For The Amazing Race‘s next season, CBS will be taking viewers on a whole new set of adventures. Adventures not yet seen even after 12 installments of the Emmy-award winning series.

Although we’ll still get what we have come to know and love - 11 teams, five continents, 30,000 miles of travel - the producers of the reality hit promise us that Season 13 will be like no other.

Where can we expect Phil Keoghan to take us this year? After starting in Los Angeles, the duos will travel to Brazil, Bolivia, Russia and India. The crews will also hit Cambodia (where they visit a “real-life water world”) and Kazakhstan for the very first time.

But the destinations will not be the only things of note this season. One team eventually makes an “unprecedented mistake” that keeps them from reaching the finish line. (I’m praying to the lottery gods that I don’t wind up with this pair in my Amazing Race pool.)

Need an idea of who you’d like to root for this season? Well, here’s the quick lowdown on the teams racing for the $1 million prize:

• Terence Gerchberg, 35, Running Coach/ Sarah Leshner, 31, Wall Street Investment Analyst Situation: Newly dating

• Marisa Axelrod, 22, Student/ Brooke Jackson, 24, Graphic Designer Situation: Best friends/ Southern Belles

• Andrew Lapitt, 22, Student/ Dan Honig, 23, Hotel Manager Trainee (a.k.a. “Team Superbad”) Situation: Fraternity brothers

• Aja Benton, 25, Aspiring Actress/ Ty White, 25, Banker Situation: Long-distance daters

• Mark Yturralde, 41, Treasurer of Comic-Con/ Bill Kahler, 42, Student Aid Administrator Situation: Best friends and self-professed geeks

• Toni Imbimbo, 51, Accounting Consultant/ Dallas Imbimbo, 22, Student Situation: Mother/Son

• Nick Spangler, 22, Actor/ Starr Spangler, 21, Former NFL Cheerleader Situation: Brother/Sister

• Anita Jones, 63, Retired Paralegal/ Arthur Jones, 61, Playground Maintenance Situation: Married Hippie Beekeepers

• Kelly Crabb, 26, Sales Representative/ Christy Cook, 26, Business Development Situation: Divorcees and Best Friends

• Ken Greene, 51, Home Builder/Ex-NFL Player/ Tina Greene, 48, President BioPharmMed Situation: Separated couple hoping to reconnect.

• Anthony Marotta, 32, Mortgage Broker/ Stephanie Kacandes, 32, Financial Saleswoman Situation: Dating again after year-long break-up.

The Amazing Race 13 kicks off on Sunday, September 28th.