The Amazing Race 10 | |
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Season 10 | |
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Presented by | Phil Keoghan |
No. of teams | 12 |
Winner | Tyler Denk & James Branaman |
No. of legs | 12 |
Distance traveled | 40,000 mi (64,000 km) |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Release | |
Original network | CBS |
Original release | September 17 – December 10, 2006 |
Additional information | |
Filming dates | May 27 – June 24, 2006 |
Season chronology | |
The Amazing Race 10 is the tenth season of the American reality competition show The Amazing Race . Hosted by Phil Keoghan, it featured twelve teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, competing in a race around the world to win US$1,000,000. This season visited four continents and thirteen countries and traveled over 40,000 miles (64,000 km) during twelve legs. Starting in Seattle, racers traveled through China, Mongolia, Vietnam, India, Kuwait, Mauritius, Madagascar, Finland, Ukraine, Morocco, Spain, and France before returning to the United States and finishing in the Hudson Valley. New twists introduced in this season include a mid-leg elimination; the Intersection, where two teams had to join up for a task; and a new non-elimination penalty, where the team who finished last in the previous leg had to finish first in the subsequent leg or else incur a 30-minute penalty. The season premiered on CBS on September 17, 2006, and concluded on December 10, 2006.
Professional models Tyler Denk and James Branaman were the winners of this season, while dating couple Rob Diaz and Kimberly Chabolla finished in second place, and single mothers Lyn Turk and Karlyn Harris finished in third place.
Filming for this season began on May 27, 2006 at Gas Works Park in Seattle. [1] On June 9, teams were spotted at Kuwait International Airport asking for directions to the Kuwait Towers. [2] On June 12, the show was in Mauritius. [1] On June 16, tasks were performed at Ylöjärvi and in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. [1] Filming concluded on June 24. [3]
The Amazing Race 10 spanned 40,000 miles (64,000 km) and covered four continents and thirteen countries. Among them were six that were new to the series: Mongolia, Kuwait, Mauritius, Madagascar, Finland, and Ukraine. It was also the first season to circumnavigate the globe in a generally westward fashion, crossing the Pacific Ocean on the first leg and crossing the Atlantic on the final leg.
The Amazing Race 10 saw the show's first double elimination in a single leg, when one team was eliminated halfway through the leg and another at the end. It also introduced a new obstacle, the Intersection, which required two teams to work together until otherwise instructed. The Intersection was also shown in conjunction with a Fast Forward, allowing both teams working together to receive the benefit of the Fast Forward.
Additionally, the penalty for coming in last on a non-elimination leg was changed. Instead of being stripped of their money and possessions, the last place team was "marked for elimination". This meant that the marked team suffered a 30-minute penalty at the next Pit Stop unless they were first to check in.
Leg 9 was a double-length leg: a surprise feature of every season since season 6, this was the last season to feature a double-length leg until season 32, where it was renamed the mega leg. [4]
During the leg in Ukraine, host Phil Keoghan was detained at the airport for traveling to the country with a New Zealand passport and without a Ukrainian visa, which he had been informed prior to filming wasn't needed. He was released the next day after a worker from the American embassy processed a visa for him. After being released, Keoghan arrived at the Pit Stop ten minutes before the lead team arrived. [5]
The cast of The Amazing Race 10 was increased to twelve teams for the first time since season 4. It included best friends, a couple, college cheerleaders, boyfriends, brothers, a Paralympian with a prosthetic leg, recovering drug addicts, beauty pageant queens, and a pair of single mothers.
