User blog comment:TDFanatic52/Which Total Drama Characters's should've been on the RR/@comment-2156422-20161019211519/@comment-11883116-20161020004049

Fun fact: it is obvious that in original version of TDAS Owen had Sam's role, especially the elimination part. Thus, he'd make it to the fourth episode only. But I guess they didn't want to overuse him (they were planning to have him back for RR at the moment) and possibly also didn't want him to be a fodder.