page_title: The Amazing Race 29
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: The Amazing Race 29 / Production and filming / Development
caption_attribution_description: This is a picture of the panamanian cultural heritage monument with the ID 08-130 © Rodolfo Aragundi
context_page_description: The Amazing Race 29 is the twenty-ninth installment of the American reality television show The Amazing Race. Unlike previous seasons, which almost exclusively feature teams with preexisting relationships, this edition features 22 contestants who were all complete strangers that met for the first time and formed eleven teams of two at the Starting Line. These teams competed in a race around the world for a US$1 million grand prize.
  The season premiered on Thursday, March 30, 2017 on CBS for the 2016–17 television season replacing the low-rated Training Day. The season finale aired on June 1, 2017. Brooke Camhi and Scott Flanary were the winners of this season of the Race.
context_section_description: In March 2016, CBS renewed The Amazing Race for the 2016–17 TV season, but was left out of the Fall schedule for the first time since Season 12 and the entire Fall schedule run since the 2003–04 TV season. The show's Friday time slot instead went to new drama series MacGyver. It was announced in November 2016 that the season would premiere Friday, April 21, 2017 in its regular Friday time slot after MacGyver had finished its season run. On March 10, 2017, CBS announced that it was moving low-rated new drama Training Day to Saturdays and would move the Race premiere up to March 30 to fill the now vacated Thursday, 10pm time slot.
  The season included visits to 17 cities across five continents and nine countries over 36,000 miles (58,000 km) with teams traveling to countries including Panama, Tanzania, Norway, and Greece. Filming began on June 10, 2016 in Los Angeles, and concluded on July 2, 2016 in Chicago.
  This season also introduced a few alterations to the Race rules. While the traditional limit on Roadblock performances were still enforced, there was an additional requirement wherein team members could not perform more than four Roadblocks before the ninth leg of the Race. Additionally, there was no limit on how many times a team could use the U-Turn on this season.
caption: Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal was the first destination visited in the 29th season of The Amazing Race after teams started off at Grand Hope Park in Downtown Los Angeles.
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