The Amazing Race 5 (Latin America)


The fifth season of The Amazing Race is a Latin American version of the American reality television show of the same name, The Amazing Race. This season of the show was the third season that aired on the Space channel in association with Disney Media Networks Latin America. It features eleven teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race across Latin America to win US$250,000. The fifth season returned to the regular format by featuring teams from all over Latin America and not only from Brazil, unlike the previous season.
Colombian television host and model Toya Montoya, who was also a contestant on the third season, replaced the previous host of the regular series Harris Whitbeck, making her the first female host in the franchise. The fifth season premiered on Space and TNT on 16 September 2013 at 9:00 p.m. The season finale aired on Space and TNT on 9 December 2013 at 9:00 p.m.
Argentine friends Ezequiel Sapochnik and Tobías de la Barra were the winners of the Race.

Production

Development and filming

greenlit the third season of the series on 19 October 2012. Filming for this fifth season took place from 19 June 2013 to mid-July 2013. The show was broadcast in high-definition television on Space HD.
This seasons' eleven teams were spotted filming in Barranquilla, Colombia on 22 June 2013. This season covered nearly and featured the first visit by an Amazing Race franchise to the Dutch constituent country of Curaçao. Previously visited countries were Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, and Peru.
None of the eliminated teams were present at the Finish Line.

Cast

Applications for the fifth season were opened for Brazilians on October 13, 2012. On February 13, 2013 applications were also opened for the rest of Latin America until March 31, 2013.
This season had eleven teams from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay for the first time, and the first contestant from Guatemala. For the first time in the regular series, Chile was not represented. The cast included the series's first brothers-in-law, Filippo & Eddy from Venezuela; Evelyn Christopher from Evelyn & Jorge, who was a contestant on the Colombian Got Talent show, Colombia Tiene Talento, in 2012 with the group Aqualia, Teatro Negro de Colombia; the first binational team in the Latin American version, Juanjo & Beto, representing both Guatemala and Mexico ; and the first team from Uruguay, married couple Darío & Esther.

Marketing

Sponsors for this season were Samsung Electronics and Scotiabank. The sponsors played a major role in the series by providing prizes and integrating their products into various tasks.

Results

The following teams participated in the Race, with their relationships at the time of filming. Note that this table is not necessarily reflective of all content broadcast on television due to inclusion or exclusion of some data. Placements are listed in finishing order:
  1. Four of the nine teams arrived at the Pit Stop after applied 2-hour penalties for failing to complete the second Roadblock The initial placements for all teams are as follows :
  2. :1st: Débora & Renata; 2nd: Darío & Esther; 3rd: Jessica & Michelle; 4th: Beto & Juanjo; 5th: Braian & Karina; 6th: Manfred & Pierre; 7th: Evelyn & Jorge; 8th: Ezequiel & Tobías; 9th: Astrid & Aleja
  3. Evelyn & Jorge use their Express Pass to bypass the second Roadblock in leg 3. Before using the Express Pass, Evelyn elected to perform the Roadblock; this is reflected in the total Roadblock count.
  4. Astrid & Aleja and Débora & Renata initially arrived 6th and 7th, respectively, but both teams were each issued 15-minute penalties for traveling by mototaxi instead of by taxi to the Club Deportivo Caza y Pesca as instructed on the clue. While Astrid & Aleja's placement were dropped to 7th, Débora & Renata's placement were dropped to last place; however, they were notified the leg was non-elimination, and the remaining penalty would be assessed at the start of the next leg.
  5. Leg 5 was a double-elimination leg. The last two teams to be checked in at the Pit Stop were both eliminated.
  6. Evelyn & Jorge initially arrived 2nd, but were issued a 15-minute penalty for not dropping their belongings in the marked area during the additional task in the Club Universitario de Regatas. Ezequiel & Tobias checked-in during the penalty time, dropping Evelyn & Jorge to 3rd.
  7. Astrid & Aleja used their Express Pass given to them by Evelyn & Jorge to bypass an additional task in the Club Universitario de Regatas during leg 5. Later, they arrived 7th at the Pit Stop, but were issued a 1-hour penalty for failing to complete the Roadblock. This did not affect their placement, since the remaining teams arrived at the time were unable to check in due to penalties accumulated during the leg.
  8. Débora & Renata and Beto & Juanjo initially arrived 6th and 8th, respectively, but both teams were each issued 2-hour penalties for refusing to complete the additional task in the Club Universitario de Regatas. Débora & Renata were further issued their 30-minute penalty for not completing correctly the additional task where they had to make a Race flag. While Beto & Juanjo's placement was not affected by the penalty, Débora & Renata's placement were dropped to last place; as both teams were the last two teams to check-in at the double-elimination leg, both teams were eliminated from the Race.
  9. Ezequiel & Tobías and Karina & Braian initially arrived 1st and 6th, respectively, but both teams were each issued 30-minute penalties for reaching the first Roadblock location before retrieving their clue from the cluebox. While Karina & Braian's placement was not affected by the penalty, Ezequiel & Tobias's placement were dropped to 3rd.
  10. All the teams did not realise that they had to light a candle for Saint Michael at the San Miguel Church as indicated on a sign, and were forced to backtrack and light the candle before being allowed to check in.
  11. Ezequiel & Tobias and Jessica & Michelle were each issued 30-minute penalties for exceeding the speed-limit while driving during the course of the leg. Their placements were dropped to 4th and 5th place, respectively. Evelyn & Jorge were eligible to be penalized for the same infraction, but they were the last team to arrive to the Pit Stop, resulting in their elimination.
  12. Manfred & Pierre failed to complete an additional task at the Lienzo Charro Ignacio Zermeño. After all the other teams had already checked in at the Pit Stop, Toya came out to the came out to their location to inform them of their elimination.
  13. Leg 12 was a double-length leg. It featured a Virtual Pit Stop and had one Detour and two Roadblocks shown over two episodes.

