User blog comment:CheeseBurgerGuy/Total Drama My Way: ROTI/@comment-32999728-20200215131623/@comment-35606925-20200215190444

That's true, but Brick didn't fair much better than Sam in canon and here's my thought pattern. Obviously if I bring Mike in for All-Stars, he has to merge. The fact he would technically do well would justify his return. In-universe, Chris would bring him back for the drama and it could be easily explained away with other reasons too such as Zoey and Cameron's insistance. I'm also thinking of expanding the cast size slightly anyway, so that more characters qualifty. Maybe 16?