User blog comment:Foreseer44/Confirmed: There Will Be 36 Contestants In The Ridonculous Race/@comment-1527105-20150219221255/@comment-1527105-20150220004510

Yep it's confirmed.

I feel like the first episode should be an intro like TDI had. Then the next 16 episodes would all be two parters, so we got more time to know the contestants and they weren't all smashed into 22 min races. Then by the time there's 9 episodes left, there'd be enough time for all the teams to shine.