    Prizes

The prize for each leg is awarded to the first place team for that leg.

Leg 1 (Colombia)

Airdate: September 16, 2013
In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to search among hundreds of sandcastles for one containing a small buried statue of India Catalina and exchange it for their next clue. If they did not find the clue, they had to rebuild the sandcastle before continuing.
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Airdate: September 23, 2013
In this leg's first Roadblock, one team member had to count all the tubes from a work of art located in front of the museum. Once they had the correct number, they had to find the judge in Gabriel García Márquez room, and tell her the answer, 454, in order to receive their next clue.
This leg's second Roadblock required the team member who sat out the first Roadblock to use a forklift to move three palettes of sacks to the marked dropping point. Then, they had to stand behind a marked line and look for ten marked containers from afar and write down the identification numbers on a paper. Then, they had to find the judge and give her the numbers of the marked containers. If correct, she would give them their next clue.
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Airdate: September 30, 2013
In this leg's first Roadblock, one team member had to make their way to a frigate located in the Caribbean Sea zone of the park, once there they had to decipher a code on the banners of the frigate using a table with codes and looking from a long distance. If they give the correct answer to the judge, FORTUNA IUVAT AUDACES, they would receive their next clue.
This leg's second Roadblock required the team member who sat out the first Roadblock to climb up a Ceiba-shaped climbing wall. The team member had to retrieve a Race flag from the top of the climbing wall and exchange it for the next clue.
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Airdate: October 7, 2013
For their Speed Bump, Tobías & Ezequiel had to clean a manatee tank, then clean the two manatee babies and feed them before they could continue racing.
In this leg's Roadblock, one person had to use a simple, traditional tool to climb to the top of a fruit tree and hack off a branch of aguaje fruits to fill a bag and get their next clue.
In the first Detour of the Race, teams had to choose between Entregar and Observar. In Entregar, teams traveled to Mercado de Productores, where they would picked up three bags of yuca and three bushels of bananas. They had to load them into a moto-taxi and deliver them to three different welfare centers and exchange them for stamps. Once they had all three stamps, they could exchange them for their next clue. In Observar, teams had to look for five consonants and three vowels written on the tops of moto-taxis. Once they got all eight letters, they would receive a numerical value for each one, and with this they had to solve a mathematical problem, multiplying the value of the consonants and dividing it for the value of the vowels. If they give the correct answer to the judge, they would get their next clue.
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Airdate: October 14, 2013
For their Speed Bump, Débora & Renata had to deliver twenty suitcases to ten different rooms of the hotel, without using the elevator, before they could continue racing.
In this leg's Detour, teams had to choose between Fuerzas Especiales and Paracaidistas. In Fuerzas Especiales, teams had to complete a course used by the Peruvian Special Forces to train, which included climbing, to receive their next clue. In "Paracaidistas", teams had to complete a training session of the paratroopers division, which included bungee jumping from a tower to the ground, to receive their next clue.
In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to eat and then recognize four out of six different ingredients in each of four different dishes to receive their next clue from the chef.
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Airdate: October 21, 2013
In this leg's first Roadblock, one team member had to rappel down the Queen Juliana Bridge and get their next clue from the instructor once on the ground. Then, the team member had to follow a marked path and make their way back to the top of the bridge and reunite with their teammate.
This leg's second Roadblock required the team member who sat out the first Roadblock to stand up paddle to a nearby platform, where they would have to rescue a person and take them back to shore in order to get their next clue.
A Fast Forward clue was visible along with the second Roadblock clue. It is unknown what the task required, since it was unaired.
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Airdate: October 28, 2013
In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to play :es: Vitilla|La Vitilla, a game derived from baseball, which required the team member to use a bat, similar to a broomstick, and hit a small ball ten times between the delimited area. Once the coach approved their work, teams would receive their next clue.
