User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Total Drama 30 Day Challenge: Day 19/@comment-1874924-20180720050530

Lindsay's elimination in Season 1 remains one of the franchise's low points for me. The whole setup was just a comedy of errors by the writers. The elimination itself--Lindsay getting canned because she was the last person to cross the finish line, even though the rest of the racing world places the last finisher ahead of racers who fail to finish--was actually the least objectionable part. (Although if Lindsay had done the logical thing and refused to continue after Heather won the race, what would Chris have done? That would have left Heather as both the invincible first finisher and the summarily eliminated last finisher.)

Gwen, Geoff and D.J. did not even race in the finals because their bikes were wrecked in the prelims. Why were they given free passes? Izzy did not participate in either race, so why was she given a free pass? Leshawna did not even participate in the building phase, so why was she given a free pass? (And no, Chris, not participating was not "their loss", since ditching the challenge made Izzy and Leshawna safe from elimination.) Moreover, Leshawna seemed to think she could win the challenge by riding with Izzy ... which she did, sort of, but still.

My theory is that the writers of "That's off the Chain!" were under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms. I can't think of anything else that would explain how they could have thought that miscarriage of basic reason was a good idea.