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The Amazing Race: All-Stars
The Amazing Race logo
Season run 2007-02-18 –
Filming dates 2006-11-20 – 2006-12-17[1][2]
No. of episodes 6 (as of 3/25)
Winning team
Continents visited 3 (as of 3/25)
Countries visited 6 (as of 3/25)
Cities visited 13 (as of 3/25)
Distance traveled 45,000 miles
(72,419 kilometres)
Number of legs
Season chronology
The Amazing Race 10 The Amazing Race 12

The Amazing Race 11 (titled The Amazing Race: All-Stars) is the eleventh installment of the popular four time Emmy Award winner reality television show, The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 11 featured eleven teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world.

The Amazing Race hired challenge producer Alan Bishop to design new tasks and challenges for this season. Bishop was responsible for challenges in recent installments of Survivor (Vanuatu, Guatemala, Panama).[3]

The Amazing Race joins fellow CBS reality competitions Survivor and Big Brother with all-star editions. An advertisement following the finale of Season 10 on December 10, 2006 confirms an earlier story from Variety (based on information from a CBS spokesperson on November 21, 2006) that this edition will feature 11 teams from previous seasons in an all-star format.[4][5] In a TV Guide interview, host Phil Keoghan stated that that the production team's goal for the race "wasn't to pick the best racers," but "to pick the teams that have earned the most attention over the last 10 seasons".[6]

Prior to news of the 11th race being an All-Star race, applications were due on June 2, 2006. Final casting interviews were scheduled for August 2006, yet no confirmation had been made as of mid September 2006 as to whether the final casting interviews took place. On September 28, 2006 CBS gave the go-ahead to an 11th season of the series.[7]

The season premiered on February 18, 2007 at 8:00 PM EST, 7:00 CST for one hour.[1]

Legs 7 and 8 of the race will air on April 1, 2007 back to back episodes for two hours.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Contents

[edit] Contestants

Main article: Amazing Race 11 contestants

[edit] Results

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

Team
 Relationship Previous
Appearance		 Previous
Result		 Position (by leg) Roadblocks performed
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Charla & Mirna Cousins Season 5 6th 8th 8th 8th 7th 1st 1st Charla 2, Mirna 3
Oswald & Danny Best Friends Season 2 4th 2nd 2nd 5th 1st 4th 2nd Oswald 3, Danny 2
Uchenna & Joyce Married Season 7 1st 7th 5th 2nd 6th 7th 3rd2 Uchenna 3, Joyce 2
Dustin & Kandice Beauty Queens Season 10 4th 6th 6th 4th1 5th 2nd 4th Dustin 3, Kandice 2
Eric & Danielle Dating Season 9 2nd/8th 4th 4th 3rd 2nd 6th 5th Eric 3, Danielle 2
Joe & Bill Life Partners Season 1 3rd 5th 3rd 7th 4th 5th 6th Joe 2, Bill 3
Teri & Ian Married Parents Season 3 2nd 3rd 7th 6th 3rd 3rd 7th Teri 2, Ian 3
Rob & Amber Newlyweds Season 7 2nd 1st 1st 1st 8th Rob 1, Amber 2
David & Mary Coalminer and Wife Season 10 6th 9th 9th 9th David 1, Mary 1
Kevin & Drew Lifelong Friends Season 1 4th 10th 10th Kevin 1, Drew 0
John Vito & Jill Formerly Dating Season 3 5th 11th John Vito 0, Jill 0

Note 1: Dustin & Kandice arrived 4th, but they had missed the clue to the Detour, having simply arrived by chance at one of the options. They had to go back and get the clue before checking in, but it did not affect their placing.
Note 2: Uchenna & Joyce arrived 3rd, and were assessed a 30 minute penalty for being marked for elimination and not arriving 1st. It did not affect their placing.

  • Red means the team was eliminated.
  • Purple means the team was the last to arrive at a pit stop in a non-elimination leg of the race and was thus "marked for elimination", meaning that if that team did not place first on the next leg, they would receive a 30 minute penalty.
  • Green means the team won the Fast Forward clue.
  • A yellow > means that team chose to use the Yield; < indicates the team who received it; <> indicates a leg where the Yield was available but not used.

[edit] Episode title quotes

Episode titles are often taken from quotes made by the racers.

