User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/The Ridonculous Race Episode 15 - Team Reviews/@comment-1734566-20150925231624/@comment-5597695-20150926000536

for me it's the contrast in the character. Ryan and Stephanie are two very different people. Both started out as sickeningly sweet, but Stephanie has became a Super Aggro Competitive beast who drives others insane and Ryan was intitally freaked out by her, and is only acting that way as a reactionary measure and despite his aggressive nature later on when her anger starts causing him to crack.. He still acts as the foil and the common sense of the two. Whenever theres a fight, Ryan is always the one that makes sense while Stephanie continues to be pissed off.

For the Stepbrothers though... Lorenzo and Chet were interchangable. You could swap both of their roles and the season would not change at all. They acted the same constantly. They both hated each other, then they both bro'd down. They have no character traits to seperate them.

Another aspect that is a divide for me at least in the Daters favor is that when they fought it was focused on the story and the events at hand. When they fight, they may be overexaggerated and hectic, but we know WHY they're fighting, because its directly related to the plot of the episode and the events others are going through as well. Their Race and their Fights were intertwined. Compare that to the Stepbrothers who just fought regardless. They rarely ever directly fought due to an event in the race. It was just their character trait.

But story wise. Yeah its pretty obvious with the Daters that they're going to make up, but we also had that with the Stepbrothers, it was very clear that they were going to learn to get along and then get eliminated.