User blog comment:TheTDQueen2014/No TDPI Characters in Ridonculous Race?/@comment-21325751-20140729033638/@comment-1427230-20140729113609

Well we know it's and imdb said the first episode name is "None down, 18 to go". Alot of people are assuming that if that is a legit episode name than the 18 is referring to 18 teams giving us 36 total (since 18 would only give us 9 teams and there is no way they could stretch 8 eliminations over 26 episodes) so yeah 12 to me sounds like a pretty safe guess.