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Season 20

Eleven teams left Santa Barbara into a twelve-leg spring route through Argentina, Paraguay, Italy, Germany, Tanzania, India, Azerbaijan, and Turkey before a Hawaiian finish line. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production ran the format in its established lane — the version the show had been making for a decade now. The casting leans on partner pairs and dating couples. Phil Keoghan paces an outing that is competent across the legs without reaching for novelty.

Filmed
Global route, starting Santa Barbara, California, finishing in Hawaii
Premiered
Feb 19, 2012
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

A well-worn lane.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #28 slot.

Slot #28 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Season 20 is the mid-era show running its established lane. Eleven teams left Santa Barbara into a twelve-leg spring route through Argentina, Paraguay, Italy, Germany, Tanzania, India, Azerbaijan, and Turkey before a Hawaiian finish line. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production ran the format in its established lane — the version the show had been making for a decade now. The casting leans on partner pairs and dating couples. Phil Keoghan paces an outing that is competent across the legs without reaching for novelty. The canon places it twenty-eighth because the season is dependable but its texture does not particularly reward a second pass on the route.

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04In this canon

Its Editor's Canon entry.

The Amazing Race — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #28