Another season of the Amazing Race premieres this week. As always, it will be full of fun and excitement just like the past editions. The fifteenth season spans eight countries in 21 days and introduces new features to the race: One team will be eliminated right at the start and there will be a new twist, the Switchback, where teams will be sent back to one of the series’ most challenging Roadblocks.

The Amazing Race is my top favorite reality competition show. Nothing beats it in excitement as the teams battle each other in wit and physical strength and expose a bit of human drama in the process. Unlike other reality competition shows, this is totally unpredictable. You just don’t know what will happen next, who will be eliminated, who will win. And the pace of the competition is so fierce that you cannot miss a beat.

For Amazing Race this season, dating, engaged and married couples are again part of the group, as well as siblings and friends. One member of the cast is impaired. Zav Glassenberg has Asperger’s syndrome, a mild form of autism. “I don’t think the fact that I have Asperger’s will hinder me,” Glassenberg said. “I do tend to think outside of the box, so it might help us. It’ll be weird going into these social situations around the world. I might not take it all in right away, but I know I’m racing, so I’ll probably get past it really fast.”

The group also includes Nathaniel Lofton and his friend Herbert Lang who believe their experience will deliver them first position in the race. There’s also Sam and Dan McMillen, siblings who both came out and told each other that they were gay; and Miss America 2004 Ericka Dunlap and her husband Brian Kleinschmidt.

The first leg takes them from Los Angeles to Japan. For the first task for the Amazing Race, they have to search for license plates with a phrase in Japanese listed on their clue.

Watch the 2009-2010 Amazing Race 15 premiere (TAR 15 video preview below) this weekend. This season’s Amazing Race 15 / Amazing Race season 15 cast is an exciting bunch of seemingly fierce competitors. I haven’t made up my mind on who to root for but give one or two episodes and choose my team.

UPDATE: Here is a spoiler video I found on YouTube: “captured by primefun, posted on realityfanforum. The final 5 teams race through Tallinn, Estonia 8/2009.”

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