User blog comment:DeathBolt/What Made Total Drama All Stars So Bad?/@comment-24028957-20131201170504/@comment-5928665-20131202013524

Was Staci allowed the chance to do something great? Why does Dawn deserve better treatment?

As much as her fans don't like to admit it, Dawn was an expendable character with almost no focus in TDROTI and was primarily elimination fodder. That's why she wasn't in this season.