User blog comment:KrispyBaconator/Who Do You Consider the Canon Winner?/@comment-9102799-20170613125418

Owen and Beth are the only true canon winners.

TDI producers wanted to mimik Survivor: Borneo (the first season of Survivor) by having the overweight, seemingly-not-straight guy win. Plus it's mentioned in several TDA episodes on how Owen won and Gwen even says in a confessional something on how she got "so close last time."

For TDA, Beth's ending just makes more sense longterm. Duncan was never shown with a large amount of money... what did he do with it? Beth was shown with money and it's explained that she used it to bail her and Lindsay out of jail. In some versions, they said her parents sold their car... but why isn't a car shown then? I've also seen another version of this on YouTube where Blaineley says "Ooh, poor Beth. She had to give up all her TDA winnings just to bail her and Lindsay out of the slammer!" So that's the main reason. Plus it just doesn't make sense for no one to ever mention Duncan winning whereas Beth won and she's never competed again -- her storyline is over.

Every other winner is up for debate but my personal ranking is Owen, Beth, Alejandro, Cameron, Zoey, Shawn and Sanders & MacArthur.