The Amazing Race 25 is the twenty-fifth installment of The Amazing Race. It aired on CBS from September 26, 2014 to December 19, 2014 on a new timeslot, Fridays at 20:00 ET (19:00 CT).[1]
Development
Filming for the season began on May 31, 2014, with the Starting Line taking place at Times Square in New York City. For the first time, the Starting Line was opened to the public, rather than in a private location to avoid spoilers. This led to the announcements of the teams' identities on the same day and the rewarding of The Save, an elimination dispensation pass, which replaced the Express Pass as the prize rewarded to the first place team on the first leg.
This season travelled through four continents, eight countries, and 20 cities under a distance of 26,000 miles (42,000 km).[2]
Teams
Amy & Maya
Food Scientists |
Misti & Jim
Married Dentists |
Adam & Bethany
Married Surfers |
Brooke & Robbie
Dating Pro Wrestlers |
Kym & Alli
Urban Bike Racers |
Tim & Te Jay
College Sweethearts |
Shelley & Nici
Mother/Daughter |
Keith & Whitney
Engaged |
Michael & Scott
Firefighters |
Dennis & Isabelle
Newly Dating |
Lisa & Michelle
Realtor Sisters |
Route Map
Episodes
| Episode | Air Date | Leg | Destination | First Place | Last Place | Finish | Viewership (millions) |
Ratings/Share (18-49) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Go Big or Go Home" | September 26, 2014 | 1 | United States → U.S. Virgin Islands | Misti & Jim | Lisa & Michelle | 1st Eliminated 11th Place |
5.48 | 1.1/4 |
| 2 | "When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go" | October 3, 2014 | 2 | U.S. Virgin Islands → United Kingdom | Adam & Bethany | Dennis & Isabelle | 2nd Eliminated 10th Place |
6.08 | 1.2/5 |
| 3 | "Get Your Sheep Together" | October 10, 2014 | 3 | United Kingdom | Misti & Jim | Michael & Scott | 3rd Eliminated 9th Place |
5.89 | 1.1/4 |
| 4 | "Thinly Sliced Anchovies" | October 17, 2014 | 4 | United Kingdom → Denmark → Sweden → Denmark | Kym & Alli | Misti & Jim | Non-Elimination Leg |
6.57 | 1.4/6 |
| 5 | "Morocc' and Roll" | October 24, 2014 | 5 | Denmark → Morocco | Kym & Alli | Keith & Whitney | 4th Eliminated 8th Place |
5.51 | 1.0/4 |
| 6 | "I Feel Like I Just Kissed a Goat" | October 31, 2014 | 6 | Morocco | Misti & Jim | Shelley & Nici | 5th Eliminated 7th Place |
5.89 | 1.1/5 |
| 7 | "Pretty Fly for a Food Scientist" | November 7, 2014 | 7 | Morocco → Italy | Misti & Jim | Tim & Te Jay | Non-Elimination Leg |
6.05 | 1.2/3 |
| 8 | "Hot Sexy Knights" | November 21, 2014 | 8 | Italy → Malta | Adam & Bethany | Tim & Te Jay | 6th Eliminated 6th Place |
5.95 | 1.2/4 |
| 9 | "You're Taking My Tan Off" | November 28, 2014 | 9 | Malta → Singapore | Adam & Bethany | Kym & Alli | 7th Eliminated 5th Place |
5.42 | 1.0/3 |
| 10 | "Smells Like Dirty Tube Socks" | December 5, 2014 | 10 | Singapore → The Philippines | Misti & Jim | Brooke & Robbie | Non-Elimination Leg |
6.22 | 1.2/4 |
| 11 | "Hooping It Up" | December 12, 2014 | 11 | The Philippines | Brooke & Robbie | Amy & Maya | Ordered to Continue Racing |
5.92 | 1.2/4 |
| 12 | "All or Nothing" | December 19, 2014 | 12 | The Philippines → United States | Amy & Maya | Brooke & Robbie | 8th Eliminated 4th Place |
6.59 | 1.3/5 |
| Adam & Bethany | 3rd Place | ||||||||
| Misti & Jim | 2nd Place | ||||||||
Leaderboard
| Place | Team | Leg 1 | Leg 2 | Leg 3 | Leg 4 | Leg 5 | Leg 6 | Leg 7 | Leg 8 | Leg 9 | Leg 10 | Leg 11 | Leg 12 | Average | 
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amy & Maya | 6 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4⊂ | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4.50 | 5-5 |
| 2 | Misti & Jim | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2.58 | 5-5 |
| 3 | Adam & Bethany | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1ϵ | 1► | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2.83 | 5-4 |
| 4 | Brooke & Robbie | 4 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4.08 | 4-4 |
| 5 | Kym & Alli | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3.11 | 4-3 | |||
| 6 | Tim & Te Jay | 2 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4.87 | 3-3 | ||||
| 7 | Shelley & Nici | 8 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 5⊂ | 7 | 6.33 | 2-2 | ||||||
| 8 | Keith & Whitney | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 8⊃⋐ | 5.40 | 2-1 | |||||||
| 9 | Michael & Scott | 10 | 6 | 9 | 8.33 | 0-1 | |||||||||
| 10 | Dennis & Isabelle | 7 | 10 | 8.50 | 1-0 | ||||||||||
| 11 | Lisa & Michelle | 11 | 11.00 | 1-0 | |||||||||||
| Notes | [1] | [2] | [3] | [4] | [5] | [6] | [7] | [8] | |||||||
Legend:
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Notes:
1: Keith, Scott, and Lisa opted to quit the Roadblock and were issued with 4-hour penalties for their respective teams to be given at the next leg's Pit Start. However, Lisa & Michelle arrived last and were eliminated.
