User blog comment:Your Highness, Mo/Protagonist Elimination Game/@comment-31556666-20161104153228/@comment-11883116-20161104200245

Because he's more mature, realistic, and has better chemistry with Gwen, yet still has some Owen's qualities. They both won the same amount of times. Owen won for the guys in ep 14, while Geoff led his team to the victory in ep 10.

It's not about it being shocking (especially because it was not). It's about deserving it.