The Amazing Race 11: All-Stars
| The Amazing Race 11: All-Stars | |
|---|---|
| Season run | February 18 – May 6, 2007 |
| Filming dates | November 20 – December 17, 2006 |
| No. of episodes | 12/13 |
| Presenter | Phil Keoghan |
| Winning team | Eric Sanchez and Danielle Turner |
| Season statistics | |
| Continents visited | 6 |
| Countries visited | 9 |
| Cities visited | 30 |
| No. of legs | 13 |
| Distance traveled | 45,000 mi (72,000 km) |
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The Amazing Race 11 (also known as The Amazing Race: All-Stars) is the 11th installment of the US reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 11 featured eleven teams of two – ten returning teams from previous editions, and a dating couple who had met and competed against each other on a previous season – in a race around the world.
The eleventh season premiered on February 18, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. EST, 7:00 p.m. CST, for one hour, and the season finale was on May 6, 2007.
Dating couple Eric Sanchez and Danielle Turner, who had competed on opposing teams on The Amazing Race 9, won this edition of the race. They were the first team to win a season without finishing first in a non-final leg of the race. They were also the first team to win without using a Fast Forward or Yield.
A DVD was released on May 1, 2013, courtesy of Amazon's CreateSpace program.
As early as 2004, there had been talk about an all-star edition, with speculation that it would occur during the eighth season, as with Survivor. These rumors were fueled by reports that season 4 winner Reichen Lehmkuhl had been invited to appear in a future all-star race. Speculation continued for the next few years, particularly after CBS aired all-star editions of their two other reality competition series, Survivor and Big Brother. On September 28, 2006, CBS ordered an 11th season of The Amazing Race; in November 2006, the network officially acknowledged that an all-star edition was in production. Host Phil Keoghan was originally skeptical that an all-star edition was feasible. Over time, Keoghan felt that "as we got more and more really good teams, it [All-Stars] just seemed like it had to happen."
This season travelled a little over 45,000 miles (72,000 km), across 30 cities and six continents.
This season was the second (after season 5) to visit every continent except Antarctica. The new locales visited in this season were Ecuador, Mozambique, Poland, Macau, and Guam. This was the last season in the US series to feature the Yield. This is also the last season that did not either start or finish in the Greater Los Angeles Area until The Amazing Race 30.
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