The Amazing Race 20

Production

Development and filming

Contestants

Results

• A placement with a dagger indicates that the team was eliminated.
• An placement with a double-dagger indicates that the team was the last to arrive at a Pit Stop in a non-elimination leg, and had to perform a Speed Bump task in the following leg.
• A indicates that the team won the Fast Forward.
• A indicates that the team used an Express Pass on that leg to bypass one of their tasks.
• A indicates that the team used the U-Turn and a indicates the team on the receiving end of the U-Turn.

Race summary

Leg 1 (United States → Argentina)

• Episode 1: "Tears of a Clown"
• Prize: The Express Pass
• Eliminated: Misa & Maiya

• Santa Ynez, California
• Los Angeles → Salta, Argentina
• Santa Bárbara
• Cafayate
• Cafayate

• At the Bridlewood Estate Winery in Santa Ynez, California, teams had to search through 100 balloons with baskets for one of eleven balloons which contained their first clue, instructing them to fly to Salta, Argentina. Teams drove to Los Angeles International Airport and had to book tickets on one of two flights to Salta. Once there, teams had to drive to Santa Bárbara in order to find their next clue, which directed them to Aerodromo Gilberto Lavaque.
• In this season's first Roadblock, one team member had to use a map to navigate to a skydiving drop zone. Meanwhile, their partner had to board an airplane and perform a tandem skydive with an instructor. Once the team members were reunited, they received their next clue.
• After the Roadblock, teams had to drive to Patios de Cafayate in order to find their next clue, which instructed them to make 120 empanadas: sixty with meat and sixty with cheese. Once they made the proper quantity of empanadas with the correct crimping patterns, teams could search the grounds for the nearby Pit Stop.

  Leg 2 (Argentina)

• Episode 2: "You Know I'm Not as Smart as You"
• Prize: A trip for two to Grenada
• Eliminated: Dave & Cherie

• Cafayate
• Cafayate
• Salta → Buenos Aires
• Buenos Aires
• Buenos Aires

• At the start of this leg, teams had to drive to the Cafayate Town Square, where they had to wait for a chasqui, who gave them their next clue.
• This season's first Detour was a choice between Boil My Water or Light My Fire. In Boil My Water, teams had to travel to one of three nearby small villages and use the provided equipment to build a solar kitchen. Once the oven was built, they had to put on a kettle of water and place the kitchen in direct sunlight. Once the kettle came to a boil, they could receive their next clue. In Light My Fire, teams had to travel to a nearby river, where they had to gather clay and forty pieces of firewood, load them onto a donkey, and then deliver their goods to a local pottery workshop, where they received their next clue.
• After the Detour, teams had to travel by bus to Buenos Aires and then find their next clue at the Mercado de Hacienda de Liniers. The second bus suffered a 90-minute delay, putting it one hour behind the third bus.
• In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to attend a cattle auction and listen to the auctioneer give the total weight of the cattle in the pen. They then had to calculate the average weight of a head of cattle in the pen without using a calculator and give the correct number to a gaucho in order to receive their next clue. If the auctioneer moved onto another pen before they could give the correct answer to the gaucho, they had to start over with the next pen.
• After the Roadblock, teams had to check in at the Pit Stop: El Gomero at Plaza Intendente Alvear.

  Leg 3 (Argentina → Paraguay)

• Episode 3: "Bust Me Right in the Head With It"
• Prize: A trip for two to Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas
• Eliminated: Elliot & Andrew

• Buenos Aires
• Buenos Aires → Asunción, Paraguay
• Asunción
• Asunción San Lorenzo
• Asunción
• Asunción

• At the start of this leg, teams were instructed to fly to Asunción, Paraguay. Once there, teams had to travel to Metalúrgica Punta de Rieles, where they had to search the metal equipment yard for their next clue.
• This leg's Detour was a choice between Stacked Up or Strung Out. In Stacked Up, teams had to travel to the Mercado Central de Abasto and stack watermelons into a pyramid in order to receive their next clue. In Strung Out, teams traveled to an auditorium at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, where they had to properly string a harp so that it was ready to be tuned in order to receive their next clue. Rachel & Dave used their Express Pass to bypass this Detour.
• After the Detour, teams had to find their next clue at the Plaza de la Democracia.
• In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to perform a traditional Paraguayan bottle dance, which required them to perform a choreographic routine with a glass bottle on their head in order to receive their next clue. If their bottle fell, they had to start over with a new bottle. For this task, each team member was given only fifty bottles and if they broke all of the bottles before completing the Roadblock, they would incur a two-hour penalty at the Pit Stop.
• After the Roadblock, teams had to travel on foot to the Pit Stop: the Escalinata de Antequera.

• The watermelon Detour and the bottle dance Roadblock tasks were both later revisited on season 32 as part of a Double Switchback Detour.
• Paraguayan beauty queen Fiorella Migliore appeared as the Pit Stop greeter on this leg.