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Season 22

Eleven teams started from French Polynesia into a twelve-leg spring route through New Zealand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Botswana, Switzerland, Germany, and Northern Ireland before finishing in Washington. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production opened with a starting line outside the United States — a quiet structural tweak the editing room used to push the early legs into broader coverage. Phil Keoghan paces a season the franchise is still pacing well into its second decade.

Filmed
Global route, starting French Polynesia, finishing in Washington, DC
Premiered
Feb 17, 2013
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

Still finding fresh geography.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #22 slot.

Slot #22 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Season 22 is the franchise still pacing well into its second decade. Eleven teams started from French Polynesia into a twelve-leg spring route through New Zealand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Botswana, Switzerland, Germany, and Northern Ireland before finishing in Washington. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production opened with a starting line outside the United States — a quiet structural tweak the editing room used to push the early legs into broader coverage. Phil Keoghan paces a season whose geography is the argument. The canon places it twenty-second because the season holds its shape across the route, even where the casting does not produce the kind of chemistry the higher-canon outings depend on.

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04In this canon

Its Editor's Canon entry.