Amazing Race Suomi | |
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Season 2 | |
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Presented by | Heikki Paasonen |
No. of days | 24 |
No. of teams | 11 |
Winner | Metti Forssell & Hanna Launonen |
No. of legs | 12 |
Distance traveled | 20,000 km (12,000 mi) |
No. of episodes | 12 |
Release | |
Original network | Nelonen |
Original release | 5 October – 21 December 2024 |
Additional information | |
Filming dates | 22 May – 14 June 2024 |
Season chronology |
This is the second season of Amazing Race Suomi (English: Amazing Race Finland), a Finnish reality competition show based on the American series The Amazing Race . Hosted by Heikki Paasonen, it features eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship and including at least one celebrity contestant, competing in a race around Central Europe and Latin America to win €30,000. This season visited three continents and travelled over 20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi) during twelve legs. Starting in Vantaa, racers travelled through Poland, Romania, Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica before returning to Finland and finishing in Helsinki. The Express Pass was introduced as a new twist for this season. The season premiered on 5 October 2024 on Nelonen and concluded on 21 December 2024.
Childhood friends Metti Forssell and Hanna Launonen won this season, while actress Mimosa Willamo and her father Patrick "Pati" Willamo finished in second place, and brothers Elias Aalto and Matias Pietilä finished in third place. [1]
On 21 May 2024, Nelonen announced that Amazing Race Suomi was renewed for a second season. [2] The channel announced that the celebrity contestants will travel approximately the same distance by airplanes as they did in the first season (roughly 20,000 kilometres or 12,000 miles), to minimize the amount of carbon emissions produced during filming. [3] Like the previous season, this season was hosted by Heikki Paasonen and feature pairs of two competing for the prize of €30,000. [4] [5]
Production of this season began on 22 May 2024 in the city of Vantaa at the Heureka science center with the eleven celebrity pairs competing on this season also revealed. [6] [7] [8] The season saw a new "gamechanger" element. The winners of the first leg earned themselves an Express Pass (Express–Passi), that can be used to skip one of the many future tasks. [8] On 14 June, many of the contestants of the season returned from social media breaks after production of this finished. [9]
Upon the start of the production, the second season of Amazing Race Suomi was announced to premiere in October 2024. [10] [4] Finland's most comprehensive television guide, Telsu, first stated the season premiere episode to be aired on 5 October. [11]
The first trailer for the season was published on the show's official social media on 31 August 2024. [12]
This season of Amazing Race Suomi had a behind-the-scenes podcast called Amazing-podcast hosted by contestants Adeliina Arajuuri and Jeremie Malolo with episodes released on Supla following the broadcast release of each television episode. [13]
Each team is composed of two individuals who have some type of relationship to each other. In the second season, there are 11 Finnish celebrity teams competing. [6]
Contestants | Notability | Age | Relationship | Status |
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Aku Sipola | Actor | 34 | Friends | Eliminated 1st (in Kraków, Poland) |
Wille Komulainen | – | 42 | ||
Tuure Boelius | Artist | 23 | Siblings | Eliminated 2nd (in Kraków, Poland) |
Saana Boelius | – | 22 | ||
Jani Sievinen | Ex-medley swimmer | 50 | Married Couple | Eliminated 3rd (in Bucharest, Romania) |
Maria Nyqvist | – | 40 | ||
Mikko Kekäläinen | TV-presenter | 47 | Godson & Godmother | Medically removed (in Bucharest, Romania) |
Mervi "Meikka" Levänen | – | 65 | ||
Tiina Reetta "Tinni" Wikström | Radio presenter on Radio Suomipop | 34 | Friends | Eliminated 5th (in Bogotá, Colombia) |
Antti Savinainen | – | 29 | ||
Deogracias "Gracias" Masomi | Rapper & actor | 37 | Friends | Eliminated 6th (in Cartagena, Colombia) |
Jeremie Malolo | Ex-footballer | 32 | ||
Leea Klemola | Actress & playwright | 59 | Friends | Eliminated 7th (in Panama City, Panama) |
Kaarina Hazard | Actress | 60 | ||
Paulus Arajuuri | Former football player for Huuhkajat | 36 | Siblings | Eliminated 8th (in San Isidro, Costa Rica) |
Adeliina Arajuuri | Actress | 32 | ||
Elias Aalto | Entrepreneur & panellist on Lion's Den Finland | 38 | Brothers | Third place |
Matias Pietilä | – | 41 | ||
Mimosa Willamo | Jussi Award -winning actress | 29 | Daughter & Father | Runners-up |
Patrick "Pati" Willamo | – | 55 | ||
Metti Forssell | Social media personality | 33 | Childhood Friends | Winners |
Hanna Launonen | – | 33 | ||
The following teams are listed with their placements in each leg. Placements are listed in finishing order.
