The Amazing Race Latinoamérica
| The Amazing Race Latinoamérica | |
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 Title card from the Space broadcasts |
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| Format | Reality Game show |
| Created by | Elise Doganieri Bertram van Munster |
| Directed by | Marco Colantoni |
| Presented by | Harris Whitbeck (2009-2011) |
| Country of origin | Latin America |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 39 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Leonardo Alanguibel, Fernando Barbosa, Ángel Zambrano, Mariano César, Gerardo Kerik, Jose Scheuren, María Barrios |
| Producer(s) | Melyna Deluchi, Mimi Bejarano, Gabriela Núñez |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Disney Media Networks Latin America RGB (season 1) Cinemat (season 2 - season 3) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Discovery Channel Latin America (2009-2010) Space (2011-) |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) (2009) 720i (HDTV) (2010–present) |
| Original run | September 20, 2009 – Present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | See The Amazing Race -> International Versions |
The Amazing Race Latinoamérica, previously known as The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel, is a reality game show based on the American series, The Amazing Race.
On 15 October 2008, a Latin American version of the show was announced by Discovery Channel Latin America in association with Disney. The first season was produced by Argentinian television production company RGB, while the second season was produced by Venezuelan television company Cinemat.
On 25 January 2011, it was announced that Space in association with Disney was going to produce the third season of the Latin American version of the race, retitling the show to The Amazing Race Latinoamérica. This season was also produced by Venezuelan television company Cinemat.
It was the second Latin American version of the franchise. The first was A Corrida Milionária, the Brazilian version of the franchise. It was also the first franchise in the Spanish language.
The host for the show is Guatemalan journalist Harris Whitbeck. The grand prize for the winning team is $250,000, $750,000 less than the original American version's $1,000,000 prize.
Applications for the fourth season will be opened from December 31, 2011 until March 1, 2012 only for Brazilian teams. Harris Whitbeck will be replaced by a Brazilian host in this fourth season.
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[edit] The Race
The Amazing Race Latinoamérica is a reality television competition between teams of two, in a race around South America. The race is divided into a number of legs wherein teams travel and complete various tasks to obtain clues to help them progress to a Pit Stop, where teams are given a chance to rest and recover before starting the next leg twelve hours later. The first team to arrive at a Pit Stop is often awarded a prize, while the last team is normally eliminated from the race (except in non-elimination legs, where the last team to arrive may be penalized in the following leg). The final leg of each race is run by the last three remaining teams, and the first to arrive at the final destination wins the show's prize
[edit] Teams
Each of eleven teams are composed of two individuals who have some type of relationship to each other. A total of 66 participants have joined The Amazing Race Latinoamérica.
The participants are all required to be able to communicate in Spanish. As well as Portuguese for Brazilian citizens. The contestants chosen to appear are from various Latin American countries and not limited to one country of origin. Participating countries include all citizens in Latin America except Cuba, French Guiana, Puerto Rico and Lesser Antilles (except for Aruba, Curaçao and Trinidad and Tobago). Additionally, teams from Jamaica and The Bahamas can participate.
[edit] Route Markers
Route Markers are yellow and red flags (black and blue in Seasons 1 and 2) that mark the places where teams must go. Most Route Markers are attached to the boxes that contain clue envelopes, but some may mark the place where the teams must go in order to complete tasks, or may be used to line a course that the teams must follow. The route markers in the first two seasons were colored blue and black, including the clue envelopes and the Pit Stop.
[edit] Clues
All route information and clues are adopted from the original American version.
- Route Info: A general clue that may include a task to be completed by the team before they can receive their next clue.
- Detour (Desvío): A choice of two tasks. Teams are free to choose either task or swap tasks if they find one option too difficult. There is generally one Detour present on each leg of the race.
- Roadblock (Obstráculo): A task only one team member can complete. Teams must choose which member will complete the task based on a brief clue about the task before fully revealing the details of the task. Most races limit the number of Roadblocks one team member can perform. There is generally one Roadblock present on each leg of the race.
- Fast Forward (Avance): A task that only one team may complete, allowing that team to skip all remaining tasks and head directly for the next Pit Stop. Teams may only claim one Fast Forward during the entire race.
- Intersection (Intersección): Two teams compete against each other (Seasons 1 and 2); Two teams team up with each other (Season 3)
- Yield (Alto): A station where a team can force another trailing team to wait a pre-determined amount of time before continuing the race.
- U-Turn (Retorno): A station, located after a Detour, where a team can force another trailing team to return and complete the other option of the Detour they did not select.
In Seasons 1 and 2, only one Fast Forward was offered.
In Season 3, the Express Pass (Pase Directo) was introduced, similar to the seventeenth season of the US version and was given to the first team to arrive on the first leg of the race. With the Express Pass, one team can skip a task of their election
Generally the clues are similar to the American version, but a few differences can be seen, unique to this version:
Season 2 introduced the Intersection, but it had drastically different rules than the American version. As opposed to two teams working together, this version's Intersection pits two teams against each other in a task as they compete for higher placement; however, in Season 3, the Intersection would have two teams working together, as in the American version.
