User blog comment:CF12/Underdogs are Overrated/@comment-31556666-20140901214830/@comment-27329394-20140902170515

It would be incredibly difficult for every contestant to play some sort of role in any given episode when there are 52 of them unless you make the season and the episodes within them twice as long. Bear in mind that Island would have a large amount of silent contestants in episodes like the Big Sleep and there were only 20 of them. It would also be hard to come up with reasonable challenges for everyone to compete in, even if you had four teams.