  1. I Told You Less Martinis And More Cardio – Oswald
  2. Beauty Is Sometimes Skin Deep – Charla
  3. I'm Sorry I'm Wearing A Bathing Suit; It Is Very Weird, I Know – Mirna
  4. No Babies On The Race! – A letter from Jeremy and Dani to Eric and Danielle, read aloud by Eric
  5. You Need To Watch Your Jokes, Guy – Joe
  6. We're Going To Trade You For Food Now – Oswald
  7. If I Were In Town, I Would Ask For Your Number (Part 1)
  8. If I Were In Town, I Would Ask For Your Number (Part 2)

[edit] Trivia

[edit] General

  • Uchenna & Joyce (Season 7) are the only previous season winners to compete on All-Stars.
  • Eric & Danielle (Season 9) are the only all-stars who did not previously race together as a team on their season, though they did race against each other's respective teams; they met during the race and later started dating.
  • As of The Amazing Race: All-Stars, Rob & Amber have, in total, participated in five CBS Reality Competition shows. Amber participated in Survivor: The Australian Outback, while Rob participated in Survivor: Marquesas. Both of them subsequently participated in Survivor: All-Stars, The Amazing Race 7 and, now, The Amazing Race: All-Stars. In addition, Rob participated in Survivor: America's Tribal Council, and after Race 7 aired, the couple had their wedding broadcast by CBS in a two-hour special. Now they have another show airing on Fox Reality called Rob & Amber: Against the Odds.
  • This is the first season without a parent/child team.
  • Charla & Mirna and Danielle are the only all stars who did not have a first place finish on any leg in their previous seasons.
  • Kevin and Drew are the only all-stars to have appeared on more than two seasons of the Amazing Race (aside from Season 11, they had raced in Season 1 and had a cameo appearance in Season 8).
  • Colin Guinn & Christie Lee Woods were expected to be in the All-Star edition,[8] but could not participate because Christie became pregnant.
  • Phil Keoghan was asked to submit a list of 15 teams that he thought should return. Ten of them were chosen. The one he didn't choose was Eric & Danielle. He said, "I didn't think of that new combination, which actually is a really good one."[9]
  • Rob & Amber are the first team to place first in the first three consecutive legs of a Race, and the third team to place first three legs in a row. In addition, they set a career record of 7 legs won and were the earliest eliminated team to have won more than two legs.
  • Flo and Drew (Season 3), who met and became a couple during the race, were asked to be in the allstars. They declined because Flo felt the race brought out "the worst" in her and also she didn't want to do the race without Zach (her original partner).[citation needed]

[edit] Pre-Race

  • Joe & Bill had to pull out of the Return of the Racers blog and a weekly live show TV session on BuddyTV during The Amazing Race 10 to participate in this season.
  • In an online interview at CBS.com, Jill cited Wikipedia as one of the sources she and John Vito used to read up on former races and racers before embarking on this Race.
  • Dustin & Kandice were not available for media interviews, including The Early Show and Finish Line, after their elimination from Season 10 due to their participation in this season. David & Mary, also from Season 10, were able to participate in media interviews as their elimination did not interfere with the taping of this season.

[edit] In-Race

  • Chip Arndt, the winner of Season 4, ran into racers Charla & Mirna and Teri & Ian on Leg 1 at Miami International Airport.[10] Chip was given permission to report his sightings but to not give any specific names on CBS' Return of the Racers blog.
  • In Leg 1, Mary wore a shirt saying "Missing" in reference to their allies The Cho Brothers (Erwin & Godwin) from Season 10. Later on, in Leg 2, David wore a shirt saying "Lost" with a picture of Phil on it; these same shirts had also been worn by Erwin & Godwin.
  • By the end of Leg 2, seven of the teams had finished in the same position as in the previous leg. This was the first time this had happened to so many teams.
  • Leg 3 showed a clip of a previous season when David & Mary were referring to the Cho Brothers, Erwin & Godwin. This is the first time they showed a clip of a previous season. In the subsequent Leg 4, additional clips and still frames from previous seasons were shown during the Roadblock task.
  • Although the show's website mentions that in Leg 3, two teams (Uchenna & Joyce and Rob & Amber) attempted the 40-foot climb part of the Detour and switched tasks, the switch isn't aired in the episode.
  • The first four teams to be eliminated were the only teams who were beaten by other All-Star teams in their previous season (John Vito & Jill were beaten by Teri & Ian in season 3; Kevin & Drew were beaten by Joe & Bill in Season 1; David & Mary were beaten by Dustin & Kandice in season 10; and Rob & Amber were beaten by Uchenna & Joyce in season 7). The race began with four seasons represented by two teams. After the fourth leg, all represented seasons had exactly one team left.
  • As of Leg 5, Danielle is the only all-star to never place first. Charla and Mirna did not place first in their original season, but managed to place first in Legs 5 and 6 in this season.
  • Leg 5 was the first leg in the history of The Amazing Race to have two all-female teams come in 1st and 2nd place (Charla & Mirna and Dustin & Kandice).
  • Uchenna & Joyce received the 30 minute penalty on Leg 6 for not coming in first place when marked for elimination. They are the first team to incur this penalty without being eliminated since the "Marked for Elimination" penalty was introduced in Season 10.
  • In Leg 6, for the first time since its introduction, there was no "location indicator" at the pit stop due to the fact that the pit stop location had to be changed mid-leg.[11]

