The Amazing Race Asia 5
| The Amazing Race Asia (season 5) |
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| Season Run | 13 October – 15 December 2016 |
| Filming dates | 8 August – 26 August 2016 |
| No. of Episodes | 11 |
| Presenter | Allan Wu |
| Winning team | Parul Shah & Maggie Wilson |
| Season Stats | |
| Continents visited | 1 |
| Countries visited | 6 |
| Cities visited | 12 |
| No. of legs | 10 |
| Distance traveled | 12,000 km (7,500 mi) |
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The Amazing Race Asia is a reality television game show based on the American series, The Amazing Race. The fifth installment of the show returned after a 6-year hiatus.
The season premiered on 13 October 2016 and promised to be the most adrenaline-fueled season ever. Eleven teams chosen from across the region competed in a high-octane dash around the world for a chance at the winning crown and USD$100,000 in cash.
Allan Wu is back to host his fifth season of The Amazing Race Asia and 11th season of The Amazing Race franchise overall. Wu is paired up with Tara Basro, an Indonesian film actress in hosting this season while in Indonesia.
Beauty queens Parul Shah and Maggie Wilson from the Philippines were the winners for this season, marking the Philippines's second consecutive win in The Amazing Race Asia.
On 20 May 2016, Sony Pictures Television (SPT) Networks Asia announced that The Amazing Race Asia will return for its fifth season after a six-year long hiatus and will be broadcast by AXN Asia.
Indonesian Deputy Minister of Tourism Sapta Nirwandar sent the teams off at the Starting Line. This is the first time in any edition worldwide that the Race was not started by the host.
Zabrina Fernandez & Joe Jer Tee, the winners of the first season, were the Pit Stop greeters on Leg 3 in their home country of Malaysia.
This season introduce a new twist: The 'Speed Bump'. Similar to the American version, the team that placed last in the non-elimination leg will have to perform a 'Speed Bump' somewhere in the next leg before they can continue with the race.
It was also the first time in The Amazing Race Asia that a U-Turn board was placed at the Detour decision point (in Leg 9), rather than after the Detour itself (the first time this twist was introduced in all franchises was in the tenth leg of the 27th American version). Leg 9 is also the first leg in all franchises of The Amazing Race where both Yield and U-Turn were present in the same leg.
Casting began on 23 May 2016 and applications were closed on 30 June 2016 (18 days extended from the original deadline of 12 June 2016).
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