On Sunday night, Oscar and Billy Brownless, Brooke McClymont and Adam Eckersley and Ty and Logan Tuivasa faced off in the final leg of The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition.
The three teams started the race together in Bangkok and competed for the lead throughout the final leg. But it was brothers Ty Bang Bang and Logan Tuivasa who took the top spot, with $100,000 going to their charity of choice, the Sydney Regional Aboriginal Corporation.
“I’ve never done anything like this before,” Tai told 10 Play. “It was a little out of my comfort zone, but the opportunity to travel around the world and play this game with my brother was one I couldn’t pass up.
“(We) definitely had to accept it. It ended up being one of the best experiences of my life. It was awesome,” he continued.
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“I was the same way,” Logan added. “I think it was probably the best thing of my life just to have that experience.”
“It wasn’t easy to take care of all the kids for the whole race so I had to go back and talk to my boss. We both knew this was one of our once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. I agree and am glad I did.”
Despite a rocky start, after coming close to being eliminated in the first leg of the race, the brothers realized they had to “pull up their socks and have a crack”, and from then on they stayed on the lead pit stop mat. I landed on. of the pack.
“After the first leg, we were kind of like, ‘What’s going to happen?'” Logan said. “By the second and third, I thought we might have a chance. We got first in the second leg and backed it up with second, so I thought we might have a chance to win. .”
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“I thought it was going to go pretty well,” Tai said. “I’ve traveled the world several times and we all value atmosphere. We’re people people, so just talking to everyone and going along makes it so much easier. It was really great and a great experience.”
However, the final part of the competition started to heat up and with the finish line in sight, the boys were feeling the pressure.
“It got a little difficult toward the end. Logan was missing his kids more and more. Little things were bothering him,” Ty explained. “It’s definitely been challenging. It’s not all vacations and rainbows, but we’ve gotten there in the end and like I said, we’re having the best time we’ve had in a very long time. I was able to do that.”
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After overcoming several difficult challenges, all three teams were hit with a terrifying puzzle that tested their memory of the entire journey they had taken throughout the race. Each country they visited had a symbol representing the challenge or the place they visited. Teams had to line up the symbols in chronological order before heading to their final pit stop.
“I’m glad Logan was there, otherwise I would have been screwed,” Ty said with a laugh. “I was trying to throw a block off a building. I just gave up and was like, do you know what a log is? This is up to you.
“Thankfully Logan was there and his perseverance got us over the line. I think he got us through some of the challenges where I just raised my hand. I just want to fight someone.”
“They didn’t make it easy, that’s for sure,” Logan added.
Somehow they managed to pass Billy, Oscar, Brooke and Adam, and the brothers headed to the final pit stop in the lead. “We knew we were in first place, but you can never get too far ahead in this race,” Ty said, adding that it wasn’t until Beau actually said the words of victory that it really hit home. .
Ty and Logan are racing on behalf of the Sydney Regional Aboriginal Corporation, a community-managed not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve the health, social, emotional and economic well-being of Aboriginal people. Ta.
“It’s going to be great. (SRAC) does a lot of work with local kids in Western Sydney and they bring a lot of football equipment and items to Aboriginal communities to hand out and organize football days. ”Tai said.
“I’m really excited to see where they’re at now and how far they can get in the community. That’s really important to me, so I’m really excited.”