While Peter & Sarah were portrayed as a newly dating couple, to the extent that Sarah seemingly broke up with Peter during their elimination in Kuwait, Sarah Reinertsen revealed that they were only friends whose "dating" was non-existent and created to give them an interesting storyline, although she did say that her displeasure over Peter's cold and hectoring behavior on the show was genuine. [6]
Contestants | Age | Relationship | Hometown | Status |
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Bilal Abdul-Mani | 37 | Best Friends | Cleveland, Ohio | Eliminated 1st (in Beijing, China) |
Sa'eed Rudolph | 39 | |||
Vipul Patel | 29 | Married | Windermere, Florida | Eliminated 2nd (in Beijing, China) |
Arti Patel | 26 | |||
Kellie Patterson | 22 | Cheerleaders | Columbia, South Carolina | Eliminated 3rd (in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) |
Jamie Hill | 22 | |||
Duke Marcoccio | 52 | Father & Daughter | Warwick, Rhode Island | Eliminated 4th (in Phố Vác, Vietnam) |
Lauren Marcoccio | 26 | |||
Tom Rock | 39 | Boyfriends | New York City, New York | Eliminated 5th (in Hạ Long Bay, Vietnam) |
Terry Cosentino | 45 | |||
Peter Harsch | 35 | Recently Dating | Laguna Beach, California | Eliminated 6th (in Kuwait City, Kuwait) |
Sarah Reinertsen | 31 | Trabuco Canyon, California | ||
David Conley, Jr. | 32 | Coal Miner and Wife | Stone, Kentucky | Eliminated 7th (in Antananarivo, Madagascar) |
Mary Conley | 31 | |||
Erwin Cho | 32 | Brothers | San Francisco, California | Eliminated 8th (in Kyiv, Ukraine) |
Godwin Cho | 29 | |||
Dustin Konzelman | 24 | Beauty Queens | Riverside, California | Eliminated 9th (in Barcelona, Spain) |
Kandice Pelletier | 24 | New York City, New York | ||
Lyn Turk | 32 | Single Moms & Friends | Birmingham, Alabama | Third place |
Karlyn Harris | 32 | Helena, Alabama | ||
Rob Diaz | 31 | Dating | Los Angeles, California | Runners-up |
Kimberly Chabolla | 28 | |||
Tyler Denk | 29 | Models | Los Angeles, California | Winners |
James Branaman | 27 |
Dustin & Kandice and David & Mary were selected to race in The Amazing Race: All-Stars . [7]
David & Mary also appeared on The View where they received gifts from the show, including vacations, a Ford Explorer, and a new house. [8] In 2021, Tom Rock and Terry Cosentino competed on Ellen's Game of Games . [9]
The following teams are listed with their placements in each leg. Placements are listed in finishing order.
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 + [b] | 9a [c] | 9b | 10 | 11 | 12 |
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Tyler & James | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 6th | 6th | 2nd | 2ndƒ [d] | 1st | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st |
Rob & Kimberly | 5th | 6th | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rdƒ [d] | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd |
Lyn & Karlyn | 9th | 9th | 6th | 6th | 5th | 4th | 5th | 5th | 3rd | 4th | 2nd< [e] | 2nd | 3rd |
Dustin & Kandice | 4th | 5th | 4th | 7th | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 4th‡> [e] | 4th† | |
Erwin & Godwin | 7th | 8th | 1st | 4th | 4th | 5th | 4th | 4th | 5th | 5th† | |||
David & Mary | 10th | 7th | 7th | 5th | 7th‡ | 1stƒ [d] | 6th‡ | 6th† [f] | |||||
Peter & Sarah | 3rd | 1st | 5th | 2nd | 1st | 7th† | |||||||
Tom & Terry | 8th | 4th | 8th [g] | 8th† | |||||||||
Duke & Lauren | 2nd | 3rd | 9th† | ||||||||||
Kellie & Jamie | 6th | 10th† | |||||||||||
Vipul & Arti | 11th† | ||||||||||||
Bilal & Sa'eed | 12th† [h] |
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The Amazing Race 10 received mixed reviews. Linda Holmes of Television Without Pity was critical of this season's boot order, but said, "So was the season disappointing? It was not." [12] Eric Goldman of IGN called it a solid season. [13] Heather Havrilesky of Salon wrote that "after so much shared struggle and heartbreak, we find that we can hardly remember a single detail from our time with these strangers." [14] In 2016, this season was ranked 14th out of the first 27 seasons by the Rob Has a Podcast Amazing Race correspondents. [15] In 2021, Val Barone of TheThings ranked this season as the show's 5th best season. [16] In 2024, Rhenn Taguiam of Game Rant ranked this season tenth. [17]
Order | Episode | Viewers (millions) | Rank |
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1 | "Real Fast! Quack, Quack!" | 2.14 | #6 |
2 | "Can Horses Smell Fear?" | 2.11 | #8 [18] |
3 | "Oh, Wow! It's Like One of Those Things You See on TV!" | 1.89 | #10 |
4 | "I Know Phil, Little Ol' Gorgeous Thing" | 1.55 | #12 |
5 | "I Covered His Mouth, Oh My Gosh!" | 2.17 | #8 |
6 | "Maybe Steven Segal Will See Me and Want Me to Be in One of His Movies" | 2.23 | #8 |
7 | "I Wonder If This Is Going to Make My Fingers Pickle" | 1.94 | #6 |
8 | "He Can't Swim But He Can Eat Cow Lips!" | 2.04 | #8 |
9 | "Being Polite Sucks Sometimes" | 2.11 | #6 |
10 | "Lookin' Like a Blue-Haired Lady on a Sunday Drive" | 1.89 | #12 |
11 | "We Just Won't Die, Like Roaches" | 2.13 | #8 |
12 | "Dude, I'm Such a Hot Giant Chick Right Now!" | 2.07 | #6 |
13 | "Say Your Deepest Prayers Ever!" | 2.02 | #4 |
Season 10 won the 2007 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program. [19] This was the series' fifth consecutive win in that category, having won every year since the category was first introduced in 2003.