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Best Buds Take "Amazing Race"
After sailing around the world together, how much closer can two friends get?
For adventure-lovers BJ Averell, 26, and Tyler Macniven, 25, the answer is, about $1 million closer.
The pals who met during a Semester at Sea program in college finished on top Wednesday night during the two-hour finale of the ninth season of CBS's The Amazing Race, beating out two other teams--friends Jeremy Ryan and Eric Sanchez and couple Yolanda Brown-Moore and Ray Whitty.
Averell and Macniven, who led the field upon entering the final leg of their journey, bested their fellow competitors at a flag-arranging challenge that necessitated searching for clues in Tokyo and jaunting over to Alaska to drill holes in the ice.
Pretty good considering Averell and Macniven were completely broke as of last week's episode and had to panhandle their airfare from Australia to Bangkok. Other far-off locales the contestants visited included the Persian Gulf state of Oman, Moscow and Munich.
The race ended in Denver after spanning 59,000 miles.
"It's really unreal," Macniven said at the finish line.
"Our friendship is what got us through this," Averell added.
The Amazing Race, created by Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri, has won three Emmys for Outstanding Reality/Competition Show--and why not? What was going to beat it, Fear Factor?
Personally, we'd rather watch teams of two use their wiles and survival instincts to race around the globe than see yet another girl in a bikini eat goat testicles. (Well, in reality Amazing Race beat out shows like American Idol and The Apprentice, so that just proves how engaging it is on its own merit.)
Regardless, Averell, an online tutor who lives in Los Angeles, and Macniven, a San Francisco-based filmmaker, now have $1 million to split. And hopefully someone shot a decent roll of film during the trip. For the scrapbook.
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