The Amazing Race 10 is the tenth season of the reality television show, The Amazing Race. It premiered on September 17, 2006 and ended on December 10, 2006 on CBS. The entire season was released on DVD (exclusively only through Amazon.com) on March 1, 2013.[1]
Production[]
The show moved to a new timeslot of Sundays at 8 pm, where it would stay for the next fourteen seasons.
Applications for this season were due on January 20, 2006 (one week later than the original deadline), while interviews were conducted in March and April 2006. Filming began on May 27, 2006 and finished on June 24, 2006. This season traveled a total of 40,000 miles (64,000 km) across 13 countries in four continents.
Sprint and Travelocity were the official sponsors during this season and provided prizes throughout the race to winning teams on certain legs.
Twists/Changes[]
- Expanded Cast: For the first time since The Amazing Race 4, the Race featured 12 teams.
- Superleg:
- A Superleg consisted of 2 legs formed into one Double-Length Leg with a rest period midway throughout the leg.
- A twist occurs midway in the portion of Double-Length Leg that the teams would learn "Keep Racing" at the end of the first half to begin the start of the second half.
- Money: A one-time change happened at the start of the third leg, teams are not received money, instead they would earn their money for that leg by selling flowers during the Roadblock. However, they are not permitted to beg or sell items to exchange for money. The fourth leg would receive teams a local currency.
- Yield: As with the previous season, the Yield has only two per race and it allows any one team to force another team to stop racing for a predetermined amount of time.
- Intersection: An Intersection requires each team to pair up with one other team and perform all tasks and make decisions together until further notice. This was first debuted in the eighth leg.
- Surprise Elimination: It is also called Midpoint Elimination that occurs each team is eliminated outside of the Pit Stop. Furthermore, the first leg would still have a standard elimination at the end.
- Non-Elimination Legs: Following a serious change happened in the previous season, a new penalty occurs that the team may face Marked for Elimination for the last team to arrive.
- If the team arrives first in the next leg, the penalty was nullified.
- If the team does not arrive first, they could occur a 30-minute penalty until the last team to arrive in the Pit Stop. Unless, if the team arrives in last place, they will be eliminated.
- Rules and Penalties:
- A team that improperly used a mode of local transportation resulted in a 30-minute penalty.
- A team member fails to complete the Roadblock would incur a 4-hour penalty.
Teams[]
Tyler & James
Models |
Rob & Kimberly
Dating |
Lyn & Karlyn
Single Moms/Friends |
Dustin & Kandice
Beauty Queens |
Erwin & Godwin
Brothers |
David & Mary
Coalminer and Wife |
Peter & Sarah
Recently Dating |
Tom & Terry
Boyfriends |
Duke & Lauren
Father/Daughter |
Kellie & Jamie
Cheerleaders |
Vipul & Arti
Married |
Bilal & Sa'eed
Best Friends |
Episodes[]
| Episode | Air Date | Leg | Destination | First Place | Last Place | Finish | Viewership (millions)[2] |
Ratings/Share (18-49)[2] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Real Fast! Quack, Quack!" | September 17, 2006 | 1 | United States → China | Tyler & James | Bilal & Sa'eed | 1st Eliminated 12th Place |
10.12 | 3.9/9 |
| Vipul & Arti | 2nd Eliminated 11th Place | ||||||||
| 2 | "Can Horses Smell Fear?" | September 24, 2006 | 2 | China → Mongolia | Peter & Sarah | Kellie & Jamie | 3rd Eliminated 10th Place |
10.57 | 3.5/9 |
| 3 | "Oh, Wow! It's Like One of Those Things You See on TV!" | October 1, 2006 | 3 | Mongolia → Vietnam | Erwin & Godwin | Duke & Lauren | 4th Eliminated 9th Place |
11.75 | 4.0/9 |
| 4 | "I Know Phil, Little Ol' Gorgeous Thing!" | October 8, 2006 | 4 | Vietnam | Rob & Kimberly | Tom & Terry | 5th Eliminated 8th Place |
10.15 | 3.5/9 |
| 5 | "I Covered His Mouth, Oh My Gosh!" | October 15, 2006 | 5 | Vietnam → India | Peter & Sarah | David & Mary | Non-Elimination Leg |
11.65 | 4.0/9 |
| 6 | "Maybe Steven Segal Will See Me and Want Me to Be in One of His Movies" | October 22, 2006 | 6 | India → Kuwait | David & Mary | Peter & Sarah | 6th Eliminated 7th Place |
10.89 | 3.8/9 |
| 7 | "I Wonder If This Is Going to Make My Fingers Pickle" | October 29, 2006 | 7 | Kuwait → Mauritius | Dustin & Kandice | David & Mary | Non-Elimination Leg |
11.66 | 3.9/9 |
| 8 | "He Can't Swim, but He Can Eat Cow Lips" | November 5, 2006 | 8 | Mauritius → Madagascar | Dustin & Kandice | David & Mary | 7th Eliminated 6th Place |
11.38 | 3.7/8 |
| 9 | "Being Polite Sucks Sometimes" | November 12, 2006 | 9 | Madagascar → Finland | Tyler & James | Erwin & Godwin | Ordered to Continue Racing |
10.90 | 3.4/8 |
| 10 | "Lookin' Like a Blue-Haired Lady on a Sunday Drive" | November 19, 2006 | Finland → Ukraine | Tyler & James | Erwin & Godwin | 8th Eliminated 5th Place |
12.40 | 4.1/9 | |
| 11 | "We Just Won't Die, Like Roaches" | November 26, 2006 | 10 | Ukraine → Morocco | Tyler & James | Dustin & Kandice | Non-Elimination Leg |
10.37 | 4.1/9 |
| 12 | "Dude, I'm Such a Hot Giant Chick Right Now!" | December 3, 2006 | 11 | Morocco → Spain | Rob & Kimberly | Dustin & Kandice | 9th Eliminated 4th Place |
10.60 | 3.5/8 |
| 13 | "Say Your Deepest Prayers Ever!" | December 10, 2006 | 12 | Spain → France → United States | Tyler & James | Lyn & Karlyn | 3rd Place | 12.73 | 4.1/9 |
| Rob & Kimberly | 2nd Place | ||||||||
Leaderboard[]
This chart shows each teams ranking per leg according to their official check in at the Pit Stop. However, time penalties issued before the start of the next leg due to improperly performed tasks are not reflected here.
