The Amazing Race 19
| The Amazing Race 19 | |
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| Season Run | September 25 – December 11, 2011 |
| Filming dates | June 18 – July 10, 2011 |
| No. of Episodes | 12 |
| Winning team | Ernie Halvorsen & Cindy Chiang |
| Season Stats | |
| Continents visited | 4 |
| Countries visited | 10 |
| Cities visited | 20 |
| Distance traveled | 35,000 mi (56,000 km) |
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The Amazing Race 19 is the nineteenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 19 features eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world. The 19th season premiered on September 25, 2011.
The nineteenth season started on Sunday, September 25, 2011. It aired on CBS in the United States on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. The season finale aired on December 11, 2011. The show is hosted by Phil Keoghan.
Engaged couple Ernie Halvorsen and Cindy Chiang were the winners of The Amazing Race 19.
The complete season was released on DVD on September 8th, 2015, via Amazon.com's CreateSpace program.
This season of the Race traveled a little over 35,000 miles (56,000 km) to 20 cities and across four continents. Filming started on June 18, 2011, with teams seen leaving Los Angeles International Airport and heading to Taiwan. The starting line, which was located at the Hsi Lai Temple in the foothills of Hacienda Heights, California. As with the previous season, racers had a task they had to perform before receiving tickets to their first destination. American film crews were also spotted in Hillerød, Denmark, and were suspected to be there for The Amazing Race; marking the first time the Race had visited Denmark. Besides Denmark, this season also included first time visits to Malawi, Belgium, and Indonesia.
Two new game elements were introduced in this season. Leg 1 introduced the Hazard, a penalty that one team incurs for being the last team to finish the starting-line task. According to Keoghan, the Hazard was added to "test people's mental strength out of the gate", and claims it had a "rolling effect" throughout the rest of the Race. Leg 2 was the first time in which two teams were eliminated at the Pit Stop (In Season 10, two teams were eliminated during the first leg, but not both at the Pit Stop. In Season 15, two teams were eliminated after the first episode).
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