Tasha Gaspard

**Tasha Gaspard** was a female contestant that competed on ***The Royalty Challenge***. She first appeared on the second season, The Royalty Challenge: Blood vs. Water, with her pair Blake Sanders where they finished in 3rd place. They were also awarded Players of the Season and Fan Favorites. She returned in The Royalty Challenge: Tokyo Drift with her Fresh Meat pair Allen King where she finished in 6th place. She was also awarded Player of the Season and Fan Favorite once again.

In **Blood vs. Water**, Tasha and her partner Blake immediately set the tone for the rookie/rookie pairs by winning the first daily challenge of the season. Early on, Tasha and her partner had little to no allies; just the ABMT alliance with Andy Cook/Malik Cordova. However, Tasha became suspicious of Malik protecting Dorian Washington and figured out they were aligned. She joined forces with Lex Quinn/Ellie Smash in the Ginger Tea alliance. Eventually, her pair's strong performance made them targets by the veteran/rookie alliance Blood Ring; and Andy/Malik's middle position exposed them when they threw their vote; resulting in Tasha's first elimination. After Blake exposed Malik and engaged in a heated argument in the villa chat; Tasha took a calmer approach and remained in communication with her former allies. After winning their elimination, Blake/Tasha joined forces with the rookie/rookie pairs in the Rookie Power turned Praise Queen Rhea alliance after Rhea Sunshine threw the daily to them after Randi Smith exposed the alliance. Tasha was known for making logical and strategical decisions with her pair. Dominating the second half of the game in winning dailies, Tasha/Blake just made finale and came short when they ended up in third place against close allies Lex/Smash and Julien Hiraga/Nick Miller.

In **Tokyo Drift**, Tasha was paired up with Rookie Allen during the Fresh Meat pair twist. Tasha got pulled into multiple alliances early on; most notably Christian Cruz's Teamwork Makes The Dreamwork majority alliance alongside The Fates with ally from **Blood vs. Water** Malik, Devin Tauruan and Donnchadh Fitzgerald. Connected to a lot of pairs already, Tasha struggled to decide nominations until Christian told her that his partner Katie Jenkins was after their pair; giving her the perfect opportunity to come after them. Winning the first two daily challenges of the season, Tasha/Allen's nominations got rid of Christian/Katie and Duccy Johnson/Iris Nightingale from the game. Showing her physical abilities early on, Tasha/Allen became targets in Round 4 when they were nominated by Overtakers Nasir Gemini/Ny Love; and when there was a tie in the house-vote, they opted to make a power move and send them into the double elimination. Tasha randomly selected Jaylen Goldberg/Marti De'Lyte to face them whilst they picked DLS Theqhat/Tina Savage. With little time left to do the elimination and a no show from Allen, Tasha refused to give up and bravely attempted the elimination on her own; but it wasn't enough to beat her opponents and they were eliminated. She entered the redemption area Stasis; choosing to compete as an individual when it came to the challenge and won herself re-entry back into the game.

After returning to the house during the individual stage, Tasha returned to her The Fates alliance whilst joining Alex Rose's alliance Safe Space with Remi Rowan; as they were the three that typically avoided the constant arguing in the house chat. Stepping up her social game and playing the middle, Tasha took revenge against Nasir/Ny when she won Overtaker; sending Nasir in where he then got eliminated and in the following round voted Ny into elimination where she got eliminated. She also got close with DLS in The True Overtakers alliance with Alex. Tasha's lack of involvement in drama, middle position between opposing rivalries and social ability allowed her to go through the second half of the game undetected; earning her way to her second final. However, due to her busy schedule with her children during the first stage of the finale, Tasha found herself distracted and purged from the game.

## **Trivia**

* Tasha, along with her partner Blake, are tied for the most daily challenges won by a pair with 5.
	+ They are tied with Otto O'Reilly for most daily wins. However, Blake/Tasha are the first to accomplish this and not win.
	+ Tasha is the first female challenger to accomplish this.
* Tasha, along with her partner Blake, are the highest placing male/female pair on **Blood vs. Water**.
* Tasha is the first player to win the Fan Favorite award on both her first two seasons.
* Tasha is the first player to win the Player of the Season award on both of her first two seasons.
	+ She is the first player who had been eliminated on her season and win redemption to win the award.
* Tasha was tied for the most daily wins with 3 in **Tokyo Drift**.