The Amazing Race 11

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).

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. 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".

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.

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

Contestants

Main article: Amazing Race 11 contestants

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
Oswald & Danny	Best Friends	Season 2	4th	2nd	2nd	5th	1st									Oswald 2, Danny 1
Eric & Danielle	Dating	Season 9	2nd & 8th	4th	4th	3rd	2nd									Eric 2, Danielle 1
Teri & Ian	Married Parents	Season 3	2nd	3rd	7th	6th	3rd									Teri 2, Ian 1
Joe & Bill	Life Partners	Season 1	3rd	5th	3rd	7th	4th									Joe 1, Bill 2
Dustin & Kandice	Beauty Queens	Season 10	4th	6th	6th	4th1	5th									Dustin 1, Kandice 2
Uchenna & Joyce	Married	Season 7	1st	7th	5th	2nd	6th									Uchenna 1, Joyce 2
Charla & Mirna	Cousins	Season 5	6th	8th	8th	8th	7th									Charla 1, Mirna 2
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

Template:FnbDustin and Kandice arrived 4th, but they had missed the clue to the detour, having simply arrived at one of the options. They had to go back and get the clue before checking in, but it did not affect their placing.

• Red means the team was eliminated.
• Blue means the team was the last to arrive at a pit stop in a non-elimination leg of the race.
• 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.

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
5. You Need To Watch Your Jokes, Guy – Joe

Trivia

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, 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."
• Rob & Amber are the first team to win consecutive legs at the beginning of a Race. They then proceeded to extend this record to winning each of this season's first three legs. In addition, they set a career record of 7 legs won.

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.

In-Race

• Chip Arndt, the winner of Season 4, ran into racers Charla & Mirna and Teri & Ian on Leg 1 at Miami International Airport. 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.
• Although the show's website mentions that in Leg 3, two teams (including Uchenna and Joyce) 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.

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.

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.

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.

Race locations

Route Map (as of Leg 4)

Leg 1 (United States → Ecuador)

• Miami, Florida, USA (Charles Deering Historic Estate) (Starting Line)
• Miami (Miami International Airport) to Quito, Ecuador (Mariscal Sucre International Airport)
• Quito (Plaza de San Francisco)
• Quito (Pim's Restaurant)
• Quito (Cotopaxi National Park – Hacienda Yanahurco) >Detour (Wrangle It or Recover It)<
• Quito (Cotopaxi National Park – Mirador Cotopaxi) >Pit Stop (Leg 1)<

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.

Leg 2 (Ecuador → Chile)

• Quito (Mariscal Sucre International Airport) to Santiago, Chile (Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport)
• Santiago (Codelco Corporate Headquarters) >Roadblock (Who has an eye for detail?)<
• Santiago (Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport) to Calama (El Loa Airport)
• Calama (Chuquicamata) >Detour (By Hand or By Machine)<
• San Pedro de Atacama (Valle de la Muerte) >Pit Stop (Leg 2)<

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.

Leg 3 (Chile)

• San Pedro de Atacama (Iglesia de San Pedro de Atacama)
• Calama (El Loa Airport) to Puerto Montt (El Tepual Airport)
• Puerto Montt (Metri, La Biblioteca de Pesquería y Ciencias del Mar, Universidad de Los Lagos) >Roadblock (Who can handle a slippery situation?)<
• Petrohué Template:Es icon (La Maquina) >Detour (Vertical Limit or River Wild)<
• Petrohué (Playa Petrohué) >Pit Stop (Leg 3)<

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.

Leg 4 (Chile → Argentina)

• Puerto Montt (El Tepual Airport) to Punta Arenas (Carlos Ibanez Del Campo International Airport)
• Punta Arenas (Lord Lonsdale's Shipwreck) >Detour (Navigate It or Sign It)<
• Punta Arenas (Carlos Ibanez Del Campo International Airport) to Ushuaia, Argentina (Ushuaia International Airport)
• Ushuaia (Playa Larga)
• Ushuaia (Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego) >Roadblock ()< >Pit Stop (Leg 4)<

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.

Future locations

Template:Spoiler-blank Leg 5 (Argentina → Mozambique)

• Ushuaia (Ushuaia International Airport) to Maputo, Mozambique (Maputo International Airport)
• Vilanculos

Other confirmed locations are Mozambique, while teams have also been sighted in Batu Caves, Malaysia.

Another sighting has been in the Pacific island of Guam with only a "handful" of teams remaining at that point.

The final city appears to be San Francisco, with some event specifically occurring at the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

External links

• Official CBS The Amazing Race All Stars Website
• Tarflies Times (Season 11)
• Official CBS Amazing Race All-Stars wiki