User blog comment:TylerSurvivorFan/Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race - Episode 4 Review!/@comment-4742462-20150909214816/@comment-4742462-20150909224923

@Tamoti, As far as I know, the production team decides together who should go in any given episode but it's up to the writer of said episode to determine how it happens. So what it boils down to for me is "If you wrote it, than 90% of it is your fault".

@SWSU, Except that the way it happens makes it feel like they were suddenly dumbed down in order for their elimination to work by having them waste so much time trying to make a sandcastle. I would've preferred that they actually get as far as a speedboat only for the engine to break and they lose by trying to fix it. It still would've sucked, but it would've more believable compared to what actually happened.