Brian Jeffrey Averell is an American actor and reality show contestant who won The Amazing Race 9 with teammate Tyler MacNiven. He is currently a CBS technology reporter and Periscope livestreamer broadcasting from major content conventions such as NAB.
B. J. Averell
The Amazing Race 9 is the ninth season of the American reality competition show The Amazing Race. Hosted by Phil Keoghan, it featured eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, competing in a race around the world in order to win US$1,000,000. After the previous season's Family Edition, which had families of four racing around North America, this season returned to teams of two racing around the world. This season visited five continents and ten countries and traveled over 59,000 miles (95,000 km). Starting in Morrison, Colorado, outside of Denver, racers traveled through Brazil, Russia, Germany, Italy, Greece, Oman, Australia, Thailand, Japan, and Alaska before finishing in Greater Denver. The season premiered on CBS on February 28, 2006, and concluded on May 17, 2006.
The ninth season of Amazing Race started and ended at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver, Colorado.
The Estádio Municipal Paulo Machado de Carvalho in São Paulo's district of Pacaembu was the first Pit Stop of the race.
Teams traveled to the outskirts of Brotas, where one of Detour tasks required teams to hike to and climb a waterfall.
In this double-length leg, teams visited Moscow's famous Red Square, overlooking Saint Basil's Cathedral in the first half...
