The Amazing Race 27
| The Amazing Race 27 | |
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| Season Run | September 25 – December 11, 2015 |
| Filming dates | June 22 – July 14, 2015 |
| Presenter | Phil Keoghan |
| Winning team | Kelsey Gerckens and Joey Buttitta |
| Season Stats | |
| Continents visited | 5 |
| Countries visited | 10 |
| No. of legs | 12 |
| Distance traveled | 34,000 mi (55,000 km) |
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The Amazing Race 27 was the twenty-seventh installment of the U.S. reality television show The Amazing Race. It featured eleven teams of two, with each team centered on a pre-existing relationship between the cast members such as marriage, dating, or best friends. Teams competed in a race around the world for a US$1 million grand prize.
This season premiered on September 25, 2015.
Dating news reporters Kelsey Gerckens and Joey Buttitta were the winners of this season.
Seen on The Amazing Race 25, the show's Twitter page announced this season's filming on June 22, 2015. The tweet announced the season's open start at Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California and invited fans to join in sending the new teams off on their race. The open start revealed that teams would head to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
This season covered 34,000 miles (55,000 km) across five continents and ten countries, including visits to Argentina, Zambia, France, the Netherlands, Poland, India, and the Chinese Special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau; there was also a first-time visit to Zimbabwe.
This season boasted numerous first-time roadblocks for contestants. First, during the Speed Bump in the ninth leg, Tanner and Josh had to complete the roadblock challenge, one after the other, marking the first time since the introduction of the Speed Bump wherein no Speed Bump boards existed throughout the race course. This was also the first time since the introduction of the U-Turn that three U-Turns were used, unlike the usual two U-Turns in previous races. The race also featured both a Double U-Turn and an Ordinary U-Turn for the first time. It was also the first time that a U-Turn board was placed at the Detour decision point, before the Detour itself.
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