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]
Development
The show moved to a new timeslot of Sundays at 8 p.m. where it would stay for the next fourteen seasons.
Applications for this season were due on January 20, 2006 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.
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] | |
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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 → Ukraine | 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 | 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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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 | 4-5 | |||
6 | David & Mary | 10 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 1► | 6 | 6~ | 6.13 | 4-2 | |||||
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] | |||||||
Legend:
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Trivia
Franchise
- Most countries visited, 13.
- The first season to circumnavigate the globe westwards.
- First-time visits to Mongolia, Kuwait, Mauritius, Madagascar, Finland, and Ukraine.
- The first season also to visit Spain having a Pit Stop.
- The first season to implement the non-elimination penalty where the last team to arrive at the 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.
- The first introduction of the Intersection where one team pairs up with one other team to perform all tasks together until further notice.
- First time teams were allowed to use the Fast Forward twice.
- This was because the Fast Forward could also be used as a group during the Intersection.[3]
- The first time that the winning team was allowed to contact their families at the Finish Line and tell them they had won.
- The first season to have a Mid-Point Elimination.
- First time also two teams were eliminated in the same leg.
- Most teams who finished in the same position on Leg 1 as they did in the overall Race, 5.
US
- Last season to neither start nor end in California.
- The first season to begin on the West Coast and end on the East Coast.
- The Starting Line, Gasworks Park in Seattle, Washington, in this season was the exact place where the Finish Line was in Season 3.
- Last season to use a sovereign country as a mid-point in final leg before reaching the final destination.
- The first season to feature a Muslim American team.
- The first season to feature two Asian American teams
- Second time where the winning team had a teammate (Tyler) with the same name as the winners in the season immediately before it.
- The first time was seasons 4 and 5 with Reichen & Chip and Chip & Kim 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 | |
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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 |
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 |
Central Europe | Cancelled |
China | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 |
China Rush | 1 · 2 · 3 |
Finland | 1 |
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 |