Shanghai Rush

Shanghai Rush
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Season Run	May 3 – July 19, 2009
Filming dates	2009 – 2009
No. of Episodes	12
Winning team	Alice & Richard
Season Stats
Continents visited	1
Countries visited	1
Cities visited	1
No. of legs	12
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Shanghai Rush (Chinese: 冲刺上海; pinyin: Chōngcì Shànghǎi) is a Chinese reality television program broadcast by International Channel Shanghai as part of the TV scheduling leading up to the 2010 Shanghai Expo and designed to showcase the city. The series borrowed heavily from the themes of the American reality show The Amazing Race and was produced by Fly Films. The show aired in early 2009, and ended broadcast in July of the same year. Shanghai Rush focused on travel throughout the municipality of Shanghai. After finishing Shanghai Rush, International Channel Shanghai acquired the rights to produce a show under the Amazing Race brand, resulting in the 2010 broadcast of The Amazing Race: China Rush. The winning team of Shanghai Rush was Richard Lin and Alice Tsui Lin.

Applications for the first season ended February 28, 2009. Teams race through the many districts of Shanghai while performing tasks. The host is Brian Yang. There are ten teams.

Some legs will have a Final Challenge. At this point, teams' overall times are converted from minutes to seconds (i.e., if a team took 45 minutes to complete the first part of the leg, their time would be reduced to 45 seconds.) Then, they would complete the Final Challenge and have the time from that challenge added to their total time. Sometimes, all teams complete the Final Challenge at the same time, but this is not always the case.

^1 Lauren & William did not have a pre-existing relationship before participating on Shanghai Rush. While they were auditioning, their original teammates could not make it and they decided to team up.
^2 AJ & Rebecca were disqualified from the Final Challenge as neither of them had a vaild driver's license. As a result, the slowest lap time was added to their overall time.
^3 Due to a shoulder injury Alice sustained during the rest period, Alice & Richard withdrew from the competition. Due to the injury, they were allowed to select one other team to replace them through the race: Justin & Matti.
^4 Alice & Richard were allowed to be returned to the show at this point in what was dubbed a "comeback episode".
^5 Leg 11 was a double elimination leg. The last two teams to be checked in at the Finish Line were both eliminated.