The Amazing Race 17

The Amazing Race 17
Season run September 26, 2010
– December 12, 2010
Filming dates May 26, 2010
– June 15, 2010
Winning team Natalie "Nat" Strand & Katherine "Kat" Chang
Continents visited 4
Countries visited 10
Cities visited 30
Distance traveled 32,000 miles
(51,498 kilometres)
Unfinished Business Gary & Mallory Ervin
Season chronology
Previous The Amazing Race 16
Next The Amazing Race 18: Unfinished Business

The Amazing Race 17 is the seventeenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 17 features 11 teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world.[1]

The seventeenth cycle started on Sunday, September 26, 2010. It aired on CBS in the United States on a special 90-minute episode; and then it returned to its normal hour-long format the following week on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT with the season finale on December 12, 2010. The show is again hosted by Phil Keoghan.

This was the final season filmed and broadcast in Standard Definition.[2]

Anesthesiologists Natalie "Nat" Strand and Katherine "Kat" Chang were the winners of the race, and are the first all-female team to win the American edition of the competition.[Note 1]

Contents

Production

Development and filming

CBS renewed the 17th edition of The Amazing Race on January 25, 2010.[3] The season premiered on September 26, 2010 with a special 90-minute episode; it returned to its regular hour-long format the following week.[4]

This season spanned 32,000 miles (51,000 km) while racing across four continents, with first-time visits to Ghana and Bangladesh, and for the first time in the show's history, teams crossed the Arctic Circle.[5]

Filming began on May 26, 2010, with the starting line at the Eastern Point Yacht Club in Gloucester, Massachusetts,[6] making this the first season since The Amazing Race All-Stars to start in a city other than Los Angeles and ended on June 15, 2010 with the finish line at Los Angeles, California.

Prior to the Race's broadcast, CBS posted a short preview video clip from an episode on the Internet, showing Brook and Claire competing at a watermelon launching challenge using an elastic slingshot. The clip showed Claire, working the slingshot, being hit in the face full-on with a watermelon after it failed to launch correctly, leaving her momentarily stunned but otherwise not seriously injured.[7] The clip spread on the internet virally.[7][8][9]

Phil Keoghan began both the season and the video background segments of the contestants while standing on the grass mall of Castle Hill in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Two new game elements were introduced in this season. The first is the Express Pass, awarded to the team who finished first on the first Leg. This item would allow the team to skip any Detour, Roadblock, or Route Marker task before Leg 8. Dating couple Jill and Thomas won the Express Pass, which they later used to bypass the Beds Detour on Leg 4. Another new element is the Double U-Turn, where two teams are allowed to use U-Turns in a single race leg.

During the Leg 3 Pit Stop in Ghana, teams helped renovate the school that they visited during the leg.

Cast

See also: List of The Amazing Race (U.S. TV series) contestants

Applications were due on February 4, 2010. Semi-finalist interviews were held sometime in March 2010 and the final casting interviews took place in Los Angeles around March 2010.[10] From there, 11 teams were selected as contestants and filming took place around May to June 2010.

The cast included a team of home shopping hosts, Internet entertainer Kevin Wu – popularly known as "KevJumba" – and his father Michael; Ivy League a cappella singers; and a birth mother and daughter who recently reunited following an adoption over 20 years earlier.[5] This was the first season ever without a married couple. There were 3 beauty queens competing: Mallory Ervin, who competed in Miss America 2010, where she placed fourth runner-up; Brook Roberts, who competed in Miss America 2005; and Stephanie Smith, who was Miss South Carolina USA 2009.

Chad Waltrip proposed to Stephanie Smith during the course of the race; they were married on November 20, 2010.[11]

Gary & Mallory raced again in The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business among a cast of returning teams from seasons 12–17.

Results

The following teams participated in the Race, with their relationships at the time of filming. Note this table does not necessarily reflect all content broadcast on television due to inclusion or exclusion of some data. Placements are listed in finishing order.

