They were admitted super-fans who prepared in every way possible for their stint on season 25 of The Amazing Race, but dating couple Dennis Hour and Isabelle Du just couldn't account for bad luck before becoming the second team eliminated.

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"I think a lot of people need to realize that Amazing Race is 50 percent training and preparation and the other 50 percent really is luck," Du said in an interview with TV Guide. "That's what makes this game so unpredictable. If we were to do it all over again, there'd be different results."

The couple, who were successfully completing other tasks, including a Detour, on the leg in both London and Oxford England, fell too far behind during a task where they were required to punt a boat through a stream in Oxford-and got swept up in a strong current that saw them lodged in one spot long enough for the other teams to all over-take them.

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Despite luck not being on their side however, the couple don't think they over-prepared for the race.

"It's better to over-prepare than to under-prepare," Hour said.

"The truth is, there's no real way to ever truly prepare because it changes all the time...This game always changes," Du added. "That's the beauty of The Amazing Race. It's a unique stress environment. You have to over-prepare because you just don't know."

And if the couple gained a large number of fans during their time on the race, they want them to be reassured that they have plans to be back-provided the show airs a season for super-fans like themselves.

"At this point, 25 seasons in, there are so many hardcore fans who want to be on the show, I feel like we should have die-hards come on and it'll be a celebration of the whole series," Hour said.

The Amazing Race airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on CBS.

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