page_title: The Amazing Race Vietnam 2019
section_title: Development and filming
hierarchical_section_title: The Amazing Race Vietnam 2019 / Production / Development and filming
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: The Ma Pi Leng Pass between Dong Van and Meo Vac
context_page_description: The Amazing Race Vietnam: Cuộc đua kỳ thú 2019 is the sixth season of the reality television game show, The Amazing Race Vietnam. It featured ten teams of two celebrities in a race around Vietnam for 300 million₫.
  The season premiered on July 7, 2019 on VTV3 and aired every Saturday.
  Singer and The Voice of Vietnam contestant Song Luân as well as singer and former racer Hương Giang hosted this season replacing Huy Khánh.
  Beauty queens Đặng Thị Lệ Hằng and H'Hen Niê were the winners of this season.
context_section_description: In May 2019, rumors circulated that VTV3 and BHD were attempting to revive the Race franchise after a three year hiatus from the previous season. Soon after, open casting calls for a new season of The Amazing Race Vietnam appeared. Filming for this season began on May 17, 2019, when fans of the show spotted the racers in Hà Giang Province.
  On May 28, 2019, Season 3 winner and Season 5 runner-up Hương Giang posted an image of a Race clue envelope onto her social media leading to speculation that she would appear on the season. Later that day, images surfaced of Hương Giang checking teams into the Pit Stop in Da Lat. It was later revealed that Hương Giang would be temporarily talking over the role of host due to Song Luân having work commitments. Hương Giang is the second former racer that returned to host the show after Toya Montoya, who hosted two seasons of the Latin American edition after competing on the third season, as well as the third woman, after Toya Montoya and Tara Basro, and the first member of the transgender community to serve as a Race host. This season is also the second time a show has changed hosts partway through filming after the first season of the Chinese edition. Hương Giang also made an appearance during Leg 3 as a judge in one of the challenges.
  On June 2, 2019, the revival of the show was officially announced on the show's Facebook page prior to the completion of the season's filming.
  This season was the first time that an Amazing Race franchise visited North Korea, a country the original American edition can't visit due to the prohibition of American travelers to the nation implemented after the death of Otto Warmbier, as the international destination for the season and was the first foreign reality show to film inside the nation.
  This season featured a new twist on the Express Pass. The recipients of the Express Pass could either use it to skip a task of their choosing or use it to save a team from elimination, much like the Salvage Pass. It was subsequently used to save a team during the series's first instance of a Double Elimination. Also, much like the previous season, teams departed the Pit Stop in five-minute intervals instead of the actual time difference between check-ins, similar to the Chinese celebrity series.
  During Leg 6, one task involved teams scuba diving to find a concrete slab puzzle placed on top of a coral reef. Viewers along with The Amazing Race Vietnam 2015 winner and diving coach Ngọc Anh complaining that the task was damaging to a fragile ecosystem. The producers of the show later issued an apology stating that the original intention of the task was for teams to swim through the reef to a strip of sand (murky water conditions near the sand strip also forced them to move the puzzle to the reef in order to see the puzzle clearly), where they would find the puzzle, and assured viewers that a similar setup would not occur in the future.
  For the first time in the franchise's history, four teams raced to the Finish Line in the final leg of the Race. Four teams raced on the final legs of Season 25 and Season 26 of the American edition; unlike the former, a fourth team was eliminated early in the leg before reaching the Finish Line.
caption: Teams began the sixth season of The Amazing Race Vietnam in Hà Giang Province by traveling through the Mã Pí Lèng Pass.
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