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 [a] | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
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Metti & Hanna | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st |
Mimosa & Pati | 1st | 2nd | 2ndε [b] | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 2nd |
Elias & Matias | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 3rd |
Paulus & Adeliina | 7th | 5th | 6th | 7th‡ | 6th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 4th‡ | 4th† | |
Leea & Kaarina | 6th | 7th | 8th [c] | 5th | 4th | 6th‡ | 5th | 5th‡ | 5th† | |||
Gracias & Jeremie | 8th | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 5th | 5th | 6th† | |||||
Tinni & Antti | 4th | 6th | 5th | 6th | 7th† | |||||||
Mikko & Meikka | 9th | 9th | 7th | 8th† [d] | ||||||||
Jani & Maria | 5th | 8th | 9th† [c] | |||||||||
Tuure & Saana | 10th | 10th† | ||||||||||
Aku & Wille | 11th† |
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Route Markers | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Leg | Flag | Location | Clue Phrase | Symbol |
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1 | ![]() | Wieliczka | Piotr Skarga | Diamond |
2 | Barbican | Siema! | Tray | |
3 | ![]() | Horeca | Să ai parte de noroc | Music note |
4 | Parcul Carol | Y=4 | Book | |
5 | ![]() | Casa Palermo | Pedro & Guillermo | Chili |
6 | Estadio Édgar Rentería | Listo! | Paint roller | |
7 | Castillo San Felipe de Barajas | ¿Me das la cámara por favor? | Drum | |
8 | ![]() | Taboga Island | ¡Ahoy! | Dominoes |
9 | Cerro Ancón | Villa Lucre | Wheelbarrow | |
10 | Cuadrángulo Central | Balboa | Baseball bat | |
11 | ![]() | Casa del Cafe | Casita de la paz | Dog |
12 | Playa Mantas | Pura Vida! | Zipline | |
The second season of Amazing Race Suomi has gathered mixed opinions amongst the television consumers.
While some people critiqued the length of the episodes and lack of entertaining teams, most of the fans were delighted about the much faster pace of Amazing Race Suomi compared to the first season. More diverse locations in Europe and Latin America gained praise, as the previous season only visited in Southeast Asia. The new element, the Express Pass, also gained praise on Jodel-app, and it was viewed as a freshening addition. [14] Much more complicated and difficult tasks were viewed as a positive side, and changing placements between the teams brought much more tense and exciting viewing experience. However, during the third leg in Romania, the Roadblock task requiring the teams to eat meat-based food caused heavy criticism on Finnish social media, as many of the contestants confess to be vegetarians or vegans. [15]
The season premiere episode debuted with very high ratings on channel Nelonen. With the highest peak of over 770,000 viewers, the episode achieved 407,000 viewers on average, making it the 2nd best performing episode of an entertainment series on the network during the week. [16]
The following ratings are taken from Finnpanel. [17]
No. | Air date | Episode | Weekly rank | Viewers | Ref |
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1 | 5 October 2024 | The Race Begins Now | 2 | 407,000 | [16] |
2 | 12 October 2024 | New Set Ups | 2 | 296,000 | [18] |
3 | 19 October 2024 | Tough Decisions at Cooking School | 2 | 279,000 | [19] |
4 | 26 October 2024 | Dramatic Night | 2 | 300,000 | [20] |
5 | 2 November 2024 | Whistling Vocals | 4 | 243,000 | [21] |
6 | 9 November 2024 | Searching For the Lost Hips | 4 | 267,000 | [22] |
7 | 16 November 2024 | Some Cake Too | 2 | 317,000 | [23] |
8 | 23 November 2024 | An Island Without Cars | 2 | 327,000 | [24] |
9 | 30 November 2024 | Sloths in Sight | 2 | 350,000 | [25] |
10 | 7 December 2024 | Local Delicacies | 1 | 336,000 | [26] |
11 | 14 December 2024 | From One Emotion to Another | 2 | 321,000 | [27] |
12 | 21 December 2024 | The Final Leg | 1 | 492,000 | [28] |