User blog comment:TDFanatic52/Character Analysis- Mal/@comment-11883116-20170223184815

Good point about "Super Saiyan" thing. I've already known he wanted to mess with Sam's mind, but I didn't realize he wanted him to go in his "game man" mode again to potentially ruin the challenge for his team in the same way.

There is one problem I have with that though. While his (hidden) intentions were good, Sam's elimination still had NOTHING to do with this.

If you want to search for the cause of Sam's elimination, it was his pain magnet status that was taken to the extreme during his short stay. Because of being a pain status he was useless for his team in Evil Dread. Because of that he volunteered to go on Boney Island. Because of his pain magnet role he had a terrible (even worse than the others) time there. It's because of that that he wanted to sneak some food for himself in case he was sent on Boney Island again. Because of that he cheated. And finally, cheating got him eliminated.