'Survivor': Can Michaela Bradshaw Correct Her Mistakes & Win 'Game Changers'? [POLL, VIDEO]
Michaela Bradshaw is coming into Survivor: Game Changers with a relatively significant advantage over some of her fellow players.
Michaela has the benefit of the other castaways not knowing her reputation, outside of her fellow Millennials vs. Gen X castmate Zeke Smith. This is due to Survivor's filming schedule, with Millennials vs. Gen X and Game Changers being filmed back-to-back last summer, at which point Millennials vs. Gen X had not yet aired.
This means that Michaela will go into this season without a major target on her back, which could help her greatly in the long run. After all, Michaela was a huge presence in the seven episodes she was in on Millennials vs. Gen X, so she's in a great spot heading into Game Changers.
Michaela quickly emerged as a challenge beast in Millennials vs. Gen X, especially when the tribes were split up into three. She helped lead her Ikabula tribe to several victories, to the point that she became a major physical threat. She was also invested in the game itself, thinking out plans far in advance, but she was also very opinionated about the right course of action for her alliance and her tribe. Yet ultimately, she was voted out right before the merge by her fellow alliance members, Jay Starrett and Will Wahl, after realizing how threatening she was on so many levels.
Even though her fellow Game Changers castaways will not know her heading into the game, Michaela does intend on fixing the mistakes she made in order to get further.
"I regret not understanding the importance of perception. What's real doesn't matter in this game. What people think and how they feel is what matters," she says in her CBS bio. "My mistake in 'Millennials Vs. Gen X' was not paying close enough attention to how others felt."
She added that she wants to play differently this time around by "monitoring how I am perceived. Instead of bucking the system, I'm going to 'play the game.'"
How do you think Michaela will do?
Survivor: Game Changers premieres Wednesday, March 8 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
