After almost a year off the air, The Amazing Race is back on track at CBS.  The show will start its 29th cycle at the end of the month . . . with a twist that some have been asking about for a long time.

So we’re looking at eleven teams made up of pairs who have no knowledge of one another before the raise.  And by the end of the first episode, we see who gets chosen as partners.

Here’s a short introduction to the different contestants.

So we’re about two-and-a-half weeks away from a new journey around the world.  I hope the show does well enough in its new time-slot to picked up for additional seasons.  I can’t imagine being a contestant who had to keep the cycle’s conclusion a secret for almost a year.