User blog comment:Mughees J. Simpson/Rating the challenges of Total Drama./@comment-26704228-20160829140009

Not only that Leshawna and Izzy's absent didn't cause their elimination, it actually spared them from elimination, cause this challenge was a sudden-death, not for invincibility.

If I were competing and I knew the rules of the challenge from the start, I'd build a terrible bike so I wouldn't get to the last part that might cause my elimination.