The Amazing Race 25

 will be the twenty-fifth installment of the reality television series, The Amazing Race The series was renewed for two more cycles on March 13, 2014 for the 2014-2015 season.

From CBS: "THE AMAZING RACE began its milestone 25th trip around the world at 3:00 AM on Saturday, May 31, when the Emmy Award-winning series kicked off from Times Square in New York City. In Spring 2001, the teams who participated in the first season of RACE began their trek in Central Park. The 25th edition of the show will premiere this fall on a new day and time, Fridays (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network."

Teams

 * Main article: The Amazing Race 25 Teams

Results
The following teams participated in the Race, with their relationships at the time of filming. Placements are listed in finishing order:

Leg 1 - Episode 1 (United States → United States Virgin Islands)
Title: "Go Big or Go Home" - Shelley
 * Starting Line: Times Square - Duffy Square, New York City, New York, United States
 * Teams must search for the location of where the first Finish Line took place, the Unisphere at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
 * Flushing Meadows-Corona Park - Unisphere, Queens
 * Flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City to Cyril E. King Airport, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands
 * Vendor's Plaza, Charlotte Amalie
 * Teams must sign up for one of six chartered flights on seaplanes destined for Carval Rock, Lovango Cay.
 * Flight from Charlotte Amalie to Lovango Cay
 * Upon arrival at Lovango Cay, teams must take boats to Carval Rock.
 * Carval Rock, Lovango Cay
 * Teams must climb around and through the Carval Rock, where they must jump once they have reached end of the islet. After both members have jumped, they must retrieve their clue located in a series of floating bottles.
 * Blackbeard's Revenge, Lovango Cay
 * After receiving their clue from the Blackbeard impersonator at the Blackbeard's Revenge pirate ship, teams must row themselves to the shores of Lovango Cay, where they must search for their Roadblock clue.
 * Lovango Cay
 * Who digs?: One team member is given a traditional liquid compass, a shovel marked 1 yard, and a unique set of directions, in which they must start off in one of four landmarks on the beach (an anchor, a set of barrels, a ship's bell, and a ship's wheel). Starting from their assigned landmark, teams must locate the beach for a treasure chest, containing their next clue, using their provided liquid compass.
 * Fort Christian, Charlotte Amalie

Leg 2 - Episode 2 (United States Virgin Islands → United Kingdom)
Title: "When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go" - Nici
 * Flight from Cyril E. King Airport, Charlotte Amalie to London Heathrow Airport, London, England, United Kingdom
 * Tower Bridge, City of London
 * Somerset House, Westminster / Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster
 * About Face: Teams must dress into a traditional Queen's Guard outfit before participating in a guard mounting ceremony of the changing of the guards, learning a piece of choreography used from the traditional guard mounting ceremonies, then performing with the satisfaction of the parade captain in order to receive their next clue.
 * Pancake Race: Teams must participate in the annual Parliamentary Pancake Race, in which they must first cook a well-cooked pancake, then participate in a race where they must run while flipping their pancake, without it falling from their frying pan, in a time of 1 minute and 15 seconds to receive their next clue. Should it fall from their pan, they must restart their race.
 * River Cherwell - Magdalen Bridge, Oxford
 * Both team members must participate in punting boats. One team member must row the punt, standing on the Cambridge End at the back of the punt, while the other team member stands on the Oxford End, the front of the punt, waving a small Union Jack. Once they have successfully travelled around the Magdalen College Island on the River Cherwell, they will receive their next clue from the punting master.
 * Christ Church College, Oxford
 * Teams are given a bowler hat and an umbrella, which they must bring with them to the Pit Stop, and are told by the bowler to open their umbrellas, in which they are given an opportunity to search Oxford for the Bear Inn to retrieve the Express Pass, or to tip the bowler and give them their Pit Stop clue, directing them to the birthplace of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill - the Blenheim Palace in Woodstock.
 * Blenheim Palace, Woodstock

Leg 3 - Episode 3 (United Kingdom)
Title: "Get Your Sheep Together" - Phrases in Route Info clue
 * Walton Street - Oxford University Press, Oxford
 * From Oxford railway station, Oxford to Aberdeen railway station, Aberdeen, Scotland
 * Union Square parking area, Aberdeen
 * Teams must get a Ford Focus at the parking area, which they must drive into a roll-on/roll-off ferry to Lerwick.
 * From Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen to Ferry Port, Lerwick, Shetland Islands
 * Royal National Lifeboat Station, Lerwick
 * Teams must search the station for a puffin mascot, who will give them their next clue.
 * Scalloway Castle, Scalloway
 * Peats of Scalloway, Scalloway / DITT Store, Lerwick; Up Helly Aa Galley Shed, Lerwick; and Hay's Dock, Lerwick
 * Pony Up: Teams must cut out 50 blocks of peat from a peat bank, using a special spade called tusker, which they must then deliver to a farmer, using a Shetland pony loaded with two loads of dried peat. Once they have delivered the loads of peat to the farmer, they will receive their next clue.
 * Light My Fire: Teams must participate in a traditional fire festival called a Up Helly Aa, where they must first build a traditional viking torch, with the satisfaction of a judge. Once the judge has been satisfied with their torch, they must then present it to a guizer jarl, who will light their torch and give them their next clue.
 * Berry Farm, Scalloway
 * Teams must act as Shetland Sheepdogs, corraling a flock of sheep through a course and directing them into a pen to receive their next clue from shepherd James, in which their clue is in a form of a Celtic brooch, leaving teams to figure out the location of the Pit Stop through where the brooch was found - St Ninian's Isle.
 * Tombolo, St Ninian's Isle

