Bradley Dinaco

***Bradley*** was a castaway on Essential Survivor: Maldives. He later returned for Essential Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites

## Maldives

After initially reading Bradley’s interview/cast assessment, if there’s one person you can compare to him; it’s Robby from Season 5. Both Bradley and Robby have that same cocky attitude about them, fearing nothing in their paths. However, Bradley didn’t have the same luck as Robby in the game, let’s see why.

Bradley originated on the brown-colored Bodu Beru tribe. He put focus into his early relationships, but specifically didn’t want to create any alliances. Unfortunately, as Bradley tried making a safety truce with Kam, she interpreted it as an alliance, alarming Bradley. However this wouldn’t matter as an alliance of Michael, Joseph, Tyler and himself were formed. Once they lost the first challenge, this alliance stuck together but it was clear that they all had different intentions for the vote.

Tyler informed Bradley that Michael was pushing for a Pierre vote. This wouldn’t be beneficial to Bradley due to Pierre being included in one of the many truces he has. But before anyone could even have 10 minutes to mourn their loss at camp, Winter bursts in and openly targets Bradley. Luckily enough, the target shifts and Winter is voted out unanimously. Body Beru then went on to win the next two immunities, so nothing eventful happened until the dreaded swap.

The castaways were informed that the swap would include one person actually being exiled from the tribes. But instead of getting exiled, he was swapped into a 4-3 minority with Joseph and Michael. All hope surely wasn’t lost however, as Michael revealed to his original tribemates that he possessed an idol. After speaking with all of the original Dhoni members individually Bradley realized that they’d stick to being a tight unit. Nonetheless, he thought of a plan to counter it. Push Michael to the majority so they vote for him, Michael uses his idol and the minority Bodu vote out a Dhoni of their choice. However, Mojalefa had already asked his tribe to vote him out, resulting in the tribe bidding his farewell.

But in return for Mojalefa, they received Trish from Exile Island. Since they won the challenge, nothing occurred except Trish’s odd pattern of speech. But when they DID lose, everything went to crap. As Bradley’s crew tried to gain the majority, they aligned with Trish, who if anyone knew her, isn’t a trustworthy ally. Throughout the day, Bradley was hearing Jake as the main name from everyone. But come Tribal Council, it was revealed Bradley himself was the true target, placing 13th.

## Voting History

 This All Just Got Real, G
 The Weakest Link
 I Just Enjoy Chaos
 Disaster Class
 Or Die Trying
 Am I The Raini Of S8?
 Voted Out, Day 15

## Fans Vs. Favorites

Bradley started off on the soon to be ill-fated Punahele tribe. He came into this season looking to right his wrongs from his previous showing two seasons prior. Setting extreme expectations for himself. He immediately clicked with John and Alison, forming a trio with them. And even though Bradley won the first challenge for Punahele, he was positioned in the bottom half of the tribe unknowingly, all the while he felt good in his spot.

During the third challenge, contrary to his first performance, Bradley cost the challenge for the tribe. He plans to create this masterful plan to get himself out of this ‘sticky’ situation, and while he had no hand in actually staying safe, he DID manage to gain a great read about the Gen 1 alliance that would soon dismantle due to Tae flipping.

Coming into the Joint, Bradley is in a far better position on his tribe. As he spoke to the fans more, he developed a sense of security with them, believing that he put in the work to not get targeted. So while the Faves targeted Jaylen, the Fans targeted Will, causing an 8-8 split in the initial vote. And although Bradley *did* want to go to rocks, his main allies in John and Alison were against it, standing with the Fans and planning to boot Will. Of course, Bradley caved in and sent Will packing as well.

After a few rounds of solidifying his position within the majority, Punahele lost their fourth challenge. By this point, Alison, Bradley, John, Brittney and Tae were the majority, leaving Aria as the easy out. But Bradley had other plans. In worry of being idoled out, he planned to flip to Aria. But this contingency plan snowballed into a potential 3-2-1 vote where Bradley orchestrates an Alison blindside… but for some reason Bradley altered the plan to make the vote 3-3, and have Aria idol out Alison (mind you, Aria doesn’t have an idol). So when the vote tied and no idol was played, Bradley panicked and began to damage control an angry Alison and John.

After several hours of back and forth between alliances, Bradley finally settles on booting Alison with Tae and a now flipped Brittney.

At the merge, Bradley is hyped to be there, not wanting to ruin his chances now, he knows that every move he makes from here on out must be calculated. He took the backburner for the first vote, not wanting to get his name caught in the crossfire. Once again, we see more good reads from Bradley as he figures out the YEG Trio in Cole, Kip and Kristin.

However, he gets in his own head at Final 12. Feeling like he has a good amount of control in the game. But this was anything but the truth, he was in the minority despite several fans flipping over for the first merge vote. And with John and Brittney flipping, coupled with Matt’s influence and John’s vocal distrust for Bradley, he had no chance to survive as he was voted out in 12th Place.