User blog comment:DeathBolt/What Made Total Drama All Stars So Bad?/@comment-24028957-20131201170504/@comment-2147650-20131202195518

Yes, but even if Brick had made it only one more episode farther than Sam, he was still more Heroic (which is what the whole season is about).

Brick actually saved Cameron, Mike and Zoey. He never left anyone behind and actually cared about peoples' safety. Sam did nothing except failing at saving Lindsay. The only person he actually had a lot of interaction with was Dakota who wasn't in this season. It made no sense for Sam to be in the season and it made way more sense to have Brick come back.