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When did The Amazing Race decline, if at all?
Tober2005:
I think it declined starting on the time that they filmed Season 27 because that's when they began to film only 1 season per year. But now that they already filmed 2 seasons this year, they might start filming seasons faster again.
Traveldude1:
The Amazing Race's decline can be traced to S14 with a very gradual decline in quality since then. Many aspects of the original race format were tampered and messed with and were forever altered from this point forward (intro, messing with the pit start times, semi-celebrities, wacky tasks). The editing shifted from this point forward to focus more on tasks, which is why we don't have quite as many memorable teams from the newer seasons.
The final nail in the coffin, though was S24 where everything wrong with the show up until that point, combined to make one of the worst editions of the show. The tasks were lazy/uninspired, you had an awful cast, the route was awful all around, and a terrible finale. The producers got complacent and didn't want to change anything and it ended up with one of the very worst seasons to date
Parasparopagraho:
Given that the last addition to the top-tier was 25, anything from Blind Date Edition onwards - with exceptions such as Reality Clash/Showdown and 34 proving the rule.
(Strangers' Edition is quite possibly the most overrated season of all time.)
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