User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/Special LTDI Preview: Ripped From the Wiki Headlines/@comment-1228137-20110221012338/@comment-1874924-20110221022134

Yes, LTDI has a new elimination order. (In fact, this very preview alludes to that, given that Ezekiel is still around for the second challenge.) While TDI reimaginings aren't strictly required to change the elimination order, in practice they normally do so to maintain reader interest.

Most (but not necessarily all) of the canon version's early outs will be more important in my version. Some of the characters who were important in the original will remain important in LTDI, whereas others will be become secondary or minor characters. The latter group are mainly victims of the elimination order following the storylines.

That said, I am doing my level best to make LTDI more of an ensemble story than the original was. (That's an advantage of not being constrained to 22-minute segments.) Even the minor characters will be central to certain scenes, and not necessarily in the chapters/episodes where said characters are eliminated.