Team Relationship Position (by leg) Roadblocks
performed
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Nat & Kat Doctors 2nd 7th 8th 1st 1stƒ 4th 1st 5th 3rd⋑ 1st 3rd 1st Nat 6, Kat 5
Brook & Claire Home Shopping Hosts 4th 1st 6th 3rd 5th 2nd 2nd4 4th 4th⊂ 3rd 2nd9 2nd Brook 7, Claire 5
Jill & Thomas Dating 1st 5th 7th 5thε2 3rd 1st 5th 2nd7 1st⊃ 2nd 1st 3rd Jill 5, Thomas 7
Nick & Vicki Dating 10th 8th 5th 6th 6th 7th3 3rd 3rd 2nd 4th8 4th10 Nick 6, Vicki 4
Chad & Stephanie Dating→Engaged6 8th 4th 3rd 7th 7th 5th 6th5 1st 5th⋐ Chad 5, Stephanie 4
Gary & Mallory Father/Daughter 6th 9th 2nd 2nd 2nd 6th 4th 6th Gary 4, Mallory 4
Michael & Kevin Father/Son 7th 3rd 9th 4th 4th 3rd 7th Michael 3, Kevin 4
Katie & Rachel Beach Volleyball Partners 5th 2nd 4th 8th 8th Katie 3, Rachel 2
Connor & Jonathan Ivy League A Cappella Singers 3rd 6th 1st 9th Connor 4, Jonathan 0
Andie & Jenna Birth Mom/Daughter 9th 10th Andie 0, Jenna 2
Ron & Tony Best Friends 11th Ron 11, Tony 0
  1. ^ While neither Ron nor Tony was shown performing the Roadblock in Leg 1, the official website lists Ron as the team member who completed the task.
  2. ^ Jill & Thomas elected to use the Express Pass to bypass the Detour in Leg 4.
  3. ^ While Nick & Vicki came in last in a non-elimination leg, they did not face a Speed Bump in the following leg. Post-race interviews revealed that the Speed Bump was waived, and that everyone's placement in that leg was equalized at the Detour, in compensation for various production difficulties in the previous leg affecting all of the teams.[12] One of the problems involved the judge at the Classical Music Detour who made erroneous calls causing teams (Nick & Vicki in particular) to spend more time at the task than they needed to.
  4. ^ Brook and Claire took a taxi to the Tower to the Church of the Savior on Blood. But when they found it the clue told them to walk, they asked their cab driver to go back to the Bank Bridge to 1 Vladimirsky Prospekt Tower and performed the task correctly. They checked in the mat in 2nd-place without Phil giving them a 30 minute penalty.
  5. ^ Chad & Stephanie initially arrived 6th, but were not allowed to check in because they did not pay their taxi fare and had also left their bags in the taxi. In this time, Michael & Kevin arrived to check in, but had been issued multiple penalties. When they returned, Chad & Stephanie were told they had been issued a 30-minute penalty for taking a taxi from 1 Vladimirsky Prospekt Tower to the Church of the Savior on Blood, which was explicitly prohibited in the clue. However, because Michael & Kevin had a longer penalty, Chad & Stephanie were checked in for a 6th-place finish; their penalty was instead applied to their starting time in Leg 8. Meanwhile, Michael & Kevin arrived at the Pit Stop in 6th while Chad & Stephanie were turned away. However, they were issued two 30-minute penalties: one for hiring a taxi to lead them from Bank Bridge to 1 Vladimirsky Prospekt Tower and the other for taking a taxi from the Tower to the Church of the Savior on Blood. While they sat out their penalty, Chad & Stephanie returned and were allowed to check in, resulting in Michael & Kevin being eliminated.
  6. ^ Chad & Stephanie left the Pit Stop in Saint Petersburg over 2 hours late because they accidentally overslept. This did not affect their overall placement in Leg 8 since they were the last to depart. During Leg 8, Chad proposed to Stephanie, who accepted. Their relationship title was changed from "Newly Dating" to "Engaged".
  7. ^ Jill & Thomas initially arrived 1st, but were issued a 30-minute penalty for paying a taxi driver to lead them to the Pit Stop, which was explicitly prohibited in the clue. Chad & Stephanie checked in for a 1st-place finish during their penalty, dropping Jill & Thomas to 2nd.
  8. ^ Nick & Vicki elected to forfeit the Detour because they were too exhausted to continue. They arrived at the Pit Stop last, but were notified that it was a non-elimination leg. The 6-hour penalty they would have taken from the Detour was instead applied to their starting time in Leg 11.
  9. ^ Brook & Claire initially arrived 1st, but were issued a 30-minute penalty for taking a taxi to their Detour location when the clue instructed teams to travel either on foot or take the subway. Jill & Thomas checked in for a 1st-place finish during their penalty, dropping Brook & Claire to 2nd.
  10. ^ Nick & Vicki's departure time was not shown in Leg 11, because they departed 6 hours later and were way behind Brook & Claire's departure, which was at 5:26 pm, due to the penalty applied to their starting time in that leg (see note 8). Also, by the time they made it to the Seung-il Bridge in Cheorwon, all the other teams had already checked in at the Pit Stop and it had become too dark for them to safely perform some of the tasks. During the broadcast of the leg, they were only shown performing the Speed Bump and then immediately checking in at the Pit Stop to be eliminated. In interviews after the episode was broadcast, they revealed that they did the Detour as well.[13][14]