| Place | Team | Leg 1 | Leg 2 | Leg 3 | Leg 4 | Leg 5 | Leg 6 | Leg 7 | Leg 8 | Leg 9 | Leg 10 | Leg 11 | Leg 12 | Average | 
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Half | 2nd Half | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Tyler & James | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2►^ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2.50 | 6-6 | |
| 2 | Rob & Kimberly | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3►^ | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3.00 | 6-6 | |
| 3 | Lyn & Karlyn | 9 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5~ | 3 | 4 | 2< | 2 | 3 | 5.00 | 6-7 | |
| 4 | Dustin & Kandice | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1+ | 2 | 2 | 4> | 4 | 3.27 | 6-6 | ||
| 5 | Erwin & Godwin | 7 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4+ | 5 | 5 | 4.67 | 5-5 | ||||
| 6 | David & Mary | 10 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 1► | 6 | 6~ | 6.13 | 4-3 | ||||||
| 7 | Peter & Sarah | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3.17 | 4-2 | ||||||||
| 8 | Tom & Terry | 8 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 7.00 | 2-2 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Duke & Lauren | 2 | 3 | 9 | 4.67 | 2-1 | |||||||||||
| 10 | Kellie & Jamie | 6 | 10 | 8.00 | 1-1 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Vipul & Arti | 11 | 11.00 | 1-0 | |||||||||||||
| 12 | Bilal & Sa'eed | 12 | 12.00 | 1-0 | |||||||||||||
| Notes | [1] | [2] | [3] | [4][5] | [6] | [7][8] | [9] | [10] | [11] | ||||||||
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Trivia[]
Franchise[]
- Most countries visited, 13.
- First season to circumnavigate the globe westwards.
- First season to visit Asia in the earlier legs.
- First-time visits to Mongolia, Kuwait, Mauritius, Madagascar, Finland, and Ukraine.
- First season to implement the penalty where the last team to arrive at a Non-Elimination Leg was Marked for Elimination where the team must arrive at the next Pit Stop in first place. Otherwise, they would receive a 30-minute penalty before they can check in.
- Sarah Reinertsen is the first amputee contestant, who was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency.
- The season introduced the Intersection, where one team must pair up with one other team to perform all tasks together until further notice.
- Due to the Intersection, this season was the first to allow teams to use the Fast Forward twice.[3]
- First time that the Official Winners were allowed to contact their families at the Finish Line and tell them that they had won.
- First season to have a Surprise Elimination.
- First time that two teams were eliminated in the same leg.
- First season not to receive money at the start of one leg (Leg 3).
- Most teams who finished in the same position on Leg 1 as they did in the overall Race, 5.
- First season to feature an all-female team qualified for the final leg.
US[]
- Last season to neither start nor end in California until The Amazing Race 34.
- The first season to begin on the West Coast and end on the East Coast.
- This season's Starting Line, Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington, was also the same location for the Finish Line in The Amazing Race 3.
- It was also the northernmost Starting Line in the American version.
- Last season to use a sovereign country as a mid-point in the final leg before reaching the final destination.
- First season to feature a Muslim American team.
- First season to feature two Asian American teams
- First season to have none of the final 3 finish last in a non elimination leg.
- Second time where the winning team had a team member (Tyler Denk) with the same name as one of the members of the winning team (Tyler MacNiven) of the season immediately before it.
- The first time was in seasons 4 and 5, with Chip Arndt and Chip McAllister respectively.
Reception[]
- Amy Rolph at Seattle Pi (07/16/2006): "Diversity is the word as Amazing Race 10 starts in Seattle"
- Maureen Ryan at Chicago Tribune (09/26/2006): "The Amazing Race reveals the whole journey"
- Andy Dehnart at MSNBC.com (12/17/2006): "Amazing Race still going strong"
External links[]
References[]
| The Amazing Race Season Index | |
|---|---|
| United States | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 · 25 · 26 · 27 · 28 · 29 · 30 · 31 · 32 · 33 · 34 · 35 · 36 |
| Asia | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 |
| Australia | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 |
| Brazil | 1 |
| Canada | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 |
| Central Europe | Cancelled |
| China | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 |
| China Rush | 1 · 2 · 3 |
| Finland | 1 · 2 |
| France | 1 |
| Israel | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 |
| Latin America | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 |
| Norway | 1 · 2 |
| Philippines | 1 · 2 |
| Ukraine | 1 |
| Vietnam | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 |