And here we arrive at season 21, which will hopefully be an improvement over the dregs of #20. Casting this season includes Chippendales dancers, a double amputee pro snowboarder, a former member of Megadeath, and goat milk-farming reality stars known as "The Fabulous Beekman Boys." There are three people named James/Jaymes (including two on the same team!) and two people named Rob. Because that won't get confusing at all.

There will also be a new tidbit this season where, if the team that finishes first in the first leg wins at the end, the grand prize will be a whopping $2M instead of $1M.

Premieres, as usual, on CBS on Sunday, September 30 at 8 PM EST.

Abbie & Ryan (Dating Divorcees)
Amy & Daniel (Dating) 2nd Eliminated on October 7
Caitlin & Brittany (Best Friends) 3rd Eliminated on October 14
Gary & Will (Best Friends)
James & Abba (Friends)
Jaymes & James (Best Friends)
Josh & Brent (Partners)
Natalie & Nadiya (Twin Sisters)
Rob & Kelley (Married)
Rob & Sheila (Engaged) 1st Eliminated on September 30
Trey & Lexi (Dating)

http://www.cbs.com/shows/amazing_race/cast/183908/

The strippers and the rockers are ridiculous.

Totally Team Josh/Brent, I love them and I love their show.

Trey is kinda hot though.

"You didn't choose me, I chose you."

Yay, the first boot was the creepy douche and his subservient girlfriend lady. Glad I don't have to watch people like that for a whole season.

I'm already annoyed by the Indian girls.

Also, the twins were simultaneously some of the most annoying people ever on this show and so over-the-top that I want to keep watching them. They called each other Twinnie! And had impromptu Indian dancing in the middle of a task.

More, please.

OMG, the Sri Lankan girls need to go. Now.

I just realized that the strippers are named Jaymes and James.

It's so they only have to remember one name.

The one with the y is gay, so there's like, symmetry too.

Libs, you just lost your metal credibility.

TAR really needs to fix the dumb taxi drivers problem somehow. It's really frustrating to see good teams being eliminated because they have bad luck of getting a bad taxi driver. It's way too big of a factor and this should be about skill first and foremost, not luck.

I was sure it would be a non-elimination if the snowboarders came in last. Disappoointing to see the most likeable team go out so soon.

Among the more frustrating eliminations this show has ever had. Amy and Daniel were felled by nothing more than bad taxi luck, which should not be what gets people booted from the race. Annoying.

Both teams who finished head of them (Monster Truckers, the dour and grumpy David/Goliath superfan team) were better candidates to be knocked out.

Everything about the leg sucked, in fact. Bunching. Stupid decisions from teams. The aforementioned bad taxi karma. The list goes on and on.

I feel like TAR is losing its way recently, which is sad. It used to be one of the most exciting shows on TV, now I'm mostly watching it out of habit.

Bad taxi luck doing in another team was frustrating this week, but these chicks were so snotty and Ugly American that I couldn't really be upset about it.

Gary and Will are the most useless and blah team to just barely keep surviving ever. Go home.

Team Twinnie is...lol. They are SO FREAKING LOUD but I'm entertained by them.

This is definitely one of the least charismatic casts ever, though. Unlike last season's parade of douchebags, this season is mostly filled with people who are vanilla.

I was pulling for the Twins or the Chippendales, but I'm always pleased with a big, strike that, HUGE upset by the Beekmans. They ran a very solid race the past 2-3 legs, then rocked the last traditional country challenge as well.

I found it difficult to root for anyone this year (kind of liked the long-haired guys, but they were only default favorites), but I found myself rooting for the Beekmans in the last two or three episodes.

That was a fairly intense finale too. Thankfully the race to the finish was taken care of quickly since it seems once Josh & Brent finished the challenge, they pretty much won.

I stopped watching this season partway through, making it the first season since 2004 I didn't watch all the way. TAR needs to step it up.