http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Race_15

1. Someone's gonna get eliminated right at the start........ don't know why, but that's gotta svck......

2. A new whammy. Switchback. This sends the teams back to one of the series' most challenging Roadblocks...... (maybe the other team member then has to complete that same Roadblock?)

The first thing I thought of in the 'Most Challenging Roadblocks' category was the Chilean barbecue. Which, given what it takes to complete it, would be a death sentence.

And you might get eliminated too.

>2. A new whammy.
>Switchback. This sends the
>teams back to one of
>the series' most challenging Roadblocks......
> (maybe the other team
>member then has to complete
>that same Roadblock?)

It doesn't say one of this season's most challenging Roadblocks. It says the series most challenging Roadblocks.

I'm thinking that it will be a special challenge that one team will have to do along the way (kinda like the speed bump, but chosen by the first team to get to the checkpoint, not by the fact that a team was last).

The Chilean barbecue was a tough one, but I don't think that would be it. That thing took something like 4 hours to complete. It would seem terribly unfair to give a team the ability to handicap another team by 4 hours.....

* The first stop is Tokyo.

* CBS will take their rip-off page from ABC by throwing the teams into a Japanese game show, where they'll have to consume a 'wasabi bomb'. No defusing crews will be on standby.

* The course took 21 days to complete.

* Team PokHer is very tough.

* One of the husband-wife teams is 'highly combustible', with the husband in particular prone to challenge frustration -- van Munster describes him as looking as if he was going to break his hand.

* There is one Roadblock which the Race has been trying to get arranged for years. All they're willing to tell us is that this is the go season, two thousand animals are involved, and it will bring laughter and tears. (Match the feces to the species?)

(Match the feces to the species?)
You are in fine form today!

Link to the EW story with a map of the route

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/09/24/the-amazing-race-15-exclusive-reveal-of-the-route-plus-teases/

That's new: my pass-along was from their fall preview issue.

*looks*

So our self-aggressor is Lance, we still don't have a full cast capable of reading clues, and --

-- total duck madness!

A revisited Roadblock... the locations could be a clue: if we're getting barbecue, it's not in Chile. Not the caviar...

I'm putting the location list here for quick reference. (Have we ever had the full course before the race from the producers?)

Start: Los Angeles, United States.

Pit Stops:

Toyko, Japan.
Cai Be, Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietman
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Groningen, Netherlands
Stockholm, Sweden
Tallinn, Estonia
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic

Finish: Las Vegas, United States.

This gives us a chance at figuring out a few tasks before they're reached, or at least guessing possible landmarks.

We had the interactive map that I found last season...... where we found out that the last 3 legs would be in China..... and that there was one more leg than we originally thought there was.....

Not the hay rolling in Stockholm? That would be awful to revisit.

Wasn't there a cheese task in The Netherlands?

another agman masterpiece!