In this leg's Detour, teams had to choose between Cuadro and Cartel. In Cuadro, teams had to make their way to the Mercado Modelo and search in one of two marked art stores for a picture matching their given extract of the original picture. Once teams found their picture, they had to exchange it for their next clue. In Cartel, teams had to make their way to the Chinatown, where they had to search for a poster matching their given Chinese characters in order to get their next clue.
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Airdate: November 4, 2013
In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to complete an obstacles circuit with their hands tied, crawling over a pool with water, digging on the sand with their feet until they found a figurine, and then digging with their feet to make enough space to go under a tree trunk to receive their next clue.
For their Speed Bump, Evelyn & Jorge had to eat one plate of mofongo each before they could continue racing.
In this leg's Detour, teams had to choose between Distancia and Precisión. In Distancia, each team member had to hit five golf balls at least away to receive their next clue. In Precisión, each team member had to hit a golf ball to the hole in no more than two hits. Once each team member sunk five balls in the hole, they would get their next clue.
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Airdate: November 11, 2013
In this leg's Detour, teams had to choose between Tierra and Agua. In Tierra, both team members had to ride an all-terrain vehicle on a course while looking for their clue under one of many buckets, with only a few containing clues and the rest containing hourglasses. If teams found an hourglass instead of a clue, they would have to wait until the sand went from one side of the hourglass to the other before continuing their search. In Agua, one team member at a time had to ride a wakeboard while being towed by an electronic mechanism from one side of a lagoon to the other without falling from the board, and then returning in the same way to the starting point. Once both team members had completed this task successfully, they would receive their next clue.
In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to search among the classified ads of fifty newspapers for the one containing their next clue. This ad instructed teams to make their way to the next Pit Stop, the helipad of the Bayfront Tower.
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Airdate: November 18, 2013
In this leg's Detour, teams had to choose between Visual and Manual. In Visual, teams had to search for a Mola matching their given picture among many molas hanging from a cord. Once teams found the correct mola, the Kuna woman would give them their next clue. In Manual, teams had to build the wall of a Kuna hut using only Gynerium sagittatum for its construction. Once the judge was pleased with their work, teams would receive their next clue.
In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to swim from the beach to a shipwreck, where they had to search for a conch containing their next clue, among dozens of empty conches. Once the team members got the clue, they had to swim back to the beach and read the clue with their teammate.
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Airdate: November 25, 2013
For their Speed Bump, Darío & Esther had to find the correct card with The Amazing Race logo among dozens of cards with logos that looked similar before they could continue racing.
In this leg's first Roadblock, one team member had to harvest seven agave tequilana plants using the traditional Jimador harvesting method to receive their next clue.
In this leg's second Roadblock, the team member who sat out the first Roadblock had to eat four small tortas ahogadas, a sandwich submerged in dried chili pepper to receive their next clue.
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Airdate: December 2, 2013
near Chiapa de Corzo during the second half of this leg of the Race.
Airdate: December 9, 2013
In the Roadblock during the first half of this leg, one team member had to climb a crane located on a cliff over the sea and bungee jump from a platform forty meters over the sea. Once the team member jumped and was back at the platform, they would receive their next clue.
In this leg's first Detour, teams had to choose between Ascenso de Rana and Escalera Loca. For both Detour options, teams had to drive a Four wheel drive vehicle to their chosen location inside the adventure park. In Ascenso de Rana, one team member at a time had to use an ascender in order to climb a rope and reach a platform high above the ground in less than ten minutes. Once both team members were at the platform, they had to rappel down so they would receive their clue from the hands of the instructor. In Escalera Loca, one team member at a time had to climb a rope ladder in order to reach a platform high above the ground in less than ten minutes. Then, each team member had to rappel down, and once both reached the ground, they would get their next clue.
In the Roadblock during the second half of this leg, one team member had to choose a marked cart with twelve fruit crates and deliver them using the cart to twelve marked stalls in the market, in exchange for a stamp. Once the team member had all 12 stamps, they would receive their next clue.
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