one is going to watch the last 3 episodes of a show if they already know who the winner is, so there is a good reason to keep everyone relatively close. I don't have a problem with that. It makes teams have to consistently work to be at the top.

Anyone feel sorry for the Asian girl stuck with the guy who's afraid of everything?

Flo's got a good rack on her.

I did think that the models have effeminate voices, but its their weasel-like features that strikes me the most (and the low IQ)... I agree about AAAAAron and Arianne, this week I started affectionately calling them Team **** and Hag (admittedly, I still think shes cute, but a little too rock-em'-sock-em' for me).

No one or two teams really grown on me either, but I’ve found that he Amazing Race doesn’t really develop the teams personalities/good conflicts until its whittled down more and becomes tighter. But, I agree, past seasons did have slightly stronger dynamics from the get-go, more teams that had more defined niches- the grannys, the bro and sis, the feuding couple, the religious right, and so forth.