The Amazing Race 5 - Definition and Overview

The Amazing Race 5 was the fifth installment of the popular reality television show, The Amazing Race. It was the second season of the show to win a Daytime Emmy Award.

In this installment of the show, several modifications were made to the rules and features of previous races. These changes included:

• Yield - This was a brand-new element in the game that allowed a team to force another team to stop racing for a predetermined amount of time.
• Fast Forward decrease - This race had Fast Forwards (passes to skip directly to the next checkpoint) on only two predetermined legs, as opposed to previous seasons, which had them on all legs but the last.
• Non-elimination twist - In this season, teams who finished last on non-elimination legs were penalized by being stripped of any money they had accumulated, and by receiving no money for the next leg. In previous seasons, there was no penalty for finishing last on non-elimination legs.

Results

The teams were (in order of how they finished, starting from the first one eliminated and ending with the winner):

The final 3 teams raced through 6 continents, 11 countries, and traveled 72,000 miles.

Race locations

The following is a list of locations the teams traveled to during the race.

• Santa Monica, California (Starting point)
• Punta Ballena, Uruguay
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
• St. Petersburg, Russia
• Cairo, Egypt
• Luxor, Egypt
• Lake Manyara, Tanzania
• Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Calcutta, India
• Rotorua, New Zealand
• Manila, Philippines
• El Nido, Palawan, Philippines
• Calgary, Canada
• Dallas, Texas (Finish line)

External link

• Official website (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race5/)