The Amazing Race All-Stars (Season 11): In-Depth Team Rankings

Spoilers for the first eleven seasons of The Amazing Race can be expected in this blog post, but not for seasons after All-Stars.

I originally planned to do full write-ups for every team on All-Stars. It was a season that naturally stood out for these – the teams in it are more interesting to analyze because they’re the second appearances of teams that we already know, and evaluated them in light of their first runs is an interesting thought exercise.

The Amazing Race All-Stars (Season 11): Thoughts and Rankings

The eleventh season of The Amazing Race is a very significant season, and an easy landmark to note in the history of the show, for two main reasons. For one, it is the season that really marks the end of The Amazing Race’s first era – it’s the last time we see several Race elements, and makes no changes to the Race format for one last old-style season, right before Season 12 will shake up quite a few aspects of the show’s format. But that trait of Season 11, the fact that it’s the end of an era, is made even more clear by the biggest, most obvious distinction that the season has: It’s All-Stars.

The Amazing Race All-Stars (Season 11): Thoughts on Casting

We have now come in my TAR blogging project to Season 11: All-Stars. This was the first season of The Amazing Race to feature returning teams from previous seasons, and in general, a fun exercise to undergo for these seasons is to think about what teams would be better or worse to invite back for such a season, and come up with personal castlists.

That’s what I’ll be doing in this blog post. I won’t be talking at all about Season 11 itself (I have not yet begun my rewatch of it), but instead will provide a couple of different looks at how the season could have been cast, including discussing the teams that I think would’ve been the best choices and ultimately providing my own cast for the season.