User blog comment:Sprinklemist/Celebrity Manhunt Total Drama Action Reunion Discussion/@comment-1874924-20100407043121

Unlike Season 1, where TDDDDI was set only a few days after Owen won the competition, this time the implication was that quite some time had passed between the TDA finale and the reunion special. My guess would be 9 months or thereabouts, so TDWT could take place the summer following TDI/TDA.

There was no mention at all about the TDA prize money; but with the trouble some of the contestants were getting into, I suspect the TDA winner, whether Duncan or Beth, burned through the money pretty quickly and is once more a typical penniless teen.