The popular Emmy Award winning CBS hit reality show “The Amazing Race” season 17 will feature eleven teams of two, each duo with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world to win the grand prize of $1 million.
The Amazing Race season 17 will premiere on September 26, 2010 with a special 90-minute broadcast before returning to the regular 60-minute format the following episode.
The Amazing Race producers released a short premiere preview clip of the “Watermelon catapult injury,” which shows Brook and Claire competing in a watermelon launching challenge using a big elastic slingshot. The video clip showed Claire, loading the sling shot, and after letting it fire the watermelon instead back fires and hits her in the face smashing the watermelon completely, Claire was okay after the incident, but the clip gained a lot of popularity on the internet and became good viral marketing for the show.
The 11 teams competing in this season of the Amazing Race 17 are:
Nick and Vicki – Dating
Brooke and Claire – Home shopping Hosts
Michael and Kevin – Father / Son
Ron and Tony – Best Friends
Chad and Stephanie – Newly Dating
Nat and Kat – Doctors / Friends
Connor and Jonathan – Ivy League A cappella Singers
Gary and Mallory – Father / Daughter
Andie and Jenna – Birth Mother / Daughter
Jill and Thomas – Dating
Katie and Rachel – Beach Volleyball Players
“The Amazing Race” season 17 premieres tonight with a 90-minute special episode that starts at 8:30/7:30 c on CBS.
After the Amazing Race season 17 premiere you can watch the full episode at: www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race/
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