Episode title quotes

Episode titles are often taken from quotes made by the racers.[15]

  1. "They Don't Call It The Amazing Race For Nothin!" – Brook
  2. "A Kiss Saves the Day" – Brook
  3. "In Phil We Trust" – Connor
  4. "We Should Have Brought Gloves and Butt Pads" – Kevin
  5. "Tastes Like a Million Dollars" – Kat
  6. "Run, Babushka, Run" – Kat
  7. "I Want to Be in the Circus, That's Where I Belong" – Brook
  8. "Ali Baba in a Suit" – Nick
  9. "There's a Lot of Nuts and Bullets" – Jill
  10. "I Hate Chinese Food" – Vicki
  11. "I'm Surrounded by Ninjas" – Brook
  12. "Hi. I'm Sorry. I'm in a Race"[16] – Nat

Prizes

The prize for each leg is awarded to the first place team for that leg. All trips are sponsored by Travelocity.

Elimination Station

After elimination, the first five eliminated teams were sequestered at a villa in Cancun, Mexico, to await the finale. CBS posted short videos on its website after each episode aired in the Pacific Time Zone to show the eliminated teams interacting at the villa.

Race summary

Destinations Air travel    Railroad    Water travel    Bus travel
Route Markers Detour    Roadblock    U-Turn    Fast Forward    Speed Bump    Pit Stop

Leg 1 (United States → England)

In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to travel on horseback to a tournament area and use a giant slingshot to launch a watermelon towards a suit of armor standing 50 feet (15 m) away. Once they knocked the armor over, the team had to find a court jester who would give them their next clue to search the Castle grounds for the Pit Stop.

Additional task

Leg 2 (England → Ghana)

In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to sell enough sunglasses to make GH₵15 (approx. US$10), while selling no single pair for less than GH₵3. In the leg's Detour, teams had a choice between Tune In or Check Out. In Tune In, teams had to travel to a nearby electronics store (named Adom Electronics) and pick up a television antenna setup, bring it to a marked house, and set it up to the customer's liking. If the television set picked up a proper signal, the house owner would give their next clue. In Check Out, teams had to bring a fantasy coffin from Emmanuel's Woodshop to a showroom across town to retrieve their next clue.

Leg 3 (Ghana)

In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to perform a boxing workout; after first wrapping their hands properly, the team member had to punch a punching bag and then jump rope for 60 seconds each. Upon completion of the workout, their boxing trainer would give them their next clue. In this leg's Detour, teams chose between Bicycle Parts or Language Arts. In Bicycle Parts, both team members had to use a stick to roll a bicycle wheel's rim down the length of a soccer field and back (two passes), without touching it with their hands or letting it fall over. Once they completed their two passes, one of the school children would give them their next clue. In Language Arts, teams chose a proverb with eight phrases highlighted that correspond to a series of eight Adinkra symbols. Using a nearby decoder key, teams had to locate the eight symbols in a massive word search-like puzzle. Once they circled the correct set of Adinkra symbols, one of the school children would give them their next clue.

