User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/The Ridonculous Race Episode 12 - Team Reviews/@comment-1734566-20150923003016

I mainly want to respond to your opening statements about the fan base's reaction to non-eliminations, with my thoughts.

Those who know me well enough know that I HATE HATE HATE HATE HAAAATE non-eliminations. I always have, and they're a huge reason why I hated TDA, because of their sheer abundance, and then in TDWT, they were just horribly executed (fake elimination ceremonies...GTFO). However, THIS season truly is the first to do non-eliminations RIGHT - Don always emphasizes that every episode starts off with a "Maybe" in terms of a possible boot. It's NEVER established when it's a non-elimination or not, obviously, and that raises the stakes for the contestants, and thus makes the viewing experience so much more enjoyable. Have they amped up the frequency of non-eliminations lately? Yeah, but again, it's not just done for sh**s and giggles - it's done to keep the drama intense and the unpredictability high. So in that sense, this series' prominence of non-eliminations is totally forgivable - again, in TDA they just flat-out announced whenever it was a reward/non-elimination challenge, and although the "will it or won't it" element WAS in TDWT, again, it was done so frustratingly with fake ceremonies, often for the purpose of Chris saving his favorite screen hogs like Duncan and Courtney, to the point where it was just downright infuriating.

...So yeah, just my two cents, and I guess technically another great reason why I'm LOVING this series so far.