User blog comment:Raised By Wolves/Total Drama All-Stars Challenge Review/@comment-11883116-20161004141432

You may need to correct Mal's link on list of "never finished".

What makes Mal's challenge even easier is that he was in the SPA hotel in PREVIOUS EPISODE and if he bothered to check carefully, Gilded Chris Statue was right there! So yeah, the challenge was rigged in his favour and it was his fault he didn't look carefully last time. Then again, if Gwen or Scott got this challenge it'd be rigged against them anyway, as they weren't in the SPA hotel at the time.

P.S. I'm pretty sure Gilded Chris Statue in previous episode was a hint for the viewers to know where Mal should look around and that its position wasn't changed.

And the Fang challenge is one of the most rigged ones in TD history. Plus, as you said, pain gags while opening the chests were really unnecessary.