User blog comment:AD744/Top 10 Saddest TDI eliminations/@comment-31556666-20170215112839/@comment-22535514-20170216153855

In what point of view are we discussing about? From a writing perspective? A game perspective?

Let's discuss the writing perspective. He was kept around as a shield for Duncan (since they did anything to make sure he made it to the final 4), and partially because of his voice actor (but even that is debatable, because of Chef). I am referring to the writers pets (once again, Duncan). It also explains his odd elimination. If we are talking about relevance to the season, DJ could have been cut a lot sooner, since he did a whole lot of nothing. He wasn't comic relief, did not have a relationship that was important or in the forefrunt. He was just there.

Now from a game perspective, you have a point. He was very inoffensive, and was one of the nicest people on the team, as well as fitting in, so from a game point of view, he was not going to go early. Even if you take that into account, the writers wrote themselves into a corner, because they had to create a dumb idea to excuse his elimination. We all know that the producers and writers are not thinking from a game point of view, and what workd best as the script, so the writing perspective always overshadows anything else. Like Epic and others said, he just isn't prominent enough to last for 19 episodes (especially for the other characters who left earlier), and his elimination only made his appearance more..... weird.