User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Total Drama 30 Day Challenge: Day 22/@comment-1874924-20180722233414

The trick in this question is that, if we choose a pre-merge elimination from a full-length season, the writers could simply have changed the returns to restore the status quo. For example, no matter how logical it would have been for the Gophers to boot Owen for arguably costing them the cooking challenge, the writers would merely have brought their creator's pet back at the merge instead of Eva. Ditto if Harold had done the logical thing and framed his enemy Duncan instead of Courtney.

Some of my other top candidates fall under the "be careful what you wish for" heading. If Heather had been booted for seducing Trent, Duncan would have been the most logical camper to step into the resulting power vacuum, meaning we would have gotten even more Duncan than we did. Bleah.

This might be cheating the question, but I think the change I would have most liked to see was in "I See London". Instead of Gwen and Courtney finding Duncan, and Chris bringing him back into the game, Ezekiel (playing Jack the Ripper) should have succeeded in capturing all the campers, whereupon Chris would have made good his promise to let Zeke back into the game. This would have spared us the hated love triangle for a few more episodes. The logical aftermath (so to speak) is that Duncan would probably have won the return challenge and reentered in the Niagara Falls episode instead of Blaineley, who was out of place as a contestant.