# Teams announced for The Amazing Race 8: Family Feud Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293 "2005-08-16T17:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/1 "2005-08-16T17:27:47Z")
Today on the Early Show they announced the teams for The Amazing Race: Family Edition, which premieres next month: [Early Show article](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/16/earlyshow/series/amazingrace/main780692_page2.shtml), which includes video. [USA Today article](http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-08-16-amazing-race_x.htm), which goes into a little more detail. Frankly, I’m disappointed in the casting choices; nine of the 10 teams are traditional parent + 2.3 kids, or a bunch of siblings. What happened to the triple-generation teams? The engaged couple with a set of in-laws? The second cousins, adopted uncles, same-sex parents, etc., all those freaky definitions of “family” that the producers promised? At least none of them are models…we hope…or runners-up from _Desperate Housewives._ When the Early Show introduced the African-American team as the “Black” family, I was ROTFL for thirty minutes. (At first I thought, “How RUDE! They could at least use their name…oh, wait…nevermind.”) ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/2 "2005-08-16T17:44:33Z")
And the preliminary [CBS web page](http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race8/) is up, too, with team bios. So much for no models – according to the team bios, the Bransen family appeared together in a Pert shampoo ad. And closely related, the Rogers daughter is a former beauty pageant queen, while her mother is a pageant trainer. The Linz family just looks like they stepped out of a Gap ad or something. I about fell over at the Black family, too. At least their name will be easy to remember… ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/3 "2005-08-16T17:52:32Z")
It will take me five weeks before I can keep track of all these people. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/4 "2005-08-16T17:54:03Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > When the Early Show introduced the African-American team as the “Black” family, I was ROTFL for thirty minutes. (At first I thought, “How RUDE! They could at least use their name…oh, wait…nevermind.”) There’s a Dave Chapelle joke in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![FlightlessBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@FlightlessBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlightlessBird)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/5 "2005-08-16T18:00:08Z")
I’m with you, I’d prefer some less-traditional ‘families’. (3 son-in-laws are intersting) Although I think this will be interesting. I’m still trying to figure out if ‘luggage’-children will be a hindrance or helpful. I’m calling them ‘luggage-children’ since except for whatever challenges Phil has them doing, they will be carted around the word like luggage. But like the past few winners have shown, a strong teammate/weak teammate team does pretty well, so maybe luggage-children will be beneficial. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/6 "2005-08-16T18:17:04Z")
Frankly, I can never tell what a team is really like from these bios. I don’t mind models, thay can be entertaining. I’m just glad there are no reality show contestants form other shows. Maybe it’s the parent in me, but these very young children bother me. I thought the kids in this race had to be at least 13 or 14 or something like that. Now we’ve got an 8 year old and a 9 year old. The Race tends to cause team meltdowns and watching an 8-year-old have a meltdown due to stress or jetlag doesn’t strike me as a lot of fun to watch. ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/7 "2005-08-16T18:25:31Z")
I am really not sure this format will work for me. I mean, I _hope_ it does, but it just looks like it will be a trainwreck. And like **Trion** said some of these kids seem too young. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/8 "2005-08-16T19:04:06Z")
They’d originally set the lower age limit to 12, but during the casting process dropped it to 8. So presumably they’d seen a couple of these younger kids and really wanted to include them. Why, I still have no idea; I think it’s an awful idea. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/9 "2005-08-16T19:15:00Z")
Do we have to wait for the first few episodes, or can we start coming up with cool nicknames for the teams now? At the non-elimination legs, do the parents have to leave a kid? I checked the CBS website a few days ago to see if they were starting the casting process for the next regular series, so I could submit an entry. Already missed it by a week. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/10 "2005-08-16T19:23:01Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > It will take me five weeks before I can keep track of all these people. That’s about right. I guess that’s one reason the early rounds are eliminations. Now…when we get to a non-elimination round will the kids have to beg? ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/11 "2005-08-16T19:34:51Z")
> [@Mama Tiger](#): > > So much for no models – according to the team bios, the Bransen family appeared together in a Pert shampoo ad. And closely related, the Rogers daughter is a former beauty pageant queen, while her mother is a pageant trainer. Well, :smack:. Another strike against this season. > [@Robot Arm](#): > > At the non-elimination legs, do the parents have to leave a kid? **LOL!!!** Actually, according to the USA Today article, there are _fewer_ NEL’s this season, which makes no sense since there are only 10 teams…I guess we’re in for a lot of two-parters, or maybe even fewer episodes overall. I wouldn’t count out the younger kids yet, they might surprise us. If nothing else, it’ll be easier to fit them into the back of a cab, and you can always stuff them in the overhead compartment if all the airplane seats are full. And that youngest kid in the Schroeder family, he looks about ready to take a shotgun to his high school cafeteria…that could work to their advantage. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/12 "2005-08-18T13:02:51Z")
Can’t wait. I love TAR and this families “twist” looks exciting. I’m kind of disappointed that not every family has minor children in it, but I gues there’ll be more tension with adults competing against children. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/13 "2005-08-18T14:31:06Z")
Hmmm … I’m still not sure how I feel about this. I know what it was like to travel with _me_ when I was eight years old … those poor parents. _sigh_ I’ll still watch it, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/14 "2005-08-18T14:43:59Z")
I hope they at least design some challenges to favor the smaller, weaker, players. “Little Billy, crawl through this conduit for twenty miles and fetch the flag from the end!” ---
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/15 "2005-08-18T19:18:57Z")
From the spoilers I’ve read the first 4 or 5 legs will be in the US. Mostly historical sights that can be reached by car. Don’t know if the race will make it out of North and South America. I’ll be rooting for the Blacks. The older son is a black belt and the younger a brown belt in Tae Kwan Do. They could probably kick that Schroeder kid’s butt. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/16 "2005-08-18T19:24:13Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I hope they at least design some challenges to favor the smaller, weaker, players. > > “Little Billy, crawl through this conduit for twenty miles and fetch the flag from the end!” Mark my words: Pokemon tournament. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/17 "2005-08-18T19:29:19Z")
> [@Southpaw](#): > > From the spoilers I’ve read the first 4 or 5 legs will be in the US. Mostly historical sights that can be reached by car. Don’t know if the race will make it out of North and South America. Uh, can we start the season right by not sharing spoilers? ---
**Author:** ![Southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southpaw)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/18 "2005-08-18T20:48:31Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > Uh, can we start the season right by not sharing spoilers? Sorry about that. Didn’t think it would make that big a difference. It’s all speculation anyway. Next time I’ll use tags. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/19 "2005-08-18T23:13:52Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > Uh, can we start the season right by not sharing spoilers? It’s not a spoiler…it’s from the USA Today article > [@](#): > > After the starting line beneath New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, the teams spend more time in U.S. cities where the focus is on historically significant sites. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293/20 "2005-08-19T17:47:07Z")
> [@beagledave](#): > > It’s not a spoiler…it’s from the USA Today article Sorry “more time in the US” does not = “From the spoilers I’ve read the first 4 or 5 legs will be in the US. Mostly historical sights that can be reached by car. Don’t know if the race will make it out of North and South America.” The first is okay, the second is way more information that I want! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teams-announced-for-the-amazing-race-8-family-feud-edition/317293.md?page=2)