User blog comment:Your Highness, Mo/Protagonist Elimination Game/@comment-24152851-20161027033352/@comment-4742462-20161027045934

But honestly, having the Surfers be protagonists kinda feels like my version of that equivalent due to all the info confirming how them being finalists was a last minute decision and the speculation of it being due to studio interference.

In my honest opinion, they're the least qualified to be considered "Protagonists". While I think Shawn is a worse character than both Geoff & Brody, I believe him more as a protagonist even though he was a pretty unsympathetic one.