User blog comment:Foreseer44/Confirmed: There Will Be 36 Contestants In The Ridonculous Race/@comment-24152851-20150220020341/@comment-24152851-20150220021539

Still, the early-outs might not fare as well. Especially since two of them are going at once. Only solution I can think of is the eliminated contestants stick around in the non-elimination episode like Aftermaths, or Haute Camp-ture style episodes.