[edit] Post-Race

  • CBS announced on February 15, 2007 that eliminated contestants had been videotaped living together in a common house in their sequester location in Acapulco, Mexico with the results edited into a 13-episode series entitled Elimination Station. The series, viewable only in the United States, will be made available on the InnerTube video streaming service on the CBS website, with a new episode debuting immediately following the airing of each new Amazing Race episode in the Pacific time zone this season.[12]

[edit] Prizes

Unless otherwise noted, prizes were awarded to the first team to check in for each leg.

  • Leg 1 - A trip to the Whistler Lodge in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada provided by Travelocity.
  • Leg 2 - An off-road motorcycle for each member.
  • Leg 3 - A home gym for each member.
  • Leg 4 - A trip to the Royal Lahaina Resort in Maui provided by Travelocity.
  • Leg 5 - A trip to Aruba provided by Travelocity.
  • Leg 6 - A 12 foot catamaran for each team member.

[edit] Elimination Station

When a team is eliminated, that team has to stay at a villa while they wait for the finale.

  • After Leg 1, John Vito & Jill were eliminated, being sent to the villa first. While there, they were guessing who would be eliminated next. They thought it would either be Charla & Mirna or Kevin & Drew.
  • After Leg 2, Kevin & Drew came to the villa next. While there, Kevin, Drew, and John Vito were arguing over what a stoop was. Later, they guessed Charla & Mirna would be eliminated next.
  • After Leg 3, David & Mary became the third team to arrive at the villa. David recounted how he was misdirected by several Chilean locals over breakfast. Later, Jill shows David & Mary the master suite they saved for the first married couple. Later, Drew guessed Teri & Ian might be eliminated next.
  • After Leg 4, Rob & Amber became the fourth team to arrive at the villa. Rob and Amber were welcomed very nicely. John Vito and Jill even said they were a strong team. Later, they guessed that the next elimination would be Eric & Danielle.
  • After Leg 5, the four eliminated teams sat around waiting for another team, only to hear John Vito and Kevin figure out that it must be a non-elimination leg. They spent time on a beach overlook, and back at the villa, Rob dragged Mary into the pool.
  • After Leg 6, Teri & Ian became the fifth team to arrive at the villa, where Drew put on a displeased face for the camera. A disgruntled Ian revealed that he believes Oswald and Danny are ruthless racers with no character, saying that when he worked with them in Ushuaia to book flights, they deliberately booked him a different flight and did not confirm it. He said that the same thing happened when Eric and Danielle worked with Oswald and Danny. He also predicted that either Dustin and Kandice or Uchenna and Joyce would win.

[edit] Race locations

Route Map (as of Leg 6)
Route Map (as of Leg 6)

[edit] Leg 1 (United States → Ecuador)

In the first Detour of the race, teams had to chose between Wrangle It and Recover It. In Wrangle It, teams had to help local cowboys lasso, tie down, and groom one wild horse whose hooves grow so long that they prevent them from walking properly. Team members had to use traditional tools to clip its hooves to a safe length and to trim its mane and tail. In Recover It, one team member had to put on an historical military uniform. Then, the team must search the field for three items missing from the uniform: an epaulette, a button and a sword.

[edit] Leg 2 (Ecuador → Chile)

The Roadblock for this leg was to to enter the ground floor boardroom and search the boardroom for letters of the alphabet that were on display. Teams needed to figure out that the majority of the letters when unscrambled would spell out one of the ten destinations inscribed on the plaques hanging on the wall. When they think they solved the puzzle, they had to show their answer to the security guard who would hand them their next clue if they were correct. The Detour was By Hand or By Machine. In By Hand, teams had to choose a two-ton tire and, by properly aligning the bolts and washers, finish securing it to a dump truck. In By Machine, each team member had to take a turn driving a huge front loader to transfer enough gravel to cover a marked yellow line on a stick.

