The Amazing Race Asia — Season 1, Episode 5: It's Blowing Like Your Mum's Pants on a Windy Day

Episode synopsis

From Sydney its a short hop to Auckland, New Zealand. A new city, with new challenges, and a simple task turns into a real complication for the teams. One team finds out how easilly winning can turn into losing as they unknowingly break the rules that could cost them the race.

About The Amazing Race Asia

The Amazing Race Asia is a reality game show based on the American series The Amazing Race. On 17 October 2005, CBS gave other countries the chance to franchise The Amazing Race. The Asian cable TV network AXN Asia was among the first to acquire the rights to produce a version for its territories. The show is produced by Australian television production company ActiveTV, for AXN, in association with Buena Vista International Television-Asia Pacific. The host for the show is Singapore based Chinese-American actor Allan Wu. The ultimate prize is US$100,000, whilst the American show gives away US$1,000,000. The general manager of SPE Networks-Asia which runs AXN, Ricky Ow explained the smaller prize, saying, "It is not really about the money but the adventure and opportunity to be in one of the world's greatest reality shows".

More episodes from Season 1

• E1I Don't Think I Can Do This
• E2They're Speedy, They're Fast and They're First
• E3Its on now!
• E4Just Shut Up and Do It
• E6What Have You Been Eating!
• E7Don't Stand There Doing Nothing!
• E8My Legs Are Shaking Like Jelly
• E9This is Totally, Totally Out of This World!
• E10War Has Begun!
• E11This is Going to be Embarrassing!
• E12Oh My Goodness, I Have to Eat a Brain!
• E1324 Days, 15 Cities, 39,000 Kilometers and it Comes Down to This