User blog comment:ArtDraw12/Biggest plot holes, goofs, mistakes & inconsistencies in Total Drama series/@comment-30346413-20161115020211/@comment-31556666-20161115172218

That's a goof but not for the reasons you said. It would be so weird for Owen himself to be a millionaire yet still be in RR. So clearly they must have been alluding to td because why else would he say that random line? It's actually a goof because the TDI prize money was only $100,000