The Emmy Award winning family favorite reality competition started up again for it’s 15th season on Sunday, with a two hour season premiere! And, right off the bat the drop a bomb that for the first time in the history of The Amazing Race, one team will be eliminated before the first lag of the race. Ouch. As it stands, 12 teams are competing with 12 different lags in the entire game, for $1 million.

The first challenge beings right away. “Good Luck, Travel Safe, Go!” says Phil. They all run to get their instructions, which directs them to try to find one particular Tokyo license plate (where they will be going) out a wall of 1,000 of plates. The first six teams to find the plate first get a flight to Tokyo leaving at 12:45pm, while the remaining 5 teams get a flight at 1:15pm. And, the team that is last must immediately pack their bags and go home (wait…where did Tyra come from?). Sucks to be them. As I get to know the teams in this episode, I’m going to come up with team names for them so it’s easier than calling them by their real names.

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