2: Adam & Bethany made the effort to retrieve the Express Pass as part of an optional additional task, before checking-in at the Pit Stop.
3: Misti & Jim, winners of the Save in the first leg, arrived last and handed the Save to Phil to prevent elimination. However, Phil returned the Save to them after announcing that the leg was a Non-Elimination Leg.
4: Off-the-air, Keith & Whitney attempted to U-Turn Amy & Maya. However, Amy & Maya were ahead of them, thus having no effect.
5: Adam & Bethany used their Express Pass to elude the Detour.
6: Amy & Maya attempted to U-Turn Adam & Bethany. However, Adam & Bethany have already checked-in after winning the Fast Forward, thus having no effect.
7: At the Pit Stop in Leg 11, teams checking-in were informed by Phil that there was no mandatory rest period for the leg. Instead, they were told to continue racing, beginning Leg 12.
8: Brooke & Robbie arrived last at the site of the first Roadblock, an elimination point. Instead of completing the Roadblock, they were eliminated.
Records
Franchise
- First time visits to U.S. Virgin Islands and Malta.
- First season to award The Save.
- First season where the Express Pass is not given by the host to a winning team.
- First season to have four finalists instead of the standard three.
US
- First season since Season 19 to have four non-elimination legs.
- First season since Season 9 that the penultimate leg was a non-elimination leg.
- Second season to have four all-female teams (after Season 17).
- This season's visit to the Philippines made the country have the second largest gap between one country's visit in a season and its previous season's visit, which was in Season 5 (20 seasons).
- During the race course, teams would encounter Phil, filming scenes for the task clarification for the viewers in the television airing, at least once in every episode in a sequence shot.
- This marks the first time Phil interacts with the teams other than at the Starting Line and the Pit Stops.
- First season where the Starting Line was opened for public viewing.
- This is also the first season where the Starting Line took place at night.
- First season to feature a Midpoint Elimination since Season 15.
- First season also to have a midpoint elimination with no occurred penalties.
- First season also to feature a midpoint elimination at the final leg.
Season 25
- Melody, of Sharon & Melody from The Amazing Race Asia 1, was the Pit Stop greeter in Leg 9 at the Fullerton Pavilion in Singapore.
- Leg 7 is the 300th leg in the US version of The Amazing Race .
Reception
- Andy Dehnart at realityblurred (05/31/2014): "Amazing Race adds (more) immunity from elimination"
- Jean Bentley at Zap2it (09/26/2014): "The Amazing Race team isn't worried about the move to Friday nights"
References
| The Amazing Race Season Index | |
|---|---|
| United States | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 · 25 · 26 · 27 · 28 · 29 · 30 · 31 · 32 · 33 · 34 · 35 |
| Asia | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 |
| Australia | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 |
| Brazil | 1 |
| Canada | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 |
| Central Europe | Cancelled |
| China | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 |
| China Rush | 1 · 2 · 3 |
| Finland | 1 |
| France | 1 |
| Israel | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 |
| Latin America | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 |
| Norway | 1 · 2 |
| Philippines | 1 · 2 |
| Ukraine | 1 |
| Vietnam | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 |