Flight attendants Raquel Moore and Cayla Platt, husband and wife Kim and Penn Holderness, father and daughter Arun and Natalia Kumar and friends Ryan Ferguson and Dusty Harris, had to travel from Greece to Portugal, and then back to the U.S. in the show’s 10th episode.
Here is everything you need to know about what happened in the finale of the competition show and how much the winners got.
Who Won ‘The Amazing Race’ Season 33 and How Much Did They Win?
The last two legs of Season 33 saw The Amazing Race teams take a charter flight from Greece to Portugal where they had to find their way to Fortaleza De São Filipe, in Setúbal.
Kim and Penn found the location first but the other teams were not far behind and they soon encountered their first Road Block of the finale.
The teams had to select boats to row to the other side of the marina, though their task wasn’t as simple as that because each boat had a name and the contestants had to correctly choose the ones with the names of explorers written on them, not celebrities.
Kim chose a boat named after explorer Fernão de Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan), while Raquel correctly selected Bartolomeu Dias. Ryan and Arun weren’t so successful, as the former chose poet Fernando Pessoa and the latter selected a boat named after former Portuguese prime minister António Guterres.
In the end, Kim was the first to make it to the other side, and she and her husband continued their trek to a restaurant where they had to start a painting challenge.
After the teams completed their painting challenge in their respective times they were then met with another Road Block, where they had to count a church’s 106 columns.
Despite Kim and Penn having the advantage of arriving first it was Cayla and Raquel who successfully completed the Road Block first.
At the Pit Stop, Raquel and Cayla were the first to arrive, then Kim and Penn, then Ryan and Dusty, who snapped the third spot on the final leg marking the end of Arun and Natalia’s race.
The top three teams then made their way from Portugal to Los Angeles for the last leg of the season, and their first Road Block saw them try and get clues by hitting a piñata.
Raquel and Cayla got their clues first, followed shortly by Kim and Penn, who finished before Ryan and Dusty were even able to start the piñata-based trial.
The teams’ next task saw them add their own sound effects to classic The Amazing Race moments.
Raquel and Cayla took the lead followed by Kim and Penn, who are well-versed in the subject thanks to their YouTube careers, with Ryan and Dusty nowhere to be seen.
The final task was a memory quiz where the teams had to answer questions based on things that happened in the show thus far.
Kim and Penn managed to finish first and were crowned the winners, while Raquel and Cayla came a very close second and Ryan and Dusty were third.
Kim and Penn were awarded the grand prize of $1 million for their victory.
