The Amazing Race Philippines: DryedMangoez Edition Season 22 Race Tracker – Leg 12

Jeju Island, South Korea to Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Philippines
Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (Mactan Channel)
Landing Sites (Cebu City)
Apo Cement Factory (Naga City)
Jumalon Butterfly Sanctuary and Art Gallery (Cebu City)
Basilica Minore del Sto. Nino de Cebu (Cebu City)
Mactan Shrine (Lapu Lapu City)
Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (Mactan Channel)

The Final Three teams take on Cebu in what is perhaps the closest Race to the Finish Line ever!

The start of the Final Leg of the Race sees teams on the deck of the soon-to-open Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway. Their first task is a Switchback to a memorable Finale challenge. Wilma & Asiana are able to rappel the quickest and with zero incorrect answers, allowing them to move into first place. They decide this is the perfect opportunity for them to initiate their Self Yield Non-Elimination Penalty. Especially as Hidilyn & Julius and Kaye & Paul Jake have to serve out 5- and 10-minute penalties, respectively.

Teams arrive within 15 minutes of each other at Apo Cement Factory. While Julius is able to edge out Wilma at the Road Block, a mistake pushes Jake to last place. But he and Kaye are able to make up a lot of time when they find the perfect combination of strength and skill to free their sword first. Hidilyn & Julius leave 2nd with Wilma & Asiana now in last leaving the factory.

Wilma & Asiana, however, work their navigation magic and arrive at the butterfly sanctuary just two minutes after Kaye & Paul Jake who left the cement factory 16 minutes earlier.

The Road Block proved tricky for the teams. Kaye and Hidilyn do not have the flags memorized too well, while Asiana did have the correct flags, but did not realize she had placed them down-up instead of up-down the tree. That pushes her and Wilma to 19 minutes behind Hidilyn & Julius who leave the sanctuary first.

Kaye & Paul Jake move into the lead through the shield pick-up and upon arrival at Mactan Shrine. Wilma & Asiana make up time and arrive 14 minutes at the final task.

It is a neck-and-neck Race as teams work out their memories and figure out the best strategies. Kaye & Paul Jake end up finding that right combination and leave Mactan Shrine first. However, they do not read their clue close enough and drive toward the bridge from the south, Cordova side. Once they realize their mistake, Wilma & Asiana and Hidilyn & Julius, who leave Mactan Shrine just three minutes apart, are already on their way to the Finish Line.

It is now a Kia Sportage Race to the bridge. 8K UHD drones show all three Sportages now in the same shot as they drive through Cebu City traffic.

The eliminated teams eagerly await the teams as the Sportages arrive at the Cebu side on-ramps to the bridge. Hidilyn & Julius and Wilma & Asiana arrive within seconds of each other and they begin the more than 1 kilometer run to the Finish Line. 8K UHD drones zoom from the Finish Line, through the cheering eliminated teams and over Wilma & Asiana who are step-for-step just meters behind Hidilyn & Julius. The drone continues to the Sportage drop-off point where Kaye & Paul Jake finally arrive and begin the run.

8K UHD drones track the teams with the sun setting in the distance. And the closest run to the Finish Line everah concludes with Hidilyn & Julius crossing in first place. Wilma & Asiana are just seconds behind to claim 2nd and Kaye & Paul Jake arrive two minutes later to officially finish 3rd.

A nail-biting finish!