Additional tasks

Leg 4 (Ghana → Sweden)

For this leg's Speed Bump, Michael and Kevin had to sit on chairs made of ice in the Icehotel for 10 minutes before they could take their next clue and continue racing. In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to choose a sled dog team and hitch them to a summer training sled. They then had to take the dogs on a course and collect five different flags along the course which they could then trade for fur pelts at the end, which they would bring back to camp for their next clue. If they miss a flag, they have to take a penalty lap for each missed flag. In this leg's Detour, teams chose between Sleds or Beds. In Sleds, teams had to use TechSleds to race down a mountain course in less than 1 minute and 58 seconds. If they failed to reach the end before the allotted time, they would have to repeat the run. In Beds, teams had build a traditional Sami dwelling known as a goahti, and then furnish the inside with furs and a fire pit. A Sami elder would give the team their next clue if the goathi was built and furnished to his or her liking.

Leg 5 (Sweden → Norway)

The only Fast Forward of the race required one team to go to the Stornaustet[17] immersive restaurant in Vidrek and eat an entire serving of smalahove, a dish made of a boiled sheep's head, between the two of them. In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to rappel off the Skjomen Bridge and then signal for one of two waiting boats to give them their next clue. After retrieving the clue from the boat, the team member had to use a mechanical ascender to return to the bridge deck. In this leg's Detour, teams chose between Bike or Boat. In Bike, teams had to ride a bicycle along a course to a sign, where combinations of numbers and colors were shown. Teams then had to memorize the combination of the color that matched the color on their bike, return to the starting point, and then use the combination to unlock their next clue. In Boat, teams had to use a reference map to navigate a boat to a specific location. They then had to deliver two cod and a chainsaw to a summer lodge to receive their next clue.

Additional tasks

Leg 6 (Norway → Russia)

In this leg's Detour, teams chose between Classical Music and Classic Cinema. In Classical Music, teams traveled to Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace and listened to three different compositions (Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and Tchaikovsky's Troika) playing on three numbered gramaphones. They then entered a music hall full of pianists playing several different compositions and had to take a copy of the sheet music from the pianists playing each of the three compositions. Teams would receive their next clue from the maestro after putting the correct compositions in the correct order. In Classic Cinema, teams traveled to Lenfilm and searched through several hundred filmstrips until they found one matching the film playing in the theater (Sergei Eisenstein's October). When they showed the correct filmstrip to the projectionist, he would give the teams their next clue. In the Roadblock, one team member had to dress up like a babushka, pick up a sack of 50 potatoes, and fill a wheelbarrow with cow manure. A babushka would then show them how to properly plant the potatoes, and she would give them their next clue once the planting was completed.

Additional task

Leg 7 (Russia)

In this leg's Detour, teams chose between Circus Band and Circus Clown. In Circus Band, the team members had to learn a Russian folk song (Ivan Larionov's Kalinka) for the accordion. Once they played the song correctly, the band leader would give them their next clue. In Circus Clown, teams had to learn plate spinning and get 10 plates to spin without falling to receive their clue from a clown. In this leg's Roadblock, the teams had to clear three gorodki pin formations before the pins get reset, to receive their next clue that told them to head inside the Fortress for the Pit Stop.

Additional tasks

Leg 8 (Russia → Oman)

In this leg's Roadblock, one team member rappelled 500 feet (150 m) down the side of Jebel Shams to a field of hundreds of oil lamps, a handful of which held Aladdin's magic ring. Once they found a lamp with the ring, they had to turn it in for their next clue. In this leg's Detour, teams chose between Water Table and Wedding Table. In Water Table, teams pumped water from a well into a water truck and then drove back into town to deliver the water to their assigned house in the neighborhood of Aswat Al Eid. After delivering the water, the customer gave them their next clue. In Wedding Table, teams traveled to an Arab market and purchased 25 chickens and several other ingredients needed to serve the traditional Omani dish maqbous. Once the dish was complete, they gave the maqbous to a bride and groom who gave them their next clue.