Both Yield and U-Turn are seen in separate legs and because of that, a team can use each once during the Race. A key difference from other versions of The Amazing race franchise is that, one team may not Yield or U-Turn another team if both teams are within each other's lines of sight.
[edit] Legs
Teams receive an allowance of cash with their first clue at the beginning of a leg, with the cash usually in U.S. dollars, to cover expenses during the race, except for the purchase of airline tickets. Any money left over after a leg of the race can be used on subsequent legs. Teams then have to follow Route Markers and clues that will lead them to the various destinations and tasks they will face. Modes of travel between these destinations include commercial and chartered airplanes, boats, trains, taxis, buses, and rented vehicles provided by the show, or the teams may simply travel by foot.
In this version, airports are treated like Pit Stops. Teams arrive at the airport and, in lieu of finding a flight, write down the time that they arrived at the airport. They will then be released from the destination's airport with the same time gaps.
In some legs, the first teams to arrive win prizes, usually from the show's sponsors.
[edit] Non-elimination legs
Each race has a number of predetermined non-elimination legs, in which the last team to arrive at the Pit Stop is not eliminated and is allowed to continue on the race. In Season 1, the clues directing teams to Pit Stops sometimes replace the 'may' in the traditional clue phrasing "the last team to arrive may be eliminated" with "the last team to arrive will be eliminated," pointing to a certain elimination point.
Starting from Season 1, the last team to arrive was required to do Speed Bump at the next leg, similar to the later seasons of American version.
[edit] Double-length legs
On all three seasons, season finale (Leg 12) was a double length leg, with the final 3 teams instructed to go to the pit stop. The first team to arrive on season 1 got a prize and their next clue to the final destination city and the last team did not get a penalty. (there was no prize for the first team on season 2 and 3).
[edit] No-break legs
Starting from Season 3, no break legs were introduced as similar to the eighteenth season of the American version, with the first team to arrive winning a prize and their next clue, and the last team having to complete a Speed Bump on the following leg.
[edit] Rules and Penalties
Most of the rules and penalties are adopted directly from the American edition; but in some of cases, the Latin American version has been seen to have a unique set of additional rules.
[edit] Rules
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[edit] Penalties
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[edit] Seasons
The show first aired in 2009 with the first season premiere airing in September 20, 2009 and ending in December 13, 2009. The first three seasons have aired yearly, with the first episode airing in late September and the last one airing in early December.
| Season | Year | Air Date | Winners | Country |
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| 1 | 2009 | September 20, 2009 - December 13, 2009 | Matías Franchini & Tamara Reichelt |  Argentina |
| 2 | 2010 | September 26, 2010 - December 19, 2010 | Mauricio & Carlos Coarasa |  Mexico |
| 3 | 2011 | September 25, 2011 - December 18, 2011 | Cristóbal & Nicolás Brain |  Chile |
| 4 | 2012 | September, 2012 - December, 2012 | TBA |  Brazil |
[edit] Rankings
| Country | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 |
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| Argentina |
Winner / 11th | Third-place | Third-place / 11th | |
| Brazil |
4th / 5th | 4th | All^ | |
| Chile |
Third-place | 10th | Winner | |
 Colombia |
7th / 8th | 5th / 6th | Runner-up / 5th | |
 Costa Rica |
6th | |||
 Dominican Republic |
8th | |||
 Ecuador |
8th | |||
| Mexico |
6th / 10th | Winner / Runner-up ^ / 7th | 4th / 9th | |
 Panama |
9th | |||
 Peru |
11th | 7th | ||
 Venezuela |
Runner-up | 9th | 10th |
- indicates the winning country.
- indicates the runner-up country.
- indicates the third-place country.
- indicates the country did not participate.
- Notes:
^ Mexico is also the runner-up in this season.
^ All the teams in the fourth season are from Brazil.
| Country | Winner | Runner-up | Third-place | Total |
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| Mexico |
1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Argentina |
1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Venezuela |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Chile |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Brazil |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Colombia |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Costa Rica |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dominican Republic |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ecuador |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Panama |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peru |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
[edit] Countries and locales visited
As of the second season, The Amazing Race Latinoamérica has visited 14 countries and has visited only the Americas (except Canada and the United States). Countries in bold have not been visited in the original US edition as of time of filming. In addition, bold and italicised purple indicates that the country was visited by the American version after first being featured here.
| North America | Central America | Caribbean | South America |
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[edit] Number of times visited
| Rank | Country | Flag | Season Visited | Number of Pitstops |
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| 1 | Argentina | |
1, 2, 3 | 7 |
| 1 | Brazil | |
1, 2, 3 | 51 |
| 3 | Chile | |
1, 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Colombia | |
1, 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Ecuador | |
2, 3 | 31 |
| 3 | Mexico | |
1, 2 | 31 |
| 7 | Bolivia |  |
2 | 1 |
| 7 | Costa Rica | |
1 | 1 |
| 7 | Dominican Republic | |
1 | 1 |
| 7 | Guatemala |  |
2 | 1 |
| 7 | Panama | |
1 | 1 |
| 7 | Peru | |
1 | 2 |
| 7 | Uruguay |  |
3 | 2 |
| 7 | Venezuela | |
2 | 1 |
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