Adrian & Collin won Amazing Race Asia 2

February 17, 2008 | Tags Marc Nelson, Rovilson Fernandez, The Amazing Race Asia

Adrian and Collin from Singapore is the winner of The Amazing Race Asia 2 (TARA).

The season finale of TARA was shown last Thursday (Feb 14) in which Adrian & Collin arrived first at the final pit stop of a race across 4 continents and covering 50,000 kilometres (32,023 miles). The gym buddies are awarded a prize money of US$100,000 for winning the race.

Coming in 2nd was Malaysian sisters Vanessa & Pamela, while Rovilson & Marc from Philippines came in 3rd.

Based on popular US reality show, TARA features ten teams of two, with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world to win US$100,000.

The 3rd season of TARA is currently open for application (closing on Feb 25), more details available on AXN website. The filming (and the race) will start in mid 2008.

The Amazing Race Asia - Season 2

October 27, 2007 | Tags Allan Wu, Kinaryosih, Marc Nelson, Paula Taylor, Rovilson Fernandez, The Amazing Race Asia

After a successful debut season, The Amazing Race Asia (TARA) Season 2 is going to premiere on November 1, 2007.

Based on the successful US award winning reality show, TARA is produced by AXN involving 10 duo-teams from different Asian countries in a race across Asia & Australia (in season 1) for the grand prize of USD100,000.

The TARA Season 1 was quite a success, created some hype and buzz among participated countries (the show is in English language btw). Malaysian girls-team Joe Jer & Sabrina was the eventual winners.

Amazing Race Asia, Japanese team Sawaka and Daichi Kawashima
Good luck to the Japanese

One thing special about TARA 2 is the participant of a Japanese pair, siblings Sawaka and Daichi Kawashima (pic). Japan residents are not able to participate for Season 1; Middle East residents are still illegible though… I am not sure why though.

Another significant trait of TARA 2 is the participation of local celebrities. The likes of Kinaryosih (Indonesia), Paula Taylor (Thailand) and Marc Nelson (Philippines) sure meets the eye… but I am not sure if I want too many good looking people in the show. After all, the essence of The Amazing Race is to see normal people like you and me participating in the competition, not an ‘all star’ race.

I am not going to predict the result for this season… my prediction gone horribly wrong last time as my selected team was sent home at the very first elimination round of the race.

Singapore based Chinese-American actor Allan Wu will again be the host for this new season.

[Official website for TARA]