User blog comment:The Flaming Sword of Fury/TDI Analysis-The Good and The Bad/@comment-27329394-20141127050359/@comment-27329394-20141127053125

I believe so.

Also, some things about Owen that I think people overlook:


 * 1) Everybody except Heather is his friend. No other contestant has nearly as many friends as him. Without any enemies that want to vote him out, well, it's difficult to justify him leaving.
 * 2) To compare things to Geoff, the guy that did get voted out because he was too nice, Geoff was decidedly less important than Owen during the season, not really making as many friends and he didn't speak in quite a few episodes. I was actually a bit surprised to see him come as high as sixth due to this even though I liked him.
 * 3) Owen was presumably the least threatening person to go up against during the finale. If it comes down to something physical, you are probably going to beat Owen. If you were to keep someone to go up against in a final challenge, wouldn't you want to pick someone who you have a clear physical advantage over?

So in essence he was nice and completely non-threatening. There was literally no reason to vote him out once he got to the merge. It doesn't matter that he didn't win that many challenges because he didn't need to.