[edit] Leg 3 (Chile)

For the Roadblock on this leg of the race, one team member had to choose an 1800-gallon fish-breeding tank, jump in, and catch and transfer all 80 flounder from the breeding tank to a holding tank at the other end of the farm. Once finished, their clue would be revealed at the bottom of the tank. The Detour was a choice between Vertical Limit or River Wild. In Vertical Limit, teams had to walk 200 yards to a cliff where both team members needed to complete a 40-foot rock climb. Each team member would grab one half of their clue at the top of the climb. In River Wild, teams had to backtrack two miles to the banks of Rio Petrohué where they would complete a two and a half mile white water rafting course through level 3 and 4 rapids.

[edit] Leg 4 (Chile → Argentina)

Teams chose between Navigate It and Sign It for this leg's Detour. In Navigate It, teams had to use a map of Punta Arenas to get to the town plaza where a sailor would hand them a compass. Then, using the compass, the teams needed to walk directly south to find the Nautilus Building, a deep-sea salvage business. In Sign It, teams had to choose a pole and building supplies and carry them up a flight of stairs to Magellan's Map. Using the map as a reference, teams needed to figure out his journey around the world began and ended in Seville. Then, they had to build a traditional local signpost listing in order the fourteen ports of call in his voyage. While the signs didn't have to point in the right direction, all the cities had to be spelled correctly. The Roadblock on this leg was to sort through 1,600 pieces of mail and find one of two messages addressed to their team, written by one of the other teams from their season. The team member then had to read the message inside it to their partner, after which they received their next clue.

[edit] Leg 5 (Argentina → Mozambique)

For the Roadblock, one team member had to use a rat to find a race marker above a deactivated mine. Once their rat gave the signal that it found something, an Apopo Mine Technician would search the area. When the Race marker was found, the team would receive their next clue. This leg's Detour was Pamper or Porter. In Pamper, teams had to travel half a mile to the Maputo Central Market, choose a nail polish kit, and convince people to pay them to paint their nails, which in Maputo is a job usually performed by men. Teams needed to earn at least 30 meticals, which is about one U.S. dollar, to receive their next clue. In Porter, teams made their way two miles to Market de Janet where they would use their bare hands to fill 10 large 45-pound bags with coal and sew each of them shut. Then, teams had to carry one of the ten heavy bags to a specified address where the owner would hand them their next clue.

[edit] Leg 6 (Mozambique → Tanzania)

The Detour for this leg was Solve It or Schlep It. In Solve It, teams had to make their way one third of a mile to Beyt al Chai where they would put together a 62-piece puzzle that recreates an image from a style of local artwork known as Tinga Tinga. In Schlep It, teams made their way one mile to the Kijangwani Lumber Yard. Once there, they had to choose a local handcart and load two 50-pound logs into their cart. Once loaded, teams had to travel more than a mile to deliver the logs to a shipyard. This leg's Roadblock had one team member learn how to use a traditional wooden weapon called a rungu used by members of the Maasai tribe by throwing it 65 feet to destroy clay targets in order to retrieve their next clue from inside.

[edit] Future legs & locations

Spoiler warning: Details about locations not officially published or aired follow.

Leg 7 (Tanzania → Poland)

There has been several sightings in Batu Caves, Malaysia, and in the Pacific island of Guam with only a handful of teams remaining at that point.[13] The final city appears to be San Francisco with some event specifically occurring at the San Francisco Botanical Garden.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b The 'Race' is on, all-star style. Retrieved on January 16, 2007.
  2. ^ a b Sunset Beacon: Residents Upset: For-profit Events Close Arboretum
  3. ^ This one's for immunity!. Retrieved on April 6, 2006.
  4. ^ TAR11 Ad from YouTube
  5. ^ Amazing Race: All-Stars Coming Early '07. Retrieved November 22, 2006.
  6. ^ TV Guide: Ready, Set...It's The Amazing Race: All-Stars Preview
  7. ^ 'Race' facing 11th run. Retrieved on September 28, 2006.
  8. ^ "'Race' gets Star Power", New York Post, 2006-11-25. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.
  9. ^ "'The Amazing Race' host Phil Keoghan dishes about 'All-Stars'", Realitytvworld, 2006-02-16. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.
  10. ^ Meeting a former racer. Retrieved February 18, 2007.
  11. ^ The Amazing Race: All-Stars: Phil Speaks Out
  12. ^ CBS press release regarding "Elimination Station". Retrieved on February, 2007.
  13. ^ Amazing Race Visits Guam. Retrieved December 16, 2006.

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