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A concept layered, not reshaped.
Fourteen teams — the biggest US cast ever — and a structure where every single leg is engineered to spring something on the field.
Fourteen teams, twist every leg.
Branded a season of surprises. Fourteen teams, the largest US cast the franchise has ever run, left Los Angeles through Hong Kong, Japan, Bulgaria, France, Portugal, and Dubai before a Miami finish, with several first-time stops along the way. The premise is that every leg carries a twist: Fork in the Road, Driver's Seat, and Valet Roulette debut alongside returning mechanics like the Intersection and Head-to-Head. The widest field the show has ever sent, kept off balance by design.
The #38 slot.
Slot #38 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Season 37 ran the largest US cast the franchise has ever assembled, and the canon places it where the concept lands. Fourteen teams left Los Angeles through Hong Kong, Japan, Bulgaria, France, Portugal, and Dubai before a Miami finish, with several first-time stops along the route. The season is built so every leg carries a twist, and the toolkit reflects it — Fork in the Road, Driver's Seat, and Valet Roulette debut alongside returning mechanics like the Intersection and Head-to-Head. The canon places it thirty-eighth because the twist-saturation premise is a concept layer rather than a format argument, and it now sits below the crossover season, whose cross-franchise lineage makes the more concrete case.
4 moments, no spoilers.
- Casting · the record field
Fourteen teams of two, the largest US cast the franchise has ever assembled. Watch how the editing room handles the widest field it has ever cut.
- Format · a twist per leg
The season is built so every leg carries a surprise — the structural premise reshapes how teams can plan ahead.
- Format · the new tools
Fork in the Road, Driver's Seat, and Valet Roulette debut, joining returning mechanics like the Intersection, Double U-Turn, and Head-to-Head.
- Route · Asia to the Gulf
Los Angeles through Hong Kong, Japan, Bulgaria, France, Portugal, and Dubai before a Miami finish, with several first-time stops along the way.