The Amazing Race 10

The Amazing Race 10
Season Run	September 17 – December 10, 2006
Filming dates	May 27 – June 24, 2006
No. of Episodes	13
Winning team	Tyler Denk and James Branaman
All-Stars	Dustin Konzelman and Kandice Pelletier, David and Mary Conley
Season Stats
Continents visited	4
Countries visited	13
Cities visited	28
No. of legs	12
Distance traveled	40,000 mi (64,000 km)
Season chronology
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The Amazing Race 10 is the tenth installment of the US reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 10 features twelve teams of two with a pre-existing relationship in a race around the world. Professional models Tyler Denk and James Branaman were the winners of this season. A DVD was released on May 1, 2013, courtesy of Amazon's CreateSpace program.

The Amazing Race 10 spanned 40,000 miles (64,000 km) and covered 4 continents and 13 countries, the most countries visited in a season. Among them, six were previously unvisited by the series, including Mongolia, Kuwait, Mauritius, Madagascar, Finland, and Ukraine. None of those countries have been revisited by the series. It was also the first season to (nearly) circumnavigate the globe in a generally westward fashion, crossing the Pacific Ocean in the first leg and crossing the Atlantic on the final leg. Most other seasons transversed the globe in a generally eastward direction.

The Amazing Race 10 saw the show's first double elimination when in one leg, two teams were eliminated: one halfway through the leg, and the other at the end. It also introduced a new race marker, the Intersection, which involved having two teams work together until otherwise instructed. If no other team was available when one team read the Intersection clue, they were required to wait for another team to arrive before proceeding together. The Intersection was also shown in conjunction with a Fast Forward: when the first pair of teams completed the task, both of those teams received the benefit of the award.

Additionally, the penalty for coming in last on a non-elimination leg was changed. Instead of being stripped of money and possessions, the last place team was "Marked for Elimination". This had a consequence for the following leg, where the marked team suffered a 30-minute penalty at the Pit Stop (unless they were first to check-in), possibly allowing other teams to overtake them in the final placings for that leg.

During the Vietnam legs, all route markers were colored yellow and white rather than red and yellow, so as to avoid confusion with the flag of the former independent state of South Vietnam; these were also the original route markers in season 1. The second Vietnamese leg was also the first time in the series in which teams received race money in local currency.

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