User blog comment:Foreseer44/Confirmed: There Will Be 36 Contestants In The Ridonculous Race/@comment-27013391-20150220055406/@comment-27004474-20150220112229

Then maybe this is a good enough reason: Fresh confirmed that they had "big" plans for Owen in RR. There are no co-hosts, interns and no aftermaths, which means no aftermath commentators or hosts. So... Owen being in RR is 96% confirmed, really.

As for Noah, his voice actor has been confirmed to be in the season as well. He said he would be voicing a new contestant or more, but I'm almost positive that that was a lie to keep things... fresh so Owen and Noah wouldn't be confirmed.

Also, I'm not even 10% sure on this, but I think I recall people talking about Owen and Noah's voice actors being in the same recording studio (which might be backed up by the picture).

Yeah.