Additional tasks

Leg 9 (Oman → Bangladesh)

In this leg's Detour, teams chose between Balanced Meal or Balanced Bricks. In Balanced Meal, teams picked up 30 filled tiffin carriers and took them by boat to a larger boat in the harbor. After lifting the lunches to the boat, teams would have to take 10 empty carriers back to shore where they can exchange them for the next clue. In Balanced Bricks, teams had to unload bricks from a brick barge and carry them to a shop in the market in baskets on their head. Once they had 100 unbroken bricks, they would receive their next clue. In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to assemble a cycle rickshaw properly, using all parts given, in order to receive their clue.

Additional tasks

Leg 10 (Bangladesh → Hong Kong)

In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to use chopsticks to search among several plates of food on a buffet for one of five pieces of fake food normally used for display. If the racer picked up a real piece of food, he or she had to eat it before moving on. Once they found the fake food, they would receive their next clue. In this leg's Detour, teams chose between Ding Ding and Sampan. In Ding Ding, teams rode the Hong Kong Tramways, colloquially known as the "Ding Ding", looking for three signs (reading "Pit Stop", "Statue", and "Square") which reveal the location of the Pit Stop. In Sampan, teams went to the Jumbo Kingdom's dock and took a pair of budgerigars in a birdcage on a sampan, searching Aberdeen Harbour for a boat with the registration number matching the number on their birdcage. They could then trade the birdcage for the location of the Pit Stop.

Leg 11 (Hong Kong → South Korea)

In the leg's Roadblock, one team member chose a headband and then searched among 200 soldiers practicing taekwondo for the one wearing a matching headband. Once they found the right soldier, the soldier would break open a wooden board that contained their next clue. If they picked the wrong soldier, the soldier would take the headband, and they would have to retrieve another headband. In the leg's Detour, teams chose between Full Throttle or Full Bottle. In Full Throttle, teams traveled to the Mok-dong Ice Rink (목동 아이스링크) and put on short track speed skating suits and complete a two-person skating relay of 24 laps of the rink before they were given their next clue. In Full Bottle, teams traveled to Namdaemun Market to put on delivery uniforms and then deliver six large glass bottles of ginseng roots to a holistic wellness store, without breaking any of the glasses. They then must both drink a bottle of ginseng tonic before they would receive their next clue. For this leg's Speed Bump, Nick & Vicki had to clean one of the M109 Self-Propelled Howitzers at Camp Casey even though Phil was not shown describing it on air.

Additional tasks

Leg 12 (South Korea → United States)

In the race's final Roadblock, one team member had to decorate three sections of the theme float for the Tournament of Roses Parade, by gluing chrysanthemums to one section, placing roses in special vials of water and then placing them in a section of the float, and then covering a giant cardboard rose with finely ground straw to cover it with "natural materials" as stated in the rules for decorating the floats. If they completed the float sections correctly, the floral director would tell them that they could receive their next clue from 2009 Rose Queen Courtney Lee.

