However, the contestants were only allowed the clothes on their backs and their drivers' licenses; they could never handle any form of money.
This forced the players to "beg, borrow, and deal" for meals, transportation, and nightly lodging.
The first team to reach the designated finish line having completed 10 points' worth of tasks won the game and tickets to four major championship events of the following year.
In the rest of Europe, episodes were broadcast on the North American Sports Network in 2005 and in Canada on GameTV beginning in 2007.
The second season suffered from poor ratings, and was pulled from its original prime time slot.