Leg 4 - Episode 4 (United Kingdom → Denmark → Sweden → Denmark)
Title: "Thinly Sliced Anchovies" - One of ingredient menu in Roadblock
 * From Ferry Port, Lerwick to Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen
 * Flight from Aberdeen Airport, Aberdeen to Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * Teams must retrieve Ford C-Max hybrid vehicles at the parking area of Copenhagen Airport, which they must drive across the Øresund Bridge to Malmö, Sweden. However, teams must not exceed 0.10 of gallons used during their trip.
 * Stortorget, Malmö, Sweden
 * Upon arrival at Stortorget, teams will have their hybrid car's fuel checked. If teams exceeded 0.10 gallons during their trip, they will be required to answer a geography question regarding the capitals of the Scandinavian countries (Copenhagen, Denmark; Oslo, Norway; and Stockholm, Sweden) in order to receive their next clue. Otherwise, shall teams be able to drive conservatively using less than 0.10 gallons, they will be awarded their next clue.
 * Sankt Jørgens Allé, Copenhagen / Det Franske Conditori - Henrik Jonsbak, Copenhagen and Allegade 10 Restaurant, Copenhagen
 * Parking Space: Teams must assemble one of two options given to them for the parklet design that they wish to assemble, using a photograph as their guide, under the 30 minutes they had for their parking time. If they fail to assemble their parklet within 30 minutes, they will have to transfer to another parking space to reassemble. Otherwise, if their judge is satisfied with their assembly, they will be given their next clue.
 * Wedding Cake: Teams must assemble a kransekagee, a traditional wedding cake, which they must deliver to the Allegade 10 restaurant using a freight bicycle, where their cake will be judged by the maître d'hôtel. If the maître d'hôtel is satisfied with their cake, teams must return the receipt signed by the maître d'hôtel to the head baker back at Det Franske Conditori in exchange for their next clue.
 * Ida Davidsen, Copenhagen
 * Who has a memory for faces?: One team member must get the smørrebrød orders of two customers, in which they must recite the menu number and the smørrebrød's contents to Ida Davidsen herself, using a list as their guide for the smørrebrød's contents. Once Davidsen has accepted their order requests, she will present the smørrebrøds to be delivered to the customers, who will give them their next clue.
 * VM Houses, Copenhagen

Leg 5 - Episode 5 (Denmark → Morocco)
Title: "Morocc' and Roll" - Te Jay
 * Flight from Copenhagen Airport, Copenhagen to Marrakesh Menara Airport, Marrakesh, Morocco
 * Le Cadeau Berbère, Marrakesh and Riad Monceau, Marrakesh
 * Using a pole, Misti & Jim must hang eight Moroccan rugs on a wire in order to continue racing once the rugs have been satisfied to put up for sale.
 * Jemaa el-Fnaa, Marrakesh
 * Teams must retrieve a food cart, which they must set up with the satisfaction of the manager to receive their next clue.
 * Bab Debbagh Tannery, Marrakesh
 * Who's ready to pull their hair out?: One team member must prepare three hides through scraping off the hair from the goat skins. They must then deliver the three hides to a tannery, transporting them by riding on a bicycle, where they will be given a receipt from the cobbler to which they must return to the tanner in exchange for their next clue.
 * Ben Youssef Madrasa, Marrakesh
 * Bob Magic Music, Marrakesh and Jemaa el-Fnaa, Marrakesh / Le Paradis du Thee, Marrakesh and Palais Gharnata, Marrakesh
 * Twirl Time: Teams must dress in traditional clothing and participate in a traditional performance of gnawa music, in which one team member twirls their tassel on top of their hat by whirling their head while playing the krakebs, while the other plays the drums. The member twirling their tassel must maintain the beat through spinning their tassel consecutively under a minute in order for their team to receive their next clue from the band leader.
 * Tea Time: Teams must retrieve a set of Moroccan mint tea from Le Paradis du Thee and deliver it to Palais Gharnata, where one team member must only use a single arm to balance the tray holding the cups, while the other must partake in the tradition of pouring the tea into two cups simultaneously by maintaining the height of the two pots. Once the professional tea server is contented with their performance, he will award them their next clue.
 * Le Grand Balcon du Café Glacier, Marrakesh
 * Shelley & Nici U-Turned Keith & Whitney. Off-the-air, Keith & Whitney attempted to U-Turn Amy & Maya, who were ahead of them, thus having no effect on the second slot.
 * Al Matjar Carpet Shop, Marrakesh

Leg 6 - Episode 6 (Morocco)
Title: "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" - Robbie

Leg 7 - Episode 7 (Morocco → Italy)
Title: "Pretty Fly for a Food Scientist"

Leg 8 - Episode 8 (Italy → Malta)
Title: "Hot Sexy Knights"

Franchise

 * First time visits to the new countries, Malta.
 * First season to introduce The Save.
 * First time where the Express Pass is not rewarded as a prize for arriving first at a leg.

American

 * First time visits to the United States Virgin Islands (part of incorporated territory of United States), and the Shetland Islands.(part of Scotland, United Kingdom).
 * First season to visit a previous unvisited countries since Season 20.
 * First time the outdoor starting line took place at night.
 * First time the public has been invited to attend the start of the race (As a result, the identities of the teams were immediately revealed by CBS).
 * Second season to feature 4 all-female teams since The Amazing Race 17.
 * First season where the Express Pass is not given by Phil at the Pit Stop.
 * First season where the Roadblock has not appeared in two consecutive legs (Legs 2 and 3).

Trivia

 * During the race course, teams would encounter Phil, filming scenes for the task clarification for the viewers in the television airing, at least once in every episode in a sequence shot.