Additional tasks

Ratings

US Ratings

# Airdate Episode Rating Share Rating/Share Viewers Rank Rank Rank Rank
Households 18–49 (millions) Timeslot
(Viewers)		 Timeslot
(18–49)		 Week
(Viewers)		 Week
(18–49)
1 09/26/10 "They Don't Call It the Amazing Race for Nothin!" 6.3 10 3.7/9 11.54[18] #2 #2 #26
2 10/03/10 "A Kiss Saves the Day" 6.2 10 3.4/9 10.67[19] #2 #2 #28 #25
3 10/10/10 "In Phil We Trust" 6.9 11 3.8/9 11.99[20] #3 #3 #20 #13
4 10/17/10 "We Should Have Brought Gloves and Butt Pads" 6.3 10 3.5/9 10.94[21] #2 #2 #21 #21
5 10/24/10 "Tastes Like a Million Dollars" 6.7 10 3.4/8 11.42[22] #2 #2 #20 #19
6 10/31/10 "Run, Babushka, Run" 5.3 9 2.6/7 9.09[23] #3 #3 (<#25) (<#25)
7 11/07/10 "I Want to Be In the Circus, That's Where I Belong" 6.5 10 3.3/8 11.01[24] #20 #23
8 11/14/10 "Ali Baba In a Suit" 6.0 9 2.8/7 10.34[25] #2 #2
9 11/21/10 "There's a Lot of Nuts and Bullets" 6.2 9 3.0/7 10.59[25] #2 #2 #24
10 11/28/10 "I Hate Chinese Food" 6.3 10 3.1/8 11.07[26] #13 #17
11 12/05/10 "I'm Surrounded By Ninjas" 6.1 9[27] 3.1/8 10.34[28] #2 #2 #17 #14
12 12/12/10 "Hi. I'm Sorry. I'm In a Race" 7.0 11 3.7/9 12.12[29] #2 #2 #11 #10

Canadian Ratings

Canadian broadcaster CTV also airs The Amazing Race on Sundays at 8pm Eastern, Central, & Atlantic (9pm Pacific & Mountain).

# Airdate Episode Viewers
(millions)		 Rank
(Week)
1 09/26/10 "They Don't Call It The Amazing Race For Nothin!" 2.438 #8[30]
2 10/03/10 "A Kiss Saves the Day" 2.623 #3[31]
3 10/10/10 "In Phil We Trust" 2.301 #7[32]
4 10/17/10 "We Should Have Brought Gloves and Butt Pads" 2.989 #1[33]
5 10/24/10 "Tastes Like a Million Dollars" 2.723 #2[34]
6 10/31/10 "Run, Babushka, Run" 2.360 #6[35]
7 11/07/10 "I Want to Be in the Circus, That's Where I Belong" 2.674 #4[36]
8 11/14/10 "Ali Baba in a Suit" 2.791 #2[37]
9 11/21/10 "There's a Lot of Nuts and Bullets" 2.632 #3[38]
10 11/28/10 "I Hate Chinese Food" 2.506 #4[39]
11 12/05/10 "I'm Surrounded by Ninjas" 2.681 #1[40]
12 12/12/10 "Hi. I'm Sorry. I'm in a Race" 2.738 #1[41]

Australian Ratings

The Amazing Race 17 airs Thursdays fastracked at 7:30pm on Australia's Seven Network.

# Airdate Episode Viewers
(millions)		 Rank
(Week)
1 09/30/10 "They Don't Call It The Amazing Race For Nothin!" 0.787 #59[42]
2 10/07/10 "A Kiss Saves the Day" 0.795 #44[43]
3 10/14/10 "In Phil We Trust" 0.773 #48[44]
4 10/21/10 "We Should Have Brought Gloves and Butt Pads" 0.802 #52[45]
5 10/28/10 "Tastes Like a Million Dollars" 0.849 #55[46]
6 11/04/10 "Run, Babushka, Run" 0.772 #62[47]
7 11/11/10 "I Want to Be in the Circus, That's Where I Belong" 0.904 #45[48]
8 11/18/10 "Ali Baba in a Suit" 0.667 #71[49]
9 11/25/10 "There's a Lot of Nuts and Bullets" 0.797 #49[50]
10 12/02/10 "I Hate Chinese Food" 0.718 #49[51]
11 12/09/10 "I'm Surrounded by Ninjas" 0.688 #48[52]
12 12/16/10 "Hi. I'm Sorry. I'm in a Race" 0.749 #37[53]

Notes

  1. ^ The first season of The Amazing Race Asia was won by an all-female team consisting of Malaysian co-workers Joe Jer Tee and Zabrina Fernandez. The Brazilian version known as A Corrida Milionária was also won by an all-female team consisting of friends Patrícia & Sane.

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