User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Total Drama 30 Day Challenge: Day 14/@comment-1034367-20180730230757

I was about to say "literally everything" but that's like, all of the other comments lol <3

The guarantee of an elimination almost every episode, the new locations, the variety of challenges, the quick pacing, the endless wealth of potential for inter/intra-team conflict and dynamics, the fact that almost (if not every) team felt like they had a wrapped-up storyline... they really snapped here. A sure-fire sign that 26 episodes is the way to go if they ever do a competitive season of Total Drama ever again.

The size of the cast was GREAT in my opinion, and maybe why it's so good? That + the TAR format allowed for literally anything to happen between teams in order to advance a storyline, and it made it so that no characters really felt overused or anything. I never really got tired of anyone. Even with TDPI, where the new cast was great and a definite strength of the season, to a certain extent, there's only so much you can do splitting 14 new characters into teams of 7. With a cast of 36, you can do so much more.