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Season 15

Twelve teams left Los Angeles into a twelve-leg autumn route through Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Dubai, Sweden, Estonia, and the Netherlands. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production widened its cast count by one — a small structural tweak that the editing room used to open the first two legs into broader team-by-team coverage. The casting goes deep on archetypes the audience already trusts. Phil Keoghan paces a fall outing whose geography is sharper than the years on either side.

Filmed
Global route, starting Los Angeles, California
Premiered
Sep 27, 2009
CBS · Sunday 8/7c
Episodes
12
Format
12 teams of 2 · standard
Cast size
24 players
12 teams of 2
Host
Phil Keoghan
On this page4 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02Where it sits in the canon
  3. 03Adjacent in the canon
  4. 04In this canon
01The take

Sharper geography than its neighbors.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #17 slot.

Slot #17 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Season 15 is the late-classic franchise running with quiet confidence. Twelve teams left Los Angeles into a twelve-leg autumn route through Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Dubai, Sweden, Estonia, and the Netherlands. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production widened the cast count by one — a small structural tweak that the editing room used to open the first two legs into broader team-by-team coverage. The casting goes deep on archetypes the audience already trusts. Phil Keoghan paces a fall outing whose geography lands sharper than the seasons on either side. The canon places it seventeenth because the season earns its slot without straining for novelty.

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04In this canon

Its Editor's Canon entry.

The Amazing Race — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #17