User blog comment:OMGitsGARRET/Courtney, Duncan, Gwen, Scott and Trent - The Love Pentagon: Finally Put To Rest!/@comment-1427230-20140705045308/@comment-5899967-20140705180801

No, no pairing in Total Drama should be a big deal, the creators know it, because love relationship between teenegers never last, they are hardly important, in fact Mike and Zoey should not have all that focus, they literally have no other purpose, same as Trent because he never did anything before or after his story with Gwen.

I've heard the developers were forced by the channel to make some couples break-up such as Duncney, sometimes they get away with that mandate by not having both contestant of a couple show up again, like Brigeff (which we don't know what happened to them). Gwent took the most time out of any break-ups in the series, it wasn't forced because the relationship wasn't so important, and it even left some dignity on the "poor" Trent.