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Season 16

Eleven teams left Los Angeles into a twelve-leg spring route through Chile, Argentina, Germany, France, the Seychelles, Malaysia, Singapore, and China. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production ran the format on muscle memory — the kind of season the franchise can build in its sleep after a full decade on the road. The casting leans on the dating-couple and partner-pair archetypes the show had refined. Phil Keoghan keeps the pit-stop cadence honest across the legs.

Filmed
Global route, starting Los Angeles, California
Premiered
Feb 14, 2010
CBS · Sunday 8/7c
Episodes
12
Format
11 teams of 2 · standard
Cast size
22 players
11 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

Muscle memory, a decade deep.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #24 slot.

Slot #24 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Season 16 is the franchise running on muscle memory. Eleven teams left Los Angeles into a twelve-leg spring route through Chile, Argentina, Germany, France, the Seychelles, Malaysia, Singapore, and China. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production delivered the kind of season the franchise can build in its sleep after a full decade on the road. The casting leans on the dating-couple and partner-pair archetypes the show had refined. Phil Keoghan keeps the pit-stop cadence honest across the legs. The canon places it twenty-fourth because the season is competent across the route without making a distinct argument about what the format can do next.

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04In this canon

Its Editor's Canon entry.

The Amazing Race — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #24